Tom Leonard on Language and social status

There is a Happy Land

There is a happy land down in duke street jail,

Where all the prisoners stand hangin fae a nail,

Ham and eggs you never see,

Dirty water for your tea.

There you live and there you dee,

God save the Queen.

Then the corporation came wae a great new plan,

build multi-storey flats on the happy land,

Now there's rows a hooses there,

Mind you step gon up the stair,

Ghosts'll come and pull your hair,

God save the Queen.

Susan Philipsz

Commissioned by GI, Susan Philipsz presented a site-specific outdoor sound work combining three versions of the same song, ‘Lowlands’, as sung by the artist, and offering an extra-ordinary connection with this hidden and little used space.

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