Richard: Okay. Is it going now? Okay, gentleman, gentlemen, hey! 'Kay, we're gonna go ahead and record that, all right?
Jeff: Record what?
Richard: What we just played.
Jeff: You should put that [the dictaphone recorder] really close to the piano, like even IN the piano.
Richard: How 'bout here?
Jeff: That didn't pick it up.
Someone: Yeah.
Richard: Okay. This might be good.
Leslie: Um...you know, during this part?...keep something going...even if it's just...just...you guys keep on uh...keep on playin'...
Arthur: Hey! Jeff! [protesting the drums are too loud for him to ask a question] What kinda...what notes should I hit for bass. I wasn't playin' bass...
Everyone: Just keep doin' what you're doin', guy. What you're doin' sounds good!
Jeff: Anything with your left hand.
Arthur [laughing]: Okay.
[They begin playing...]
Richard: Ready?
[After intro & instrumental verse Leslie sings lyric. Because the original vocal was half-buried in the louder band sound, in 1981 another vocal was dubbed over top, giving it the current choral effect.]

This is the heartache of my heart.
Here is the wound, and here the smarting.
This is as well my . . . my well of joy.
Here is my luckiness employing me.

Though in the sunlight I’ve often played,
This has been well-used too, this row of shade trees.
Where is your cradle and your last bed?
Here with these same notes my mother led me through.
Does sidewalk parquetry make you play?
Yes, and I’m dancing from grey to grey,
Because when I move the tune chooses to stay with me.

Though in the sunlight I’ve often played,
This has been well-used too, this row of shade trees.
Where is your cradle and your last bed?
Here with these same notes my mother led me through.
Does sidewalk parquetry make you play?
Yes, and I’m dancing from grey to grey,
Because when I move the tune chooses to stay with me.

STAY WITH ME
(Medford)

Leslie Medford: (Richard's) 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, vocals
Arthur Boubelik: piano
Richard Boubelik: claves
Jeff Tarrant: drums
John Malde: interpretive dance

Written October 1978 (music) March 1979 (words) [LM song number 1] 5970 Harbord Drive, Montclair, Oakland, CA.
Recorded on cassette (dictaphone) 27 December 1980, Boubelik residence, Alexandria Place, Stockton, CA.
First appeared on Work-in-Progress cassette album, February 1982.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Publishing: Browbeat (BMI)

Carl Salbacka worked with the original dictaphone cassette mix and the later cassette mixdown with the overdubbed vocal, to create the version here released. The 42-year-old master cassette with the overdubbed vocal is in particularly bad shape due to overuse, with drop-outs and other anomalies. The dictaphone original has the cleaner overall signal and was played far fewer times over the years. Carl has created a mix of the two to get the overdubbed vocal, but keeping as much of the original version as possible.