THE BIG (MYOPIAN) BUCK BOY SPINS [live]

from GREEN GIRL by The Ophelias

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Track: 15
Title: THE BIG (MYOPIAN) BUCK BOY SPINS [live]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 15 January 1987 + 23 April 1987
Recording place: Nightbreak, 1821 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA (the intro) + Club 9, 9th St. and Harrison, San Francisco, CA (the body)
The cassette recordings were made using the club sound boards.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 06:56
First appeared on: Green Girl
First released 23 April 2017
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
Keith Dion : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Geoffrey Armour : drums

Particulars:
This recording attaches an “intro” from the Nightbreak gig to the roaring Club 9 run-through of this seminal Oaf-freakout.

lyrics

THE BIG (MYOPIAN) BUCK BOY SPINS

Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
Ooooooooooooooooo.
Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
Ooooooooooooooooo.
Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
Ooooooooooooooooo.
Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
Ooooooooooooooooo.
Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
Ooooooooooooooooo.
Tra-la-la, la-la la-la, la-la la la la-la la la laaaah.
The world is too much with us and leaning on the horn.

I like his place and I like his pipes.
There's no way he be where winter ripens well
Aren’t those magnolias that live on your street
Beneath the city’s noxious heat?
Old justification sold back to your head.
It’s the only thing that keeps us dead.
Well, once we were ten of many many many many many men,
But now it’s just nine of good fine friends of mine.
(We’re all helping each other, right?)
So I guess your father was a vapid space,
And I guess I guess your mother was a shoreless shape.
Well they bore it longer than was due
Their station or their circumstance.
(Hey, wait a minute, that doesn’t rhyme. O no!)

And don’t he believe like a four-mind man
Yeah, he’d rather be right here where I’m standing but
Does it not occur to him that
Life on earth surrounds each spin?
And this time is this day and everyday.
This time is the toe-to-toe total turning away.
Yeah, life on earth surrounds each spin.
So go tell your mama:
The big (myopian) buck boy spins
Like a broken door on a broken hinge.

The world is too much with us and leaning on the horn.

The world is too much with us. The world is too much. The world is too much with us, yeah. The world is too much with us and it’s too much. The world is too much. The world is too much with us. The world is too much with us and the world is too much. The world is too much with us, yeah, the world is too much with us and it's too much. The world is too much. The world is too much with us. The world is too much with us and leaning on the horn!
Is history an empty rind?
While the Greek city states flourish
Mound builders inhabit the Ohio Valley.

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from GREEN GIRL, released April 23, 2019

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