Hoodoo Gurus

STONEAGE ROMEOS

(Let's All) Turn On

Dave Faulkner/J.Baker/D. Condon/R. Radalj

Shake Some Action, Psychotic Reaction,
No Satisfaction, Sky Pilot, Sky Saxon.
That's what I like.
Blitzkrieg Bop to the Jailhouse Rock
Stop Stop Stop At The Hop do the Bluejean Bop.
That's what I like.

Better get off my cloud 'cos two's a crowd,
Better get off the phone - there's nobody home.
I'm gonna work it on out, I'm gonna Twist & Shout.
I'm gonna Ride A White Swan and Get it on,
Let's all turn on!

Born To Lose those Summertime Blues
In Blue Suede Shoes, Le Hoodoo Gurus.
That's what I like.
Waiting for My Man, baby, Can The Can,
I Wanna Hold Your Hand, remember Sam The Sham?
That's what I like!

When You Walk in The Room, Sunny Afternoon,
A-Wop-Bop A-Loo-Bop, A-Lop-Bam-Boom

That's what I like.
I like Sugar, Sugar, Talk, Talk, Money, Honey, Boardwalk
Who wears Short Shorts? (We wear Short Shorts!)
That's what I like!
Turn on.

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I Want You Back

Dave Faulkner

I can still recall the time
She said she was always mine
Then she left ( as people do ),
And forgets what we've been through
(Does this sound familiar to you ?)
It's not that she's gone away
It's the things I hear she has got to say
About me - and about my friends
When we've got no defence.

That's her: I'll never believe her again.
She might have deceived all my friends
I know they will see in the end
What it all means when she says (yeah!)
I want you back (She says)

But what's worse: she thinks it's true
But that's just her (she always was a little bit confused!),
She's not worth the time I had to lose.

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Arthur

Dave Faulkner/R. Radalj

Arthur played the bass.
He had an angel's face.
Jiving with the Hoodoos, man,
No-one could take his place
No, No, No!
He needed extra cash
So he drove his brother's cab.
The day we heard the news, you know
It really hit us bad.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
That was the day that Arthur died.

A black gelato van
Finished for the day,
Met with Arthur's taxi head-on
Down St.Kilda way
(By the Prince Of Wales).
That was the way that Arthur died
Upon the day that Arthur died.

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Death Ship

Dave Faulkner/R. Radalj/A. Sharples

I am the captain of a ghostly crew,
Sail the seven seas with nothing to do.
The girl that I thought was untrue
Really loved me. Boo, hoo, hoo.

Near hidden reefs we appear in the gloom
Luring mariners to their doom.
As we're condemned, we condemn others too.
Who would love me? Who? Would You?
I'm asking you.

I'm on the Death Ship,
I sail the seas alone.
Death Ship - I can call no port home.
Lost souls cry to Hell in the wind
Let us in, Let us in, Let us in!

I need somebody who will die for me
To free me of this misery.
I need someone who will cry for me
Really Love me. Really.

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Dig It Up

Dave Faulkner

My girlfriend lives in the ground.
My friends ask why she's not around,
She won't come home.
I'm so alone (you'll never know!).
You can't bury love,
You've gotta dig it up.
Yeah, you've gotta live it up.

I take her flowers each day.
I place them over her grave.
I want her back
Because I look so bad, so bad in black
(Like a maniac)

You can't bury love,
You've gotta dig it up,
Yeah, you've gotta live it up.

Please, darling, come home to me.
Well, I'll make you so happy, you will see!
I'll paint your room
In pink and blue
(I'll even choose the colour scheme for you!).
You can't take away my love
I'll never give it up!
Yeah, I'm gonna dig it up.

(Don't!)
(Don't! I Don't want to know!)

My girlfriend lives in the ground.
My friends, you ask me why she's six feet down,
I can't tell you why Œcos if I even try
I'd fall down flat on my face
And I'd cry, "you can't take away my love"
I'm gonna dig it up!
I'm gonna live it up, yeah,
I'm gonna dig it up, dig it up.
I'm never gonna stop
With that loving cup.
Gotta fill it up.

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My Girl

Dave Faulkner

Once a girl took my love until I couldn't give anymore,
Then I tried to pretend no to see what I couldn't ignore.
My girl don't love me at all
Anymore.

I took her to the dance and then I didn't see her all night.
Then a friend said he saw her with some other boy just outside.
When I went out she was alone.
She said, "I would like to go home"
I asked her, "who were you with?"
She said, "no-one."
I could tell that she lied
(And a voice said inside)
My girl don't love me at all
Anymore.
Not at all.

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Zanzibar

Dave Faulkner

Did we ever meet in Zanzibar,
Two Caucasians at the town bazaar?
Are you who you say you are?
Did you offer me a Dutch cigar?
You must have thought you were so bourgeois.
Are you who you say your are?

