EUPHORIA [good-timey/Salty-Dog]
Palmyra NY 12 June 1974 *
Well, mama's in the kitchen a'sweepin and a'switchin
Daddy's on the floor a'gripin and a'bitchin
I'm upstairs eating long yellow hairs
And trying to get to heaven myself / Euphoria
The girl's quiet and the music's so loud
I'm floating away on a belladonna cloud
Listening to the music in between my ears
And trying to get to heaven myself
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[instrumental]
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There's a cop at the door 'cause my sister is a whore
He's tripping on daddy who's shitting on the floor
I'm floating away on a belladonna cloud
And trying to get to heaven myself / Euphoria
The old fireman's turning red
He caught a bad rash at the top of the bed
I'm upstairs eating long yellow hairs
And trying to get to heaven myself
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[instrumental]
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We're just living in all kinds of sin
Ya oughta watch the strikebreakers running in
O mama's on the table, she's willing and able
And trying to get to heaven herself / Euphoria
Meanwhile, I'm still just thinkin'
The whole damn world is surely sinkin'
I'm floating away on a belladonna cloud
And this must be the end.
TRAVELING SONG PT.4: UTAH [folky] Palmyra NY 7 Aug 1974
Out under the sky, just you and I
Letting our thought-dreams be seen
Down we slip, O what a trip
Living on cocaine and beans
--
Way outa town, no one around
Out where the coyotes fart
Bobcat may growl, north wind may howl
But we live in each other's heart
--
[break] Tell my why, if you think you know
Why we sparkle like the morning dew
Ah, so fine, so fine, so fine
Just wine, the horizon, and you
--
Carry no load, we're free as the road
It feels so good what we've done
Wherever we go, we shout a HELLO
To the smilin' early risin' sun
I SAW IT [folky] Palmyra NY 1974 *
[chorus] I saw it / I tell you I saw it
A green flyin'saucer droppin' outa the sky
And little purple women jumpin' out to say "Hi!"
I saw it / I tell you I saw it
Nothin' like this ever happened to me before
--
Well, I was just truckin' up Market Street
Makin' little round holes in the soles of my feet
When I heard this hummin' noise from above my brain
I looked up and nearly shit my jeans
There it was, a'shinin' flashin' green
A flying saucer, I knew I must be insane
[chorus]
--
It landed right there and it snorted and popped
And smoked and steamed and a door opened up
And a two-foot purple woman came and pinched my ear
My brain opened up and my eyeballs fried
I smelled the sun and I tasted the tide
I glowed chartreuse
And she told me to "come over here"
[chorus]
--
I climbed on top and I looked around
I seemed to be a mile above ground
Then all these little women floated out from inside
They said "We can tell by your emanations
That your're the best picker in the United Nations
And we want you to teach us
To play guitar with a slide"
[chorus]
--
I told'em they had got the wrong man
Ry Cooder, Johnny Winter or Chet Atkins
Would give'em a whole lot more
of a musical education
But they said Nope, it had to be me
So they took my back to their galaxy
And I never got back; I'm only
here by astral projection
[chorus]
BRIGHT NIGHT [jazzy] Palmyra NY 1974
Outdoors outdoors / walking thru the night's belly
On feet of fire / on feet of fire / on feet of fire
With quiet darkness screaming screaming screaming
Its voyeuristic vestal verses
--
And crystalline searchlights / scratching 'round my head
Its not really my head / just a cabbage God plays with
Well, am I really walking / down this road upstate
Or have I never been born yet?
--
[instrumental]
Onion indigestion nightmare / the only horse I ride
The women are stabled / and my weed tumbles alone
RIPPLED! [bluesy] Palmyra NY 1974
O sometimes I get up in the morning
Can't even walk a straight line
Can't even walk a straight line
Means I stayed up too late
Drinkin' too much of that Ripple wine
--
O my knees wobble so much
Can't even hit the toilet bowl
Can't even hit the toilet bowl
My eyes gettin' fuzzy
My whole body growin' old
--
[break] O Ripple wine, O Ripple wine
It tastes so sweet, it's sure to leave me dyin'
[instrumental]
--
That sweet'n'dirty old Ripple wine
Ain't no kind of natural high
Ain't no kind of natural high
If I could afford some good weed
I'd be smokin' all the time [break]
IN THE NIGHT [blues rock] Palmyra NY 1974
Out in the ni-i-i-i-ight / standing alone
I wish I he-e-e-ld your ti-i-i-ght
I wish I had you back home
--
Wher-er-er-erever you go-o-o-o / I wish I was along
To let you kno-o-o-ow / that my love is strong
--
[break] I need you every night
I miss you every day
Don't know who's wrong or what's right
Why didn't you stay?
--
I miss connection with you-ou-ou-ou
I miss your lovin' arms
I don't know wha-a-a-at to do-oo-oo
I'll go back to the farm [break]
--
Long time I cry-y-y-y-y / long time I hurt
Without you my-y-y-y- / my life is so much dirt
night rides in [freely] Ft. Riley KS 1975?
night rides in
in fullmoon robes and jeweled
with nightfall
(each crystalline hexflake a
diamond tiara on the throat
of darkness)
--
my dreams ride out
far into the sleeping iceworld
beyond earthly forests
(each lone tree a road
into the sapphire sky
of eternity)
--
and I encompass dancing city
and a highway of tears
and the slipstream that cries
into the night
as any cry alone
and none answer
HOME ON THE RANGE [western] Ft. Riley KS 1975?
