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"Not now," I said.

"The third, a Wednesday, Atlanta. Fourth, Memphis. Fifth, San Antonio. Sixth, Dallas. Seventh, New Orleans. Eighth, Albuquerque. Ninth, L.A. Tenth, Portland. Twelfth, Seattle. Thirteenth, Portland. Fourteenth, Tampa. Jacksonville the fifteenth. Miami the sixteenth, a Tuesday. Milwaukee the seventeenth. Flint the eighteenth. Grand Rapids the nineteenth. Grand Rapids the twentieth. Long Beach the twenty-first. Phoenix the twenty-second. Emporia twenty-third. Oneonta twenty-fifth. Cortland twenty-fifth. Brockton twenty-sixth. Toronto twenty-seventh. London twenty-eighth. Salt Lake City thirty-first. Lubbock the first, a Thursday. Houston on two. Galveston on three. Baton Rouge on four. Nashville on five. Memphis on six. Chattanooga on seven. Knoxville on eight. Alliance the tenth. Millersburg the eleventh. Ripley the twelfth. Bradford the thirteenth. Wellsboro the fourteenth. Hazelton the sixteenth. Woodland the seventeenth. Calistoga the eighteenth. Clover-dale the nineteenth. San Francisco the twentieth, a Tuesday, fog rolling in, sea gulls sitting on the pilings."

The Mountain Tapes

Press Preview and Record Industry Orientation

Edited transcript of lyrics-Tape 4

Prepared by Esme Taylor Associates

in collaboration with Pulse Redactor Co.

DIVISIONS OF TRANSPARANOIA

15: Near and far

Night so high
Water falling
Water falling
Night so high
Water falling
Night so high
Water falling
Water falling
Water falling
Near and far
Water falling
Near and far
Night so high
Water falling
Water falling

16: Dadmom sis

Driving in the black car
Dadmom sis
Sighting on the white line
Long come something
In a blinding light
Long gone something
In a blinding light
Dead all dead
Oooh all dead
Bloody foot
Bloody head
Eat the nose for Christmas
Eat the toes for Lent
Eat the car for Eat-A-Car
Send the bones to Kent

17: Roses roses never red

Sweet the buzzard sings
Tell me tell me tell me
Time weather seasons
Story tell
Lesson give
Maiden words to learn
Being young restores the god
That eats itself
That eats itself
Better than the feast that ends
When they pick us from their teeth
Tell me tell me tell me
Cloud that's making
Less of sky
That more of flying
Tries to make
Down the wind it comes
Something flying down the wind
Time weather seasons
Maiden words to learn
Standing sitting
Strip by strip
I pick the skin from off my face
Becoming god
Begin to glow
Behead the rose
Better than the feast that ends
When they pick us from their teeth
Tell me tell me tell me
Roses roses never red
Soft the vulture croons

18: I was born with all languages in my mouth

Baba
Baba
Baba
Baba
This and that
Egramine and woe
Sandwords on mud
High taljonics
Everything ever spoken shines from my teeth
Baba
Baba
Baba
Halda Ny Wadji
Hilda Krywicki
Mildred Hayes
Bionongenics
Mambo magic
Oh oh oh oh
Mambo madness
Oh oh oh oh
Dancing on a Latin balcony
Swaying to a starry symphony
Mambo mania
Oh oh oh oh
Undreamed grammars float in my spittle
Baba
Baba
Baba
Gadung gadung gadung
Uma childa nobo
Distiptics in wine
Insane today
I was born with all languages in my mouth
Baba
Baba
Baba
Nothing-maker
But to blurt
But to sing
Baby god and goo
19: Nighttime come
Mountain dark
Treetop wind
Mad dog bark
20: I know my toes
One to ten
This one's big
This one's no
Big one big
No one no
I know my toes
One to ten
I touch my hand
One touch one
One is touching
One is touched
Touching touching
Hand touch hand
I touch my hand
My hand touch me
I smell my nose
I smell my nose
I know my toes
I touch my hand
I smell my nose
I close my mouth