WHEN WINTER COMES [live]

from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN by The Ophelias

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Track: 20
Title: WHEN WINTER COMES [live performance]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 25 May 1989
Recording place: Olympic Ballroom, 1426 North Van Ness, Fresno, CA
The bill was: Machine Dreams / Counter Clockwise / The Ophelias
Recorded on a portable cassette recorder held by an audience member.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:36
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
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Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Alain Lucchesi : drums

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WHEN WINTER COMES

So where you bound?
I’m mountain bound
Eyes on the ground
I can’t turn around
Can’t turn around.
My dogs and me
My flock of sheep
We’ll climb up high
Before we sleep
Before we sleep.
The stars have spilled
Upon those hills
The air is clean
The grass is green
The grass is green.
Go tell Marie
I play for her
I sing for her
Beneath the fir
Beneath the fur.
I sing to sleep
My flock of sheep
My words to her
The moon will keep
The moon will keep.
Go tell Marie
To think of me
When she does see
The apple tree
The apple tree.
Go tell Marie
To think of me
When she does taste
Those apples sweet
Those apples sweet.
If it’s a boy
If it’s a girl
In wintertime
I’ll see our child
I’ll rock our child.
The trees will change
The air will chill
I’ll think of you
I’ll love you still
I’ll love you still.
The wind will chase
My flock of sheep
My dogs and me
To your embrace
And your pretty face!
Long nights for love
We’ll lay as one
We’ll rock our child
When winter comes
When winter comes.

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from THUS SPAKE PSILOCYBIN, released May 16, 2021

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