Cosmo Sheldrake, Pelicans We (live), Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, July 24, 2019 (HD)

Cosmo Sheldrake plays “Pelicans We“ live in concert at a sold-out show at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, California on July 24, 2019. The song, whose lyrics are drawn from the Edward Lear poem The Pelican Chorus, was originally released on the Pelicans We EP in 2015. Sheldrake is from London, and draws on a wealth of recorded sounds and samples in his live performances, plus extensive live looping of his vocals and keyboards. He has done everything from running a community choir to leading beatboxing workshops for kids to composing the score for a series of Samuel Beckett plays. ====================================== Pelicans We lyrics King and Queens of the Pelicans we; No other Birds so grand we see! None but we have feet like fins! With lovely leathery throats and chins! Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!