'Country Tree"

OTIS MACE ALBUM ,Country Tree,

Lyrics and some charts

TRACK LIST

1.Another Relationship………………..C

2.Pale Bulb…………………………….G

3.Dirty Coward Angel…………………E

4.Met Her At A Fair…………………...Bb

5.Kinder Surprise……………………...G

6.Dr Death……………………………..Fm

7.Kiss On The Back Of The Neck……..E

8.Home To You………………………..D

9.You're Wrong………………………..C

10.Rollerskate Rescue…………………G

11.Anita………………………………..C

1. Another Relationship (words by Richard Von Sturmer)

C F C

There are things we never talk about

C G

Because they're just too painful

C F

But if I had another relationship

C G C

It would be with someone like you

F C G C

It would be with someone like you

C F

Someone who can walk through walls

C G

Someone who can live at the bottom of the sea

C F

Someone who can dance like a flame

C F

Someone who can bring the world to me

Fm Dm9 G7

In my dark---ness

Someone who can bring the world to me

You're silent and you're electric

You're crimson and cobalt blue

And if I had another relationship

It would be with someone like you

Someone who can rearrange the stars

Someone who can translate poetry

Someone who can open up the books

Someone who can bring the world to me

In my darkness

Someone who can bring the world to me

There are things we never talk about

Because they're just too painful

But if I had another relationship

It would be with someone like you

It would be with someone like you.

2.. Pale Bulb

G C G

My thoughts and I are not on speaking terms

G C D

We walk the coddled streets of Temple Bar

G C G

The sun's a pale bulb, yellow on black

G Em

Last night I thought of you

C D G

Lying on my back

G Am C G

I swear my passion's Dublin by the hour

G Am C D

As our email romance flowers

G C G

Flocks of postcards fly these friendly skies

G Em C D G

I flick you some knickers from this emerald isle

G Em Am C---/---/

The sun’s a pale…… ……….bulb

“ “ “ “

The sun’s a pale……………. bulb

G Bm Em C

The sun’s a pale……………. bulb

Compared to you

Solo (same as verse )

G Am C G

So now my boots can slide on these slick stones

G Am C D

I send you a tape from my Dictaphone

I keep seeing these amazing things

C G

I wish I could show to you

G Em

I miss you so much

C D G

I just don't know what to do.

( Chorus )

( OUTRO )

G ---/C

Compared to you

G ---/C

Compared to you

G ---/Em ---/Am ---/ - - -/ C

Compared to you…………………the sun’s a pale bulb…

Compared to you

3. Dirty Coward Angel

It came to me

Whispered in my ear through drunken yellowed teeth

Told me things that no one ought to hear

Showed me places no one ought to see

That dirty coward angel

That angel kicked me in the mud and turned and mocked me

But still I followed like a dog

We heard the shrieks of some dying beast

It took that sound and tied it in a noose to cast a shadow in the dust

We followed the shadow down a dismal road

That dirty coward angel

That angel told me;

Step on a crack

Walk under ladders

Live under glass

Throw stones

Line up them bottles

And knock 'em down

C G A ---/E

That angel was a dirty coward

G A E

That angel was a dirty coward

That angel whispered in my ear through puffy lips

Sweet tales of gold and ambergris

Of riches fit to rot your dreams

Gave me a pick

Pointed to a spot

That angel whispered

"Dig"

How to swing a pick

To break what's already broken

That dirty coward angel

Left me with this token

A discount, surplus, desecrated grave

And now I lay me down to sleep

That dirty coward angel

4.Met Her At A Fair

Fm9 Bb

Met her at a fair

Fm9 Bb

Of prison made weapons

Fm9 Bb

Saw her golden hair

Gm E

Reflected in some brass knuckles

Fm9 Bb

She picked up a shiv

Fm9 Bb

And made me want to live

Spitting on the floor with me

Sipping on an L&P

Fm9 Bb

We had our first date

Fm9 Bb

At the morticians ball

Fm9 Bb

She was kinda late

Gm E ---/ ---/ ---/

But I was later than them all

E Bb ---/ ---/Gm

I was later than them all

Later than them all

Fm9 Bb

Next thing I recall

Fm9 Bb

We were at the laundry mat

Half dead from too much sex

E F

And mingling our smalls

Mingling our smalls

We were mingling our smalls

Fm9 Bb

On our second tryst

Fm9 Bb

We played a game of whist

Why put up with empty skies?

She said “we can improvise”

Laying down her cardigan

Screwing in the yard again

F Bb

Met her at a fair

F Bb

Over a display

Fm9 Bb

Of prison made weapons.

5. KINDER SURPRISE

Comes from a gas station on a hot afternoon

You eat all the chocolate

You drive off like a hoon

There's a blue plastic capsule

It's a little bit sticky

But inside there's an octoscope

With full assembly instructions

You put it together it doesn't take long

And when you look through it you get

Eight extra pairs of lips

Forty extra fingers on a hand

Look at a watch make time fly

Endangered species

Just multiply...

