Decameron – Mammoth Special : Rock, Folk Rock 1974.

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Mammoth Special
Written-By – Coppin*
3:48
2 Rock 'N' Roll Woman
Written-By – Stephen Stills
2:13
3 Just Enough Like Home
Written-By – Bell*
3:53
4 A Glimpse Of Me
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
2:43
5 Late On Lady Day
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
3:53
6 Breakdown Of The Song
Written-By – Bell*
3:06
7 The Cheetah
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
4:57
8 Jan
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
3:10
9 Stonehouse
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
4:30
10 Parade
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
5:05
11 The Empty Space
Written-By – Bell*, Coppin*
5:58

Acoustic Guitar [12 String], Bass [Fender, Stereo, 8 String], Violin, Lead Guitar, Vocals – Dik Cadbury
Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Bass [Fender], Vocals – Dave Bell (3)
Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Piano, Vocals – Johnny Coppin
Acoustic Guitar [Lead], Electric Guitar [Lead], Mandolin, Harmonica, Guitar [High-strung], Bass [Fender], Vocals – Al Fenn
Art Direction [Sleeve] – Frank Sansom
Cello, Violin, Piano, Organ, Tin Whistle, Vocals, Tenor Saxophone – Geoff March
Coordinator [Co-ordination] – Sandy Roberton
Drums, Percussion – John Halsey
Engineer – Roger Quested
Engineer [Assistant] – Georg Nicholson*
Percussion – Dudu Pukwana (tracks: 7), Frank Ricotti, Gaspar Lewall* (tracks: 7), Mongezi Feza (tracks: 7), Shamsi Sarumi (tracks: 7)
Producer – Dennis Linde

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Transcript
00:00They could see there was something special about the man in white The ladies there were
00:11careful to treat him right Everyone was running around at his begging call
00:21When they handed him the menu It was everyone against the law
00:30When he ordered the man a special He was up all night
00:36Oh, not for a man but special Don't you see him right?
00:42No one had ever seen him before He was only so tall
00:48People came around at the door To watch him eat and watch him fall
00:54When he ordered the man a special He was up all night
00:59Well, there's something special About the man that's special
01:05Something very special About the man that's special
01:11He was up all night And it don't seem right
01:17When he was up all night Could have died of fright
01:29There was something extra special About the man in white
01:56Put him on the table The very next night
02:02Everyone was running around at his begging call
02:08When they handed him the menu It was me, sir, will that be all?
02:14It was me, sir, will that be all?
02:23And now the man was special And he was up all night
02:30When he was up all night And it don't seem right
02:36When he was up all night Could have died of fright
02:53Could have died of fright
03:23Could have died of fright
03:53Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
04:00Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
04:02There's a woman that you ought to know And she's coming
04:13Singing soft and low Singing rock and roll
04:20She's a joy to know
04:27Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
04:33Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
04:38In the shadow of a soothing hand I am free there just to make my plan
04:52Dream of far away land Anything close at hand
05:02And she will follow me Why do you know
05:09Familiar places she's been by That I know
05:17Good if she don't have to try
05:30And tomorrow she's a friend of mine And with sorrow I'll see her face is mine
05:44She's no longer mine She's just hard to find
05:57The curse is on the day The black and biting curse is she
06:17Faith I do not have to let her be Lord send the wind to blow the life away
06:31There's no breath to grace the air Even so I'll grip the leeward rail
06:50Numb and staring at a lifeless sail The wind would grow a claw to tear my eyes away
07:05Love, love looked enough like home to me Come stay my soul and dust my eyes Tell me what to see
07:25Love looked just enough like home With no anger in my heart
07:41No grief nor sense of loss am I The morning finds I yet afraid to die
07:56Lord send the wind to fill the sail again Give me back the days that fell behind me
08:11Days that find me old but yet too young to see And now you remember
08:28It was easy once to laugh and weep And seconds late to laugh again
08:47For laughter will you turn and show me love again
08:58Love, love looked enough like home to me Come stay my soul and dust my eyes Tell me what to see
09:18Love looked just enough like home Lord can you turn and show me love again
09:48I was thinking only yesterday how easy life is now
10:14You find my stories boring but you ask me anyhow I loved you very dearly and thank you for my tears
10:24There are stories of some other girls who kissed the glimpse of me
10:31There was a lady loved me once who really was low And yes there was another one not too long ago
10:41When I look behind me I'll tell you what I see Not the pretty faces just a glimpse of me
10:55One made me feel important but never looked me in the eyes
11:00You can see through flattery and you can see through lies
11:05She fed my ego daily and dragged me round the streets And loved the wasted people just a glimpse of me
11:22I should always fall for pink and white girls They make me happy again and again
11:30Some fronts thought she was driving me crazy Brought me nothing but pain, hate, erosion and cram
11:42The most icky girl I ever knew Picked me up in a broken down bar
11:48She knew that she was beautiful even though she was a star
11:53Come be in my film she said and I'll come in your dream
11:58She must have known I had delusions and watched herself her scream
12:03The producer came to view me, somehow I got the part
12:08I was told to keep my distance and at the start it was a talk
12:13It's only the only thing my mother saw when they showed it on TV
12:19A lot of dye and dye makeup just a glimpse of me
12:24A lot of dye and dye makeup just a glimpse of me
12:48On Lady Day the old men say The day you're lost or found
13:14Put on your Sunday clothes and quietly stand around
13:24It's a warm and jovial atmosphere in the lanes below the spa
13:35The wagoners, the gatmen, who will the farmer hire?
