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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 2 times, most recently at Robyn & Emma's house on December 24, 2024. He first performed it at Robyn and Emma's house on January 18, 2023, 1 year and 11 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
Patreon 2020 Robyn Hitchcock Internet 2020
The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities Robyn Hitchcock Tiny Ghost Records Album 2020
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Robyn and Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 01/18/2023
Robyn & Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Nashville Tennessee US 12/24/2024

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.

This month I’m exhuming some of the demos I made in 2013 for ‘The Man Upstairs’ album. These were recorded by Charlie Francis in his attic studio in Cardiff, where the seagulls wheel and cry. They will also steal your fish and chips if they get within swooping range, which is why Charlie and I never eat fish or chips in the studio.

Joe Boyd, who produced the sessions, had suggested making an LP of half original songs, and half covers. His template for this was Judy Collins recording for Elektra in the mid 1960s. I’d always wanted to be on Elektra in the mid-1960s too, so...

Joe wanted to hear what kind of songs I had in mind, so prior to recording with him and his engineer Jerry Boys in London, I went up to Cardiff. There, Charlie recorded quite a few songs that never made it onto the LP, or in a rather different form...

The first song I’m sharing, All Love And No Peace, was probably too jaunty for for “The Man Upstairs”. I don’t think it was ever played live, though I believe there’s a video of me somewhere performing it in a public gardens in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here it is, freshly unwrapped, just for you...

Lyrics

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Here's a little song about the Golden Fleece
Here's a little song about the Golden Fleece
I'm a all love and no peace

Sometimes my heart runs to the police
Sometimes they take my heart to the police
I'm a all love and no peace

Dropped a little bomb about an hour ago
I dropped a little bomb about an hour ago
I'm a sooo ready to blow
'Cause I'm a all love and no peace
Yes I'm a all love and no peace

No peace for the wicked
No peace for the just
There's no peace for anyone until they turn to dust
Welllll

Here's a little song about the way it goes
Here's a little song about the way it goes
I'm a old and baby it shows

Come here honey, won't you give me a kiss
Oh come here honey, won't you grant me one kiss
You're so hard to resist

I'm a settling on you like a dragonfly
Settling on you like a dragonfly
I'm a yours, if I don't die

Or the wind don't blow me back into the sky

I'm a all love and no peace
I'm a all love and no peace

No peace for the wicked, there's no chance of that
They're howling through the universe in search of a where it's at
Welllll

I gotta' little shaker and a pepper pot too
I gotta' little shaker and a pepper pot too
I'm a so ready for you
I'm a so ready for you