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2. Years of Sunday Suns

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook by Jane Bom-Bane

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Years ago, a researcher at BBC Wales asked if I could write a ballad about Sundays – then they said, ‘for next Tuesday’! I gave it my best shot. They didn't use it, but it was the fastest song I've ever wtitten...

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Years of Sunday suns before I knew you
Circling with their never-changing force
Gave our unconnected worlds one centre
And watched our separate Sundays take their course
Gentle to the heads of aching wine
Offering the turf to Sunday boots
Calling to the ones who wake with chimes
Opening the church to Sunday suits

Singing praise with interludes
Matching plates with flowery foods
Brewing tea and stewing moods
Provoking then resolving feuds

Did you ever hear me softly turning to you
Those Sundays in those years before I knew you?

A Sunday in a spring when I first saw you
Those true rays faltered as they watched us speak
Loved confused that ancient place out of order
And the days slipped out of kilter with their week
Saturday the classroom filled with noise
Monday closed the doors of banks at one
Wednesday's washing blew upon the wind
And Tuesday every working man had done

Tell me why I don't like Fridays
Wear my linen-o on Monday
Goodbye, Goodbye, Rubv Wednesday
Always always on a Sunday

You jumbled up my heart and I fell for you
That Sunday in that spring when I first saw you

A Sunday in a summer when we kissed
The sky as we had known it rolled away
Everything outside did not exist
And the beating of the sun stopped with the day
Park and country walkers held their stride
Morning markets guarded empty streets,
Blackberries sat upon their bushes still
And sermon masters prayed to empty seats

Relatives not rung yet
Photographs not hung yet
Broken beads not strung yet
Solemn psalms not sung yet

Did you feel the time stand still inside my wrist
That Sunday in that summer when we kissed?

A Sunday in an autumn when you left me
Early frozen stars began to pour
You loved me but you loved another stronger
And the sun shone down alone on me once more
I'll wear my Sunday hats out in the streets
I'll walk along to buy my Sunday news
I'll mow my lawn in time for Sunday lunch
And polish up my car and Sunday shoes

But Sunday nights on my settee
I'll shake my Sunday hairpins free
Recall the easy way we'd be
Replay the thrill you'd wake in me
I'll taste the kiss we drank with wine
And feel your heart still beat for mine
Play back each inspiring line
Relive your love that made me shine

And keep that sunny love alive to warm me
Those endless winter Sundays that wait for me.

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from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook, released May 26, 2022
Andre on percussion and harmonium arrangement

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Jane Bom-Bane Rogers, Arkansas

JB-B performs original songs & poems to the accompaniment of harmonium. She's played around & outside the country & with Linda Thompson, David Thomas, John Bradbury, Rich Hall & David Cunningham, appeared solo on Ch 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, R 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, R Scotland & written many musicals performed with Eliza Skelton, Daisy Jordan, Emma Kilbey, Kate Daisy Grant etc at Bom-Bane's cafe. ... more

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