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O Captain, My Captain!

from Now Hear This! by Broken Soldier aka Jeff Betz

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Reading of the Walt Whitman poem. Original Music by Jeff Betz

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O’ Captain, My Captain!
O’ Captain! my Captain! Our fearful trip is done
The ship has weather’d every rack,
the prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exalting
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring

But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red
where on the deck my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells
Rise up! - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths -
for you the shores a-crowding
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear Father!
This arm beneath your head!
Is it some dream that on the deck
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will
The ship is anchor’d save and sound, its voyage closed and done
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;

Exult O’ shores, and ring O’ bells
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck m Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

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from Now Hear This!, released October 9, 2016
Jeff Betz, voice & guitar

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Broken Soldier Portland, Oregon

Broken Soldier is a one-man band. A fictional duo featuring Jeff Betz and his nameless companion known only as The Soldier.

Together they create works of musical fiction that purport to be Live performances but which are in fact home recordings made in a small studio apartment in Portland, Oregon.

Jeff Betz: Vocals, Guitars and all other instruments and Field Recordings. ... more

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