{"id":1883,"date":"2018-02-17T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:59:34","slug":"man-with-no-name-poetry-v-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"Man With No Name &#8211; poetry V song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=3247852429\/album=2988597567\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>An authentic?( <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrianslatcher?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=688846742&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Adrian Slatcher<\/a>)song that is a poem in disguise written in mid 1980s when I harboured ambitions to be the English Nick Cave <span class=\"_47e3 _5mfr\" title=\"smile emoticon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/f4c\/1\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><span class=\"_7oe\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The song ok the ambition a little over ambitious:-)<\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">The war in question is the Falklands and the story true my step-grandad died of a heart attack in his pantry and the dog guarded him all day.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He could not read or write had looked after animals on the farm all his life.<\/p>\n<p>He was not my true grandfather that another story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I did a reading in Nottingham for John Harvey&#8217;s Slowdancer in 1992 and Nottingham radio did an interview.<\/p>\n<p>They asked what the difference between poems and songs I said my songs rhyme my poems don&#8217;t&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man With No Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You kick at the tyre of the tractor<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nThat hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t moved since the snow last came down<br \/>\nYou pull at the chainlink fence blowing dandelions over the old grey sow<br \/>\nAnd wonder whose hand on your arm could lead you away from here now<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Well it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the middle of summer and clouds cover the sun up, you feel cold<br \/>\nAnd you run for shelter, find your father with a halter, staring at the ground<\/p>\n<p>Oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I tell you , oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I say<br \/>\nI feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>In a dark pantry a dog panting, tired from running under the August sun<br \/>\nOn the kitchen table a dripping pheasant broken by a farmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun<br \/>\nAnd you sat in your armchair reading news of a war that had hardly begun<br \/>\nWhilst all the berries we picked last summer turned blood red in the cup<\/p>\n<p>Oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I tell you , oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I say<br \/>\nI feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>Well your stepdad fell in that kitchen and his dog sat and waited all day<br \/>\nWhilst the silent river rolled on and on and the clouds blew over the hills and away<br \/>\nSo father and son two years later we stand in a graveyard in the rain<br \/>\nIf I could lead you to the answer I would , If I knew it I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say<\/p>\n<p>Oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I tell you , oh why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I say<br \/>\nI feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>1988<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An authentic?( Adrian Slatcher)song that is a poem in disguise written in mid 1980s when I harboured ambitions to be the English Nick Cave \ud83d\ude42 The song ok the ambition a little over ambitious:-) The war in question is the Falklands and the story true my step-grandad died of a heart attack in his pantry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92,33,43,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-poetry","category-poetry","category-songwriting","category-working-class-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-un","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}