Gathered together here for the first time, the out-takes - previously featured on various CD reissues - from Why We Fight, John Wesley Harding’s New Deal, Awake, Trad Arr Jones and The Sound of His Own Voice.

released October 6, 2020

WHY WE FIGHT

Tracks 1-5
Previously released on Garden of Eden: The Fall EP
Produced by Kenny Craddock (1992)
Played and arranged by Kenny Craddock and Colin Gibson
Reproduced by JWH and David Seitz (2003)
Vocals by JWH
Drums by Ethan Eubanks, recorded by Oliver Straus at Mission Sound, Brooklyn
Mixed by David Seitz at Shelter Island Sound, NYC
Assisted by Sasha Victory
Mastered by Tom Hutton at Bionic Mastering, NYC

After the sad death of Kenny Craddock, these songs emerged on a forgotten reel of arrangements recorded before the Why We Fight sessions. They sounded so good to me, and the versions were so different, that I wanted to let them be heard. The original drums had been erased, and the lead vocals were by Kenny rather than me, so we did what we had to do, here they are and I hope you like them. It was about time Kenny and I did some duets. The biggest regret of my life is that Kenny and I never made a whole record together: it would have been the nearest I ever got to Alan Hull’s Pipedream.

JOHN WESLEY HARDING'S NEW DEAL

Tracks 6 & 7
Previously released on John Wesley Harding’s New Deal: The New Edition
Outtakes from John Wesley Harding’s New Deal
Produced, arranged and mixed by Chris von Sneidern & JWH

Track 8
Previously released on Other People’s Failure CD5
Alternative version of the same song from John Wesley Harding’s New Deal
Produced, arranged and mixed by Chris von Sneidern & JWH

Track 9
Previously released on John Wesley Harding’s New Deal: The New Edition
Recorded live for KFOG, SF at The Plant, Sausalito, CA 4/3/96
ft. JWH, Chris von Sneidern, Robert Lloyd, Bennett Bowman

Track 10
Previously released on John Wesley Harding’s New Deal: The New Edition
Recorded live for Acoustic Cafe at Solid Sound Inc, Ann Arbor, MI 3/28/01
ft. The Radical Gentlemen (JWH, Chris von Sneidern, Robert Lloyd, Kirk Swan, Kevin Jarvis)

Track 11
Previously released on John Wesley Harding’s New Deal: The New Edition
Recorded live at KSCA FM 101.9 Music Hall, Los Angeles CA 2/19/96

AWAKE

Track 12
Previously released on Awake: The New Edition
Produced by Scott McCaughey and JWH at Low Beat West, Seattle, WA

Track 13
Previously released on Awake: The New Edition
Outtake from Awake
Produced, engineered, arranged and mixed by JWH and Chris von Sneidern
Recorded at Ordophon-upon-Avon, San Francisco, CA
ft. Steve Bowman, Peter Straus and Robert Lloyd

Track 14
Previously released on Awake: The New Edition
Produced by Scott McCaughey & JWH at Low Beat, Ballard, WA
ft. JWH, Kurt Bloch, Jim Sangster, Mike Musburger and Scott McCaughey

TRAD ARR JONES

Tracks 15-18
Previously released on Trad Arr Jones: the Appleseed CD reissue
Recorded at Litho, Seattle, WA 4/26-27/2000 by David Fisher
Produced by Kurt Bloch
Mixed by Kurt Bloch, JWH and David Fisher
ft. The Minstrel in the Galleries (JWH, Kurt Bloch, Jed Jedrzejewski, Mike Musburger, Jason Stacek)

THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE

Track 19
Previously released as a download with The Sound of His Own Voice
Produced by Scott McCaughey and JWH at Type Foundry, Portland, OR
Recorded by Adam Selzer
ft. The King Charles Trio (JWH, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, John Moen, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee-Drizos, Nate Query

All Songs by John Wesley Harding (TOWNSONGS/ASCAP) except Cover by John Wesley Harding and Paul Muldoon.

