Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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‘A Child's Question, July’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
John Parish - drums
Cecil - field recordings
Colin Morgan - backing vocals

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:

Hail the hedge as it grows
Ask the hedge all it knows

Tell me who has licked the twoad?
What is hidden ’neath the road?
Tell me quick as I was born
Whivering like a downy horn.

Hail the hedge as it grows
Ask the hedge all it knows

Who’s inneath The Ooser-Rod?
Horny devil? Goaty God?
What is God in ethly guise?
One or mampus giant eyes?

Hail the hedge as it grows
Ask the hedge all it knows

Will the sweven’s golden keys
Hanging in the aishy trees
Open gawly geates to death
Who hoards ’es answers in the eth?

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