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Toast (The Ballad of Michael 'Mini' Cooper)

from It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice by Elle Osborne

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Words and music by Elle Osborne
Arranged and produced by Elle, with Mike Hastings and Alex Neilson

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Toast (The Ballad of Michael Mini Cooper)

TV’s favourite child arsonist
is charming the nation again
40 years on from the first time,
he’s relighting the love and the pain

Regaling the doctors and case workers
with his methods for catching a flame
The press incandescent with piety
But no-one round here’s to blame

But when you’re silenced with violence
And you’re given no chance and no choice
And when you’re brilliant and bored and you’re beaten
Fire is your vengeance and voice

And you had fuel enough for a lifetime
and truth enough to survive
And it doesn’t take much to see what you did was a cry not a crime

So raise a glass to the wise and the weary,
Here’s a toast to the righteous and wronged,
And here’s to you, here’s to you Mini Cooper
May your fire burn bright and burn long

Here’s to you, here’s to you Min Cooper
May your fire burn bright and burn long

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from It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice, released November 6, 2015
Elle Osborne – vocals, fiddle
Alex Neilson – drums
Mike Hastings – guitar, Jew’s harp
Alasdair Roberts – bass, backing vocals
Dan Quinn – melodeon

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