Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Burt Bacharach, one of pop's historic melody makers, is still performing at age 92, as you'll see in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert with lyricist Daniel Tashian.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Bob Boylan here.
0:01.6	This concert's part of our tiny desk home concert series.
0:04.9	We started back in mid-March of 2020
0:07.3	when we couldn't record concerts at my desk at NPR due to the pandemic.
0:11.3	You can watch this concert at npr.org
0:14.2	or on the NPR Music YouTube channel.
0:16.8	Enjoy.
0:18.3	If you ever go to St. Augustine, there's a chapel bell
0:29.6	that chimes out the hours in the garden wall.
0:37.7	By the iron gate, you can hear the beans,
0:43.5	running in the wildflowers.
0:48.5	And if you see a girl,
0:53.5	right other than all of the lights and roads,
0:58.5	I hope that nothing holds a candle until find her.
1:05.5	I look tired and old,
1:09.5	I look once upon a dream,
1:19.5	on a summer's day.
1:23.5	She was walking right and I felt my heart
1:30.5	making suddenly that was all she would do.
1:38.5	I tried to speak, but I could never stop.
1:45.5	So if you see that girl,
1:50.5	right other than all of the lights and roads,
	...

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