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A Bird Came Down The Walk

from Dickinson's Christmas Carol by Grey Anne

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Grey Anne's "Dickinson's Christmas Carol" series of home recordings combine well-known holiday melodies w/ Emily Dickinson poems.

This one is "I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In" + "A Bird Came Down The Walk."

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A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim.

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from Dickinson's Christmas Carol, released December 10, 2011
Arranged, performed and recorded by Grey Anne;
Lyrics by Emily Dickinson

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Grey Anne Portland, Oregon

Originally hailing from Anacortes, WA, Anne Adams has been a mainstay of Portland music since 2003, playing under the monikers "Per Se" and "Grey Anne," and collaborating in electronica duo "Sweater." A trailblazer of the earnest, theatrical folk era that followed ironic indie rock, she's more recently expanded her endeavors to include work on the film Coraline, dinosaur tarot and arts journalism. ... more

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