Product Description
This is a moving lament with hope and nostalgia mixed in, with a Celtic feel to it; it is a setting of Gavin Ewart's poem "A 14 year old convalescent cat in the winter"
The performance here is by the composer on guitar and voice.
The score is available at
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/19986429?aff_id=175705
I want him to have another living summer,
to lie in the sun and enjoy the douceur de vivre --
because the sun, like golden rum in a rummer,
is what makes an idle cat un tout petit peu ivre--
I want him to lie stretched out contented,
revelling in the heat, his fur all dry and warm,
an Old Age Pensioner, retired, resented
by no one, and happiness in a beelike swarm
to settle on him -- postponed for another season
that last fated hateful journey to the vet
from which there is no return (and age the reason),
which must soon come -- as I cannot forget.
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