Serving the Light

from Cottage Industry by King & Cos

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This song features acoustic guitar with a little splash of concertina, some very nice bass playing and drums with brushes. A sea-chantey about a fictional career as a lighthouse keeper.

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SERVING THE LIGHT

I’ve been round these parts for more than forty years.
And in all that time I’ve never strayed.
More than five miles from this lighthouse on a given day.
Always back by dusk to chase the dark away.

In a lighthouse there’s always a couple stairs,
And a couple hundred after that.
I’ve been up and down those stairs ten thousand times,
Makin’ sure that light shines clearly out at sea.

Well it’s been thirteen years since Margaret passed away.
I ain’t seen a dozen people in that time.
I remember all their kind condolences.
What a shame to lose that Sheltie in her prime.

Then my sister came and stayed a month or two.
She don’t know me though our parents were the same.
She lost her husband in the war in ’42.
She still wakes up at night and calls his name.

Once we watched a wave of forty feet or more,
Wash a freighter up right on the reef.
It gently rested there until the crew was saved.
It had missed the rocks by less than twenty feet.

Well I’ve been slidin’ down that slope for quite a while.
Mostly aches and pains and creaky knees.
Because of drink and smoke and life of a certain style.
I mostly do exactly as I please.
I mostly do exactly as I please.
I mostly do exactly as I ...

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from Cottage Industry, released March 27, 2016
Song composed by John Costigan
All instruments played by John Costigan
Vocals by John Costigan & Virginia King
Mixed by Larry Hinds

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King and Cos Kenosha, Wisconsin

King and Cos are a duo that plays a surprising variety of music. They perform often-ignored songs in a zany bi-polar array of styles. John’s original songs tell stories of budding twits with biting wit. He studied theory and song-writing for three years at UW-Parkside with Dr. Augie Wegner, who helped to refine his song writing.
Among Virginia’s influences are Joni Mitchell, and Billie Holiday.
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