Track: 13
Title: NOCTURNAL BLONDE [live on KALX Radio]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 17 January 1987
Recording place: KALX Radio, Berkeley, CA
A cassette recording made from the radio broadcast.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:34
First appeared on: Green Girl
First released 23 April 2017
[via multiple streaming services]
Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
Particulars:
Medford, playing solo, live on the radio, two months before The Ophelias debut album is released.
lyrics
NOCTURNAL BLONDE
This is nocturnal blonde coming your way.
We’ve got meaningful lawns
Rolled and written upon,
And we will boost zenith towards a new day.
And we will boost zenith towards a new day.
We’ll try being good nuisance for modern man.
Drink, recycle the can,
Read Joyce (rejoice!) even if banned.
For you has this new jargon party been planned.
For you has this new jargon party been planned. Yeah you!
For you has this new jargon party been planned.
As mind geese migrate towards a warmer chicane,
We’ll be moving along,
Leaving you with this song,
This unction engine has labored to gain.
That this unction engine has labored to gain.
That this unction engine has labored to gain.
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