 

Dynablob 5: EXTRAVERSE

  • Kill the Messenger (alternative version)

    The messenger came with bad news from the front
    Said "The soldiers are starving and their swords are all blunt
    They need a show of support or some futile sign
    That’s what they told me to tell you, not even the words are mine..."

    The messenger came with bad news from the war
    Said "The fine young men forgot who they were fighting for
    They don’t wanna be stars on your TV screen
    That’s the general feeling, please don’t blame it on me"

    And the people said "One and one is two
    There’s nothing left for us to do
    But since we can blame it all on you
    We will kill the messenger"

    The messenger came with bad news from the town
    Said "The phone-lines are on strike and the doormen are all down
    They’ve turned your den of thieves into a temple
    They need someone of stature to set them an example"

    And the people said "Two and two is four
    Don’t tell us anymore
    We all know the score
    We must kill the messenger"

    Someone brought the news to the messenger’s folks
    He said "Your son’s been killed two times"
    They said "Is that a joke?"
    He said "No
    He was the victim of ignorant minds
    I hate to bring such bad news, please don’t think me unkind"

    And the family said "One and one is two
    There’s nothing left for us to do
    But since you’re here and we can blame it on you
    We will kill the messenger

    So if you want to send a message...

  • Hitler's Tears (alternative version)

    One man’s tears stain the pillow
    Where he used to lay his head

    She’s left him for another man
    So how come they’re both sleeping in his bed?
    He can hardly sleep for misery
    You can hear him catch his breath
    And he grinds his teeth into the night
    And God says "Hey, Adolf, are you alright?"

    One boy’s tears stain the paper
    Where he writes his Christmas list
    And he inks in broken German
    "Send me the skill of a fine artist"
    Then he wipes out half a continent
    With one flick of his wrist
    He’s so lonely, so misunderstanding
    As he pulls his blanket across the landing

    You can hear them falling every day (Hitler’s tears)
    Just open up the newspaper (Hitler’s tears)
    You can hide, there’s no escape from Hitler’s tears--
    Just what makes the Führer blue?
    He’s crying for you

    One man’s tears--he was a fascist
    Before it was cool
    ’Cos now it’s so expected
    Just accept it that power is cruel
    So he’ll apply for reinstatement
    By new reincarnation rules
    ’Cos he’s the only man, most certainly
    Who could claim to have learned from history

    Hitler cries himself to sleep, alone in Brazil, no-one calls
    How must it feel to be the biggest loser of them all?

    One man’s tears--saltwater salutes the final trip
    A thousand naughty Nazis
    A fraülein with a bullwhip
    A lullaby of Über Alles
    A shaking upper lip
    It’s all become a Whitehall farce
    That’s how we tear our fears apart
    But you shouldn’t take it straight to heart
    So the rest of us can get some sleep tonight

    You can hear them falling everyday...

  • When Dreams Come True

    Nice girls are writing in journals
    Things they wish they’d done
    And all their bad sisters are walking high wires
    Counting the days in a month
    The awful truth doesn’t bear thinking
    Nor does the half-baked lie
    They get their hopes dirty once in a while
    Wash them and hang them to dry
    Everyone’s down except for the clowns
    And Noah don’t know where to go
    It’s hell up in heaven, there’s nothing much here
    And all the real men are below

    What happens when dreams come true?
    Will we know what to do
    When our dreams come true?

    So a saviour rolls in past the big sign
    That says "Strangers - Please Turn Round"
    The men tie him up to a feeding post
    And take his credentials down
    The sun beats rays on our salad days
    His lips get parched and dry
    The girls bring him drink with a giggle and a wink
    And his moment of glory expires

    What happens when dreams come true?
    Will we know what to do
    When our dreams come true?

    Mr.Sandman can’t believe it
    He thought he gave them what they needed
    You couldn’t get no higher
    Than a handsome dark Messiah
    But he’s got one more trick up his sleeve,
    Before he gives up once again

    A Siren goes off as she walks in
    As the cowboy lies dying in the dust
    She walks through the room where the gentlemen gather
    Surrounded by debris and rust
    She smoulders and steams, straight out of their dreams
    But no-one will talk to her first
    Big words are just words
    They’re small and absurd
    She leaves and we all die of thirst

    What happens when dreams come true?
    Will we know what to do
    When our dreams come true?

