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Under Milk Wood Interlude

from The Slumber With The Key by TZARA

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about

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage.

An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub.

I performed Under Milk Wood in high school whilst going through a bipolar breakdown that almost ended in full-blown psychosis. Among others, I played the role of the ghost of Rosie Probert, the sailor's whore, and lover of blind Captain Cat.

This interlude features some experimental sound design over the original recording.

lyrics

ROSIE PROBERT
From Duck Lane, Jack Quack twice and ask for
Rosie

SECOND VOICE
is the one love of his sea-life that was sardined
with women

ROSIE PROBERT ( Softlj )
What seas did you see,
Tom Cat, Tom Cat,
your sailoring days
Long long ago?
What sea beasts were
In the wavery green
When you were my master?

CAPTAIN CAT
I’ll tell you the truth
Seas barking like seals,
Blue seas and green,
Seas covered with eels
And mermen and whales

ROSIE PROBERT
What seas did you sail
Old whaler when
On the blubbery waves
Between Fnsco and Wales
You were my bosun?

CAPTAIN CAT
As true as I’m here
Dear you Tom Cat’s tart
You landlubber Rosie
You cosy love
My easy as easy
My true sweetheart,
Seas green as a bean
Seas gliding with swans
In the seal-barking moon

ROSIE PROBERT

What seas were rocking
My little deck hand
My favourite husband
In your seaboots and hunger
My duck my whaler
My honey my daddy
My pretty sugar sailor
With my name on your belly
When you were a boy
Long long ago ?

CAPTAIN CAT

Ml tell you no lies
The only sea I saw
Was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it
Lie down, lie easy
Let me shipwreck m your thighs.

ROSIE PROBERT

Knock twice, Jack,

At the door of my grave
And ask for Rosie.

credits

from The Slumber With The Key, released August 14, 2020
Sampled from the original radio play written by Dylan Thomas
Sound design by Tara Boraine
Mastered by Jumping Back Slash

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