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Uploaded by on Mar 26, 2008

The Magic Shadow Show by Matt McGinn

In and out, above, below
Phanton figures come and go,
Just a magic shadow show
Come, love, watch with me.

It may be sad, it may be fun,
The leaves of life fall one by one,
The wine of life too soon is done
In this magic shadow show

A loaf of bread and you and me,
A jug of wine beneath the tree,
We will sit and we will see
A magic shadow show

A thousand blossoms of today
Will soon be scattered into clay,
Today becomes a yesterday-
Magic shadow show

Leave tomorrow and yesterday,
With old Khayyam come sip today,
Listen to my Rubaiyat,
Magic shadow show

Could you and I with fate conspire
remould the scheme of things entire
Nearer to the heart's desire,
What a magic shadow show.

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  • Nowadays Sweet Matt is described as just a writer of Comedy Songs.

    Yet this was a man who sang with his soul about

    The Humanity and The Inhumanity of Man

    He claimed to be Agnostic but Matt McGinn believed He believed Man was a Spectrummed being capable of Total Stupidity

    as well as Total Love Just like His Home Town Glasgow. I consider myself privileged to have known him.

  • This is beautiful. Utterly beautiful.

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  • @undercoverbrother67 Well said!

  • Oooh, that's lovely...

  • One of Matt's great qualities in my opinion was how he was with kids. Matt loved kids and kids loved Matt. I have always loved this song and this is why. Matt had been the guest artist at Perth Folk Club one night and he stayed overnight with us. When he and my parents came in, I was crying because of the scary shadows in my bedroom and Matt came in and sang me to sleep with this song. After that, Matt was a God to me!

  • he mustve been really bored when he was little!

  • one of the best videos i have seen on youtube thumbs up if you replayed it

  • Nothing can beat the old rabbit vs snake shadow fight!

  • WHO THE HELL DISLIKED THIS VIDEO :@:@:@

  • This life is nothing but a Magic Shadow Show

  • sometimes i think hands actualy are magic!

  • muy buen video =D me encanta

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