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  • A Body Is A Delicate House, Limited Edition Handprinted CD with Deluxe Booklet
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Jeni's 2021 studio album in a Forestry Stewardship Council certified brown card envelope with a mock-polaroid cover photo. This edition of the CD comes with a forty page booklet which Jeni designed, cut, and bound in recycled silk ribbon. The CD is hand-printed by Jeni.

    She created poster-sized collages using family photographs, vintage envelopes, vintage books, wrapping paper, original handwritten lyrics, and pressed flowers in order to illustrate the lyrics of these twelve new original songs. Then she scanned the collages, had them printed by her trusted printer in Lancaster, England, and she cut and assembled them at home.

    The booklet includes all of the lyrics from A Body Is A Delicate House as well as Jeni's essay about the events which inspired her new songs. She's also included extra notes about five of the songs and full production credits.

    The booklets are made to order and can be purchased separately from the CD if you've bought a download of the music rather than a physical copy of the CD.

    Jeni signs and hand-numbers each booklet.

    APOLOGIES FOR THE INCREASE IN POSTAGE COSTS: Sadly, postage rates have risen astronomically in recent years – particularly for the USA, which is now classed by UK Royal Mail in a category of its own: it costs at least £5 more to send an parcel to the USA than to Canada or Mexico! You can save on postage by ordering more than one item at a time, as the base postage rate is determined by the item with the highest shipping cost. You’ll only be charged the incremental rate for any additional items. I wish I could weather the postage increase without passing the cost on to you, but I'm afraid my indy artist existence would be impossible if I did so. I hope you understand.

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Deluxe Booklet for A Body Is A Delicate House with Digital Download of the CD
    Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    A forty page A6-sized booklet which Jeni has designed, cut, and bound in recycled silk ribbon.

    She created poster-sized collages using family photographs, vintage envelopes, vintage books, wrapping paper, original handwritten lyrics, and pressed flowers in order to illustrate the lyrics of these twelve new original songs. Then she scanned the collages, had them printed by her trusted printer in Lancaster, England, and she cut and assembled them at home.

    The booklet includes all of the lyrics from A Body Is A Delicate House as well as Jeni's essay about the events which inspired her new songs. She's also included extra notes about five of the songs and full production credits.

    The booklets are made to order and can be purchased separately from the CD if you've bought a download of the music rather than a physical copy of the CD.

    Jeni signs and hand-numbers each booklet.

    APOLOGIES FOR THE INCREASE IN POSTAGE COSTS: Sadly, postage rates have risen astronomically in recent years – particularly for the USA, which is now classed by UK Royal Mail in a category of its own: it costs at least £5 more to send an parcel to the USA than to Canada or Mexico! You can save on postage by ordering more than one item at a time, as the base postage rate is determined by the item with the highest shipping cost. You’ll only be charged the incremental rate for any additional items. I wish I could weather the postage increase without passing the cost on to you, but I'm afraid my indy artist existence would be impossible if I did so. I hope you understand.

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 26 Jeni Hankins releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of String Unraveller Demo May 2021, The American Dream (Harlis and Freda), Voice Memo Demo, I'm Letting Go of You – Kitchen Single, The Wondarium: Songs For Kids, A Body is a Delicate House, I Fell Into the Fire, The Loneliest Snowman, I Fell Into The Fire – Limited Edition Handprinted, and 18 more. , and , .

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lyrics

The Queen of the Pearly Gate Lounge

for Cousin Corky Mullins

The smoking section has opened in Heaven
and there’s a new girl at the bar –
a drink in her hand
in the arms of her man,
the Channel 34 weather girl star.

She’s brought high glamour to Heaven
and she’ll stay ’til the barman calls time.
Then she’ll hail a warm cloud,
slip softly out –
she was never that good at goodbyes.

Know your emergency exits.
Turbulence is expected.
Oh, drinks all around,
the redhead’s in town –
the Queen of the Pearly Gate Lounge.

Streets of gold could use some re-paving.
The curtains in Heaven have faded.
She’ll stay for a while –
lend us her style
while the pearly gates get some updating.

She’s got her Mercedes Benz at the ready
now she’s crossed to the other side.
Her party is waiting.
No more hesitating.
She gets in her car and she drives.

Keep the aisles all clear in Heaven.
Get ready for thunder and smoke.
Take crash positions
for Eternity missions.
The redhead is headed for Home.

Yes, our hearts have been hijacked to Heaven.
Negotiations have all broken down.
Lord, please hear our prayer,
send the girl with red hair –
send the Queen of the Pearly Gate Lounge.

credits

from A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted, released September 1, 2021
Written by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI.

Jeni Hankins – Vocals and rhythm guitar
Alfred John Hickling – Harmony Vocals and all other instruments

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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