Angel of Esquiline Hill / Will Dockery & The Shadowville Trio

[Will Dockery]

New song "Angel of Esquiline Hill / Will Dockery & The Shadowville Trio" -
http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/video/12538911

Angel of Esquiline Hill

Did she go too far?
Waiting on the new crowded,
waiting for the woman with a gun.
Little prisms semi-naked on horseback,
dark halo surrounds her beautiful evil.
Sirens ring out tonight.
Sirens over Benning Hills tonight
little speckles of starlight..

Did she go too far
from the North Highland?
Did she go the way of the world and the wood?
Pale blue skin and sky
she's a Goddess now, on high.
Sirens ring out, sirens ring out
on Esquiline Hill.

On her wit we humbly wait.
Arm and Hammer tattooed on her shoulder.
Goddess gold and dusted
and roaring.
Dodge or on a dare,
on a sturm and drang,
watch her run like wild horses.
Sirens ring out, on that hill tonight,
sirens ring out like little speckles tonight.
Did she go to far,
from the North Highland?
Did she go too high
pale blue sky and skin.

Let me take you down she says,
down, down again.
Let me take you down son,
take you down,
into the sirens... on high.

Did she go too far?
Waiting on the new crowded,
waiting for the woman with a gun.
Prism, semi-naked on horseback.
Dark halo, frames her beautiful evil.
Sirens ring out... sirens ringing.
Little flecks of starlight over Benning Hills.
Spiderweb whirls, pale blue skin and sky,
Stars flicker tonight.
Starlight, sirens ringing on Benning Hills,
she's gone too high.
Let me take you down, she says.
Let me take you down... to silence.

-Will Dockey (words) & Rob Wright (music)

Arrangement - Jack Snipe & Rob Wright
Vocals - Will Dockery
Electric guitar - Jack Snipe
Acoustic guitar - Rob Wright
Copyright © 2014 Will Dockery & Rob Wright

[Will Dockery]

Some details on the real Esquiline Hill, which now is mostly an overgrown
and forgotten graveyard on a big hill on the edge of town:

"Major Raphael J. Moses, CSA." He was buried at Esquiline, his old
plantation, now a family cemetery in Columbus, off Esquiline Drive in
Benning Hills. I'm researching this for Jack but it has interest for all
Columbus history fans, & special interest to Frank Thomas & others who grew
up around Baker/Benning Hills.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/raphael-moses-1812-1893

Right off Esquiline Drive in Benning Hills, sort of behind that new Waffle
House up that big hill. This article gives a detailed view of a trip to
Esquiline. The entire area used to be the Esquiline Plantation.

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/southern-and-jewish/2013/02/25/wrestling-with-history-in-an-old-cemetery/

New song "Angel of Esquiline Hill / Will Dockery & The Shadowville Trio" -
http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/video/12538911