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A​-​sitting on a Gate

from Sketches of Alice: A Wonderland Mixtape by Cedric Lamar

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I’ll tell thee everything I can;
There’s little to relate
I saw an aged aged man,
A-sitting on a gate.
“Who are you, aged man? And how is it you live?”
His answer trickled through my head
Like water through a sieve.
How I live...

He said, “I look for butterflies
That sleep among the wheat;
I make them into mutton-pies
And sell them on the street.
I sell them unto men
Who sail the stormy seas;
And that’s the way I get my bread
A trifle if you please”
If you please...

But I was thinking of a way
To feed oneself on batter
And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter
So having no reply to give
I thumped him on the head,
I cried, “Come tell you how I live!”
To which the old man said,
What he said...

He said, “I hunt for haddocks’ eyes
Among the heather bright
And work them into waistcoat-buttons
In the silent night”
“And that’s the way”, he said
“By which I get my wealth
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour’s noble health”
To my health...
And now, if e’er by chance I put
My fingers into glue,
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe,
Or if I drop upon my toe
A very heavy weight,

I weep, for it reminds me so
Of that old man I used to know
Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow,
Whose hair was whiter than the snow,
Whose face was very like a crow,
With eyes like cinders, all aglow,
Who seemed distracted with his woe,
Who rocked his body to and fro,
And muttered mumbling and low,
As if his mouth were full of dough,
Who snorted like a buffalo-
That summer evening long ago!!!

A-sitting on a gate

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from Sketches of Alice: A Wonderland Mixtape, released June 8, 2019
Vocals: Cedric Lamar, Royer Bockus

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Cedric Lamar Ashland, Oregon

A six-season member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting company, Cedric Lamar was asked to put on a different creative hat as Composer for the 2019 production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Sara Bruner.

Bands: Cedric and the 7 Ages, The Life and
Times Of, The Lamar Project

Albums: Kingdoms and Tall Grass, Gallows and Glory

Winner: 2012 Waltz-Astoria Singer-Songwriter Competition
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