SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN BLUES

from OUT OF THY STAR by The Ophelias

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Track: 20
Title: SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN BLUES
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: May 1985
Recording place: Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco, CA
Recording engineer: Tom Mallon – 8 track
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:31
First appeared on: The Ophelias.
Released 25 March 1987

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Sam Babbitt : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Ruben Chandler : drums

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SOUTHEAST-ASIAN-AMERICAN BLUES

You been nothin’ but trouble, dealin’ me double like I jus’ got off the boat.
You got me goin’ in circles like I must be rowin’ on some kinda moat.
I may be sinkin’ but you’re wrong if you’re thinkin’ you got the only thing afloat.

I was lost in the forest, not a sample star in sight.
I was lost and I was tired and the hoar frost was sure puttin’ on a bite.
And I came knockin’ at your door, you knew what for, but you just turned out your light.

I was behind you in line with a dollar and a dime just the other day.
Well I was so damn hungry an’ I was pleased as punch to pay.
Well what could I say when you just walked away with everything on your tray!

Now you should put that look in mothballs before it does somebody harm.
For you to wear a smile upon your face I suppose somebody has to twist your arm.
We’ll if your tryin’ to take a page from that book about Captain Hook it’s workin’ like a charm.

I don’t know why you have it in for me, is it because I’m from so far away?
Hey, well, we was just lookin’ for a peaceful place to stay.
I never knew it could be true, and to think that you grew up in the U.S.A!

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from OUT OF THY STAR, released November 23, 2020

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