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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 7, 2011 10:53:41 GMT
Well I used to know someone fair She had orange ribbons in her hair She was such a trip She was hardly there But I loved her Just the same.
There was rain in our window, The FM set was ragged But she could talk, yeah, We learned to speak And one year has gone by
Such a long long road to seek it All we did was break and freak it We had all That lovers ever had We just blew it And I'm not sad Well I'm mad And I'm bad
And two years have gone by Now her world was bright orange And the fire glowed And her friend had a baby And she lived with us Yeah, we broke through the window Yeah, we knocked on the door Her phone would not answer, Yeah, but she's still home
Now her father has passed over and her sister is a star and her mother smokes diamonds and she sleeps out in the car Yeah, but she remembers Chicago The musicians AND guitars and grass by the lake and people who laugh'd and made her poor heart ache
Now we live down in the valley We work out on the farm We climb up to the mountains and everything's fine and I'm still here and you're still there and we're still around
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 7, 2011 11:01:38 GMT
An interesting one as this tribute to Pam Courson was recorded by The Doors after Morrison's death from a tape of a poetry session he did in 1969/70. Like American Prayer the band added the music around Morrison's vocal. It is striking how well it works as Morrison seemed instinctively in his spoken work to lend it to his fellow band members to weave in the music. In this case Morrison provided a piano template himself for the musicians to follow. It was not often noted that Morrison could actually play an instrument. Two if you count his bad harmonica playing.
"Jim on piano chords. This was for Pamela who was his Orange County sweetheart. John and Robby and myself finished it off for him as we did with American Prayer." Ray Manzarek
Jim could sometimes be very maudlin almost to the point of coyness. Pam was from Orange County Robby Krieger
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