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The character of Jack the ploughman was inspired by an episode of Old Country by Jack Hargreaves. I took the idea into the world of fiction and devised a shaggy dog story to go with the music.

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THE LIFE OF PLOUGHMAN JACK

He's got one foot on the land
The other in the furrow
He's got loose change in his hands
Wandering down to Burrow
He's got one eye on the sky
Meanwhile

Jack said, he said he'd be there soon
But he was side-tracked
By a lonely Hunter's Moon
So bright, so astounding
Up there in the sky
That he failed to make it through
Big old moon

They said hey!
Why don't you come back and stay?
Hey, you've been gone forty-six days
They said don't make out
Like there's nothing to see
In this market town
People talk with their feet
People ought to agree
But they don't say

He took six tons of the stuff
Found it in the Dutch barn
P.C. Quive got there fast as he could
But he was in the wrong farm
Oh no, oh no, oh no!

Now Jack's got his head in the clouds
Feet on the uplands
He's been gone for twenty years now
The life of a ploughman
There's a little village waiting for him

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from Borrowing Power From The Mill, released February 20, 2024
Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Jason Allen, October 2023 to February 2024. Made in Somerset.

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Jason Allen England, UK

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Somerset, England. Jason has written and self-recorded multiple solo albums and EPs, the most recent of which (February 2024) is called Borrowing Power From The Mill.

More information can be found at www.jasonallen.co.uk
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