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The Power of the Weave
Retrieved by Pat Darnell
1988 Fish Head Music [c] | Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland, Ed Volker | Liner notes
...And so did the Drunk Uncle weave the tale of Ghostland to us Christmas kids, sitting on our nervous hands in the looming dark, our eyes growing wider as the whiskery words of the Drunk Uncle burned wider... "Ghostland, Ghostland! How can a poor mortal soul like me tell ye of Ghostland? It's the kingdom of the blind! Don't ever get lost in Ghostland. There are things that can see that you can't see!"
On our way home our winter shivers were not from the cold.
But it's Geronimo's tale that offers a way out to the lost in their dark hour of need; the medicine man avoided capture by scores of union soldiers for years and years because the soldiers moved in straight lines... Geronimo, he zigzagged!
He knew the power of the weave.
There's only one Earth, but the worlds we traverse are many. Blind Betty lights candles. There's wisdom in the wine; comfort for the fugitive. Oh, Drunk Uncle, there is a way out of Ghostland, and it's not a straight line.
To our mothers and fathers, and all the threads that led us here, we dedicate our song.
SAINT JAKE
Lyrics | Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland
by Ed Volker
One eye open, one eye closed
Jungle fever in the grip of my clothes
I pray the Lord, my soul to keep,
but He always gives it back to me.
Refrain:Check my sergeant, now he got stripes
Oh Yea, zig-zagging through Ghostland
Oh yea, call me the shadow when I move
Oh yea, zig-zagging through Ghostland
Who knows what evil lurks -- the shadows do.
Roars like a tiger in the broad daylight
But he's just a sheep, deep in his sleep
That's when I make my midnight creep
[Refrain]
I'm running silent, I'm running deep
First thing you learn, ...
...you better not make a peep
And if you move in a straight line
Them ghosts 'll barbecue your behind
[Refrain]
2 comments:
The last line is not "Them Ghosts", it's "Them Gooks". "Gook" being a pejorative term for the North Vietnamese that was common back then.
thanks for dropping in Anon. that fact doesn't show up in my liner notes.. but I understand its Platoon-like, Apocalypse-like genesis. Drop by anytime.
pdaf
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