This version updates a song originally recorded by "fred" way back in 1971 and released in 2002 by World in Sound.
guitar rock
blues rock
Story behind the song
The fred first album version (World in Sound, 2002) included vocal and violin (the late David Rose) on the non-blues interlude, with Bo Fox on drums, (the late) Mike Robison on bass, piano from Ken Price, and the late Gary Rosenberg's attempt to create a sellable lyric while thumbing his nose at the music business then. On the previous version here, I added a time change to accompany the key reversion after the last interlude, assisted by programmed drums and lots of guitar parts to make up for the absence of my fred-mates.
Lyrics
"I'll Go On"
(DeCristopher/Rose/Price (music); lyric by Gary Rosenberg)
Sell me in the market, sell me in the store, I'll go on.
I'll perform like a charm dog, perform like a wind up alarm.
The sun won't go down, and you'll find your house turning around and the ground floor will be underground.
Sell me short. Sell me tall. I'll scarcely be started when you know you can't reason at all, cause my face falls.
My ears have dropped lower, the sound can't get by, and my eyeballs have moved from their pits to your thighs.
And then scream and then wail and then pray for rain; nothing can stop me once you choose out my name
I could have told you the product before we began but you'd not thought me more than a plug in toy man
Now see what you've started, and guess where I'll end: look for home.