Two musical questions

[rachelmanija]

1. What are the instruments playing in this song before the vocals come in? An organ? And... a piano? Chimes? Glockenspiel?

2. Please name a few songs with unusual subjects. Ideally, not pure novelty songs like "Mommy Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

Comments

[rmc28]

Cold Frontier by Show of Hands is about finding a Roman knife on the hillside, and the man who left it there 2000 years earlier:
Walk out over ancient hills
There's something underheel
Reach down let your fingers touch
A blade as hard as steel

Country Life is about how the British countryside is being trashed by capitalism and government choices
And the red brick cottage where I was born
Is the empty shell of a holiday home
Most of the year there's no-one there
The village is dead and they don't care

Witness is about members of a religious end-of-days cult:
We found haven here in the Devon hills
Until the icecaps melt and the valleys fill
We'll sail away and look right down
At the carbon footprints in the sand

Ink Devil is about the songwriter's creation escaping and stealing his life
A second hand Somerset backstreet shop
that's where I found my clothes
not just the ones I'm wearing
but the rest I used to own

(basically I adore Show of Hands, who write and perform folk/roots songs about modern Britain, along with a load of excellent covers)