  • The Original Miss Jesus (alternative version)

    "Hey you" she said
    "I think that I have something in my eye"
    And she posed beneath the standard lamp
    As her clothes waved goodbye
    And she was
    Naked as a new apology
    For something she hadn’t yet done
    And he said "Did I ever tell you the one about
    The Original Miss Jesus?"

    "Born before
    Her more famous little brother Mister Christ
    Sure, there were miracles
    But out of the public eye
    So they didn’t
    Think even to have her crucified
    She just wrote some novels and then she died
    And only her family cried for her
    The Original Miss Jesus

    And then he came
    The one that they wrote all the books about
    The King of the Rock Opera
    Whom she could do without"

    "Stop!" she said
    "Jesus could have been a boy or girl
    History would still have been unkind
    If he’d been a her
    Anyway
    Just watch me turn this beer into air
    As for Redemption Value, I don’t care
    But if you want, I’ll even pretend to be
    The Original Miss Jesus"

    So she was
    The saviour
    Of that sad and lonely room

  • Where the Bodies Are (alternative version)

    Somebody went and killed some people
    And they know who
    The evidence fits around the facts
    Like a favourite shoe
    But nobody knows where the corpses are
    Their whereabouts unknown
    The killer’s in a frenzy
    And he’s getting on the phone
    So they put their thinking hats on
    And spread out in their cars
    But only I know where the bodies are

    You know they can i.d. someone
    From one cell of skin
    But they couldn’t spot a crime scene
    If the killer went and let ’em in
    To genetic fingerprinting
    We all take off our hats
    To hide the little stains that spread
    Across the welcome mat
    You can put your best foot forward
    And wish upon a star
    But only I know where the bodies are

    Lawyers defending guilty men
    Depending on the bid
    The question isn’t if they’re guilty
    But if they’ll get acquitted
    Justice goes unjustified
    Beneath a police chief and an eagle
    Pain’s too difficult to prove
    They’re not going to make pain illegal
    To think that we were once naive
    To think we’ve come this far
    To think that only I know where the bodies are

    Some people don’t wanna know
    The facts behind the scam
    Or see "Who could I be?"
    Peeking out behind "The great I am"
    But most of us got enough to think about
    Husbands and wives
    To notice pointless death’s become
    A brand new way of life
    And this is just a sandwich board
    That I wear out in the park
    Saying only I know where the bodies are
    (And I’m not telling you.)

  • Death of the Ghostwriter

    The ghostwriter sits at home
    Paid for his trouble
    And he's laughing at the light
    That shines on fame
    Nothing can be shared
    He's no-one's equal or double
    Money talks
    And no-one ever says his name

    She signs every book
    With a flourish of fulfillment
    And some red ink from a pen
    He knew she stole
    Now she's on Kaleidoscope
    And someone says she's Milton
    When she didn't even read the book
    Or so he's told

    Riding on a ghost train to a ghost town
    An of-our-lives-we-made-less-than-the-most-town
    Once you get in, you cannot turn around
    The ghostwriter's found

    So he sits at home
    Where he writes his little novel
    About the wicked winning out
    Without remorse
    They find him half-alive
    In his half-house that's half a hovel
    And his final words are
    "Tell her, we are now divorced, of course

    Hey you sad-sack hacks
    And all you back-room boys beware
    They'll buy you up
    Like diamonds and fur
    Then spit you out like coffee grounds
    That fell through the filter
    And say "The book could not have been written without her"

    Riding on a ghost train to a ghost town
    A Your-check-is-coming-in-the-post-town
    Once you get in, you cannot turn around
    She has found

    The ghost of the ghostwriter
    Noticed by no-one
    It was his choice
    So he's paying for it now
    Deadlines and death taxes
    All that's waiting for us
    Wake up and sell the coffee
    Milk the profits, kill the cow
    It's coming on 2000, lads
    Anything's allowed (and how)

