Record Tracklist

1. Oh My Lover
   Oh My Lover
   
   

   Oh my lover, don’t you know it’s alright.
   You can love her and you can love me at the same time.
   Much to discover, I know you don’t have the time
   but oh my lover, don’t you know it’s alright.

   Oh my sweet thing, oh my honey thighs,
   give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.
   Take at your leisure, take whatever you can find
   but oh my sweet thing, don’t you know it’s alright.

   It’s alright.
   It’s alright.
   There’s no time
   so it’s alright.

   What’s that colour forming around your eyes?
   Waltz my lover, tell me that it’s alright.
   Just another before you go away,
   oh my lover, why don’t you just say my name?

   And it’s alright,
   say it’s alright.
   There’s no time.

2. O Stella
   O Stella
   
   

   Stella-Marie you’re my star
   Stand on ground look up at her
   Just hanging in the gold stone
   Just hanging there face froze

   But I think I see her smiling

   Stella-Marie you’re my star
   In your blue, blue tavern you light my lantern
   O Stella’s large, pink on her face
   It’s glowing this place

   A place for heroes only

   Stella-Marie you’re my star
   I pin you to my chest, sell you to the rest
   I kiss her gown
   Send those angels down to woo me now

   I think I see her smiling

3. Dress
   Dress
   
   

   Put on that dress
   I’m going out dancing
   Starting off red
   Clean and sparkling, he’ll see me

   Music play make it dreamy for dancing
   There must be a way that I can dress to please him
   It’s hard to walk in the dress, it’s not easy
   I’m swinging over like a heavy loaded fruit tree

   If you put it on, if you put it on…

   It’s sad to see
   Lonely, all this lonely
   Close up my eyes
   Dreamy, dreamy music make it be alright

   Music play make it good for romancing
   Must be a way I can dress to please him
   Swing it, sway, everything’ll be alright
   But it’s feeling so damn tight tonight

   If you put it on, if you put it on…

   You pretty thing my man says
   But I bought you beautiful dresses

   Filthy tight, the dress is filthy
   I’m falling flat and my arms are empty
   Clear the way, better get it out of this room
   A fallen woman in dancing costume

   If you put it on, if you put it on…

4. Victory
   Victory
   
   

   I stumble in and in
   you fit me with those angel wings
   send me gold, set me high
   set it up till I’m in the sky

   and the storm is gone
   and the temperature’s high
   and delight is dining at my table

   till I think ha, ha, ha, how lucky we are
   an angel at my table, God in my car
   get it at sea, take a ship
   I’d christen her ‘Victory’, she’d make it

   Victory!

   Come on boys let’s push it hard
   you bump down push your motor car
   come on boys you’ve done us proud
   you sweat, dig, I’ll mop it right off your brow

   Victory!

   till the storm is gone
   and the temperature’s high
   and delight is dining at my table

5. Happy and Bleeding
   Happy and Bleeding
   
   

   She burst, dropped off
   picked the fruit, and realised
   I’m naked, I’m naked too

   So cover my body, dress it fine
   hide my, in linen and lace
   been sewing since time began

   More than the hills
   more than the trees
   more than the mountains, you

   More than I can see
   in front of me
   more than the mountains, you

   so fruit flower myself inside out
   I’m happy and bleeding for you
   fruit flower myself inside out
   I’m tired and I’m bleeding for you

   This fruit was bruised, dropped off and blue
   out of season, happy and bleeding
   long overdue

   too early and it’s late too
   mind and body,
   I would and I would not do

   so fruit flower myself inside out
   I’m happy and bleeding for you
   fruit flower myself inside out
   I’m tired and I’m bleeding for you

   fig, fruit, flower myself
   inside out for you

6. Sheela na gig
   Sheela na gig
   
   

   I’ve been trying to show you over and over

   Look at these my child-bearing hips
   Look at these my ruby-red, ruby lips
   Look at these my work-strong arms
   You’ve got to see my bottleful of charm
   I lay it all at your feet
   You turn around and say back to me

   He said
   Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
   You exhibitionist!

   I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair
   Just like the first time, said you didn’t care
   Wash that man right out of my hair
   Heard it before, no more
   Wash that man right out of my hair
   Turn the corner, another one there
   Wash that man right out of my hair
   Heard it before

   He said,
   Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
   You exhibitionist!
   Put money in your idle hole

   Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
   Just like the first time, said you didn’t care
   Wash that man right out of my hair
   Heard it before, no more
   Take my hips to a man who cares
   Turn the corner, another one there
   Take my hips to a man who cares
   Heard it before

   He said,
   Sheela na gig, Sheela na gig
   You exhibitionist!
   Put money in your idle hole

   He said,
   Wash your breasts, I don’t want to be unclean
   He said,
   Please take those dirty pillows away from me

7. Hair
   Hair
   
   

   Samson, the strength that’s in your arms
   Oh to be your stunning bride

   Samson, your hair glistening like sun
   Oh would that it were mine

   Samson your hair that’s in my hands
   I’ll keep it safe you’re mine

   He said, Wait! Wait!
   Delilah my babe!

   You lied in my face!
   You cut off my hair!
   You lied in my bed!

   Samson, you stay with your ‘Lilah
   I hold you in my hands
   your hairy strength – my man

   He said, Wait! Wait!
   Delilah my babe!

   You lied in my face!
   You cut off my hair!
   You lied in my bed!

8. Joe
   Joe
   
   

   Joe, ain’t you my buddy thee
   stay with me when I fall and die
   always thought you’d come rushing in
   to clear the shit out of my eyes

   Joe ain’t you my buddy thee
   lay my enemies out in lines
   come in close and I’ll wash your feet
   with my hair I’ll mop them dry

   Joe, you be my buddy please
   in this hell and dead-lock time
   when I’m trussed in that headache tree
   cut me down with your silver knife

9. Plants and Rags
   Plants and Rags
   
   

   plants and rags
   ease myself
   into a body bag

   dreamt a man
   he fed me fine food
   he gave me shiny things

   white and black
   are you looking for the sun boy?
   the sun doesn’t shine down here, no

   white and black
   are you looking for the sun boy?
   the sun doesn’t shine down here in shadow

   house and home
   who thought they could take away that place?
   but they lead us outside and they lead us out quietly

10. Fountain
    Fountain
    
    

    stand under fountain
    cool skin, wash clean
    wash him from me

    along comes wind, a big bone shaker
    blows off my clothes, completely naked
    what to do when everything’s left you?

    out of the blue, it is he
    a vision to me, bearing leaves
    and petals green, covers me in all my shame

    hand in hand, he’s my big man
    stays with me some forty days
    no words, then goes away – I cry again

    on my hill I wait for wind

11. Water
    Water
    
    

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    living by the right lines
    reading what the very man said

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    Mary, Mary drop me softly
    I’ve been reading what your very man said

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    leave my clothes on the beach
    I’m walking down into the sea

    prove it to me

    now the water to my ankles
    now the water to my knees
    think of him all waxy wings
    melted down into the sea

    Mary, Mary what your man said
    washing in all over my head
    Mary, Mary hold on tightly
    over water, under the sea

    water, I’m walking on water