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i'd like to get away from earth awhile
then come back to it, begin over

may no fate wilfully misunderstand me
and half grant want i wish
and snatch me away not to return
earth's the right place for love

one could do worse than be a swinger of birches

i'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
(one could do worse than be a swinger of birches)

climb black branches towards heaven
up a pale white trunk
'til the tree could bare it no more
but dipped its top and set me down again

one could do worse than be a swinger of birches

[from Birches by Robert Frost]

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released May 2, 2012
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Phil Smith (voice, piano); written and produced by Phil Smith; recorded in Wilmslow & London.

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