Cosmo Sheldrake, The Moss (live), Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, July 24, 2019 (HD)

Cosmo Sheldrake plays "The Moss" live in concert at a sold-out show at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, California on July 24, 2019. The song was his debut single in 2014, and was later included on the Pelicans We EP the next year.

Sheldrake is from London, and draws on a wealth of recorded sounds and samples in his live performances, plus extensive live looping of his vocals and keyboards. He has done everything from running a community choir to leading beatboxing workshops for kids to composing the score for a series of Samuel Beckett plays.

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The Moss lyrics

Legend has it that the moss grows on
The north side of the trees
Well, legend has it that when the rain comes down
All the worms come up to breathe

Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come
All the plants, they eat them with their leaves
Well, legend has it that the world spins round
On an axis of 23 degrees

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop

Come listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes
Nobody knew and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes
Or how the Dong came to own a luminous nose

Or how the Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed
And came to shore by the Chankly Bore where the Bong-trees grow
Where the Jabberwocky’s small green tentacles do flow
And the Quangle Wangle plays in the rain and the snow

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop

Legend has it that the moss grows on
The north side of the trees
Well, legend has it that when the rain comes down
All the worms come up to breathe

Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come
All the plants, they eat them with their leaves
Well, legend has it that the world spins round
On an axis of 23 degrees

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop

Written by Cosmo Sheldrake

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Cosmo Sheldrake Recent & Upcoming Live Tour Dates:

July 4 - Bristol, UK @ Trinity Centre
July 10 - London, UK @ Oval Space
July 16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere (Zone One)
July 18 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
July 19 - Toronto, Ontario @ The Drake Underground
July 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
July 24 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
July 26 - Squamish, BC @ Squamish Constellation Festival 2019
Sept. 23 - Washington DC @ Songbyrd Music House
Sept. 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Sept. 26 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
Sept. 27 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott
Sept. 28 - Montreal, Quebec @ Petit Campus Montreal
Sept. 30 - Toronto, Ontario @ Horseshoe Tavern
Oct. 1 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Oct. 2 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
Oct. 4 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Oct. 5 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Oct. 7 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
Oct. 8 - Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
Oct. 9 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Oct. 11 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Oct. 12 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Oct. 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex












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Typo catcher: Cosimo Sheldrake, Cosmo Seldrake, Cosmo Shelldrake, Cosmo Shelgrade