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WARSONG (Onceuponatimeonesuppertime)

[Note: This version does not have the complete lyric, and here the first verse is repeated twice. In several extant live performance recordings the complete lyric is present. It is displayed here the way it *should* be sung. Second: paragraph indents aren't allowed here on bandcamp so dislaying the overlapping lines is problematic. Therefore, parentheses are used for the 2nd (overlapping) vocal part.]

Even if the war is sore against your will,
(I ate the poster ploy: . . .)
Tax – Fed coinage – make the 'copters kill.
( . . . they’d teach me a skill.)
With bribes to lure our youth, i.e. the G.I. Bill,
(I give four years and, boy, . . .)
Boys fed coinage man the 'copters still.
( . . . I ate my fill.)

[The missing lyrics:]
Have gun will travel, boy, and ain’t travel a thrill?
But I hope you never have to kill or be killed.
Because, even if the war is sore against your will,
Tax – Fed coinage – makes the 'copters kill.
With bribes to lure our youth, i.e. the G.I. Bill,
Boys fed coinage man the 'copters still.


WARSONG
(Medford)

Leslie Medford: all sounds and tape controls

Written July 1981 [LM song number 16] 1212 Mountain Blvd, Montclair, Oakland, CA.
Recorded July 1981 on 4-track reel-to-reel, 1212 Mountain Blvd, Montclair, Oakland, CA.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Publishing: Browbeat (BMI)
Photograph: April 1981, by Barbara Brumm.

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from Voyage of the Dark​-​Eyed Sailor, released January 1, 2023

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LESLIE MEDFORD Oakland, California

Leslie Medford is a dude from a world that no longer exists!The two bands he led 1984-1991 have their own bandcamp pages under The Ophelias and HighHorse. Medford was a busy fellow during his pro period (1982-1992) and this site covers solo things & side projects from as early as 1975 and as recent as 2004.There is tremendous variety here, of a high standard of idea, if not always execution.Enjoy! ... more

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