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Soi 8 greens (with Tony Reid) Sydney 1972
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A greens rather than a blues :)
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
Song Info
Charts
Peak #125
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Charles Cornelius Tyler
Rights
Charles Cornelius Tyler
Uploaded
October 22, 2012
Track Files
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MP3 2.5 MB 128 kbps 2:46
Story behind the song
I wrote this 'greens' in the house I stayed in in Bangkok in 1972 - on Soi 8, Sukhumvit. Back then Soi 8 was a leafy lane backing onto a canal. Monks came past in the morning with their begging bowls. These days it is just another fully built-up street. The picture shows the Soi 8 house residents at that time. I am standing on the right in the yellow shirt and striped pants. For a closer look see the pictures page.
Lyrics
Washing on the line - lizards in the grass Washing on the line - lizards in the grass Well you can have it if you want to - but I'll pass Dragons in the butter - butter in the dragonfly Butter in the dragons - dragons in the butterfly Well you don't know much about it - neither do I Let's go Tony! Milk's in the icebox - coffee's on the stove Milk's in the icebox - coffee's on the stove Well it's easy to take possession - hard to let go
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