    Chorus (Your life is turning into toast town)

  • Let Us Now

    Let us now put pen to paper
    Let us now be heard
    Let us now see eye to eye
    And praise the power of the word
    And may the unlearned, the illiterate
    Be allowed to know its worth
    Let us now praise everyone

    Let us now give praise to Allah
    Let us now thank God
    Let us now place all religions
    In a king-sized melting pot
    Let us not be scared by others
    Who believe what we do not
    Let us now hear everyone
    Let us now hear everyone

    Let us now be hopeful for success
    Let us now clean up this mess
    Let us now be open, honest
    And let us now confess

    Let us now shout out the window
    Let us now give voice
    Let us now raise the high the rooftops
    Yet be heard above the noise
    Of the ads for self-indulgence
    And the false idols of choice
    Let us now see everyone
    Let us now see everyone

    Let us now be hopeful for success
    Let us now clean up this mess
    Let us now be open, honest
    And let us now confess
    That our hopes and fears
    Are falling on deaf ears

    Let us now give up possessions
    Let us now not care
    Let us now live hand to mouth or
    Let us all be millionaires
    And may the source of all our worries
    Up and vanish in thin air
    Let us now be everyone
    Let us now be everyone

  • In Paradise (unedited version)

    Everything’s changed and it’s all for the best
    And it’s all gone according to plan
    It’s out in the open and now it’s all over
    Three cheers for every woman and man
    Terry and Julie still stand on the bridge
    But only in our memory
    Don’t look to them to draw a conclusion
    Just love them and set them free

    Julie hangs out by the banks of the river
    Where the garbage all flows to the sea
    Something’s washed up, it’s sacrifice to her
    From the Twentieth Century
    She sees the smokestacks and she sees the city
    She sees the stadium’s covered in snow
    The streets have been cleaned except for the bedrooms
    Of all the people with nowhere to go

    Terry will clutch at threads where the rope was
    As he’s freefalling fast to the floor
    But nobody claps because nobody’s watching
    It’s his lawyers who get all the applause
    Time’s on the move, and I’m on the redeye
    Where I’m hoping to find one more song
    But it’s like looking for rain in the river
    Better not leave it too long

    Terry and Julie filled out the coupon
    And they won tickets tonight to the show
    But it’s the aisles in the new stores that beckon
    As they shine a divine guiding glow
    The bridge through the city, it has just crumbled
    And that link is what kept them all sane
    The two of them tumble into the river
    Forget to come up for air again

  • Kiss Me, Miss Liberty (live)

    Up in Westminster, the bell fell down
    Took three hundred years to touch the ground
    Fall leaves drifted by and turned brown
    A foreign plane was downed

    Dogs came running from their cold dog pound
    They leapt through the fence and ran downtown
    And the convicts turned their ship around
    And they were homeward bound

    Kiss me, Miss Liberty
    Take me to bed
    So I can be free as well
    Not just in my head
    Kiss me, Miss Liberty
    Lift me above
    Unchain my heavy heart
    Fill me with love
    Miss Liberty, Kiss me

    And the slaves were saved from their chain-gang
    Knives cut men down just about to hang
    Lost love returned just like a boomerang
    And it was I who sang

    Kiss me, Miss Liberty
    Take me to bed
    So I can be free as well
    Not just in my head
    Miss Liberty, kiss me

    Freedom, show me to your foreign shore
    Lay me in your arms at your front door
    I can’t face confinement anymore
    I won’t be ignored

    Kiss me, Miss Liberty
    Take me to bed
    So I can be free as well
    Not just in my head
    Kiss me, Miss Liberty
    Lift me above
    Unchain my heavy heart
    Fill me with love
    Miss Liberty, Kiss me

  • The Secret Angel #2

    The secret angel fell from grace
    Condemned to wear a human face
    Evicted from her paradise
    Excommunicated twice
    Settled for second best
    And so she found me

    Don’t ask the nature of her crime
    Don’t ask her why she’s serving time
    Don’t ask this girl why she can’t cry
    Don’t ask her questions that start "why"
    I’m trying to help her start anew
    To learn to walk when once she flew
    Above the ups and downs
    That floor and ground us

    Into the dark, she was reborn
    She says tonight will have no dawn
    And all the light drains from her eyes
    As she forgets to say goodbye
    To one more memory
    That tries to lift her high

    She drafts new plans and draws designs
    To find a way for her to fly
    I hide them when her back is turned
    The secret angel never learns
    She just gets burned again
    And falls eternally...

  • When The Beatles Hit America

    Due to a miracle marketing strategy
    Beyond the realms of reasonable possibility
    It is announced simultaneously
    On radio, compact disc and TV
    That John, Paul, George and Ringo
    Are going to be reforming as The Beatles in 1993

    Things skip into action immediately
    George buys the film rights in a flurry of activity
    Paul says they’re not going to play Japan
    Ringo cancels his three year chat show plan
    And John, who was never the quiet one.
    John stays silent for the time-being

    And the world sings
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America
    It’s going to be sponsored by…
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America

    And lawyers start to draw up large contracts
    Involving sponsorship, t-shirt deals, Michael Jackson
    They’re interviewed on live TV
    About management deals and corporate policy
    And who’s gonna be the manager of the new Beatles?
    The manager is made up of cloned parts of Col Tom Parker and Col Sanders
    And George says he’s not even going to play
    Unless they bring the Maharishi

    Yes, the Fab Four are interviewed on live TV
    But for some reason they’re just the Fab Three
    And a cardboard cut out of John
    With a very strange smile and no shoes on
    Which starts a scurrilous John is Dead rumor
    Which Rolling Stone reveals is just hype for the tour

    And the world sings
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America
    It’s going to be sponsored by ….
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America

    Well, The Who, The Stones, Debbie Gibson and Diana Ross
    Record a Supergroup single at great cost
    But it’s so hard to make the charts
    Because everyone’s taken the new Beatles to heart
    And from the time of the announcement of the gig
    To the gig at Che Stadium two years later
    Every record in the Top Forty on both sides of the Atlantic
    is written by Lennon McCartney

    And finally they get into the studio
    To be co-produced by George Martin and Jeff Lynne
    And Ringo disappointed to find that no one
    needs him anymore except for the vibe
    Because he’s been sampled
    And he’s now part of the Great Drummers Sampled series

    George gets Monty Python in to do the vocals
    Linda takes a lot of photos
    For a book that’s sold out
    Before she even though of putting it out
    And John, who was never the quiet one,
    makes all his press contributions from his old songs,
    In tune, in time and with the backing track behind him
    And they ask him how it’s been in the studio,
    he says “It’s been a hard day’s night”
    And now one understands him but he always was the cryptic one

    And the world sings
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America
    It’s going to be sponsored by…
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America

    Finally the record hits the shelves
    And it’s called The Beatles… From Ourselves
    And for anyone who didn’t realize or know
    It sounded a lot like ELO, or ELP, or XTC, ABC, YMO, BTO
    But it’s didn’t sound much like PSI.. Love You

    And the day before the big gig at Che
    The rumor goes round
    People saying they’re not going to play
    That the whole thing’s been a big insurance scam
    To get the reissues selling again — CYNICAL - but isn’t John dead?

    Suddenly we’re over in the stadium
    We’re live on CNN, MTV, BBC
    And the lights go down and the screaming stops
    And you could hear a pin drop….

