Sugar Loaf Mountain

Tonight I sit and I smoke my pipe
Just to see oh honey what it’s like
Your sunburst smile colours me wild and I love to love you
You Sugar Loaf child, oh you colour me wild

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain
Where mornings are breaking like the first blues of the day
Sounds like you’re singing and it sounds like you’re saying
Get closer get closer, feels just like you say

Just one kiss and that one told me
Shed a tear and that one showed me
How your sunburst smile colours me wild and I love to love you
You Sugar Loaf child, oh you colour me wild

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain
Where mornings are breaking like the first blues of the day
Sounds like you’re singing and it sounds like you’re saying
Get closer get closer, feels just like you say

Don’t tell me what you’re thinking
Just do it anyway
Don’t tell me what you’re thinking
Just ust do it anyway
Just ust do it anyway
Just ust do it anyway

Hmm, hmm
Sugar Loaf Mountain's where I've been
Hmm, hmm
Sugar Loaf Mountain's what I've seen
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love come tumbling down
On Sugar Loaf Mountain
On Sugar Loaf Mountain

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain

c. 1995

Xmas Eve Street

Let’s go from my house
Eat at the lighthouse
Chello - let’s go!

I’ve seen a goat’s head
But baby it was dead
I’m alive
So let’s jive

To Xmas Eve Street
That’s where it’s real neat
Chelo - let’s go
To Xmas Eve Street
That’s where they all meet
Chelo - let’s go

She knows
She knows what I know
And I know, I know she knows
She’s got
She’s got what I want
And she’s getting all that she needs.......

Down on Xmas Eve Street
That’s where it’s real neat
Chelo - let’s go
To Xmas Eve Street
Where mind and soul meet
Chelo - let’s go

Chelo Let’s go.......


E-A-C
Karachi 1993

Lovebaby On Your Mind

Oh an’ if my heart
Opened up like a story book inside
Would you realise
If you took a look
If you took a look
At all the words an’ the pictures
That I hide inside

Oh, an’ would you still feel the same
When you’re lookin’ down deep

To find the love that you need
Mmm baby yes indeed
Love that you been lookin’ out for
Here it comes crawling ‘cross the floor

You know together we can feel so fine
Wanna feel like that all the time
Together it can be so good
That’s when it’s understood

An’ when lovebaby, lovebaby’s on yer mind
Lovebaby, lovebaby’s on yer mind

Oh, an’ if you scratch my skin
You wanna scratch my skin just to see now where I bin
Oh you wanna look down
Deep down side of me
At the words and the pictures
Hidden inside of me

Oh an’ would you still feel the same
When you’re lookin’ down deep
To find the love that you need
Mmm baby yes indeed
Love that you been lookin’ out for
Here it comes knockin’ on your door

Together we can be so fine
Wanna feel like that all the time
Together it can be so good
That’s when it’s understood

An’ when lovebaby, lovebaby’s on yer mind
Lovebaby, lovebaby’s on yer mind


NPP c. 1993

Gonna catch the Love Train

You’re ma crazy baby an’ I’m your lovin’ man
Doin’ it together’s the only way we can
Which o’ us is right an’ which o’ us is wrong?
Some people jus’ forget, the rest jus’ sing along.

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight

Saw this crazy picture in a picture-man’s shop
Heard ol’ Louis’ music an’ it made ma eyes pop
I asked the picture-man who the painter was?
He said it was himself, I could see he’d reached the top

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight

I’m comin’, I’m comin’, I’m comin’ don’t you stop
Reachin’, reachin’, reachin’ for the top

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna be on the Love Train baby tonight

Treckin’ to Jerusalem, treckin’ with T.Rex
Bumpin’ in a Beetle, rollin’ like a stone
I go to many places, but I don’t forget ma home

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby
An’ I will be in Love Town baby tonight


C-F-G
NPP c. 1992

Good To Do Anything

I gotta magic piece o’ theatre baby
An’ it’s high up in ma head
I got Valentines at Hallo’ween
I got rainbows up at midnight

So oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

I got a frog in ma pocket
I got stars in ma eyes.
I keep the outside out
Make you realise.

That oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

You wanna see a fat man jump
You wanna sit an’ sing with kings
I guess I just got one o’ them days
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
Good to do anything

I’ll take you back to crackerjack
Where birthdays are at dawn
See the jingle-bells ring out
Along the old seashore

You promise me my own small
Private little hell
You make me sigh, but honey oh
You make me laugh as well

So oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

You wanna see a fat man jump
You wanna sit an’ sing with kings
I guess I just got one o’ them days
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
Good to do anything

Feelin’ good - good about everything!

