EXEUNT: JANETTE WITH BABY AND GHOST

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Track: 5
Title: EXEUNT: JANETTE WITH BABY AND GHOST
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 19 March 1985
Recording place: The G-Spot, 503 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA
A cassette of two rehearsal run-throughs edited together; recordings made on a portable device.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 06:00
First appeared on: Green Girl
First released 23 April 2017
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Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar, trumpet
Sam Babbitt : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Ruben Chandler : drums

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EXEUNT: JANETTE WITH BABY AND GHOST

Ain’t this a package of rot, and it’s gotten to me.
Who is this phoney and what is he trying to be?
I have an inkling that soon he’ll be sinking into the tide,
But it wasn’t like you to turn your back on me.
I became a ship of light to turn a sign into a table
Where I wasn’t like before, now glad to add a cradle to the room.
But I thought that tomb was still occupied.

But who’s this between us that stands up and shines on our eyes?
All these are daffodils cloaking my room in disguise.
I have an inkling that there’ll be a sprinkling of everyone
And what I am ready to do is my biggest surprize.
I became a ship of light to turn a word into a fable,
Set my horses free to run from what had seemed a dozen stable grooms.
Brushes and brooms all kicked aside.

The two cats in back of you, which one was it almost died?
You cover one with a sheet, carried the other inside.
Let this be a good time for me to take one good look around the room.
Isn’t there someone here ready to lay ghosts aside?
I became a ship of light to pull the flowers from the vases.
But everything about my place has changed, and who can just go back to being
A thousand things all right away?

And there you have it.

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from GREEN GIRL, released April 23, 2019

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