Yesterday’s seed-dropping composition became this song.
Jamais 203 is an hommage to the idioms and sayings I heard during childhood summers spent at my French great grandfather’s house.
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Don’t leave until tomorrow, what we could have yesterday done,
Don’t practice til you get it right, but til you can’t get it wrong,
I’ll explain when you are older dear, much much older,
Beware, one train can hide another,
Better speak to God than to the apostle,
Let us speak little but let us speak well,
Wait an hour after lunch before going back in the sea,
And never ever two hundred and three.
© 2026 O Broadbent