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Green Green Green

by Hans, Billy & Willis

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1.
Banana Peel 02:45
There's wax upon my toothbrush, grease along the floor Mom says I'm too ugly too ever hope for more Those Mormons come a' knockin' tryin' to fix what's in my head They sneak in in the night time and paint my blankets red I went to see the big parade, I had with me a hand grenade Threw it at the Ferris wheel, slipped on a banana peel I slipped on a banana peel Wrapping paper in the corner for gifts I could not send Polar bears keep waitin' around the next bend Went to see a woman about a deck of cards She smiled through her pink lips she could not go that far Ch. Fear and sympathy for the worms after the rain How could they call it another childish game Layin' low for awhile Practice bein' dumb Cigarettes banana peels and stale chewing gum Ch. etc.
2.
his mom wrote heartbreak hotel, you know, and later he lived near roseburg
3.
Light Blues 03:58
I look inside your mind and this What I find everything is Fine when you say That "you're mine" then I say to you Babe what else would you do Then you say to me that you just can't believe Now I look inside your mind -- but everything is fine We're different today please Listen what I say there comes A time in life when you've got to Get a knife and scrape off all this shit And not try to forgive it And blow it all away But you won't forget my love Burnin' 4 u like the stars up above Well I look inside my mind And this is what I find we're different Today oh uh listen what I say; that although I'm feelin' painnnz At least I've got this flame and my whole body Gets [uptight/upright/surprised idunno] When I think about your eyes like candles In the night there they are To give the darkness light With a fire that don't go out Cos it's fueled from within
4.
That's "on the watertower"
5.
They're "Choking on Zoloft, it feels like a softball."
6.
Shrimp Song 04:50
got a bottle of the finest stuff the creature of my dreams if i knew where the whales flew then the ends would justify the means a whole lotta things go floatin' by along the stream of life but a future seen through a wall of baleen is one of struggle and of strife if the wrecking train that is my brain were to derail into the sea the ocean wide is on my side and with my friend i would be free some friends of mine and family wise they would be not to grieve these words i speak are all lit up by a light of divine make-believe a whole lotta things go passin by along the road to love if i flew with what the whales knew then i would be a peaceful dove
7.
When you walk down the road You turn your back on what people say You're just fuel for their engines to get lost along the way And when you come back around To this god forsaken place You say your prayers for everybody who has fallen on their face / Good golly, I see red Every time they open wide And spray us with their poison that they all keep inside Light the fire of any age In some cold forbidden tomb Yeh the substance of our memory will not be lost to us too soon / Well honey, I love you But I'll never let it show: The last time I said what I wanted to, someone said "you'd best get up and go" I got some insane visions man You know I got a lot to say Uhnuh none of it could be right I've been wrong billions and billions of times today / You come a walkin up my street I tell u it's a road to ride Ain't gonna ease no buddy's troubled mind Just get thee behind me, and I'll be fine Like the smell you get inside Of some old familiar room Yeah the thing that is our memory will not be lost to us too soon
8.
9.
CMTV 03:19
Guh was watchin' Iraq2 on TV you know
10.
pretty audible
11.
12.
shhhh.
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14.
You're too drunk to readagds ahthis
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16.
Message 02:21
message 2 u rudies

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Recorded in two days and mixed in one by Scot Michael and Tugboat Bill at Titan Recording Studio, Seattle, August 2006 -- except 2 and 13, which were recorded by Billy and Hans in Saginaw Oregon on a mini digital recorder w/ built in pinhole mic., August 2006 and maybe October 2006, respectively.



Lyric/music credits other'n self:

1. Gen/Hans 2003
2. Axton/ Ramsey 1962
4. Michael Hurley
8. trad., arr. Percy Hilo
13. Marty Schwarzbauer/ Debbie Nesbitt 1988 (Bottled Hungarian, old Eugene Oregon band, made two great 7" EPs on Moxie and Tombstone respectively)
11 is a very old public domain kids' song for a game with actual kissing, some later verses by Chandler et al.

credits

released February 26, 2007

Hans played electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, violin, sang n stuff

Billy played drums, ukulele, and on 6 background keyboard and 12-string

Willis played washtub, guitarrón mexicano, and electric bass
And washboard on 11 and drove








Reissue cover by Arianne Fredenberg, 2008

Back cover by Hans, 2008

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