Grace Notes by Bernard Maclaverty

Author:Bernard Maclaverty [Bernard MacLaverty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1998-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

It was a form Purcell seemed to like – he’d written at least fifty. To be performed in the pub. Out of the Chapel Royal after a hard day’s hymn singing, straight over to the pub to sing dirty songs with his mates. But this one wasn’t dirty – it was stately with a kind of intense sadness to it.

She’d learned catches from her Granny Boyd. The old woman had a sewing machine which she worked with a treadle footplate. Sometimes she sang along to the rhythm of what she was doing.

‘That’s why they call it a Singer Sewing machine. Cause you have to sing when you work it.’

She taught Catherine ‘Three Blind Mice’. And once the girl had learned it – after a matter of minutes – it could break out at any time, whatever they were doing. The grandmother could be boiling a kettle and start,

Three blind mice, three blind mice . . .

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