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David Attenborough

from Crooner Virus EP by Mr Diagonal

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A homage to a living national treasure.

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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

We are guests at David Attenborough's final garden party,
just before sundown deep in the South Downs.
Around the perfumed garden savage tribesmen play,
a little traveling circus here to stay.

Ladies with lamp-chop sleeves and plump pedigrees
play voodoo croquet with shrunk heads from Haiti.
Blue-blazored alligators blend in perfectly
with the roman fountain bestiary;
while in the middle distance by the ornamental lake
a giant silk balloon softly inflates...

Baboons in bow-ties and receding hairlines
knock back the Scotches and touch up the duchess.
In pink champagne and Pimms and lemonade
we toast the ghost of old sir Michael Grade.
“Remember in the jungle long ago
we played bongos with the Congo bonobo?”

In rich thick English moonshine we enter dream-time.
The whole party salutes their host in an ape suit.
The cream of entertainment, stars of stage and screen
join the conga conga-ing the wrong way round the laurel maze...

Just before sunrise the blimp nudges skyward,
to cries of admiration, trepidation and delight
sir David's moon balloon is taking flight...

Goodbye David Attenborough
Goodbye David Attenborough
Goodbye David Attenborough
See you on the moon!

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from Crooner Virus EP, released April 9, 2020
words and music by Dan Barbenel

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Mr Diagonal Brussel, Belgium

mr Diagonal (aka Dan Barbenel) is a multi-faceted musician/ songwriter at the frontiers of
pop, cabaret and theatre music.

In true diagonal fashion, he always cuts a dash and declines to cut corners.

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