We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

about

Adapted from 'Tobacco' (Roud Number: V1457, printed between 1863 and 1885). Pipe smoking as a reflection on mortality. Taken from the Bodleian Broadside Ballad Archive.

lyrics

Tobacco is an Indian Weed
Let the smoke curve high
Grows Green in the morning, cut down in the eve
Its shows our decay, we came from the clay
Think of this when you're smoking Tobacco 

The Pip that is so lily white
In which most men take great delight
It's broke with a touch, men's lives are as such
Think of this when you're smoking Tobacco

The pipe that is so foul within
It shows men's lives are stained with sin
For it doth require being cleansed by the fire
Think of this when you're smoking Tobacco


Dust that from the pipe doth fall
It shows we are nothing but dust after all 
For we came from the dust and return again, must
Think of this when you're smoking Tobacco 

credits

from Neighbours and Sisters, released October 18, 2019

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bird in the Belly Brighton, UK

Bird in the Belly is a Brighton-based Folk group consisting of folk-duo Hickory Signals (Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti), alt- folk singer-songwriter Ben Webb (Jinnwoo, Green Ribbons), and multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor. Together they collect little known and forgotten lyrics, poems and stories from around the UK, and set them to their own “hypnotically original compositions” (fRoots). ... more

contact / help

Contact Bird in the Belly

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Bird in the Belly, you may also like: