Cherry Blossom

Dedicated to my wonderful mum who we lost 3rd October 2021

For John Burnham in loving memory of Sheila Burnham.

Words taken from 'A Shropshire Lad' by A. E. Housman:

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

Joy Ellis - Piano & Voice

Adam Osmianski - Drums

Henrik Jensen - Double Bass

Recorded at Crescent Record Studios, Wiltshire & The Blue Studios, London

Damon Sawyer - Engineering

Andrew Tulloch - Mixing & Mastering

Music, arrangement and production (c) Joy Ellis 2021