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Childhood Library

from All Power to the Bookshop by Steve Roberts

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    All Power to the Bookshop, Steve's latest album, began as an Arts Council project about our relationship with books and reading. He explores how our memories, our hopes and dreams, our thoughts and emotional responses can be formed by the books we read and share. It’s an eclectic collection of songs that acts as propaganda for bookshops and reading.

    Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern secondhand bookshops and like gravity, they're pretty much nonnegotiable.
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lyrics

Childhood Library

I am a ghost of a childhood library
A million memories in side me of
happy days long ago
All my shelves are packed with
stories
Fairy tales and ragged glories of
worlds unknown all on loan all your
life
The cards and the tickets, the keys to
your wishes
The date stamps of readers now
flown are with you at home
The Famous Five and Little W omen
Simple books with pictures in them
are here for you as you know
And you can share your gifts with
others
Read along sisters and brothers, my
legacy to help you read all your life.
The wind in the willows, your head
on your pillow
Your father, his voice in your bones,
means you're never alone
CozI'm the best idea, the best there
ever was
And I hope you can keep me here for
I am wort the cost
I am the words and your
understanding
I am the power that you're
commanding so call on me and I'll
be there
I am the gift of imagination
I'm a cause for celebration so rejoice
with me, praise the genius of books
And I am your library, oh you make
me happy
Defend me and keep me from harm,
you're my lucky charm

The quiet of your thunder
The hope in your wonder
The strength in your silence
Your words to inspire us

Childhood Library Choir

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from All Power to the Bookshop, released January 1, 2022

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Steve was/is the singer and songwriter with Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines who signed to BMG and toured and recorded throughout Europe in the late 80s and 90s.
He’s since recorded 3 solo albums and one with the band Captain Pop. He’s also written for TV and semi theatre pieces about the Cold War and Surveillance. He lives in the Peak District.
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