WHEN WINTER COMES [live]

from GREEN GIRL by The Ophelias

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Track: 8
Title: WHEN WINTER COMES [live]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 5 March 1986
Recording place: Berkeley Square, 1333 University Ave., Berkeley, CA
The bill was: Shiva Dancing / The Ophelias
A cassette recording made with the Berkeley Square’s sound board.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:40
First appeared on: Green Girl
First released 23 April 2017
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
Sam Babbitt : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Geoffrey Armour : drums

Particulars:
This recording is from The Ophelias second live performance.

lyrics

WHEN WINTER COMES

So where you bound?
I’m mountain bound
Eyes on the ground
I can’t turn around
I 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 sing for her
I play 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
We'll see our child
We'll rock our child.
ROCK!

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 dogs and me
And my flock of sheep
To your embrace
To your embrace.

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 GREEN GIRL, released April 23, 2019

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