After all these years, you haven't changed at all
But I can't say you look the same.

Summer days are hot in Zanzibar
And at night the sky is filled with stars.
Listen. You can hear guitars.

Native people, skins as black as tar,
Wear bright-coloured robes in Zanzibar.
They've never even heard of Ska!
On a tour of limestone caves
Did we see where traders kept their slaves?
Was that how we spent the day?

After all these years, you haven't changed at all
But I can't say you look the same.

I have never been to Zanzibar
I have always thought it was too far
You're not who you say you are.

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Leilani

Dave Faulkner/J.Baker/K.Rendall/R. Radalj

Somewhere on a South Pacific island
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth.

She was brown, her hair was black, her eyes were blue.
A chief's daughter, Leilani was her name.
She and her young man made a handsome two
But lava tore them both apart again.

Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd say).

They were saving for a little hut,
She collected sea-shells every day.
Everynight they'd share a cigarette
But The ancient, angry gods got in the way.

Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd plead).

(CEREMONY:)
Katoomba, Hey! Macumbah, Ho!
Umgawah! Hey! Ho! Hey-eh! Ah...
Leilani - crula-bula-ulladulla-wok-a-tai
Aba-laba-laba, Hut!

Leilani-nevageta-huta-tera-cota-tile
Aba-laba-laba Hut!
Umgawah!!!

Still the young man sits upon the beach,
He's staring misty-eyed out into space.
He's thinking about his girlfriend (of late, deceased),
At least her death had purpose; now his life is a waste!
Leilani, don't go to the volcano (he'd beg her)

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Tojo

Dave Faulkner

Tracy. Tracy was angry.
A bad mood.
I told her, "it's an ill wind
Blows no good."
(Then she told me:)
"Tojo never made it to Darwin."

I said, "Tracy, won't you listen - this is Christmas!
Don't you go."
She said, "David, I wouldn't miss this for the world but I
Got to blow."
(Then she said again:)
"Tojo never made it to Darwin."

Now she's gone, gone, gone
Just like the wind.
I just sigh,
But I'm dreaming that I'm gleaming
In her eye.
(But I'll always hear:)
"Tojo never made it to Darwin."

That year, Santa never came.

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In The Echo Chamber

Dave Faulkner

As I was out walking home alone one night,
I saw this man approaching - he wore a coat of white.
He said, "You don't know me, but you'll very soon find out!"
Then the world was darkness as a cloth
clamped around my mouth.
Where am I? I don't know
(How can I escape?)

Slowly I recovered. My head was aching bad.
I was laying on the carpet inside this madman's lab.
Then a voice was speaking from behind a glass-walled booth
It said, "Welcome stranger, we've got
some serious work to do !"
Where am l? Someone say more!
(What's his fiendish plan?)

He said "You're my guinea-pig,
I'm an Unsound Engineer
I'm going to see how much a man can dig
A thousand voices in his ever-decreasing human ear"

In the Echo Chamber I almost went insane,
Even my own heartbeat caused my eardrum pain.
It was like a Phil Spector nightmare: the echo machine ran wild
It was louder, getting louder - I thought that I would die.
Where am l? Say more!
I never got out of there though I've tried and tried
For twenty-more years
That's why I am where I am now
Where Am l?
I'm gonna tear it down before I go...
(Ah, c'mon, Michaelangelo: you know)

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I Was A Kamikaze Pilot

Dave Faulkner

I was a, was a kamikaze pilot
They gave me a plane - I couldn't fly it home.
Taught how to take off, I don't know how to land.
They say it doesn't matter and I just cannot understand.
I was a kamikaze pilot,
They gave me a plane - I couldn't fly it home.

Left my happy homeland in a Zero,
I got engine trouble so I couldn't be a hero
(Do you think I care?).
Now I'll keep my two feet on the ground
'Cos when you're in the clouds
Everybody tries to shoot you down
I was a kamikaze pilot,
They gave me a plane - I couldn't fly it home

On an island there ain't too much to do
Look after number one 'cos I think I can see
Lee Marvin chasin' after you.
I was a kamikaze pilot
They gave me a plane - I couldn't fly it home.

Cherry blossoms falling down.

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Album Credits

Stoneage Romeos - Released 1984

Dave Faulkner - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Brad Shepherd - Lead Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion
Clyde Bramley - Bass, Vocals
James Baker - Drums

Produced and Engineered by Alan Thorne - The Boss Stuart Coupe.
Live production - Tim Greig, Brian Mayberry and John Sinclair.
Cover concept and design - Yanni Stumbles.
Cover pics. - Tom Takacs.

Dedicated to Larabee, Tony Bianci, Larry Storch, Dallas Donnelly, Arnold Ziffel and his tailor, Arthur Kane (no relation).

All compositions published by EMI Music Publishing.

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