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  1. The Forecaster
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Taken from the Mark Northfield album Alterations. An instrumental version is performed by Cherry Mint Koala on the album Beguiling Transmissions

Written and arranged by Mark
Lead vocal by Jon Payne
Backing vocals by Mark, Christopher Killerby and Andrew Holdsworth
Piano by Mark
Strings by Charlie Brown (violin), Nick Barr (viola) and Tony Woollard (cello)

Lyrics

She sings the forecast
Languorous and gorgeous
Clouds moving southwards
Hazardous ambassadors

Mmmm...

Snow looms for curlews
Sleet down on lower ground

Clear skies by morning
Black ice then forming
Expect disruption
Widespread til luncheon

She sings the forecast
Lowestoft to Fishguard
Well-versed assertions
The cadence of seasons

Mmmm...

All our futures
From Bracknell to Lancaster
Storms and warm fronts
And warnings of coastal fog
Falling pressure
From Thurso to Exeter
Drizzly days with no end
She wryly smiles
No extremes in these Isles

A flourish to finish
The temperature cadenza

So ends the broadcast
Fine science and hard art
All's dark
All's dark

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