13:43It's a fine expectant feeling at the start of Lady Day
14:05The farmer hires all his workers to work the year ahead
14:23The labourer knows his bargain must keep the family fed
14:34The youngest and the strongest, the lane begins to clear
14:43The shadows slowly lengthen though hope still conquers fear
14:52But hope don't fill your pocket, lanes on Lady Day
15:05Now your man is lost again, why don't you find him?
15:14Seek him out from places where it's fine to be alone
15:21Tell him times have changed now and the farmer may not need him
15:28But you will do, and could he not come home again?
15:39It's the only way to find out, every year the same
15:49I stand down the farm with the aged and the lame
15:57You know I know the feeling to be lost on Lady Day
16:06You know I know the answer
16:11It's lost on Lady Day
16:14I'm afraid like me, the answer
16:19It's lost on Lady Day
16:28Once there was a singer who never made the grade
16:41He almost did but never quite, you know
16:47He could never put away the feeling that the song
16:52Was somehow more important than the show
16:58His sets were of the most depressing nature
17:03He never sang the songs that people came to hear
17:09Between his songs of doom and deprivation
17:14A little voice would bellow down his ear
17:20That's one verse for the management and one verse
17:24For the publisher and the chorus of the record company
17:31Two lines for the agent, the title for the taxman
17:36And the best of what's left, why that's for me
17:42His wife would wait serenely out of sight for him
17:47To inspire and spur him on to greater things
17:53But the greatest moment of his entire career
17:58Was when he turned his back and made it to the wings
18:04Singing one verse for the management and one verse
18:08For the publisher and the chorus of the record company
18:15Two lines for the agent, the title for the taxman
18:20And the best of what's left, why that's for me
18:26Now he sings at home alone to a silent garden wall
18:31And he sings the way he meant the songs to be
18:37And they come bouncing back so incuriously defined
18:42I am the song, you are responsible for me
18:47I am the song, you are responsible for me
18:54And sometimes
18:59He takes care of them
19:02Singing one verse for the management and one verse
19:06For the publisher and the chorus of the record company
19:13Two lines for the agent, the title for the taxman
19:18And the best of what's left, why that's for me
19:23And the best of what's left, why that's for me
19:36And the best of what's left, why that's for me
19:53Looking back it was all so predictable
20:00It was nothing very new
20:06They were not the first, won't be the last
20:11It happened to her cousin too
20:17A daughter of ours got into trouble
20:22Got in the family way
20:28Of course they'll have to marry
20:33They don't really have a say
20:39A breeding ground for resentment maybe
20:44Not a very happy start
20:50The wounded deer attracts the cheetah
20:55But the cheetah has no heart
21:04Of course you'll have to marry her
21:09Parents also understanding
21:13Live with us till you get a home of your own
21:18It was all so undemanding
21:22What a dumb young man's mistake he made
21:26To the slaughter comes the lamb
21:32Sunday lunch and Sunday walk
21:36Suit and tie and bushy brand
21:41The grass is high, the dust is thin
21:45In a heart and far off land
21:49The cheetah runs sixty miles an hour
21:53But she wouldn't understand
21:58They wouldn't know
22:02For no one sees the cheetah till
22:04The claws are gripped, the jaws are peeled
22:06The cheetah kills and eats again
22:10And lives another day
22:29It was apple balsam, balsam lit
22:35And shining white brocade
22:39Nothing much to talk about
22:43On the Sunday promenade
22:47It's not how he imagined it
22:51Not for the rest of his life
22:55With one hand on the brand
22:59And on the other hand, why?
23:03He sees the clothing in on him
23:08As tight compressing bands
23:12Clothes to work white-faced and angry
23:16With scratches on his hands
23:21Sunday lunch and Sunday walk
23:25Suit and tie and bushy brand
23:29The grass is high, the dust is thin
23:33In a heart and far off land
23:37The cheetah runs sixty miles an hour
23:41But she wouldn't understand
23:45They wouldn't know
23:49For no one sees the cheetah till
23:53The claws are gripped, the jaws are peeled
23:57The cheetah kills and eats again
24:01And lives another day
24:05It was apple balsam, balsam lit
24:09And shining white brocade
24:13Nothing much to talk about
24:17. . .
