《Airegin (LP版)》歌词

[00:00:07] Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin

[00:00:10] Spelled backwards

[00:00:11] Really're closin' up the gap Airegin

[00:00:14] Gone fac'wards

[00:00:14] Back long time ago they saw a ghost

[00:00:19] Ghost made a boast

[00:00:22] Soon that ghost was host

[00:00:29] Repeat first 8 bars

[00:00:33] Those losing their hue

[00:00:35] They goofed 'n got the wrong view

[00:00:36] First things reverse last is first

[00:00:38] Y' dig it

[00:00:38] Whatta' y' think o'that'n get a load a'

[00:00:39] What I tell y'

[00:00:40] What this place is no one knows it

[00:00:42] There's no traces of the kind o'place it was

[00:00:43] Before it got discovered by the kind o'

[00:00:44] Cat that knows the earth belongs t'him

[00:00:47] Back when the world was young

[00:00:51] An' man was a living god

[00:00:54] An' he walked this earthly sod

[00:00:55] This was sod that god would trod on

[00:00:57] Till one day a stranger landed

[00:00:59] With a line o'jive

[00:01:00] Laid it on the natives till he had 'em thinkin'

[00:01:02] Maybe that they should really take five

[00:01:05] An' he quickly stole the natives' soul

[00:01:06] So he could control it

[00:01:08] An' he took care of that missionary biz

[00:01:11] Till the lan' was his

[00:01:12] Never heard a story draggy as that

[00:01:13] Tell th' truth I ain't never heard another

[00:01:15] That exasperated more

[00:01:16] What an exasperating narrative t'play

[00:01:17] Upon the sensitive and kindly soul that I am

[00:01:19] 'Way back when I was crawlin' in m'crib

[00:01:21] I was doin' all kinds o'thinkin'

[00:01:22] Aw'ready I had figured out the 'cut of m'jib'

[00:01:24] The kind o'soul that never liked t'tell 'r live a fib

[00:01:26] A body who was steadily reachin' up

[00:01:28] A min' always thinkin' on high minded things

[00:01:30] Whee I was always one t'be free

[00:01:32] Ain't never had a keeper why don't people

[00:01:34] Learn t'git along t'gether stead o'

[00:01:35] Meddlin' aroun' 'n fussin' with the fella nearest to 'em

[00:01:37] Me I'm the old fashioned kind

[00:01:39] I was never good at follow the leader

[00:01:40] Real real real real real real real

[00:01:42] That's me as real as a Yankee can be

[00:01:43] That's me

[00:01:44] Millions o' years ago

[00:01:45] There was a Paleolithic age on Earth

[00:01:46] An' the whole world was young

[00:01:48] And full o'the vim of constant rebirth

[00:01:52] Brontosauruses 'n dinosaurs 'n pterodactyls

[00:01:52] Ever'where abounding that was the case

[00:01:55] 'N plus the millions o' mammoths here 'n there

[00:01:56] An' in addition there were lots o'men everywhere

[00:01:58] Who had no hi tech and no intellect 'nary a speck

[00:02:02] But in that spot

[00:02:03] Where it was so lush where it was so hot

[00:02:05] Where many animal was roamin'

[00:02:06] An' nature was kind life was thrivin'

[00:02:08] There livin' was actual an' the feelin' was natural

[00:02:11] I'm tellin' the truth

[00:02:12] What a benign livin' some livin'

[00:02:14] All's forgiven come on home

[00:02:16] Blew a truly unruly storm

[00:02:16] That wrecked a boat in a climate warm

[00:02:18] 'N full o'ashy colored cats all lookin'

[00:02:18] White like ghosts

[00:02:19] 'N when the natives checked 'em out

[00:02:20] It blew 'em away t'find that they resembled spirits

[00:02:22] Long ago there was a legend

[00:02:25] 'Bout a spirit who would someday come

[00:02:27] A look at these cats

[00:02:27] 'N y' could see they prob'ly had some

[00:02:29] So they welcomed 'em with peace and love

[00:02:30] And everything there's plenty of

[00:02:31] 'N soon the tables had turned to rigormortis

[00:02:32] That's when the castaway had his say

[00:02:34] Like a dog had his day they told the

[00:02:35] People that they were spirits actual

[00:02:37] Y'see how perfectly a fable c'n be

[00:02:38] Incorporated into what a cat'll think is factual

[00:02:40] What was an accident turns int' something

[00:02:42] So unbelievably heaven sent

[00:02:43] Everybody falls for it

[00:02:44] Right on down t' the militants

[00:02:45] 'N marchin' 'n the martyrs 'n the murder of Lumumba

[00:02:47] Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin

[00:02:50] Spelled backwards

[00:02:51] Really're closin' up the gap Airegin

[00:02:52] Gone fac'wards

[00:02:54] Back long time ago they saw a ghost

[00:02:59] Ghost made a boast

[00:03:01] Soon that ghost was host

[00:03:05] Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin

[00:03:08] Spelled backwards

[00:03:09] Really're closin' up the gap Airegin

[00:03:10] Gone fac'wards

[00:03:12] Those losing their hue

[00:03:14] They goofed 'n got the wrong view

[00:03:16] First things reverse last is first

[00:03:17] Y' dig it