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The Cambridge Ladies

by Clare Siobhan

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This song is an arrangement of a poem I fell in love with in grade 10 English class, "The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls," by e.e. cummings. I love it, and I hope you love it, and I hope my 16-year-old self who wrote it would be proud.

lyrics

Lyrics:

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
Are unbeautiful, and have comfortable minds
Also, with the church's protestant blessings
Daughters, unscented shapeless spirited

They believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
Are invariably interested in so many things
At the present writing one still finds delighted
Fingers knitting for the - is it Poles?

Perhaps

While permanent faces coyly bandy
Scandal of Mrs N and Professor D

Oh, the Cambridge ladies do not care, above Cambridge,
If sometimes in its box of sky lavender and cornerless the
Moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

credits

released May 13, 2022
Lyrics from e.e. cummings' "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
Music by Clare Maguire
Piano and Vocals by Clare Maguire
Recorded by Thomas Stajcer at Fang Recording in Dartmouth, NS
Mixed by Thomas Stajcer
Mastered by Alex Burris at Fang Recording in Dartmouth, NS

Cover Photo by Oula Maguire

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Clare Siobhan Montreal, Québec

say "shuh-VON" !
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singer-songwriter from truro, ns, in montreal now
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trying to keep things cozy, warm, and connected
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nurturing a fierce love for the maritimes, and alllll the people around me
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