Na-na na-na
Na-na na-na-na-na


D-G-C
NPP c.1991

Back in Brazil

They gonna cut you
Take a little here, put a little there
Won't recognise you
We'll take that wear an' tear, hide it here an' there

They gonna cut you
Here come the surgeon knife to improve your life
Have a brain change
Put your face in place, gimme air with taste

And meanwhile baby back in Brazil
Little white ladies look decidedly ill
Reflecting on their surgical youth once again
Inside they know they were still old then

They even pay for it
The flowers in their hair, the water an' the air
U.S. America
Pay a dime an' breathe, see it an' believe

Pigs in a blanket
Delivered by machine, they say it's green an' clean
Give us good image
God in 1991, grab a gun, let's have some fun

And meanwhile baby back in Brazil
Little white ladies look decidedly ill
Reflecting on their surgical youth once again
Inside they know they were still old then

December 1990

She's An Exhibition

In the back of the taxi
She’s spinning wheels an’ leather
What she wants is what you get
She is lost forever

In the distant summer sky
Touch of my hand, wheels go round
She is up and he is down
10,000 windmills in heaven

What a man shape of a car
She can’t tell when she gone too far
Tongue in his mouth, sunk without a trace
Wheels turn fast in this foreign place

She’s an exhibition
She’s an exhibition
She’s just a little girl in this big city yeah
She’s an exhibition

The moving staircase she lost control
She slipped an’ fell for your love yeah
A hollow head lucky hollow dreams
She finds him in a silent film

The moon’s turned up your son is home
Icy touch of an empty space
Before she woke she felt his touch
Without a breath in her body

She wakes

She’s an exhibition
She’s an exhibition
She’s just a little girl in this big city yeah
She’s an exhibition


NPP, David Riley, Stu Hurwood, Ben March 1989

Sheddin' That Skin

It’s common nature, to cry all alone when your soul’s lost it’s throne
But you have to look on, though you fall like a brick in the hole you dug deep.

And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again.
Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again

So you discover, the secrets of life they’re not lies just surprise
And a lover was both pain and joy and they’re never the same.
And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again. Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again.
And they’re chasin’, chasin’, chasin’, chasin’
Chasin’ you like a dog
And they’d break you, break you, break you, break you
Break you if they could

The good, the evil, the black ‘n’ white
The north, the south, the peace the fight,
The Hyde in Jekyll, the wolf in man
They hide themselves the best they can

And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ that skeleton in the open again

You’re a freak, a freak, a freak, a freak
Degenerate, immoral ‘n’ weak
They go round ‘n’ round ‘n’ round ‘n’ round
Send you mad, but stand stand proud

A thousand crazy savages, what can’t be cured must be endured
Powdered skin an’ oh black lace lace
Sit vacant eyes in a trying face
Pour slow words from a lonely heart

That last taste leaves a bitter tongue
A lonesome crowd in a golden age
An’ I’m not sure that I am me

An’ now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ you’re skeleton in the open again

An’ the way she walks is the way is the way I feel
An’ the way she looks is the way I talk
My eyes are filled with bags of dark
Lift my soul, make my body work

You never know when, you never know why
Listen too hard it’ll make you cry
I was born of two worlds an’ still I try
To reach from this one to the otherside

An’ now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again


D-C-G
NPP c.1989

Zephyr Soul

Hey man he came from a jazz camp
An’ his eyes were as deep as hell
An’ she sits in his head so sure so cold
An’ she stays in his mind
An’ she just smiles

Looking down the faces of the people that I know
Lucky seven kisses from heaven
An’ she just smiles

An’ she eats at his heart
In a wicker cage of hurt
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes a zephyr soul

It doesn’t hurt him anymore
It’s just a little bit sad
He remembers her good side
But non of her bad
An’ she just smiles

He’s tired an’ he’s drunk
An’ hungry an’ cold
Didn’t get what he wanted
Just another night old
He gave body and soul
She gave nothing at all
An’ she just smiles

An’ she eats at his heart
In a wicker cage of hurt
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes a zephyr soul

An’ she eats at his heart
She’s just tearin’ him apart
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes his zephyr soul


NPP Dec. 1988

Underground

Oh small figurine, sittin’ skinny inbetween
Gave your time and they bent your back
Left you with a crowning cap

Face of folded skin, antique hands, oriental grin
Clothe, feed, child and wife
Time honoured time and the pain of life

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

Old man his day secure, one rubber band, the news and the world
Time crossed granite face
Nylon mack sittin’ neat in place

Hardened hands, another day, hard earned pension on its way
Rule Brittania dream
Longin’ for the glory days he’s seen

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

And next dressed to the nine, camel coat hush puppy shine
Heavy gold and a heavy sweat
Wipes again his drippin’ head

Heather girls spinning round, breezin’ through their own fairground
Knotted hair, woolly arms
Sellin’ them flowers and good luck charms

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

Ohma diddlely-diddlely ohma way now
Ohma diddlely-diddlely ohma way now

UK c.1987
D-C-G or A-G-D

It Could Be Worse

Come here m’lad, I’ve got something to say
Me and yer ma, well she’s going away
She’s got a new lover, her name is Jill
At least that way she don’t need no pill

And while I’m about it, I’m gonna come clean
Late nights at the office, I was with yer Aunt Jean
But remember one thing, when things seem bad....

It could be worse
It could be worse

An’ there’s yer sister, just crazy like that...
Her real dad was yer mum’s tick-tack
Yer brother’s a graduate of borstal and crime
Football ‘n’ banks, he’s now doin’ time

Drinking and gambling have left me with debt
The house gotta go, an’ life’s like that
But remember one thing, when things go bad

It could be worse (backing vocal: cos love’s supreme)
It could be worse (backing vocal: cos love’s supreme)

Whatever you do don’t worry don’t fret
Life’s jus’ a game, you give an’ you get
Don’t get blue, don’t get sad
Blue an’ sad can send you mad

You gotta get along, whatever might come
It’s OK to cry, hold yer head up high
And remember one thing, when things go bad

It could be worse (backing vocal: cos love’s supreme)
It could be worse (backing vocal: cos love’s supreme)


Conceived 1985
For Barbara as of 22 Oct 2013!