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Blue Moons | Yellow Cows | Green Tambourines

Cover Art

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Cover Art
The cover is a take-off of the Woodstock poster, which featured a white dove.






Blue

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Bob Dylan: "Tangled Up in Blue"
But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind,
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew
Tangled up in blue.






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U2: "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue






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Rogers and Hart [performed by Bob Dylan]: "Blue Moon"
Blue moon / You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own







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Elvis Presley: "Blue Suede Shoes"
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.






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The Who: "Behind Blue Eyes"
No one knows what it's like to be a bad man,
To be a sad man, behind blue eyes.






Red

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Rolling Stones: "Paint It Black"
I see a red door and I want it painted black






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Led Zeppelin: "Black Dog"
Eyes that shine burning red, dreams of you all through my head






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The Doors: "Peace Frog"
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh
The river runs red down the legs of a city
The women are crying red rivers of weepin'







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Jimi Hendrix: "Red House"
There's a red house over yonder, Yeah, that's where my baby stays.






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Nick Cave: "Red Right Hand"
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat and a red right hand.






Green

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Led Zeppelin: "Immigrant Song"
How soft your fields so green,
can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
We are your overlords.






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George Baker Selection: "Little Green Bag"
Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag,
Got to find just the kind or I'm losin' my mind






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The Lemon Pipers: "Green Tambourine"
Drop your silver in my tambourine / Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I'll take anything / Now listen while I play / My green tambourine







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Leonard Cohen: "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong"
I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.






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Pink Floyd: "Echoes"
Overhead the albatross / Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves / In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time / Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine






Yellow

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Neil Young: "Helpless"
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.






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Jethro Tull: "Thinking Round Corners"
Think back to that dream you had.
Blue boy sorry, pink girl sad.
Yellow cow, big-eyed moon / all coming round the corner soon.






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Beck: "Guess I'm Doin' Fine"
All the battlements are empty / And the moon is laying low
Yellow roses in the graveyard / Got no time to watch them grow







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Cream: "White Room"
Yellow tigers crouch in jungles in her dark eyes






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Donovan: "Mellow Yellow"
They call me mellow yellow ( quite rightly )






Purple

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Hank Williams: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
The silence of a falling star / Lights up a purple sky.
And as I wonder where you are / I'm so lonesome I could cry.






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Tommy James and the Shondells: "Draggin' the Line"
My dog Sam eats purple flowers.
We ain't got much, but what we've got's ours.
We dig snow and the rain and the bright sunshine.






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Led Zeppelin: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)"
With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.







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Jimi Hendrix: "Purple Haze"
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?






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Jane Siberry: "The White Tent The Raft"
There's a red leaf / that falls from / a purple tree
it falls / it floats down






Black

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Country Joe and the Fish: "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine"
The joy of life she dresses in black / With celestial secrets engraved in her back






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Cream: "White Room"
In the white room with black curtains at the station






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Danny Hill and Marijohn Wilkin: "Long Black Veil"
[performed by Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and others]
She walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave where the night winds wail







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Ray Charles: "Black Coffee"
I'm feelin' mighty lonesome / Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor an' watch the door / In between I drink / Black coffee






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Troy Seals and Eddie Setser [performed by Eric Clapton]: "Black Rose"
The dogs are howling at the midnight moon.
I'm on my way to where the black rose blooms.
The mountain's high, the night is cold.
I feel the sunshine; a black rose grows.






Not Used

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Garbage: "Milk"
I am milk / I am Red Hot Kitchen
And I am cool / Cool as the deep blue ocean






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Nigel Kennedy / Jane Siberry: "Innig"
Dark dark bar / Bright bright day / A man in a yellow suit / Pushes his drink away






Art for Framing

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Prints
Artwork and lyrics are also printed on 11" x 17" Somerset Enhanced watercolor paper






All illustrations and sketches in this site
Copyright ©2008  Michael Glenwood

www.mglenwood.com

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