Name: For Promised Joy (To A Mouse)
Duration: P00H05M46S
Description: The oft quoted line "the best laid schemes of mice and men..." comes from the pen of 18th c. Scottish poet Robert Burns in his iconic poem - "To A Mouse". An ode to life's transient nature and how circumstances can rapidly deteriorate just as easily for a man or mouse leaving nothing but grief and pain for promised joy. Here it is electrified by Anacoustic Mind aka Mike Ogletree

For Promised Joy (To A Mouse)

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The oft quoted line "the best laid schemes of mice and men..." comes from the pen of 18th c. Scottish poet Robert Burns in his iconic poem - "To A Mouse". An ode to life's transient nature and how circumstances can rapidly deteriorate just as easily for a man or mouse leaving nothing but grief and pain for promised joy. Here it is electrified by Anacoustic Mind aka Mike Ogletree

lyrics

To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough
by Robert Burns
1785
Type: Poem

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion,
Has broken nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request;
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't!

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's winds ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste,
An' weary winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell-
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.

That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld!

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley,
An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me
The present only toucheth thee:
But, Och! I backward cast my e'e.
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!

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released February 9, 2013
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The Blaxcotsman Maggie Valley, North Carolina

The Blaxcotsman aka Mike Ogletree has been around, from drumming duties with 80's Scottish music legends Simple Minds and Fiction Factory to session work in Italy, then working as a sound engineer in L.A. In New York he created Anacoustic Mind, an exciting mixture of his Afro/Scottish soul and the pulsating energy of the planet's most culturally rich city. ... more