Girl for Samson - Little Joe and Rosalie

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about

I sent Pat the verse lyrics for Little Joe and Rosalie in November of
2000 and he came up with the perfect music and melody.  The 
chorus in this song has a long history.  It was first the music 
for a song that Ala Mandelbaum sang in Boxes of Love in the '80s 
- "Birds fly, wings fry in the burning sky."  Later I reused it 
for Fishies, a song we did in H in the '90s with the same words 
that we are currently using in Little Joe.  Steve added a 
rockin' part in the middle that was changed to a looser groove
while recording.

source of sounds

don - vox, drums, guitars, keys, bass
pat - vox, guitars, keys
steve - bass, guitars

words

little joe slept in the snow for 18 years
his expression fixed forever in a yawn
he drifted off to sleep and didn't stop
i saw him slipping past the frozen moon

rosalie woke to coffee and sun
the morning was hers alone to spend
she drifted off to sleep and didn't stop
i saw her slipping past the frozen moon

you can check the lochs
drain the creeks
and cry in chlorine pools
i'm sure that you will find something
you can look in the lakes
search the ponds
and comb the wavy sea
i'm sure that you will find something