The Thin Ice (Reprise) with children’s choir — the abandoned echo from The Wall sessions

During the 1979 Wall sessions, the band recorded a reprise of “The Thin Ice” that swapped Roger Waters’ lone vocal for a children’s choir. The album version is a sparse, claustrophobic piece: just Waters, a Wurlitzer piano, and that fragile lyric about skating on thin ice. The reprise, by contrast, turned the warning into a collective,