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Hope Is a Thing w/ Feathers

from Dickinson's Christmas Carol by Grey Anne

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

This one is "Bring A Torch Jeannette Isabella" + "Hope Is A Thing With Feathers."

lyrics

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all

{Hope, hope, hope is the thing w/ feathers
Hope, hope, hope never stops at all}

And sweetest in the gale is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm

{Hope, hope, hope is the thing w/ feathers
Hope, hope, hope never stops at all.}

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

{Hope, hope, hope is the thing w/ feathers
Hope, hope, hope never stops at all.}

credits

from Dickinson's Christmas Carol, released December 10, 2011
Arrangement and performance 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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