Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

knock knock knock
red silk kimono tossed over shoulders
come in, goes Lady Day
It's a grand time for a jam
so getcher selves in here
and puff up a head
we've got a life to lead
and a rumble to conceive

struttin' cross town
gotta b-more...been
to see my buddy mezz
and I know how to row
yas gently down that stream
crosstown traffic ain't so bad
@ 5 am, aughta make the
golan heights by the irie hour
then it'll sure be time to lay
back and smell the flowers, that
is if the locusts didn't do em in........................

lie back and breathe in the sun
keep your mouth closed
as locusts search for lunch

if you got the engine
i got the guts
golan heights by six oclock tops

engineer Dave's just now
showin' me this duck flyin'
vortex machine, will make 2
fly, now I'm thinkin', "why not
a wired guy?", talk about a
do-wacka-do, takes a lil bit a
guts to see this thru, look for
me out over the ocean by 3 and
over the sinai before night fall
if I don't plummet into the sea......................

the Howlin Wolf left my room
swiped my wallet on the way out the door
and yelled "Ya you been served alright, honey!"
and winked just before
the door
hit him hard in the ass and he was gone.
this time he'll stay gone longer than before
i'm changing the locks
on this cheap hotel door
and like the Raven i reply,
sans the wink of course,
"Nevermore."

o that big bad wolf
o nevermore, nah, no way
never again
till he comes back to play

that spoon....that spoon
that spoonful....this time
in the key of G...kinda
psychedelic version
rocketing out there with
the Cream, cause you'll
never surpass em, ain't no
way.....hey now baby get
into my big ride that train
car....hey now baby...I'm
blastin' off out past all the
planets to that orions belt
dog star...................................

I see that belt up in space
a million billion miles away
I howl like a dog at that star
Then ride off to tomorrow's
new sun and pray that it will
be maybe the same or maybe not
when I look to the blacklen night time
skys and howl once again
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see that stairway?
it climbs to the Tower of No Return
don't i know
i climbed it
and slid down the bannister
of No Recall

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old vassar played with
earl scruggs revue, bluegrass
giant, lil mark B. jammed with him
a couple summers ago, took
him to his first open mike at a
barnes & noble in reston va.
out there in the virginny countryside
lil fred flinstone dream of a house
crazy kids kept us up all night long
was a sterling adventure in the burbs
sent me back to the hood, to these
beat sowebo streets, to find my true
love, and my can't she cook, ain't a
bad painter either............................

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jack ya know jerry played
pedal steel for the new riders
of the purple sage, now that's
an album that wired me up, think
I got it the first day it showed
at orpheus records in georgetown
henry tasted he got wasted and
them red hot flyin' burrito brothers
byrds kissin' sweethearts of
the rodeos, and I ain't talkin' bout drives..............

lookin' for the #3
searchin' for the key
francis by the rockets red glare
out on locust point with
nary a care, and redcoats don'r cha
dare.......we gonna draw the line at patterson park this one
thin dime...will slice the dicy for ya this time,
hey homey how long has it been since
ya tripped down thames, so the shot tower
in a haze?????????????