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Cuckoo
04:11
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It’s cold outside were trapped inside
We’d like to fly away
Spread our wings the cuckoo sings
What day is it oh no
It can’t be so, the hour draws near
But do not fear, my dear
We’re goin cuckoo, a little cuckoo
A cuckoo clock chimes all day
While politicians pad their pay
Cuckoo, a little cuckoo
We prance round the moon at noon
Around around until we swoon
The countryside so cold i’m told
The ticking of the clock
The clock strikes four a tiny door
A cuckoo bird doth roar
A poltergeist is picking lice
From money’s dirty whore, what for?
We do not know, my dear oh-oh
It can’t be true, no, say it isn’t so
We’re goin cuckoo, a little cuckoo
A cuckoo clock chimes all day
While corporations get their way
Cuckoo, a little cuckoo
We lock horns, clasp hands, shaazaa shaazam
We’re in the dark we’ve lost our hearts
We’re searching far and wide
Where did they go, lost in the snow
The devil only knows
So alone where is my phone
I’m dying soon beneath the moon
My phone is home, it’s dying too
I’ve only half a charger, oh no, say it isn’t so
We’re goin cuckoo, a little cuckoo
A cuckoo clock chimes all day
While politicians pad their pay
Cuckoo, we’re goin cuckoo
We prance around the moon at noon
Around around until we swoon
Cuckoo, a little cuckoo
A cuckoo clock chimes all day
While corporations get their way
Cuckoo, a little cuckoo
We lock horns, clasp hands, shaazaa shaazam
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2. |
The Changeling
04:47
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lyrics by Ryder Cooley & Dennis Herbert
She’s falling apart
She’s losing it
She’s full of dread
She’s on the run
She’s full of dread
She’s losing it
She’s falling apart
She's a changeling, that’s what they say
The faeries brought her here, and then flew away
But she don't like it here, she don't belong
No wings to fly with, no magic wand
She needs some magic
She's like a cat, with an extra thumb
Polydactyl, on the run
Til she was picked up, by the SPCA
Now she's living in a cage
She needs some magic
Sometimes she wishes, she could just disappear
Close her eyes, vanish into thin air
No puff of smoke, nowhere to begin
No trace of where she’s gone, or where she’s been
She needs some magic
No hocus pocus, no ala kazam
No acabra cadabra, no sleight of hand
It's really quite simple
First you will then you won't
With the blink of an eye
Now you see her, now you don't
She's got magic
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Medicine Show
05:42
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The medicine show is coming to town
Medicine show is coming around
Oh the medicine show
Listen to our tale of woe
Hard earned money, where does it go?
Oh, the medicine show
A little snake oil, some toadstool tea
Open the trunk, whatta ya see
oh, at the medicine show
chorus:
Oh, the medicine show
Miracle cures, for every disease if you please
Oh, the medicine show
Two vaccines, for one chunk of gold
Now we’re broke, whatta we do?
Join the show and play the kazoo,
Oh, the medicine show
Sassafras to cure your malaise
If we sell a lot they’ll give us a raise
oh, the medicine show (chorus)
The medicine show is coming to town
With a musical act to wash it all down
Oh, the medicine show
Wizard oil to cure the plague
A witches wart and a little cocaine
Oh, the medicine show (chorus)
Faerie balm, spider juice
A muscle relaxant to make you loose
Oh, the medicine show
Acrobats, bait and switch
Illusions, delusions, accordionists
Oh, the medicine show (chorus)
Mercurial tonics, to make you lean
Nerve soothers with a hint of morphine
Oh, the medicine show
Radioactive pills for a fever
Thrills and chills and the hair of a beaver
Oh, the medicine show (chorus)
oh, the medicine show....
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4. |
The Old Rag Doll
04:38
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The old rag doll, singin’ on a rag doll stage
Wearing a rag doll dress, stumbling in a ragdoll way
Prone to falling on her face, and other catastrophic things
Thank god for her ragtime polka band
Who holds it all together, as she attempts to sing
The old rag doll,was somethin' in her day
No one knows quite what, but it’s enough to say
She had a slendor splendor and a sloppy song or two
People liked her misanthropy, some still do
Backstage in the dressing room, she traced the seams on her face
Picked the scabs, that she’d earned, falling from her grace
Falling from her grace, falling from her grace,
I’m a goner, she thought, a fly tied up in spiders lace
I’m as good as dead she said, with spider seams upon my head
Then along come a spider queen, and her spider movie team
She looked upon the rag doll, with sparkles in her eyes
Rag doll, you’re a beauty, with those spider lines
We would like to offer you, the lead roll in our ballyhoo
it’s a movie starring you, and your ragtime polka band
they will come and rescue you, since you can hardly stand
You’re all are invited to stay with me, in my spider castle
Where you all can live for free, though it may be cobwebby
That is how it all began, the rag doll with spider seams
The rag time polka band, the dazzling arachnid queen
The spider bally-hoo they say, is sure to win the golden globes
And the ragtime polka band, is headed for the Polka Grammies
Now the rag doll frames, her spider veins
For the ragdoll hall of fame
And sells the scabs she earned, falling from her grace
Falling from her grace, falling from her grace
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Clockwork Romance
04:57
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Lost In Time
04:12
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Ryder Cooley - Dust Bowl Faeries Catskill, New York
New album, CARNIVAL DUST, streaming everywhere!
DUST BOWL FAERIES is a dark carnival
band founded by inter-disciplinary artist RYDER COOLEY & Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram who performs as mascot spirit animal, with musicians Jon B. Woodin, Rubi LaRue, Liz LoGuidice & Andrew Stein. Publicity: Reybee.com.
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