Name: Blanket Day
Duration: P00H03M33S
Description: A song about a huge tree (pictured in track cover background) that used to front the Cairns Courthouse in the early 20th Century. This is the tree where Traditional Owners were summoned to collect blankets for winter.

Blanket Day

by Visnja

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A song about a huge tree (pictured in track cover background) that used to front the Cairns Courthouse in the early 20th Century. This is the tree where Traditional Owners were summoned to collect blankets for winter.

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BLANKET DAY - by Visnja

One by one the people line up under the big tree
Got no land, but got a blanket - three cheers for The Queen:
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria!

One by one the children line up under the big tree
They came from the mission 'cause you got their land for free
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, God save The Queen.

Blanket Sunday, I got a blanket Monday,
I got a blanket all my days to come.

It's humbling.
It's too humbling.

Blanket Monday.

One by one the people will come right back here to see
Won't need winter blankets with your arms surrounding me
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, we're running free.

Blanket Sunday, I got a blanket Monday,
I got a blanket all my days to come.

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released April 20, 2023
Piano and Vocals: Visnja

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Visnja Adelaide, Australia

Her name sounds like ‘Vish-nya’ – she’s an Adelaide singer/songwriter harpist and pianist who creates beautiful songs inspired by navigating emotional life, the natural world and dreams of places and people far away.

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Taken

Apr 2023
Unicorn

Apr 2023
Unicorn (Backing Track)

Apr 2023
Blanket Day

Apr 2023

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