24:41I played the fiddle in an orchestra band
24:45And I went to school with his son
24:49The town respected and loved him as I did
24:53A musician and family man
24:57During the winter in a gentle restaurant
25:01On a dais roped up from the rest of the room
25:06Young blades, elections and songs from the shows
25:10Ladies taking tea in the afternoon
25:15Please no one say they couldn't play
25:19The music was clean and well-liked in its day
25:23Refined body music, refined well-fed bodies
25:27Tangled and quick-stepping their lives away
25:32And I can't lay down in this weary town
25:36To the sound of the ants' fiddle I'll fly
25:40Away from the ladies all driving Mercedes
25:44Happily passing me by
25:48At the rotary round table and motor club balls
25:53With well-powdered ladies lining the walls
25:59Hiding their shoulders with evening shawls
26:06Young blade his fiddle for them
26:18On summer afternoons at the end of the pier
26:22Mr Spiro's among spotted palms
26:26Into the orchestra pit in the evening
26:30For the variety show chorus to dance
26:34Young died quite suddenly, he was here then gone
26:40I was young with no idea where he could be
26:50I knew he'd be somewhere, his fiddle in view
26:58Waiting to come in right on cue
27:02Please no one say they couldn't play
27:06The music was clean and well-liked in its day
27:10Refined body music, refined well-fed bodies
27:14Tangled and quick-stepping their lives away
27:18And I can't lay down in this weary town
27:22To the sound of the ants' fiddle I'll fly
27:26Away from the ladies all driving Mercedes
27:30Happily passing me by
27:34Happily passing me by
27:48See the smoke rise over the plain
27:59The western man is on the move again
28:09Look to the east from where he came
28:20Perhaps there's hope to come for him
28:40Millions of stars all over the sky
28:48A star for every man who ever lived
28:57Turn the stone and work the plough
29:05The hands will bleed, the back will break
29:11But still the earth is proud
29:17Life is hard, but still he prays
29:36Well-content to be a simple man
29:44A biased life, but things must change
29:51What was good enough for his father was good enough
29:59What was good enough won't be good enough for his son
30:14Bless with a child by the mother
30:19And she will teach him the best that she can
30:23Everything she knows, hoping that he grows
30:27Simply to be straight and strong
30:30Give him a bird when he's hungry
30:34Give him a blanket at night when it's cold
30:38The time will always change
30:40The earth will not stand still
30:43The child will not mourn the father
31:08There's a stone house under a hill
31:20Stands protected from the wind
31:28The hill is empty, filled and torn
31:36The pill is moving down to crush the house
31:44The man who dares to think the land obeys
31:53Must move again
32:06© transcript Emily Beynon
32:36All the ones I ever knew
32:57Wandered by my window today
33:04Even some I never knew
33:10Marching by in the finest of parades
33:17Move all along
33:21© transcript Emily Beynon
33:29All the ones I ever knew
33:35Marching by in the finest of parades
33:43Hate the proud and hate the blind
33:49Bow in silence, now the flag's unfurled
33:56Lest we forget
34:00© transcript Emily Beynon
34:06All the ones I ever knew
34:12Marching by in the finest of parades
34:18Bow in silence, now the flag's unfurled
34:24Changing scenes of life
34:29Sung in pain and sung in joy
34:35May we forget now
34:55© transcript Emily Beynon
35:01All the ones I ever knew
35:07Marching by in the finest of parades
35:16© transcript Emily Beynon
35:22All the ones I ever knew
35:28Marching by in the finest of parades
35:37© transcript Emily Beynon
35:43All the ones I ever knew
35:49Marching by in the finest of parades
35:58The boy has sinned, he must repent
36:06He will learn, he will believe
36:12Grandfather shapes so heavy hearts
36:19With his heart upon his sleeve
36:25Where's it to weep?
36:39Shut the curtain, lay me down
36:45Beside parades that feed on war
36:52Loveless men and unloved children
36:58A daughter leaves and slams the door
37:04Lost forever
37:23It was a lovely little time
37:29When I discovered you
37:34Days of magic and of joy
37:40And I believed in you
37:45The happiness of all our friends
37:51The husbands and wives
37:56Making plans and love to last
38:02For the rest of our lives
38:10You said, as you took my breath away
38:21You said, behold I will give you a day
38:31I took it without questioning
38:37Misunderstanding what you gave
38:42I loved you then and believed in you
38:51You said, please do not love me too well
39:00I said, I will love you the way I know how
39:10How did we forget all that?
39:16The best is still within us now
39:22So an empty space replaced by innocence
39:35You say, hello again, come pleasure me
39:43Alright, ah but this time you must treasure me
39:54For the sake of all the love we made
39:58I do not forget
40:01I don't trust you anymore
40:04We shall not be wed
40:07We shall not be wed
40:10Please go gently for I don't
40:16Believe in you no more
40:21I don't believe
40:38We shall not be less
40:44Any less than we are now
40:50No we never shall be less
40:56Than we are now
41:01You say I hide behind
41:08Behind the broken smile
41:14It's just that with you I have
41:20Nothing left to hide behind
41:26I can't be everywhere
41:32And be anywhere
41:38I can't love everyone
41:44And love anyone
41:50But you say now we could be more
42:00So do I, so do I
42:06But I do not forget
42:12I don't believe you
42:18I don't believe you
42:24I don't believe you
42:30And I do not forget
42:37I don't believe you
42:47© BF-WATCH TV 2021
43:17© BF-WATCH TV 2021

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