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    Recorded live in concert on consecutive nights last year, D'rect from the Shire captures The Djukella Orchestra in majestic form, performing a repertoire described by one happy audient as "wall to wall bangers", and featuring amongst other wonders, the most incredible recordings of Nye Parsons caressing his double-bass we've ever managed to preserve.

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Written by Scott Cook in Freemosa c. 2003
Purloined by Jez in Edmonton, AB some time later.

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bring up the real revolution
as you know it won't be on TV
this kind of thing you gotta stick around
& get to know people to see
it won't be won by rhetoric
it won't be won with guns
it won't be won standing on the backs of anyone
if it's the real revolution it won't make us all the same
if it's the one real revolution it won't need a name
but peacefulness & compassion
family feeling & compassion
tolerance & compassion
in a time of war & hate

you go on about us & them
you got em both inside
one that you hold up a banner for
one that you try to hide
if it's a real revolution
won't be led by a man of war
you will become the thing you fight against
if you only see what you fight for
beat the swords into plowshares
beat the swords into plowshares
beat your swords into plowshares
& dig in, & work

bring up the real revolution
in your heart & mind
keep the thought of it close to you
in desperate times
it won't be won by rhetoric
it won't be won with guns
it won't be won standing
on the backs of anyone
you know the old revolution
it's the one within
it's the one we been fighting since
the world begin
it won't be led by a guru
who lives his life like a god
it won't be led by a rockstar
it won't be led by the mob
if it's the real revolution
it won't make us all the same
if it's the one real revolution
it won't need a name
but peacefulness & compassion
family feeling & compassion
tolerance & compassion
in a time of cold hearts & landmines & bombs & hate

Scott Cook 2003

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from D'rect from the Shire, released November 1, 2017

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Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra London, UK

Potent songs, silky double-bass, fiery fiddling and smoking harmonicas.

Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra play a rich mongrel mix of folk music, from jigs, reels and rebel ballads to tango, rhumba and reggae.

Virtuoso musicianship, conscious poetry; from dance tunes to rebel ballads, sweet love songs to powerful politics and passionate improvisation. ... more

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