A dead rat in a jar sealed up tight and left in the sun

Just use the octoscope; you got enough for everyone

Look at all those breasts - look at all those thighs

Just can't believe my thirty-two eyes

Just can't believe my Kinder surprise

Well.... I took you to this party where hardly anyone

showed

Looked in the mirror - got an instant crowd

You're never alone with Kinder surprise

Take under the water

Or into the skies

Look at a painting or your shopping supplies

But.... Don't look at roaches and don't look at cops

Piles of dirty dishes should be avoided at all costs

Look at all those bands, look at all that TV

We're running towards

Just you and me

She bought it for me on that hot afternoon

We ate all the chocolate we went to the moon

There's a blue plastic capsule,it's a little bit sticky

But inside there's an octoscope with full assembly instructions....

Kinder Surprise...........................!

6. What Ever Happened to Doctor Death?

It's a sunny seaside town

In southern Bay Of Plenty

And he's a big big man

Works at the RSA

Morning noon and night

He cooks short order fries

And he used to be a wrestler

On the telly every week,

When he climbed into the ring

All the punters held their breath

Now does anybody wonder

What ever happened to Doctor Death?

Well he's staring at the hot plate and he almost burns some bacon

And he hopes they like it crispy

And he's think'in 'bout his old friend Roy

Who talked so loud and lispy

Roy used to be this big time lover

A regular show business tag team groupey

Now he walks into a room

And all the wrestlers hold their breath

And all he has to say as he looks around is

'What ever happened to Doctor Death?'

So he loves his wife and kids now and the oldest one's at school

And sure the job gets boring but they like that steady money

And sometimes on a slow day he's dreaming of the glory

And it seems so long ago now just like some one else's

story

He used to be this big time bruiser

A regular show-business tag team bad guy

Now he climbs into their bed

And his wife holds her breath

And all she has to say is:

'I know what happened to Doctor Death

I know what happened to Doctor Death’

7. A Kiss On the Back of the Neck

I know I’m ‘sposed to blame my self

And that’s just what I did

For getting in too deep too quick

And keeping my feelings hid

That time when I was shaving and you just snuck up behind

You kissed my neck so poignantly

And a shiver ran down my spine

It was a kiss on the back of my neck

I should have stopped and turned right round and

Asked you your position

If only all those years ago I’d trusted my intuition

But I hid behind my shaving cream I didn’t budge an inch

That kiss was such a warning sign but I didn’t even flinch

It was a kiss on the back of my neck

But that kiss was never just a kiss I felt my hackles rise

And even now the memory

Takes me by such sad surprise

Well they say the first cut is always the deepest and you sure cut me so deeply

But of course you weren’t the first and of course I

Helped you hold the slice…

8. Home To You

D A

Not a Basque with a bomb

Bm G

Not a serial garrotter

D A

Not a charismatic evangelist

Bm G

Nor the ghost of Christmas past

D A

Could keep me from your side

Bm G

Could sway me from your ride

D A

Or make me break my stride

D Em

As I'm walking home to you

No floods of tears

No burning wooden bridges

No twelve car pileups

On the motorway

No giant seven meter waves

In the Straight could make me late

Or make me hesitate

Or make me break a date

As I'm walking home to you

It's such a simple thing

Just the one foot in front of the other

Sweet, sweet progress

Towards your caress

Not a bask in the sun

Not a serious discussion

Not a Casablanca sunset

Not a Mona Lisa smile

Could keep me from your side

Could sway me from your ride

Or make me break my stride

As I'm walking home to you

9. You’re Wrong

If you think I’m coming back

You’re wrong

The world is completely flat,

I’ve been forced to retire

The parrot’s shed his feathers

And there’s nothing I desire

Nothing I desire

If you think I’m coming back

You’re wrong

The bridge that spanned out heart

Has lost its final plank

And the horse that once crossed over

Expired on the bank

And if you think I’m coming back

To a place where desolation

Goes

To be

Alone

You’re wrong

If you think I’m coming back

You’re wrong

10. Roller-skate Rescue

Come to my roller-skate rescue

We made a plastic model hot-rod

We met at the pigeon cave

We got a space shock

If you get festy gotta sniff the dogs butt

Gotta roll out stud troupers

Gotta run past the double mint murmer

Gotta soda pop our love.

A boomerang is love

It gives the feeling of love

And I just wanna sit on the roof

And throw peaches at the cars

Lie on ya back

And stare at the moon cresta

Till you get a space shock then kiss like a train

Kiss like a train kiss like a train

Come to my roller-skate rescue

I've got this real cool sterio

Do ya wanna stay over

Do ya wanna stay over?

We met at the pigeon cave

And I just wanna

Sit on the roof

And throw peaches at the cars.

11. Anita

It's not that we won't see you anymore

It's just that we won't see you so much

It's been really great working with you

I sure hope that we can stay in touch…

Anita surprised us all today by resigning

She said she wanted to do this course in designing

Kevin sent an email to say 'boo hoo '

She said it was something she'd always wanted to do

You should have seen her last night at the office party

There she was she was dressed up like such a smarty

Everyone seemed to follow her around

And when she danced her feet never touched the ground

Anita

A neat neat neat neat neat neat neat

Neat a

Everyday for a month she ate her lunch all alone

She was thinking about her future

She was thinking of leaving us all oh no

Anita

A neat neat neat neat neat neat neat

Neat a

Anita surprised us all today by resigning

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