    And suddenly they’re there
    All four of them
    And I get scared
    As they go into I Saw Her Standing There
    And thunder through the best set in the world
    And encore with the whole of Sgt Pepper
    IN ORDER, and they’re Gods,
    And I’m in HEAVEN…

    but on the very last chord of A Day in the Life,
    The Beatles are beamed off into outer space
    Into a waiting spaceship
    Which takes them to a better place
    A place where reunions are not expected of anybody
    Not even…

    This is my dream
    I bought it
    I bought the product
    And now I’m happy
    You can believe what you like
    It happened
    That’s all folks

    And the world sings
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America
    It’s going to be sponsored by…
    When the Beatles Hit America
    When the Beatles Hit America

  • Wooden Overcoat

    There’s a man in a pitch black hat
    And his underwear’s made of mud
    He jumps like a pouncing cat
    And he lands with a sickening thud
    His head is surrounded by ravens
    The plague has progressed to his heart
    Best that you meet him clean shaven
    Cos his razor is not kept sharp
    And he’s wearing a wooden overcoat

    He’s known in the underworld
    He lives in the undergrowth
    And he’s knowingly undersold
    Though he’s never been under oath
    His devils are arrayed in armies
    And his angels will fix the fight
    He’ll shape you like origami
    And throw you away at night
    And he’s wearing a wooden overcoat

    His house is a damp museum
    And all of his servants worms
    Mating in mausoleums
    Licking the floor for germs
    And his cabinet’s full of wonders
    There’s specimens everywhere
    He’s negative six feet under
    And has to submerge for air
    And he’s wearing a wooden overcoat

    Don’t ever act too humble
    Don’t eat away thy heart
    He’s tearing apart each dungeon
    His tail’s an evil dart
    And he’s wearing a wooden overcoat

  • Punch 'n' Judy

    The Beadle says I killed them all
    My wife, my screaming child
    I’m dying in the morning
    And they wonder why I smile
    So I’ll sit and write my memoirs
    Of a life upon the stage
    And hope to die of middle age

    Jim Crow The Abyssinian
    Has sung his final song
    The Grand Turk of Senoa
    Always gets his English wrong
    He could just say "Shallaballa"
    But he’d say that word three times
    And nobody knows my crimes

    They’ll say that I’m an outlaw
    But I tell you, that I’m your friend
    You know I’m only in for
    Punching Judy again

    The radical gentleman
    Complained about my bell
    I said it was an organ
    And I rang that thing like hell
    The Objector backed me up on
    Any name I said it is
    And guess which one of them will live

    While riding on my hobby horse
    I was overthrown
    To the doctor I was sent
    To cure my broken bones
    He beat me without reason
    ’Til I had to give to him
    A taste of his own medicine

    They’ll say that I’m an outlaw
    But I tell you, that I’m your friend
    You know I’m only in for
    Punching Judy again

    The executioner arrives
    Jack Ketch is that man’s name
    He thinks he’s gonna hang me
    But he doesn’t know my game
    I can’t get my head into his noose
    He’s gonna show me how
    And I’m gonna hang him now

    I’m ready for the devil
    And I see that he’s appeared
    Like Mr.Faust before me
    I will pull old Satan’s beard
    So for Toby my old terrier
    And everyone of you
    I’m gonna kill him too

    They’ll say that I’m an outlaw
    But I tell you, that I’m your friend
    You know I’m only in for
    Punching Judy again

  • I Just Woke Up (complete version)

    I just woke up
    And I feel so good
    And I’m looking straight ahead
    My thoughts are wild
    All I do is smile
    And I’m jumping out of bed
    I Just woke up (just woke up)

    I just woke up
    And the sun is bright
    And it’s shining down on me
    If you’ve got big ideas
    I’m all ears
    But all I plan to do is be
    And I just woke up (just woke up)

    From a bad dream...

    I just woke up (just woke up)

  • Canadee-i-o

    It's of a fair and handsome girl, she's all in her tender years
    She fell in love with a sailor boy, it's true that she loved him well
    For to go off to sea with him, like she did not know how,
    She longed to see that seaport town, called Canadee-I-O.

    So she bargained with a young sailor boy, all for a piece of gold
    Straightway he led her all down into the hold
    Saying I'll dress you up in sailor's clothes, your jacket shall be blue,
    You'll see that seaport town, called Canadee-I-O.

    Now, when the other sailors heard the news, they fell into a rage,
    And with all the whole ship's company, they were willing to engage,
    Saying "We'll tie her hands and feet me boys, overboard we'll throw her
    And she'll never see that seaport town, called Canadee-I-O."

