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Song Information:

This is now the CD version with kazoo!!, Guitar, mandolin and vocals

[b]Rope Trick Of Dreams[/b] - was the trap set for Old Gumbo's grandfather, the only successful escapee prisoner from the Tower Of Song, who spent the last years of his life scraping at the cracks in the Stones at the base of the Tower, and the last days looking back at it, and wondering about his two sons. It's about his grandmother, too, of course. (Sorry Gran.)

Song Lyrics:

All the lines they are busy G
the temperatures falling C
you wonder where is he Bm
and will he be calling Am

you sent him out angry
to bring back the stars
so he's searched every
crevasse and footstool and bar

for a ladder of moonbeams F
a rope-trick of dreams Am
and you're sitting silently C//F//

your trust and suspense
has him sat on the fence
while justice might contest
the journey he hence

forth must take before
reaching the last stable shore
the rat stands there blinking
the old ship is sinking

for a ladder of moonbeams
a rope-trick of dreams
and you're sitting silently


As the wall starts to crumble
having picked at the mortar
you wash yourself clean
on the incoming water

where the small boat sets sail
from the hole where you are
and you watch it so frail
have to travel so far

for a ladder of moonbeams
a rope-trick of dreams
and you're sitting silently
yeah you're sitting silently.