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Princess Rosanna Drowned in the Clyde

from Very Interesting Extras by Findlay Napier

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I like a snappy title...
This is another running song. I wrote it while running down the side of the Clyde between Glasgow Green and Pacific Quay.
Someone had spray painted ‘RIP Princess Rosanna’ in foot-high luminous pink letters underneath Jamaica St Bridge. I’ve never really been sure of who Rosanna is. By the time I went back to photograph the graffiti the City Council had removed it and all that was left was a faded RIP and the letter ‘R’.
I finished the story on an Arvon songwriting course at Totleigh Barton in Devon with Karine Polwart and Boo. Karine helped me with the chorus but gracefully refused an official credit.
The guitar part is loosely based on Rab Noakes’ version of ‘Solid Gone’ from his album Standing Up.
This is my second Glasgow graffiti song. My first ode to bridge defacement, co-written with Nick Turner, is called ‘Cut Me Off ’ and appears on my File Under Fiction album.

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Princess Rosanna Drowned in the Clyde Words and music by Findlay Napier
Princess Rosanna graceful and tall
Was she pushed or did she fall
Didn’t make the front page just an inch or two inside Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Princess Rosanna so pale and so white Lies at peace ’neath the mortuary lights Bury her with blessings or cast her outside Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Underneath Jamaica Bridge wet paint runs down the wall Every stanchion, span and stone holds the key
The truth it floats right out to sea
Princess Rosanna flowers in the river The guy upstairs he’ll never forgive her Attention seeker washed up on the tide Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Underneath Jamaica Bridge wet paint runs down the wall Every stanchion, span and stone holds the key
It’s sprayed like a shout
It’s there to fuel the doubt
On the ebb the truth floats back from sea

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from Very Interesting Extras, released February 15, 2016
Findlay Napier- Guitar and vocal

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Findlay Napier Glasgow, UK

One of Scotland's finest songwriters. In 2021 he was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards and in 2018 he was the first solo act to be nominated for Live Act of the Year. Described as Micheal Marra meets Elvis Costello, a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright or a Scottish James Taylor this master storyteller's songs are full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire. ... more

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