Critical Error: Sweet Warrior

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Sweet Warrior by Critical Error. Album: Critical Error. Rosie has a memory of how this song was created. This is what she said. "Both me and Steve wrote the melody. I remember him looking at my poem and starting to strum a chord and I sang the first three notes and he got excited about those notes and we sat down and wrote the song. Allan came in, put a bass line on it and we were well chuffed. Aidan came back from work and we played it to him and he looked deadly serious and said that he hated it. Then confessed that he was joking. He then came up with a medieval chord progression that fitted perfectly. It was the quickest song we wrote together! " SWEET WARRIOR Hello my sweet warrior With your bloodshed dreams Has the battle torn you at the seams And has your fair maiden lost her grace, Lost her feelings, lost her place Lost her feelings, lost her grace And is your dead brother In the battle mound Has his heart still not been found Will his heart never, ever be found Sleep now, my brave warrior Close your eyes of blue Have the strangers broken you in two How is your fair maiden Does she sleep as your memory she keeps Does she weep as your memory keeps And is your dead brother In the battle mound Has his heart still not been found Will his heart never, ever be found Goodbye my dead warrior Now the bitter sword Has severed the bloodless silver cord So weeps your fair maiden The last sight, the pale lily of death The lost knight has taken his last breath And is your dead brother In the battle mound Has his heart still not been found Will his heart never, ever be found Words by Rosie Mullin. Music by Steve Mavin / Rosie Mullin. This arrangement by Critical Error. Performers: Rosie Mullin - lead vocals and flageolet Steve Mavin - backing vocals and acoustic guitar Aidan Whiteley - lead guitar (6 & 12 string) Allan Veal - bass guitar Recorded, engineered and produced by Paul Bateman at 32 Howell Road, Exeter. Mixed by Paul Bateman and Critical Error. Cassette salvage by Paul Bateman. Logistics and co-ordination by Rosie Mullin. Audio cleaned and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, October 2020. Cover illustration by Paul Bateman. Copyright ℗ 1987 Parsnip Music. Copyright © 2020 Wud Records. See also: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/critical-error/ https://substanceandshadow.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/WudRecords

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