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Pleader by alt-J
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alt-JProduced by
Charlie AndrewWrited by
Gus Unger-Hamilton & Thom Sonny Green & Joe NewmanAbout
alt-J previewed this song for Q Magazine’s May 2017 issue, which described it as being inspired by the novel How Green Was My Valley. The song was partly recorded in Ely Cathedral where keyboardist/backup vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton used to be a chorister.
In a later interview keyboardist Gus Unge...
Pleader Lyrics
[Verse 1]
How green, how green was my valley?
To be told of such hills
To be held in such spots
To behold such warmth
Call to arms these harmonies!
And in happy agony we sing
How green, how green was my valley?
[Verse 2]
How green, how green was my valley?
Oh, your deeps and your shades
Where the wild roses pray
Such heat from pride
Glorious, the voice of man!
Like the nightingales, we sing
How green, how green was my valley?
[Verse 3]
How green, how green was my valley?
Clear softness in our hymn
Soft, like coming rain
Soft, like Bronwen
Victoria! Victoria!
Voices our queen might envy
How green, how green was my valley?
How green, how green was my valley?
Pleader Q&A
Who wrote Pleader's ?
Pleader was written by Gus Unger-Hamilton & Thom Sonny Green & Joe Newman.
Who produced Pleader's ?
Pleader was produced by Charlie Andrew.
What did alt-J say about "Pleader"?
The last track on the record is based on Richard Llewelyn’s book How Green Was My Valley?, about a small mining community in nineteenth-century Wales. The song takes the form of a hymn, and so we went to Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire to record the boys' choir and the organ there, to add a church f...