Just Before Dawn - Trev Teasdel

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Just Before Dawn (1970) by Trev Teasdel
- Recorded on Cassette Player 1979

Breeze blowing through the trees,

Squirrels squatting on their knees

Breeze blowing through the trees,

Squirrels squatting on their knees

Trying not to freeze

In amongst the trees

Searching for acorns

Just before dawn - Just before Dawn

Just before Dawn - Just before dawn

And the wind blows free

of the ripples of the city

Just before dawn, just before dawn

Just before dawn, just before dawn.


Then silence vomits an almighty roar

A thousand vehicles and maybe more

Stampede the main arterial lanes

To face their daily stresses and strains

and engines sing to morning faces

bustling off to their work places.

Oh Oh City light - Oh oh City light.


Refresh your lungs in the morning smog

Find a patch of grass to walk your dog

Wander by in an urban dream

'long the banks of a traffic stream

Black birds nesting in the branches

of the local factories.


Oh oh City light - oh oh City light


Listen to cockcrow in the clock tower

announcing the arrival of another rush hour

(another rush hour, another rush hour.)


Oh oh City light - Oh oh city light.

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Wrote the lyrics about the morning rush hour while working at the GEC in Coventry 1970 and set it to a fast paced picking tune later in the 70's. The lyrics were compressed from a Moody Blues inspired concept album I had planned, looking at the working day and alienation and the environment.