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| | Taking Notes & Stealing Quotes on 'The Hand that Rocks the Cradle' |
 | | This song is a musically straightforward, medium-paced basher in the guitarists' key of E, though it does shift up a tone for the instrumental break, obliging the organ to take a solo in F sharp major, a key that would defeat many players who like to let their fingers do the thinking. |
 | | The straining 'woah-woah' style of the singing, and the antiphonal 'hand that rocks' in the backing voices, are not found elsewhere in Procol Harum music, and could perhaps be associated with the one-off collaborating composer, Chris Thompson, of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, who wrote with Keith Reid before the Prodigal Stranger album was made. |
 | | the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world' and the phrase has passed into common parlance. |
| www.procolharum.com /tn+sq/ps_ld_hand.htm (941 words) |
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