16kps
The Nightingale
A song written by Paul Hall and recorded live and unrehearsed with Paul accompanying himself on the grand piano in the music room of the 19th century Moody House of Arch Road in Claremont, New Hampshire. The song was written during a time in 1980 when Paul was a street performer in Paris known as "Zig Zag the Clown", a role Paul foresaw in his 1964 painting, "The Departure" (click to go there). The song was later performed by Paul on his Tacimine twelve-string guitar (given to him by another street-performing clown in San Francisco, California, in 1978) on the number nine line of the Paris Metro (Pont de Sevres), The Utari Restaurant in Blok M in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Chatswood Train Station in Sydney, Australia, among other places.
16kps mp3 (c) 1987 by Paul Hall
In the night I heard a gale
sing a song as hours grew
as they turned to morning slight
as a dark and shining veil.
I stopped to hear the clear notes come
and as I heard
the night turned dumb
I could hear a people calling me
from a deep forest green.
And they said,
"Come away alone".
While the bird upon the wire
sang to whom it might be near
down the street the sand piles lay
for the cement for the R.E.R.
Will machines, then, all too soon
replace the song-bird's lonely tune
and motor whine in shrieking glare
be all the music men will hear?
Like a vagabond,
I must leave the town alone.
The people rushed to everywhere
try to buy some fun with last week's pay.
No one even seemed aware
as they rushed their busy way.
But I stopped to hear the clear notes come
and as I heard
the night turned dumb
I could hear a people calling me
from a deep forest green.
And they said,
"Come away alone
with me.
While you still have time to leave
while there still is time;
still is time to leave".
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Copyright and Phonorecord (c) (p) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.