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Jack Cade
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Rock
Jack Cade was released on April 3, 2026 by Key Holdings Ltd. as a part of the album There's Still Time...
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Release DateApril 3, 2026
LabelKey Holdings Ltd.
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM153

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Alan Clayson
Alan Clayson
Lead Vocals
Paul Crtichfield
Paul Crtichfield
Harmonica
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Alan Clayson
Alan Clayson
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Paul Crtichfield
Paul Crtichfield
Producer
Roger Houdaille
Roger Houdaille
Producer

Lyrics

I am the nameless hayseed, bowed and bent down all the days
No stirrings of unrest beyond my kin
But I joined the boys that marched to mend the wind
Turned ugly when he said
The rabble-rouser seeped from hiding
To turn grass green blood red
Beneath it all, there was no doubt
Unmasked by tortured souls arrested
We asked Cade and Cade protested more
Before suggesting insurrection
Jack Cade - angry as a glass blizzard
Jack Cade - let's shake it up again
Jack Cade knew a Kentish scoundrel when he saw one
Jack Cade - the renegade
We cheered as like a blister lanced
With shovels, scythes, what ere we'd find
Unclean, unshaved, more than half depraved
As winter's frozen tempers flared up
Come moonlight and astral movement
Sunrise chorused no surprises
Hours crawled by mid-morning meaningless
And London waited for the taking
Then Cade crowned himself our king
Raised arms for quiet, unleashed a riot
Enabled us to bite unknown delights
Strange fruit to brutes too used to bracken
King Cade - angry as a glass blizzard
King Cade - the engine gathered speed
King Cade - the rebel in the shaking citadel
King Cade - the renegade
No Robin Hood nor William Tell
No Divine Victim, no fate had picked him
To be the devil heaven only knows
Whose word upon none could rely
Jack Cade - angry as a glass blizzard
Jack Cade - let's shake it up again
Jack Cade, we know a Kentish scoundrel when we see one
Jack Cade - the renegade
And did it have to end that way if Cade kept his head
Tirades that fractured daydreams anyhow
Hazy opaque hopes from hopeless here-and-now
For we of common birth
The worms of worry burrowing
Beneath the blackened earth
The tempest crested, shook its fist
But Cade was gone and thereupon
The wind that screamed was sullenly subdued
No longer bold, we shrugged our shoulders
Jack Cade - angry as a glass blizzard
Jack Cade - the engine's losing speed
Jack Cade - farewell to the rebel as he rolls
Jack Cade - the renegade
The mesmerizing certainty
Birthright and breeding, defeat conceded
Outfaced by the undeflecting gaze
The dread tread of the promenading
Stirrupless with naked foot, striped with barley beard
But leery as a goblin or an elf
Hunter's quarry only Jack himself
Dead or disappeared
Lips twitched, but nothing came of it
But tales downpouring round our roaring fires
Jack Cade - angry as a glass blizzard
Jack Cade - let's shake it up again
Jack Cade - we knew a Kentish scoundrel when we saw one
King Cade - the renegade
King Cade - the rebel
Written by: Alan Clayson
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