    Now, when the captain he's heard the news, he said that ne’er shall be
    For if you drown that fair young maid, then hanged you shall be
    He said "She'll stay all in sailor's clothes, her colour shall be blue,
    She'll see that seaport town, called Canadee-I-O."

    Now when they came down to Canada, scarcely above half a year,
    She's married this bold captain, who called her his dear,
    She's dressed in silks and satins now, and she cuts a gallant show
    She's the finest of the ladies down in Canadee-I-O.

    Come all you fair and tender girls, wheresoever you may be,
    I'd have you follow your own true love when he goes out on the sea,
    For if the sailors prove false to you, well the captain he might prove true,
    To see the honour that I have gained by the wearing of the blue

  • Billy, Don't You Weep for Me

    "Sally where are you going? that you do look so gay
    I know that I've not asked you to take a walk today"
    "You have not asked me; well indeed, it's a tidy cheek of you,
    For you think that there's no more young chaps; I've got a dozen or two
    Billy don't you weep for me,
    I'm going to St. James Park, me cousin Joe to see"

    "Cousin Joe, now who is he - he's a soldier I can tell
    For I know that you're fond of lobsters both raw and boiled as well"
    "My Cousin Joe's a guardsman, and he is a handsome chap
    "And he wears such fine moustachios and a stunning furry cap"
    "Oh Billy don't you weep for me
    I'm very fond of Cousin Joe, and he's very fond of me"

    "We're going to the play tonight, Jack Sheppard for to see
    And when that it is all over, we'll all have a jolly good spree
    I've got money for a pint of stout and when we're short of tin
    I'll even go and porn me smock to buy us a bottle of gin
    Billy don't you weep for me
    I'm going after Cousin Joe and I'll sit all on his knee”

    "Whatever is the use of him? He never can keep you
    You'll have to work from morn til night, that's what you'll have to do
    You'll have to make shirts at a penny each, or else stand at the tub
    And mark my words, there’s many a day you'll go very short of grub
    And then, Sally, you'll cry for me
    Book it back to Cousin Joe, and sit all on his knee !"

    In about a twelve months after, young Sally come back to me,
    She said that she was sorry that she'd ever been on that spree
    Wanted me to take her back, says I, "Don’t come to me
    For I see you got a baby to dance all on your knee"

    "Oh Billy how can you serve me so? You really drive me mad
    I'll have you up before the beak and I'll swear you are it's dad
    When you get before the bench they will not let you speak
    And you'll have to keep the young one on 30 pence a week
    So, Billy, how can you serve me so?
    For I'm sure the child belongs to you, not to Cousin Joe".

    Well in a week she gets this summons but she found it was no go,
    For the magistrate decided that the child belonged to Joe.
    She went up to Billy's backyard, quickly the door she shut,
    And when at last they found her, she'd drowned in the water butt
    So young women take a warning from me
    Never love a soldier or sit all on his knee

  • Edward

    What’s that blood all on your shirt?
    Son, come tell to me
    Oh that’s the blood of me own greyhound
    He wouldn’t run with me, with me
    He wouldn’t run with me

    Oh, it’s too pale for your greyhound’s blood
    Son, come tell to me
    Then it’s the blood of me own grey mare
    He wouldn’t hunt with me, with me
    He wouldn’t hunt with me

    Oh, it’s too red for your grey mare’s blood
    Son, come tell to me
    Then it’s the blood of my own dear brother
    He wouldn’t ride with me, with me
    He wouldn’t ride with me

    And what were you all quarreling about?
    Son, come tell to me
    Oh it’s all about a little holly bush
    And it might have made a tree, a tree
    Might have made a tree

    And what will you do when your father comes to know?
    Son, come tell to me
    I’ll set sail in the little sailing boat
    I’ll sail across the sea, the sea
    I’ll sail across the sea

