Track: 19
Title: PLASTER OF PARIS [live performance]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 19 December 1987
Recording place: 2315 Dwight Way, Barrington Hall, Berkeley, CA
Rehearsal cassette, recorded using a boombox.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:53
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
[via multiple streaming services]
Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, trumpet
David Immerglück : electric guitar, vocals
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar, vocals
Edward Benton : drums
Particulars: Recorded during Immerglück’s first Ophelias (semi-public) rehearsal.
lyrics
PLASTER OF PARIS
... in an emotional maze.
Circus came crashing with the smell of esprit,
And time is a floppy disc wobbling haywire at me.
Plaster of Paris, how white your hair is!
Plaster of Paris, how white is your hair!
O wheel of Ferris, so high in the air!
Plaster of Paris, how white your hair is!
I am rounding the calendar,
A fleeting retreating blur.
I am sounding the tenterhook,
Played on a brassy horn!
Plaster of Paris...
Plaster of Paris, how white is your hair!
O wheel of Ferris, so high in the air!
Plaster of Paris, how white your hair is!
Switchbacks and cul-de-sacs are the rule of the day.
You have to punch air-holes just to keep you in play.
And obiter dicta can confuse your resolve
If you don’t watch how the grandads of alabaster revolve.
Plaster of Paris, how white your hair is!
Plaster of Paris, how white is your hair!
O wheel of Ferris, so high in the air!
Plaster of Paris, how white your hair is! White your hair!
I am rounding the calendar,
A fleeting retreating blur.
*I am sounding the tenterhook,
Played on a brassy horn!
*An excellent alternative for this line would be "My name is David Arthur Immerglück!"
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