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glastonbury
04:16
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i went down to glastonbury
all the past was dead and buried
i felt something there that made me stop awhile
on the tomb of good king arthur
sing the blues ask question after
whatever happened to the daughters of avalon
in this earth lies merlin dreaming
soon awakened to the screaming
of the sons and daughters of albion
darkness haunts this once great nation
'fore the final tribulation
for the father's sins come judgement day
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looking for gold
04:52
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1.no-one ever wasted their time
walking through these golden fields
another green world in a raindrop
the curves of deepest space will be revealed
ch: this air washed clean, this grass so green
so many things i've never seen
looking for gold
2.i was just so lost and lonely
my only shelter was the blue sky
my past was just a question of "if only..."
i was always singing why oh why
ch: this air washed clean etc.
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yearning
04:03
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1.yearning yearning is a crime
im burning burning down one side
turning turning down my lost pride
i may be gone a while..
2.i'm walking walking through the deep
i'm talking talking in my sleep
i'm stalking stalking you like a creep
this may take a while...
3. resenting resenting tears at my heart
relenting relenting to live apart
inventing/reinventing the lost art
ascending through the dark
i may be gone a while..
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mystified
04:09
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1. im mystified by life itself
sometimes i feel im up here on the shelf
and there's no way down
no way round
2. comes the night i'm dreaming madly about her
sometimes i feel i can't live without her
and i'm going down
she ain't coming round
ch: theres people who say they do
and people who don't
people who say they will and people who won't
there's people that give that's people that live
people who cry people who die
3. the story of life and death's in the wink of an eye
the story of love is farewell, goodbye
until we meet again
my darlin' friend
ch: there's people who say they do etc...
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rosemarie
04:57
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and all the boys that come around
are from the wrong side of the town
well she knows her mother won't approve
she hasn't always been this way
she was a perfect rose in younger days
secretly she dreams she can fly
she's looking for something to change her life
she's looking for something from deep inside
but ohhh rosemarie
if you really want to you can fly
she's looking out across the bay
its been another cloudless day
but she can't hide the storm that's in her heart
it hasn't always been this way
she was a perfect rose in younger days
secretly she dreamed she could fly
she's looking for something to change her life etc....
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mad cow boogie
03:14
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1. tiddlywinks and will'o'the wisps
fiddly bits and giggly fits
talkin' to jedda moana
eating a squashed banana
tiddleywinks and fiddly bits indeed
now i am quite a mad cow
better than being a sad cow
2. picketty witch and clicketty sticks
hominy grits and six sixty six
on the corner of dolphin and arden
listening to savage garden
beef eating brits and nit pickin' micks abound
now i am just a mad cow
it's better than being a sad cow
3. billy the kid and silly old syd
threepenny bits and slippery dips
i thought i saw joanna lumley
walking with lucifer cholmondely
rene magritte and gilly mcnip by gum
its alright being a mad cow
better than being a sad cow...
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7. |
come on now baby
03:12
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well im hangin out in the middle of a drought
there aint no doubt im crazy about you baby
see ya dance to the beat baby im on heat
honey you so sweet gonna knock you off yr feet
i could go all night
cos it feels all right i just might..eat you alive baby
ch: little woman if ya don't say yeah
its more than this crazy boy can bear
im a sharp shootin cat who knows where its at
honey its a fact im comin in to bat baby
every time i hear yr name
my heart thumps louder than an old freight train
ch:
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8. |
all the good friends
04:23
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and all those faces now they pass before yr eyes
and when the morning comes you'll know the reason why
don't let that sadness strike you blind upon the road
sit back awhile and rest that heavy load
ch: all those good friends that we left behind
all those dark dreams of their troubled minds
i only wish that id had just a bit more time
to let her know the words don't always have to rhyme
her time came up before she found that deepest peace inside
her cries for help drowned by the rising tide
ch:
and in the evening time when all is said and done
their souls shall rise against the setting of the sun
in searching for the weary one she lost that great delight
that most ancient and sacred gift of life
ch:
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friends in low places
04:08
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stranger shores
05:58
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just when you thought you knew all about it
and life was captain'd by a ship of fools
yr diamond heart lay shattered/strewn i found it
but the pieces danced and burned like ancient jewels
ch: o! my eye /blinded by
such colours that ive never even seen before
take my hand/ understand
we're rising through the deep to stranger shores
sometimes when im up here i feel justified
in shouting at the world to look my way
but i won't see my heart lyin' torn and bleeding
with me head kicked by those with feet of clay
ch:
times of dread and times of love will come and go
as you will see with eyes of clearest blue
visions of arcadia lie deep inside
remain at peace the truth will come to you
ch: x2
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apokalyptik blues
04:50
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exterminate annihilate eliminate the blues
incriminate interrogate incarcerate the blues
defenestrate eradicate excoriate that's what they wanna do
the man says the blues is goin' down
take no prisoners in funky town
annihilate exterminate eliminate excommunicate the blues
implicate interrogate investigate the blues
defenestrate invidiate the hour is late so get hip to the news
the man says the blues has got to go
elmore fudd is on death row
annihilate exterminate eliminate excommunicate the blues
eviscerate impersonate administrate the blues
invalidate emasculate and live in hate of all that's good and true
that old time magic just fades away
looks like its time for judgment day
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forearm jolt
05:18
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last night/really came in from the cold
her eyes/ hit me like a forearm jolt
she had soft and starry starry eyes
her smile/ like a warm october sky
i was such a lonely, lonely boy
that night/was for me such total joy
that was/back in 1978
times will/never ever be the same...
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murray cook Maroubra, Australia
Murray Cook has written , recorded and toured internationally with Midnight Oil, Mental as Anything, Warumpi Band, Mixed Relations and Leah Purcell. He has taught music in Long Bay Gaol for 25 years, currently directing the succesful Songbirds Song Writing , Art and Theatre workshops in NSW Prisons ... more
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