WHIRLING DERVISH [live performance]

from O LIST! by The Ophelias

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Track: 2
Title: WHIRLING DERVISH [live performance]
Authorship: Medford/Clark
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 30 September 1988
Recording place: KZSU Radio Station Studio, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Live radio broadcast recorded onto cassette
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:17
First appeared on: O List!
Released 4 December 2018
[via multiple streaming services]

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

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WHIRLING DERVISH

Rolling snake eyes on a silly grave.
Crawling through used car lots on broken legs.
Doing the cha-cha for puppets there.
The church so quiet, the beggars beg,
And they beg…
And they beg…beg…beg...beg...beg...
Hold me under. O hold me under now.
Whirling dervish won’t you kiss my lover?
Painted nails on a cross-town bus.
A new drug, a strip of leather,
So cold and so new, why don’t you do do-do do the things like you used to?
Why do they all want to look like us?
Painted nails on a cross-town bus.
Silly eyes, silly eyes…they turn into each other.
Hold me under. O hold me under now.
Na-now, na-now, now, now, na-na-now, now, na-na-now, na-now, na-now, now...
Whirling dervish won’t you kiss my lover?!

Rolling snake eyes on a silly grave.
Shooby dooby rama lama lama lama lama
Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Now my doctor he is in a coma.
Jesus eats chicken.
Chickens eat Jesus,
So…
Hold me under. O hold me under now.
Whirling dervish won’t you kiss my lover?
Painted nails on a cross-town ba-b-b-bus.
A new drug, a strip of leather
Ha-hari, ha-ha-hari, ha-hari, ha!
Painted nail on a cross-town bus.
Oh! And since you didn’t ask:
He was a black man
He was a white man
He was a black man
He was a white man.
Twice saved.
Took a pill and he fell in the pool.
I’d tell you more…
I’d tell you more
But it’s just too cruel!

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from O LIST!, released December 4, 2018

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