    And what will you do with your pretty little wife?
    Son, come tell to me
    Oh she’ll sail along in my little sailing boat
    She’ll sail along with me, with me
    She’ll sail along with me

    And what will you do with your eldest son?
    Son, come tell to me
    Oh I’ll leave him here for you to raise
    Rock all upon your knee, your knee
    To rock all upon your knee

    And when will you come back again?
    Son, come tell to me
    When the sun and the moon they’re on yonder hill

    I know that will never be, never be, I know that will never never be

  • The Humpback Whale

    ’56, I sailed on board a ship called Byron One
    She’s carried trawler men on deck and a harpoon whaling gun
    A tractor for a whale winch and the ship’s an old fair mile
    Twin diesels turned the screws around, she’ll whale a fine old style

    Oh you trawler men, come on, forget your snapper and your prawn
    For it’s out of Ballard we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale

    Keep a sharp look out, my lads, the whale she’s on the run
    And we’ll drive her into Byron bay and we’ll shoot her with our guns
    The harpoon and the lines fly through very deep into the whale
    She split the timbers of the ship with a flurry of her tail

    Oh you trawler men, come on, forget your snapper and your prawn
    For it’s out of Ballard we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale

    The rigging struts are snapped in two, we reel beneath the blow
    The gunner fires a killer shot and that humpback sent below
    Make her tail fast to the bows, we got no time for bed
    For four and twenty hours each day, we kept that factory fed

    Oh you trawler men, come on, forget your snapper and your prawn
    For it’s out of Ballard we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale

    The flensing men upon the land, some had been jackaroos
    They skin the blubber from the whales like they’re skinning kangaroos
    A hundred whales and then fifty more, through the factory we did send
    Then the orders came ‘Knock off, my lads, your season’s an end

    Oh you trawler men, come on, forget your snapper and your prawn
    For it’s out of Ballard we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale

    Back into Baliner we steered, tied up and stowed the gear
    All hands headed for the pub and we filled ourselves with beer

    Oh you trawler men, come on, forget your snapper and your prawn
    For it’s out of Ballard we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale

  • Cover

    I’ve covered Prince and Michael Jackson
    The Simons, Paul and Carly
    Fleetwood Mac and Saxon
    Bob Dylan and Bob Marley
    I’ve done the Pogues & Pixies
    Van Halen & Vandross
    AC/DC, ABC, Dixie
    Chicks, Styx & The Boss
    Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
    Mott the Hoople, Motley Crue
    The only one I haven’t covered is you

    I’ve covered Reg and Elvis Presley
    The Wilsons, Jackie & Pickett
    Calvin Newborn, John Wesley
    Harding and The Crickets
    I’ve done Meat Loaf and Mountain
    The Byrds, Bananarama
    Wayne Fontana, Fountains
    Of Wayne and The Mamas and
    The Papas, The Mothers
    Of Invention and The Moody Blues
    The only one I haven’t covered is you x 2

    One day I’ll get my chance to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt
    That Freddie Mercury was Persian
    And when you hear my bold take on romance, you’ll know
    It's the definitive version
    I’ve covered P.F. Sloan and Leonard Cohen
    The Joplins, Scott and Janis
    Chuck D and Buck Owens
    The Church and Praying Mantis
    I've done Rod Stewart and The Faces
    Talking Heads and Levon
    Helm, The O’Jays and Oasis
    Warrens, Haynes and Zevon
    Jojo and The Modern Lovers
    Bill Haley, Husker Du
    The only one I haven’t covered is you x 2
    One day I’ll get my chance to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt
    The joys of joint creation
    And when you hear my new take on romance
    You’ll know that it's a bold reinterpretation
    I've covered Queen & B.B. King
    Cece Winans and Dee Snyder
    WASP, The Scorpions & Sting
    Mitch Miller and Mitch Ryder
    I've covered Simply Red, Sonny Terry
    Brownie McGee, Whitesnake & Yello
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    Bing Crosby, Tom Morello
    Deep Purple's Roger Glover
    The 4 tops, US3, U2
    The only one I haven't covered is you x 3

 
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