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Counting Magpies

from Pining for the Chords by Depthbuffer

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A little song I wrote in the car on the way home from a trip to visit my daughter. Inspired by the traditional nursery rhyme about counting magpies - "one for sorrow, two for joy..."

Definitely has some folktronica influences, and shameless echoes of Pachelbel's Canon in the chord progression, but whether the track itself actually veers too far away to be classed as that genre, I really don't know.

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One for sorrow, two for joy
Three for a girl and four for a boy
A morning off I'll misemploy
I'll sit here counting magpies

Five for pizza, six for cake
Counting magpies while I bake
Getting fat, better watch my waist
Go jogging, counting magpies

Guilty pleasures, simple things
Shower songs and party rings
Romance books from bargain bins
I just like counting magpies

Seven for scritches, eight for rubs
Knocking the lid off the dry food tub
Too fat to catch them, but my cat loves
Treats, and counting magpies

Nine for the moon, and ten for the stars
Dreaming of little green men on mars
Space tourists, clones, and brains in jars
I'm happy counting magpies

Eleven grams is a rabbit's brain
They put our human smarts to shame
Frolick in fields while we slave away
No work, just counting magpies

Twelve for wealth, we all need that
You spend yours on pointless tat
I'll buy a birdbath, a new straw hat
Doze off while counting magpies

Thirteen's unlucky, or so it said
In a fortune cookie I once read
I think I'll quit while I'm ahead
Go back to counting magpies

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from Pining for the Chords, released July 17, 2021

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Depthbuffer London, UK

Producing an eclectic mix of electronic music from a tiny room in London, England. His output ranges from one-off, quirky singles spawned from a single idea, to slightly more "serious" in-depth work, with a wide range of influences and no single discernible subgenre throughout. ... more

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