Harvest Festival
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Album version, 4'16.
Released on Apple Venus Volume
1.
Demo version.
Released on 27 September 1999 on Homespun in the U.K.
Andy: “As a kid, I had no idea what the harvest festival ceremony at school was supposed to be about. This bizarre mix of Christianity, paganity, help the Aged, a jumble sale and fridge raid, all seem to crash together (with schoolboy lust interest) in the lyrics of this song.
“This demo is in two sections. The first being that prime fumbling onto mono cassette. You can hear me trying a chorus of ‘one kiss you gave me’, teetering over an embryonic melody. This has been edited at 1.04 minutes onto a slightly later eight track ADAT recording. Think you'll agree the song by this stage feels pretty final.
“Don't get too wigged out by the burbling muffled orchestra under the early version. What happened was when I got the idea, I just grabbed the nearest tape, which I think was maybe some ‘Handel’, and I slammed it into the nearest recorder. In my urgency to catch the muse I'd forgotten that the tape deck was faulty and never properly erases what's underneath. So here we have it, an inadvertently psychedelic version with a baroque master unknowingly jamming with me from beyond the grave.
“I decided to move the arrangement from acoustic guitar to piano simply because of the evocation of an English school assembly. Music master seated at the grand in the hall, girls one side, boys the other. Furtive but powerful glances shooting between the ranks of confused white shirted trainee adults. A smile from a girl across the room can have an atomic blast impact on a spotty, shy lad of thirteen. Ground zero at your heart.
“I'm very proud of the lines ‘see the children with baskets, see their hair cut like corn, neatly combed in their rows’. This, for me, is the whole confused dream of school harvest festival distilled into a few words.”
Instrumental version.
Released on 17 October 2002 on Instruvenus in Japan.
[Thanks to R. Stevie Moore]
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Album version:
See the flowers round the altar
See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair
Harvest festival
See the two who've been chosen
See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
See the children with baskets
See their hair cut like corn neatly combed in their rows
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
And what a year when the exams and crops all failed
Of course you passed and you were never seen again
We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailed
Then out of nowhere invitation in gold pen
See the flowers round the altar
See that you two got married and I wish you well
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
Harvest festival
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Demo version:
See the flowers round the altar
See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair
Harvest festival
See the two who've been chosen
See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
See the children with baskets
See their hair cut like corn neatly combed in their rows
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
What a year when the exams and crops all failed
Of course you passed but you were never seen again
We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailed
Then out of nowhere invitation in gold pen
See the flowers round the altar
See that you two got married and I wish you well
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
Harvest festival
[transcribed by Brookes McKenzie]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:04:59 EST
From: Kevin Brunkhorst <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: Harvest Festival
Message-ID: <6da3ecab.36e75d0b (at) aol dot com>
Harvest Festival
(Partridge)
this one has a couple of Andy chords in it...
in particular, chords that have both a third and a fourth in them
F#7add4 (2x2300) Badd4 (x22440) C#7
See the flowers round the altar
F#7add4 Badd4 C#7 B
See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair
Bsus B Bsus
Harvest festival
F#7add4 Badd4 C#7
See the two who've been chosen
F#7add4 Badd4 C#7 B
See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall
Bsus
Harvest festival
B Bsus
Harvest festival
B Ab/C
What was best of all was the
Db Gb/Bb
Longing look you gave me
Db Gb/Bb
That longing look
Db Gb/Bb Bb /Ab Eb/Db /Bb
More than enough to keep me fed all year
See the children with baskets
See their hair cut like corn neatly combed in their rows
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
A Cmaj7/G Fmaj7 (addB)
And what a year when the exams and crops all failed
F# /E# E C# B
Of course you passed and you were never seen again
A Cmaj7/G Fmaj7
We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailed
F# /E# E C#
Then out of nowhere invitation in gold pen
See the flowers round the altar
See that you two got married and I wish you well
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
Harvest festivalDate: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:01:51 EST
From: KingJeffe (at) aol dot com
Subject: Chords and Tab to "Harvest Festival"
Message-ID: <9f740e2c.36dcc23f (at) aol dot com>
Harvest Festival (by Andy Partridge)
XTC from "Apple Venus Vol.1"
Transcribed by Jeffrey Fariello (kingjeffe (at) aol dot com)
Intro chords/tab:
|-----------------------|
|------4------------2---|
|-----6------------1----|
|----4------------3-----|
|---6----4---2---4------|
|-----------------------|
Chords:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
F#7add11 Bsus4 C#7 B E(Ab bass) Ab7 Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
0 0 X X 0 4 1 X X X
0 0 0 4 0 4 2 2 3 4
3 4 4 4 1 5 1 3 3 3
4 4 3 4 2 4 3 4 3 3
4 2 4 2 X 6 4 1 1 1
2 X X X 4 4 X X X X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aadd2 G6 Fmaj7#11 F# Bbmin(F bass) E Db(barre)
0 0 0 2 1 0 X
0 0 0 2 2 0 6
6 4 2 3 3 1 6
7 5 3 4 3 2 6
7 5 3 4 1 2 4
5 3 1 2 1 0 X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Play arpeggiated intro chords to begin...)
F#7add11 Bsus4 C#7 F#7add11 Bsus4
See the flowers 'round the altar................ see the peaches in tins
C#7 B E(Ab bass) B E(Ab bass)
Round the headmaster's chair... harvest festival........
F#7add11 Bsus4 C#7 F#7add11 Bsus4
See the two who've been chosen................ see them walk hand in hand
C#7 B E(Ab bass) B E(Ab bass)
To the front of the hall... harvest festival.......harvest festival....
B Ab7 Db F#(Bb bass)
What was best of all was the.... Longing look you gave me...
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
That longing look............. more than enough to keep me fed all year..
F#7add11 Bsus4 C#7 F#7add11 Bsus4
See the children with baskets............... see their hair cut like corn
C#7 B E(Ab bass) B E(Ab bass)
Neatly combed in their rows... harvest festival........ harvest festival....
B Ab7 Db F#(Bb bass)
What was best of all was the.... Longing look you gave me...
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
That longing look............ across the hymn books and the canvas chairs
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass)
The longing look you gave me..... that longing look....
Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
More than enough to keep me fed all year....
Aadd2 G6 Fmaj7#11
And what a year when the exams and crops all failed
F# Bbmin(F bass) E Db(barre)
Of course you passed and you were never seen again...........
Aadd2 G6 Fmaj7#11
We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailed
F# Bbmin(F bass) E Db(barre)
Then out of nowhere...... invitation in gold pen
F#7add11 Bsus4 C#7 F#7add11 Bsus4
See the flowers 'round the altar............ see that you two got married
C#7 B E(Ab bass) B E(Ab bass)
And I wish you well...... harvest festival............ harvest festival.....
B Ab7 Db F#(Bb bass)
What was best of all was the.... Longing look you gave me...
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
That longing look............ across the hymn books and the canvas chairs
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass)
The longing look you gave me..... that longing look....
Db F#(Bb bass) Bb Bbsus4
More than enough to keep me fed all year....
Db F#(Bb bass) Db F#(Bb bass)
Harvest festival.....
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