Green & Pleasant - Morgan Fisher (1980)
This track comes from the compilation Miniatures compiled by Mott The Hoople keyboard maestro Morgan Fisher. The album is a collaboration between 50 different artists, all making one minute masterpieces.
Here’s the fine man Fisher himself, performing his own bastardized version of the English hymn Jerusalem which depicts Jesus coming to England and establishing heaven on earth there.
A snatch of the original text by William Blake:
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
Don’t expect any heavenly chorus from Fisher here, though. This track is a wild and nightmarish tromp that quite literally laughs in the face of the original hymn.
More tracks compiled by Mr. Fisher on Miniatures and Miniatures 2 will no doubt grace the hallowed walls of iloveshortsongs in the near future.
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