In the East River

from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous by Sister Ursuline

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North Brother in the dawn,
Light illuminates curtains drawn.
Muslin veils the sty where she lies awake
As black crowns call across the bay.

Her heart sinking like the Slocum,
Once ablaze but long since broken
By the view she caught from the peer,
Grieving to know Manhattan was near.

Contending with her despair,
She could hear the town on the air
From the shore when the weather cleared,
Grieving to know Manhattan was near.
Grieving to know Manhattan was...

Nearly there now,
I can see New York from the bough.
Nearly there now –
Yes sir, I have come on my own.
I will make my way on my own.

North Brother in the dawn,
Light illuminates curtains drawn.
Muslin veils the sty where she died today
As black crowns call across the bay.

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from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous, released September 15, 2015
Cello, vocals: Sister Ursuline

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Sister Ursuline Sydney, Australia

Sister Ursuline is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter and cellist. Sonic historian and “found-object artist of musical influences,” she draws on historical sources and folk stories to create otherworldly narrative songs: asylum-bound nuns, shape-shifting witches and iron-willed aristocrats inhabit “echoing, off-kilter tale[s]… of madness, illness, obsession and suffering…” ... more

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