Leave Your Sleep, Nonesuch Records 2010 Hazmat Modine: Rich Huntley - drums; Pete Smith - banjo; Steve Elson - clarinet, baritone saxophone; Pem Fleming - trumpet; Michael Gomez - lap steel; Wade Schuman - diatonic harmonica; William Barrett - chromatic harmonica; Joseph Daley - tuba. The Fairfield Four: Isaac Freedman - vocals; Edward Hall - vocals; Robert Hamlett - vocals; Joe Rice - vocals; Joseph Thompson - voc. The Ditty Bops: Abby de Wald - vocals; Amanda Barrett - vocals. It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approach'd the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, -"Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!" The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about the knee. "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he, "'Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!" The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of <b>...</b>
Natalie Merchant
Leave Your Sleep
Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe
Blind men of Indostan
