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Heaven For The Climate

from Ladies a Plate by Andrew London Trio

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Slightly irreverent ditty based on Mark Twain's famous quip 'You'd go to Heaven for the climate but to Hell for company', working in quotes from other (in)famous non-believers such as Nietzsche, Voltaire and John Lennon.

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You'd go to Heaven for the climate but to Hell for company
you'll sacrifice some comfort for conviviality; consider
well with whom you'd want to while away Eternity
You'd go to Heaven for the climate but you'd go to hell to find good company

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Well as his days get shorter and a man begins to muse
on where he's liable to end up once all his days are used
The leafy glades of Paradise would seem to have allure
notwithstanding infestation by the terminally pure

And if all that's left's bereft of scintillating company
that would make forever seem like an eternity
and if Hell's rather warmish and the air's a little close,
you'd want distracting conversation while you toast

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There's be Nietzsche there to greet ya, still insisting God is dead
to all the demons sent with orders to torment him
and over there his friend Voltaire, who says if that's the case
it is therefore necessary to invent him

When he said' Faith is being convinced that what you don't believe is true,
Mark Twain ensured that Heaven's blessings passed him by
John Lennon, damned again, and thinking twice about his view,
that to imagine there is no such place , is easy if you try

credits

from Ladies a Plate, track released March 1, 2014
Words and Music by Andrew London (guitar, banjo & vox)
Kirsten London: bass
Wayne Mason: piano
Lance Philip: drums

Recorded at Matrix Digital Studios in Wellington.
Cover Art by Gerad Taylor, www.geradtaylor.com

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New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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