Get all 7 Meinhardt Greeff releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Telegraph Laugh, Krazy in the Keppie, Earwigging, Mad as a Bag of Ferrets, Small songs for bigger people, Ha'Penny Thoughts, and Taking a shine.
1. |
||||
Black beans, red beans, chile red, and chile green
Some like it hot and some like it mild
I like the chile that drives me wild
I was born
I was born on the rio grande
Bison, bears and porcupines, wolves and skunks and bobcats
Rattlers, elk and jaguars
Mountain lions and cutthroat trout
They're born
Born on the rio grande
Flathead, knucklehead, panhead, shovelhead, big block, small block, chopped and dropped
Twin cam, dual quad, riding high, riding low, I got a blower to make me go
My rat rod's got whitewalls
I was born on the rio grande
Baby baby baby can you do the bop, the boogie woogie, twist, or the bunny hop
Jitterbug, handjive, hully gully, stroll
It's no jive, it's rock & roll
I'm rocking
Rocking on the rio grande
|
||||
2. |
I’m dancing alone
06:30
|
|||
Everybody’s dancing, I’m dancing alone
I can’t be sure, there nothing left to do
I’m done
They told me to wish upon a star
But you know how it goes
They told me to follow my dreams, but I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep anymore
I can’t dream,
I can’t dream anymore
It’s not me, it’s not you
It’s everything we do
We wind each other up forever
Thinking that we’re so clever
I’m the rubber, you’re the glue
Bounce off me and stick to you
Come back
I miss the way you smiled at me
|
||||
3. |
Come on over
04:28
|
|||
I need you like fire needs rain
You calm me down and ease my pain
I know I'm losing ground
come on over, why don't you come around
Every night I lock my doors
I'm alone inside my house
I don't like these squeaky floors and dirty walls
come on over, why don't you come around
I love the women on the silver screen
I write them, they never write me
I'm alone in all of my dreams
come on over, why don't you come around
I'm staring at the wall, waiting for your call
I'm travelling light down paradise road
my money's gone, I'm feeling small
come on over, why don't you come around
|
||||
4. |
Enchanté
03:29
|
|||
Take another chance
Gonna be precise
Find me a woman
All sugar and spice
Gonna play my cards
Gonna be real nice
But I’ll run away
If she’s cold as ice
Enchanté, how do you do?
I believe in me and you
I’m hoping for a heaven here on earth
I think I’ll stay a little while
I’ll build our house
of rocks and stone
and talk to the trees
when I feel alone
I’ll swing for the fences
Gonna reach for the sky
With my head in the clouds
until I die
|
||||
5. |
Are we there yet? No!
04:16
|
|||
ha ah ah ah, ha ah ah ah
You’ve got to take me home tonight
I can’t walk anymore, I just crawl on the floor
You’ve got to end it all tonight
If you don’t need me
You don’t need me
How much further do we have to go?
Are we there yet, no. Are we there yet? No!
aaah haaaa I can’t take it any more
And I’ve Been wondering door to door
If I met you today, what would your answer be?
Now that you know what you know,
What would your answer be?
|
||||
6. |
No time to die
02:40
|
|||
Boom sh’boom, no time to die
Walk the streets with your hair on fire
Show the people that you’re still alive
But people see what they want to see
Here’s a thing, they don’t see me
Boom sh’boom, no time to die
I’m standing here in my sunday clothes
All the girls just walk on by
No room for me, no room for you
When my ship comes in, i’m gone for good
I’m still alive and well, on the sunny side of life
On the right side of the dirt, where my laughing doesn’t hurt me at all
C’mon c’mon, no time to cry
We die of hunger and we die of cold
We’re invisible when we get old
I paid my money, i paid my dues
I’ve got nothing left to lose
C’mon c’mon, no time to cry
I’m just a kid inside you know
I wanna play some rock ‘n roll
I wanna jump and scream and shout
That’s what i’m told it’s all about
|
||||
7. |
Dream is over
04:38
|
|||
These golden days of iron and steel
Metal horses flying across the sky
These golden days make you wonder why
There’s no wonder in your eyes
The dream is over the dream is over now
There was a time when one world was enough
When small was beautiful for all of us
Then our dreams all turned to dust
We didn't care for all the things we saw
We wanted more, and more, and more
Gather round children and listen to me
Never believe that man on tv
Who wraps the flag around all his of lies
He smiles with his teeth but he’s dead in his eyes
He doesn’t care who lives and who dies
|
||||
8. |
This place
02:47
|
|||
I don’t like this place
It’s dark outside
This room is strange
Nowhere to hide
I feel so cold
And so alone
I don’t want to be in this room alone
I don’t like the food
It’s all the same
It fills a space
But it gives me pain
I feel so cold…
Daddy
Don’t leave me here
Mummy mummy
I want you near
I feel so cold…
I don’t like this place
It’s dark outside
This room is strange
Nowhere to hide
I feel so cold…
Daddy
Don’t leave me here
Mummy mummy
I want you near
|
Meinhardt Greeff Los Alamos, New Mexico
The sunset in the banner was photographed in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
All the recordings were done in Boulder, Colorado, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Streaming and Download help
If you like Telegraph Laugh, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp