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Claudius Come Home

from Glenn Cardier (1976) by Glenn Cardier

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Produced by Labi Siffre
Arranged by everyone on the album
Engineered by Dick Plant
Recorded at the Music Centre, Wembley, UK
Released by EMI Records UK 1976

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Claudius Come Home
(Cardier)

Claudius, your old room is just the same
Even where you scraped your name in the paint.
Yes, you can play your bugle like you always did,
Even though it drives us to drink.

And you can get up to all your old monkeyshines if you wanna.
You can keep the stupid statue of Napoleon in the corner.
I guess we all did so much yellin' out
That we forgot just what it was about.

Claudius come home, we miss you so.

You can even run head-first into the bedroom wall just like you used to.
You can even yell your dumb, avant-garde poems out the window.
Though we get frights when you jump right out at us shoutin'
'The Martians have landed! The Martians have landed!'
I dunno what you see in all that.

Claudie, y'know we stuck for you the day the big policeman came.
We let you keep the stray kitten that came in from the rain.
Y’know, I didn't wanna hurt you
But well, when someone gets drunk they often punch somebody.

Claudius come home, we miss you so.

Doncha see we can put it right?
We know you come by and look up at our light.
We hear the bugle out on the street sometimes at night.

Claudius come home, we miss you so.

credits

from Glenn Cardier (1976), released April 1, 1976
Drums- Brian Bennett
Bass - Brent Forbes
Keyboards - Xavier
Guitar - Glenn Cardier

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Post 2000, Glenn Cardier’s re-emergence as a songwriter/performer of real distinction has been nothing short of extraordinary. In typical single-minded fashion, he writes, performs and produces his music. Onstage, there are the trademark flashes of dark humour and thumping rockabilly/blues. But underlying it all are the songs. Happy/sad songs. Sweet/crazy songs. Cardier songs. CDs on the website. ... more

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