Listen to The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973 by Hamish Hawk

The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973

Hamish Hawk

Indie Rock

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Hamish Hawk

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Alex Duthie

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John Cashman

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Dan Willson

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COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Hamish Hawk

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Andrew Pearson

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Rod Jones

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Lyrics

To write a cathedral, I'll need a ballpoint pen

It'll sound like Common People sung by Christopher Wren

On an upright piano with nice narrow keys

In a Glaswegian chapel or a Parisian library

And as I sing, I watch you diving

Into a swimming pool that shines like a screen

And I call out, ‘"Isn't this living?"

And I call out, "Isn't this living?"

And you call back, "Jim dear, it's living"

And you call back, "Jim dear, it's living the dream"

I see my family in an ugly cemetery

Two of them have been crying

Two have shovels at the ready

And I'd be lying if I said I'd foreseen this

I'd prefer to burn my body in Varanasi

As I burn, I watch you driving

Into a swimming pool that shines like a screen

And I call out, "Isn't this living?"

And I call out, "Isn't this living?"

And you call back, "Jim dear, it's living"

And you call back, "Jim dear, it's living"

I wanted, I wanted kids getting into good schools

Following, breaking all the new rules

Scoring goals, leading roles

Plimsolls, no holes

In a car with nice curves

A wife with a perfect serve

Just like the Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973

Then Christopher Wren would smile down on me, oh

To write, oh

To write a cathedral, I'll need a ballpoint pen

To write a cathedral, I'll need a ballpoint pen

To write a cathedral, I'll need a ballpoint pen

To write a cathedral, I'll need a ballpoint pen

Written by: Andrew Pearson, Hamish Hawk

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