O give me a bed / and a girl who gives head
With a lack-a-daisical style
And I'll use my thumb / just to keep feelin' young
Tho I'll start to decay in a while
--
Home, home on the range
Where anything normal is strange
Where the birds in the trees / have a social disease
And my doggie's come home with the mange
--
[instrumental]
--
[needs another verse]
THE BRICK WALL [free jazz] Ft. Riley KS Sept 1975
The brick wall / (glass eye enclosed)
Stares in imbecility / 'cross asphalt plains
--
The brick wall / (white door THERE)
Encloses various / whores and victims
--
Shadowed / young white meat on tired black skin
Another day / another night
--
But [but but] / where am I?
Amidst the galaxies of, of, of, of...
TOO MANY BEANS [parody] Ft. Riley KS 1975 *
(music: I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT)
I woke this morning in a cold and empty bed
The room was suffused with an odor of the dead
My love had left me and it wasn't hard to see
And then another fart escaped from me-ee
--
[chorus]
Came the dawn, and she was gone,
she was gone, gone, gone...
I ate too many beans last night,
I ate too many beans
I'm not willing to face the light,
I ate too many beans last night
--
My future's empty, I can never love again
Not even lonely dogs would want me for a friend
There is no escape from my dietary curse
My guts can only go from bad to wor-orse [chorus]
FURTHER SOUTH [folky] Ft. Riley KS 1976
Well I'd rather be in Spain
But I'd settle just for Tucson
Well, it'd sure be an improvement
Over living in the Yukon
I'm not living that far north
But I'd better move on south
I'll move my skinny body further south
--
The mountains have grown green
With the rains of early spring
And I've walked on belly-flowers
And tasted cactus blooms
Being frozen really sucks
It's much better in the southwest
I'll move my skinny body further southwest
--
[needs another verse etc]
ACAPULCO'S FINEST [country] Ft. Riley KS 1976
[chorus]
There's a great big load of Acapulco's Finest
Sitting in the back of my truck
And I look like a man who's looking for a fuck
But I'm cruising thru Detroit on my way to Montreal
Gonna make me a fortune on this haul
Gonna get rich on this haul
--
There's a sweet skinny woman who's waitin' for me now
At least I hope that she's waitin' anyhow
And she seems like a dream as I pour on the steam
It's been a week since I churned sweet cream
Too long since I churned sweet cream [chorus]
--
It's a hell of a business, hauling green happiness
An it gets kinda nervous at the line
The customs man's gotta nose like a shark
But he can't see me crossin' there in the dark
I can come right across in the dark [chorus]
--
I run the cargo from San Antone
I take directions on the businessman's phone
Gonna get a new business as soon as I can
Get tired a'keeping ahead of the man
Don't know if I can outrun the man [chorus]
--
Pretty damn soon I'm going to Jamaica
Gonna spend the winter on the Bay
Gonny have my skinny woman there and a few others too
I'll have enough money for a few
I'll be strong enough for a few [chorus]
YOU KNOW IT TOO [bluesy] Ft. Riley KS 1976
I been stuck in the phone booth at Third and Chestnut
Feeling like a puppet whose strings been cut
I guess I was too strung out on you, on you
But you strung me along, you know it too
--
I'm hung up on you but you hung up on me
I'm gonna hang myself right up here in a tree
Maybe I hung out too much for you, for you
But I'm pretty well hung, you know it too
--
[instrumental]
--
I'm gonna go live in the mountains, in a cave
I'll hole up there 'cause I'm too far gone to save
I was wholly for you, but you just couldn't be true
There's a hole in my heart, you know it too
KING KONG [bluesy] Ft. Riley KS 1976
I been working all week, been out on the street
I been driving a truck for the city
Been picking up garbage, it gets pretty shitty
--
When I stop off at a bar, I leave the door ajar
And the flies come in with me
A city-full of flies come in with me
--
And all week long I been comin' on strong
And when I get home I spray on the foam
And I scrub my body down, and I sing:
--
[chorus]
Hello there, I'm King Kong
Do what I want in this town
Hey there, hey there
Y'know I'm big and strong
Just like a nuke-u-lar bomb
Hey there, hey there
--
[instrumental and chorus]
BATTERED BY LOVE [pop-blues] Ft. Riley KS 1976
It was just another cold cold lonely day
I was driving home some different different way
I felt a flash, I looked up
I saw your face on the billboard
--
[chorus] Now I know it's true
Aunt Jemima, I love you, you
--
You tool the rain and pain right out of my heart
Filled me with goodness right from the very start
Your love comes in cardboard boxes
You smile from the bottle on my table [chorus]
--
[break] Warm love cooks into my body
What else can I say? What else can I say?
Maple syrup carries me away
Buckwheat pancakes carry me away
Real melted butter carries me away...
[instrumental]
--
Your wholesome batter changed my very life
More than just a mother, more than just a wife
A magic presence, supernatural desire
Magic pancake batter frying on the fire [chorus]
REEFER MADNESS [rock] Ft. Riley KS 1976
I've slept many nights in different beds
Stayed the lost night under changing skies
I've been out West and below the border a ways
I drove a Chevy wagon the other side of Mazatlan
With Sebastian sweating too on the other bar stool
--
But Sebastian's dead now, he tried to cut a deal
On his own in Dallas, shot down by a Texas Ranger
--
[chorus]
But, Hey, now I'm running fat, baby
Guess what's in my bag?
Let's go freak out: REEFER MADNESS!
I'm bound for Hell: REEFER MADNESS!
--
Now I got tired blood, tired brains
Scabbies on the cerebellum, itching id
Hiding behind a charlatany calmness
A dandelion damp in the spring field
By the road is just as alone, at home
--
But we don't need to contemplate the belly flowers
Just need to pass away the coming hours [chorus]
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