Name: Marlow's Ballad
Duration: P00H03M04S
Description: Marlow's Ballad is a song inspired by Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness".It is about the dream of a little chap and its "other-self" .

Marlow's Ballad

by Stefania Altomare

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Marlow's Ballad is a song inspired by Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness".It is about the dream of a little chap and its "other-self" .

lyrics

Marlow's Ballad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl
Swung to her anchor
And without a flutter of the seales
Was at rest.

The air was dark above Gravesand
And furtherback still seemed condensed
Into a mournful gloom
Brooding motionless
Over the biggest, the greatest
The greatest town of the earth.

The seareach of the Thames
Stretched before us
Like a great waterway
The seareach of the Thames
Stretched before us.

Now when I was a little chap
I'd look for hours on the map
And looked for hours
On the map of Africa.

At that time, oh, at that time
There were blank spaces on the earth
I would put my finger on one

Put my finger on it
And said oh, when I'll grow up
Put my finger on it
And said oh,
When I'll grow up I will go there

The sea reach of the Thames
Stretched before us
Like a great waterway
The sea reach of the Thames
Stretched before us,
Before us, before us.

credits

released December 3, 2019
Music by Stefania Altomare
Lyrics by Joseph Conrad
Drums by Jim Dooley

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Stefania Altomare

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Stefania Altomare Castrovillari, Italy

Stefania Altomare, singer-songwriter from Southern Italy, writes original lyrics and music and plays guitar since early age.
She has occasionally been opening act for huge Italian artists such as Edoardo Bennato, Enrico Ruggeri, Giò Di Tonno , Niccolò Fabi, Almamegretta . ... more