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Unholy Trinity

from A Derelict Chorale by Chris Thorpe-Tracey

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‘Unholy Trinity’

A dark song about the incredibly hard, often dangerous, rarely healthy day-to-day life of those living and working at the bottom end of the economy in The America Ground.

Much of the history of The America Ground has a male perspective and, hard as life was for working men, it was of course harder – with more danger and less agency – for women. I wanted a song to take a woman’s perspective, at least to a certain extent.

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Unholy Trinity in G, 120bpm, vocal, choir, thud, piano, flute organ/solo instr

V1
All of human life is here
In the service of the pigs and the beer
In the service of the rope line laid
The London coach and the night-time trade

All of human life is there
In the service of the landlord’s stare
The night fisherman and drunken priest
Sir, give me something to eat at least

CHORUS
Look what they’ve put in me
Between the men and the dirt and the sea
Unholy trinity – yeah, I know

V2
All of human scorn laid down
At the feet of the America Ground
From the gentlefolk, parishioners all
Still, they cross the stream when darkness falls

So here all of human life you’ll find
Leave your piety and wife behind
Cross the Priory for gin and ale
And witness all of human pain for sale

CHORUS x2 (second one high up)

Look what they’ve put in me
Between the men and the dirt and the sea
Unholy trinity – mix them up and let em go

Look what they’ve put in me
Between the men and the dirt and the sea
Unholy trinity – yeah I know

V3
All of human failure too
Abandoned children and the horse for glue
If a man here will ever succeed
He’ll do it cambering on others’ needs

All of human life is now
The gin palace and the poisoned sow
The dirty hands of the nightwatch men
Who called you sweetheart but it’s all pretend

CHORUS
Look what they’ve put in me
Dirt and men and sea
Unholy trinity – yeah I know.

HIGH END CODA CHORUS

x2 And if they rise it’ll cost you – and if they don’t it’ll cost you
And if they die it’ll cost you more

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from A Derelict Chorale, released May 21, 2020

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