School - Settle Down
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- Album This song officially appears on the Liverpool Oratorio Official album.
Song facts
“Settle Down” is the third track of the second movement – entitled “School” – of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, released in 1991.
II: SCHOOL. 1953. The war baby – Shanty – now 11 years old and at school, celebrates his Liverpool upbringing. With classmates, he skips lessons to “sag off” and sunbathe in the graveyard of Liverpool Cathedral. Sleeping on a gravestone, he dreams of ghosts of the past and the future. One of the ghosts, Mary Dee, is his bride-to-be. Waking and back at school, Shanty and his classmates are taught Spanish in the form of a folk song by their new mistress, Miss Inkley.
“Liverpool Oratorio” liner notes
Last updated on July 10, 2019
Lyrics
BOYS
Settle down.
Settle down.
Let the afternoon slip by.
Settle down.
Settle down.
It's the perfect place for a kip.
(Shanty falls asleep on a grave-stone and dreams)
Officially appears on
Official album • Released in 1991
0:40 • Live • L1
- Paul McCartney :
- Executive producer
- Eddie Klein :
- Additional engineer
- John Timperley :
- Balance engineer
- Carl Davis :
- Orchestra conductor
- Peter Mew :
- Additional engineer, Editor
- John Fraser :
- Producer
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra :
- Orchestra
- Nic Raine :
- Assistant to carl davis
- Martin Astle :
- Additional engineer
- Tom Leader :
- Additional engineer, Editor
- Ian Tracey :
- Chorus master and master of the choriste
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Official album • Released in 1992
0:40 • Live • L1
- Paul McCartney :
- Executive producer
- Eddie Klein :
- Additional engineer
- John Timperley :
- Balance engineer
- Carl Davis :
- Orchestra conductor
- Peter Mew :
- Additional engineer, Editor
- John Fraser :
- Producer
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra :
- Orchestra
- Nic Raine :
- Assistant to carl davis
- Martin Astle :
- Additional engineer
- Tom Leader :
- Additional engineer, Editor
- Ian Tracey :
- Chorus master and master of the choriste
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
Latest concerts where School - Settle Down has been played
Liverpool • Liverpool Cathedral • United Kingdom
Jun 29, 1991 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio
Liverpool • Liverpool Cathedral • United Kingdom
Jun 28, 1991 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio