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Songs to Find the Girl from Perth - in the order they appear in the book

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Details on the songs


It Was a Stormy Dark Night  - just words - with chords

Travelin' Alone - just words - with chords

Pocket Song - just words - with chords

Who Did I Write To? - just words - with chords

John Belushi Butt - just words - with chords

Babe You Got Me - just words - with chords

Stubbed His Toe - just words - with chords

Nothin To Do - just words - with chords

Once Upon a Place - just words - with chords

Underneath the Stars - just words - with chords

Lap It Up - just words - with chords

Nano Tune - just words - with chords

Every Day’s a Good Day - just words - with chords

My Babe - just words - with chords

Free Man - just words - with chords

I'm a Slut - just words - with chords

Francine - just words - with chords

Mama I’m Loosin You - just words - with chords

Fools Together - just words - with chords

Hers and Mine - just words - with chords

No Hope - just words - with chords

Good to You - just words - with chords

Pure of Heart - just words - with chords

Thank You - just words - with chords

Girl from Perth - just words - with chords

Ruined Piano - no words, no chords

When it Blooms - just words - with chords

Dream of You - just words - with chords


Dark an Stormy Night

 

It was a stormy dark night

My chest was painin' a might

Turned left at the blown and blurry light

To give my drunken friend a necessary ride

 

It was a dark and stormy night                                         - chorus

It was dark and stormy night

It was a dark and stormy night

It was a dark and stormy night

 

The nurses put me in a dress

The doctor drilled away the stress

Friends and family prayed and touched and blessed

Edward George and Snoopy sent their best

 

[chorus]


Travelin' Alone           

 

Travelin alone has a kick all its own - but sometimes round a bend

You happen to find an accomplice, like-minded mate, co-conspirator, friend

 

I remember once in Marrakech – Got involved with a rambunctious princes 

Had to save her from a gang of bandits and cutthroats

Her daddy gave me a bag of silver – said I’d live to spend it if I took the river

Wavin by to her from the stern of the royal rowboat

 

And I don’t know where I’m goin – don’t remember where I’ve been  

But whatever way its blowin – my sails are to the wind  

 

Washed up on a Southseas shore – friendly natives, pungent flora

They crowned me king and festivities began

I was eeny meeny mining for a paramour – then the hon I wanted hinted I’ze to be the main course

Took a potty break and zipped off in a catamaran                   Thank you darling!

 

What the heck am I thinking – to get into all these fixes

Maybe shoulda stayed home drinkin – with my homies down in Dixie

 

A guru by the Bay of Bengal – hypnotized me when we mingled

Sent me walkin up along the Ganges to her source

I was lost and freezing in the snow when a yeti found me and led me below

To a yak who got me back on course                                                            

 

So where the heck am I at now and what’s gonna happen next

When things get cruddy will I have a buddy who pulls me out of a wreck

 

Travelin alone has a kick all its own - but sometimes round a bend                          

You happen to find an accomplice, like-minded mate, co-conspirator, friend

You can scramble round with – friend, you can babble on to – friend

You can climb out of the rubble with – friend, you can hobble on with – friend 

A travelin friend


Pocket Song 

 

Pocket Song

So short

So true

 

Who Did I Write To?

 

Now tell me who did I write to?          [chorus]

When I went and wrote that letter.

I addressed it dear to you.

And it's the best that I could do.

 

Did I write it to your head?

Did I write it to your heart?

To your memory your bed?

To your shadow to your star?

Tell me who who who did I write to.

 

[chorus]

 

Did I write it to your face?

Did I write it to your smile?

To your hidden private place?

To your thought stream, to your wiles?

Now tell me who who who did I write to?

 

[chorus]

 

Did I write it to your fingers?

Did I write it to your toes?

To your odyssey your goddess she?

Your doppelganger soul?

Now tell me who who who did I write to.

 


John Belushi Butt

 

You’re lookin like a dream tonight

Spread out on that bearskin rug

Before the crackling oak log fire

You’ve got - John Belushi butt

 

At first was your Karl Malden nose

And then that Marlon Brando gut

Not even now Depardieu toes - not those

Can vie with - John Belushi butt

 

Are you ready for my Teddy

I’ll go steady if you let me

You are heady, better ’n Betty

Take machete’s wild confetti

 

I’ll bring to you your favorite pipe

And latte in a heated cup

Jojoba oil and Handy Wipes

For you’ve got - John Belushi butt


Babe You Got Me.

 

Let me tell you baby,

Plain as it can be

Bird got sky

Fish got water,

And baby you got me.

 

You got me babe                 [chorus]

You got me babe

You got me babe

Babe, you got me.

 

Openin’ a door,

Who is that I see.

Rain got air

Wind got leaf,

An’ it’s come to be

 

[chorus]

 

Babe, you got me.        [Interlude]

Babe, you got me.

Babe, you got me.

You got me babe.

 

From the first hello,

To the last goodbye,

Sun got shine

Moon got beam,

An’ till death do us die,

 

[chorus]


Stubbed  

 

Stubbed his toe

Oh oh

 

Nothin To Do

 

I got nothin' to do but sit around singin’ songs for you   [chorus]

I got nothin’ to say but gushy stuff and memories.

 

The bills pile up, the dishes too

If I don't sing you a song I'm blue

Cause I got nothin to do but sit around singin’ songs for you

 [always followed by [chorus]

 

The grass grows high, my shoes ain't tied

Tons of trash outside, the clock’s not right

[followed by prior verse as are all verses]

 

The fridge is fowl, neighbors scowl,

The dog she howls, the cat he growls

 

Clothes all dirty, house ain't purty

What ain't got dust got mold or rust

 

My agent calls, the auto's stalled

The toilet's stuck, the bathtub's yuck

 

Repo man hauls, child he bawls

Apples fall, the landlord calls

 

The phone's alright but the plants have died

Lectricity's cut, the gas is shut

 

My ex-wife calls, nother ex-wife calls

Ex girlfriend calls, mother n sister call

Nother ex calls, nother ex calls   [include these two lines last time only]

Nother ex calls, nother ex calls, nother ex calls

 

Earthquake strikes, tornado skies

Towns on fire, angry mob outside


Once Upon a Place

 

Once upon a place,

I first saw your lovely face.

Oh yes, it’s said we met by what they call as chance,

And I sighed, sweet lady, may I  have this dance.

 

And we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced

And we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced

With your dancing eyes and smile and feet and hands

We danced and danced and danced and danced

And danced and danced and danced and danced and danced.

 

Love like this of what we’re made.

Wouldn’t take no stock in trade.

So come to me and join our hands,

Kindly lady, may I have this dance.

 

And we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced

And we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced

With your dancing hips and breasts and dress and glance

We danced and danced and danced and danced

And danced and danced and danced and danced and danced.

 

Once upon a place,

I first saw your lovely face.

Oh yes, it’s said we met by what they call as chance,

And I sighed, sweet lady, may I  have this dance.


Underneath the Stars

 

Hey diddle lonely one

Stay till the light is gone

Sit here in the dark

Underneath the stars

 

When the day comes to end

You’ll be beside your friends

Love you as you are

Underneath the stars

 

Hm mm mm mm mm mm
Hm mm mm mm mm mm

 

Painted in evening hues

Dimming with fading views

Leaving only the heart

Underneath the stars

Underneath the stars


Lap It Up

 

I Lap it up babe - Lap it up babe -Lap it up                  [chorus]

I Lap it up babe - Lap it up babe -Lap it up

Lap it up babe - Lap it up babe -Lap it up

I Lap it up babe - Lap it up babe -Lap it up

Oh oh - - - oh oh - so good

 

Like a kitty with her milk

Like my doggie on my toes

Like the spider with the silk

Like the elephant with his nose

 

[chorus]

 

Like the kiddies with their cones

Like a Shop Vac with a spill

Like vultures on dem bones

Like a bee in a daffodil

 

[chorus]


Nano Tune

 

nano tune


Every Day’s a Good Day

 

Sittin’ there is who you are.

Be you bozo, be you star.

On a cushion chair or fallen tree

Callin’ to the fallin’ in thee

Happy to be just who you are

 

And as the mountain man say                                      [chorus]

Every day is a good day

Every day is a good day.

 

Standin up is gosh almight

Beyond the good and wrong the left and right

But any names like Buddha, Tao, Allah, God, Mind, Holy Cow now

Don’t begin to cast light on your light.

 

[chorus]

 

Lyin’ down the run of day is over.

There you are in dreams of streams and clover.

Now you know why they say one way

Like the the stars up in the sky they

Shine upon the branches and the boulders

 

[chorus]


My Babe

 

My babe -  don’t take no sass from me

Instead - she pours the glass for me

And my babe – she ain’t mine

 

My babe – look in her eyes and see

She maybe – have a surprise for me

For to play with the shine

 

She could dance with hunters or with reindeer        [interlude]

She could charm ole Satan on his knee

She could paint the moon or moon the painter

She could hug the sap right from a tree – could she

 

My babe – don’t give me time of day

She ain’t - got a watch anyway

She say – it’s about that time

 

My babe – some sort of crook is she

The way – my babe she looks at me

Tells me all I want to find


Free Man

 

I’m a free man, a free man baby  

A free man, out of slavery

A free man, so sublime

A free man, a free mine I’m

Free, free, a free man, a free man baby.

 

Free like the bubble, floatin light and round

Free like the Hubble, spaced out without sound

Free like the hobo, the whacko, or the clown

Free like the parachutist fore they splats the ground

 

I’m a free man, a free man baby

A free man, in the gravy

A free man, at this time

A free man, a free man I’m

Free, free, a free man, a free man baby

 

Free like the fluid, washin in my spine

Free like the blood that flows inside my veins

Free like the oxygen I’m drinkin all the time

Free like the freedom of the saint or the insane

 

Free man – don’t mean maybe

Free man – for today be

Free man – like a painting

Free man – I be playing

Free man – free man baby

Free man – free man baby


I’m a Slut  

 

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

There – I like the sound - As I’m spinning round

La la la la la La la la la la

How I prance and strut - Tell ya tell ya what

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

 

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

Dancing round the street - On my slutty feet

La la la la la La la la la la

But I’m not for sale - Mine is free love tail

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

 

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

Free from your constructs - Free from all the shuck

La la la la la La la la la la

Hey there boys! Guess what?

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

 

La la la la la La la la la la

La la la la la La la la la la

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

La la la la la La la la la la

I’m a I’m a slut - I’m a I’m a slut

La la la la la La la la la la


Francine

 

Oh Francine, how do you  do your do?                        [chorus]

Oh Francine, how do you  do your do?

Honey you’re the best thing I ever knew.

 

Met Francine about a quarter of five

Ozzie Queen at a black swan dive

Like pickin up a wire that is live

Threw back her head and laughed at my jive

 

[chorus]

 

She stole my keys and ditched me as well

Said she wouldn’t drive and drink no swill

Stopped for Maybelline at the top of the hill

Now I’m a runnin after them women still

 

[chorus]


Mama I’m Loosin You 

 

Take this lint and add it to

A basket of the shredded news

Blend with water, flowers and glue

Oh mama – I’m loosin you

 

Here’s a bead that I forgot

To string before I tied the knot

I’ll put it in the bauble box

Oh mama – I’m loosin you

 

Take the kettle – water’s hot

Earl Grey’s waiting in the pot

Set the cream out, sugar, and cups

Oh Mama – I’m loosin you


Fools together

 

Fools together, fools together

Fools our whole life through

Fools together, fools together

Whatever it is that we do

There may be times that we are super duper smart

And others that we sail through

But usually we’re foolishly fools

And fools together too

 

Fools together, fools together

Fools from head to toe

Fools together, fools together

Wherever it is that we go

There may be heroes, bodhisattvas, good hearts

And moments of clarity too

But usually we’re foolishly fools

And fools together too

And fools together too.


Hers and Mine

 

She’s got her stars, I’ve got mine

Once was we were valentines

But now – we divide the universe

 

She’s on her side, I’m on another

King and Queen of something or other

Who have split the cosmos

 

There’s nothin’ else in the ten directions   

That’s not either hers or mine

 

She’s the southern, I’m the north

For whatever it is worth

Lord and Lady of all space and time

 

We’ve our poles and we’ve our spheres

Infinite and empty dears

Only Nirvana can join us

 

There ain’t no answers to no quantum questions

That don’t fall in his or hers

 

There it’s counter, here it’s clock

There it’s glove and here ole sock

Same dancing sunlight upon us

 

She’s got her stars, I’ve got mine

Once was we were valentines

But now – we divide the universe


No Hope

 

There's no hope for us all

No hope for us all

We try so hard to do what we can

But there's no hope for us all


Good to You

 

If you want to get a girl gotta treat her mean

That’s what they told me back in Abilene

Treat her mean, treat her mean

I’d rather treat you to a symphony

Cause I - I just want to be good to you.

 

If you want a meltin mama you gotta be cruel

That’s what they told me back in high school

Gotta be cruel, gotta be cruel

Honey, I’d rather be your fool

Cause I - I just want to be good to you

 

Can’t keep my cool none

Babbling on these days

Can’t hide my love hon

Let me count the ways

 

They’ll beg for more if you act real cold

That’s what I was often told

Act real cold, act real cold

I’d rather melt before you on the floor

Cause I - I just want to be good to you

 

If you want to be the boss use strategy

That’s what the studs all said to me

Strategy, strategy

I’d rather surrender unconditionally

Cause I - I just want to be good to you


Pure of Heart

 

Looking up above tonight - at the spread of brightening stars

Hints of wonder that recite - how wonderful you are

I love you for your eyes on me - I loved you from the start

But in the end I love you friend - for you are pure of heart

 

Walkin' down the street alone - dog on leash that's trailin' free

Kickin' long a bouncing stone – where once you walked with me

I love you for your gentleness - I love you for your warts

But in the end I love you friend - for you are pure of heart

 

Pen on paper light from lamp - stomach's growling goes unheard

Late and tired dear here I am - a wrappin' up these words

I love you for your mischief - I love you for your art

But why I still hold to this torch - is you are pure of heart

 

But why I still hold to this torch - is you are pure of heart


Thank You

 

There’s a time to grieve, a time to groan

A time to say I can’t make it on my own,

But oh, there’s a time it is known

To say thank you,

Thank you.

 

There’s a place to sigh, a place to cry,

A place to sit and wonder why,

But oh, there’s a place in this life

To say thank you,

Thank you.

 

Here come the boys

Makin’ all their noise

The gals get them to lay down their toys

To rejoice to rejoice to rejoice.

 

There’s a mind that is lonely

A mind in pain

A mind that somehow makes it through the day,

But oh, there’s a mind on the way

That says thank you,

Thank you.


Girl from Perth

 

A walkin’ downtown, at a corner I found myself
Talkin’ to that girl from Perth.

There was a warm breeze, my darn knees about
Buckled to that girl from Perth.

She took me drivin’ in the country, sunny, bumpy,

It was somethin.’

Now I’m sittin’ alone, hand on the phone,

Thinkin’ ‘bout that girl from Perth.

 

Those looks sorta started when our pals parted.

Talkin’ ‘bout that girl from Perth.

In the woods, on the shore, on the dance floor I’ze

Stalkin’ that girl from Perth.

Walkin’ down the city street with her yin yang tattoo

An’ her bare feet,

Then I’ze sittin’ here workin’ on my second beer

Drinkin’ to that girl from Perth.

 

She’ll be in Queensland, hair full of sand,

Sun on that girl from Perth.

Or in Darwin town, she’ll burn it down,

Look out for that girl from Perth.

I’ll jet through the astral stream

To get to that rascal of my dreams.

Now I’m drivin’ along, high on a song,

Singin’ ‘bout that girl from Perth.


When She’s Bloomin

 

Well all be back together when she’s bloomin

When she’s bloomin

When she blooms

We’ll all be back together

When she’s bloomin

When she’s bloomin

When she blooms


Dream of You

 

Oh my doll, I dream of you,

And the garden wall reveals you too

In the wind that winds the blue

I remember who was there

Who took the time the time to care

To one so fair, to one so few,

I declare hon

 

I love you, Yes I do

In the clear, in our brew,

And as your wings lift up into

I let you go to fly off where

There is no need to have to wear

The garment or the shoe

And dear indeed as memory bleeds

 

I’ll long remember you, oh yes I will

Into the veil, beyond the hill

Until I fail here is my heart,

It will disappear but there you are

There’s no accounting for the stars

That stare at us until

We are the blinking, slowly sinking

 

To the ocean then, to meet again

As the family, flower, as the friend

As the lion devours the prey,

Indra’s dancing net within

The changing partners, women men

From children born anew

Such lands will lead us to

 

Of all places, always home

Always touching, always lone,

Freed by breath and held by bone,

You lift me and you blow out then

A daffodil into the wind

I’m floating out into the light and love

Throughout

 

Our new faces, always home

Always touching, always lone,

Always perfect, Always shown

And going on and on and on and on

And on and on and on and on

And on and on and on and on

And on and on and on and on.


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