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THE HANGED MAN III [live & semi​-​improvised]

from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN by The Ophelias

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Track: 11
Title: THE HANGED MAN III [live performance, semi-improvisation]
Authorship: Medford/Immerglück/vonBlankers/Benton/Dion/Armour
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 26 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: 05:07
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

Particulars: Recorded during Immerglück’s second-ever rehearsal in the band, (and in front of a small Barrington Hall audience) this Dion/Armour-era improv is essentially being dramatically re-imagined on the hoof.

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THE HANGED MAN III
(lyrics to version 3)

Wend Easter legs upon us all
You’ll find ourselves in Richard Hall,
The garment puffing with a saint
On top you’re underneath the paint.
The new year was a minah doll.
You farted at Thee Christmas Ball!
Between the brownies and champagne
I swore you’d ruin my udder tame.

Can you not swing here with the tide?
Do you not show? Do you not hide?
The sea’s sequential, don’t you see?
I’m swinging from the hanging tree.
But as I’m hanging by my foot
I am alive, and this is good.
You think my world is upsidedown,
But still the sun and moon are round.
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa…

Very soon a lucky tour de mile
Bleeding visions there must cope.
That score, that stile, that Templar fair!
I rode to the barnhouse dance.
We swung we swayed our pelvis it obeyed
And you will have my daily child.
Atomic roi you raise ‘em tall,
New eyes see the shoulder bare.
And then he’s grown a shoulder to the man,
A shoulder to the man.
He stooped and plucked a single seed
You’ll put in his pocket then.
I shall go and plant it in the hay,
And plant it in the hay.
And when it did start to mortify it
I’ll punch to reform this lake.
And there a match threw galleon on the sea,
A galleon on the sea.

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from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN, released May 16, 2021

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