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Super Cotton | Old Foole's Game | Brainwash Me | Bible Study | Waving - lyrics by Daevid Allen

2. Supercotton

This is the story of bee you tea fool Mango Cotton and how her marma-lady voice got stolen by one DJ (dodgy) Queenie Nylon Day-glo Doof only to be won back by Cotton's very own altered-ego: SUPER COTTON after the acid mother of all battles!

MANGO! 
COTTON! 

Mango cotton 
She is sad 
Something happen 
Very bad 
Mango Cotton 
Make no noise 
DJ dodgy 
Steal her voice 
Tell me girls 
Tell me boys 
How to get back 
Mango noise? 

MANGO! 
COTTON! 

DJ Queenie 
She's trouble! 
She is indie structa bubble 
Much too old 
Much too young 
& she's got The cutest bum 
Much too old 
Much too young 
Trips on acid 
Speaks in tongues 
Ecstacy is energy 
Pluck the mango 
From the tree 
DJ (dodgy) Nylon 

Queen 
Dayglo Doof 
Lost her yoof 
There yoo have 
Tha wickid trooth 
Victim of The Virus Doof! 
She ain't made 
Of human stuff 
She's tough 
She's tough 
She ain't made of WO man stuff 
She's rough 
She's rough 

DEE JAY 
D-DAY! 

SUPER COTTON 
SUPER STRONG 
SAVE US FROM COMMERCIAL SONG 

SUPER COTTON 
DO NO WRONG 
GONE TO GET BACK COTTON SONG 

Watch her as she Leaves the ground 
Travels at the Speed of sound 
Off to get That dodgy DJ 
Get back Cotton's Vocal sound 

Super cotton 
go mango 
super cotton 
mango go 
get that voice back 
from the DJ 
get tha juice 
go manGO 
sing sing sing 
go manGO 
ba na na 
man go now 
super cotton 
we need you 
with yer 
super power 

om banana 
yum cha cha 
wo man mango 
ha ha ha 
om banana 
yum cha cha 
wo man mango 
ha ha ha 

SUPER! 
COTTON! 

man go banana 
man go 
go cotton 
go go go 
get that voice back 
from the DJ 
get that juice back 
go mango 
sing sing sing 
go man go 
ba na na 
man go now 
super cotton 
we need ya 
with ya super power 
ecstacy is energy & 
LSD is alchemy 
Pluck the mango 

from the tree 
See the DJ dance 4 
free 
Mango cotton 
Jam for me 
Take yr voice and 
GO! GO! 
MANGO!! 

& so the battle 
raged until the dodji 
DJ Nylon Queen 
lost her groove to 
the intrepid 
Soooper Cotton; 
fearless heroine of 
mother planet gong 
& champignon of 
peace & justice for 
mangos 
everywhere! 

GO MAN! 
MANGO! 

Gilli: ha ha! 

3. Old Fooles Game

we are all 
young fooles 
in an 
olde fooles game 

livin on a planet 
that will 
never be the same 

tryin to build a wall 
around a space with 
yer name 

tryin to make sense 
of the pleasure & 
the pain 

tryin hard 
not to complain 

we are 
all young fooles 
in an 

old fooles game 
living on a planet 
that will 
never be the same 
tryin to build a wall 
around a 
space with yr name 

tryin to build a 
bridge between the 

spirit & the brain 

tryin hard not to 
complain 

5. Brainwash Me

HOLY HOLY 
HOLLYWOOD 
HOLY SHINY 
SILVER SCREEN 
PROGRAM ME MY 

BODY LANGUAGE 
I WANNA LIVE 

THAT RICH MAN'S 
DREAM! 

chorus repeat: 
i never asked 
for choice 

you gimmee choice 
dont want a choice 

it's simply too 

complicated 

BRAINWASH ME 
BABY 
BRAINWASH ME 
LOOK AT THE 
STATE I'M IN! 
TELL ME WOT I'M 
SPOSED TO 
BELIEVE 
SPIN ME AGAIN! 

O DIVIDE ME O 
ENEMY INSIDE ME 
LOOK AT THE 
SHAPE I'M IN 
PUT YR 
THOUGHTS 
INSIDE ME 
JUST GIMMEE 
SOME SPIN 
HOLY HOLLY 

WOOD 
HOLY 
HOLLYWOOD 
HOLY 
BOLLYWOOD 
HOLLYWOOD 
HOLY HOLY! 

HOLY HOLY 
HOLLYWOOD YOU 
CAN DIVIDE ME O 
ENEMY INSIDE ME 
PUT YR 
THOUGHTS 
INSIDE ME TRY 
TO HOOK ME & 
TO RIDE ME & 
PUT YOR 
THOUGHTS 
INSIDE ME THERE 
BRAINWASH ME 
BABY 
I never asked for 
choice etc 
(croon) 
I LOVE YOU FOR 

YOUR DREAM 
BODY 
I'LL GIVE YOU 
EVERYTHING 
EVERYTHING BUT 
FULL CONTROL 
SEX & DRUGS & 
ROCK'N'ROLL 

BRAINWASH ME 
BABY DO THE 
BEST YOU CAN 
OR I WILL SPEAK 
THE TRUTH THAT 
REMAINS 
UNSPOKEN THE 

UNSPUN YARN 
THAT UNRAVELS 
THE SCAM 
I AM THE 
PSYCHODELIBLE 
MEDICINE MAN & I 
BRING US THE 
WAY WE CAN 
HEAL 
OURSELVES IF 
WE CAN IF WE 
CAN 

HOLY 
HOLLYWOOD ETC 

I never asked for 
choice etc 
(croon) 
I love you for your 
spin baby 
I'll pitch yoo with my 
spam 
Don't yoo worry 
we'll be cool 
Live the lies & bend 
the rules 

I AM THE 
PSYCHEDELIBLE 
MEDICINE MAN 
I BRING US THE 
WAY WE CAN 
HEAL 
OURSELVES IF 
WE CAN 

PROPAGANDA 
FOR YOO 
PROPAGANDA 
FOR ME 
HOLY SILVER 
SCREEN 
HOLLYWOOD 
MAKE ME 
BELIEVE 

7. Bible Study

I AM SPENDING A 
LOT OF TIME ON 
THE PHONE 
TALKING TO 
FELLOW 
LEADERS ABOUT 
THE NEED FOR 
WEAPONS OF 
MASS 
DESTRUCTION TO 
BE DEPLOYED 
HERE AT HOME. 
SO THEREFORE 
THE...ERR...UHH 
...MY JOB IS TO... 
SMOKE A BIBLE 
...AND THAT'S 
WHAT I'M GONNA 
DO! 

9. Waving

you ask me what 
makes anger 
you ask me why we 
rage 
you ask me how to 
kill a fire or turn 
another page 
you ask me what 
makes lightning 
strike or 
why the rain brings 
flood 
what burns a nation 
down to sand 
why war spills so 
much blood 

and just for a 
moment 
I thought you saw 
me wave 
but you were 
looking the other 
way 

you ask me how I 
taught myself to 
turn the force 
around 
look fear & anger in 
the eyes & turn it 
into sound 
you ask if I can ride 
the wave of 
dangerous emotion 
and if bitter 
disappointments 
are the measure of 
my passion 

and just for a 
moment 
I thought I caught 
your eye 
but you were 
turning the other 
way 

when you were a 
young one you took 
the road you 
wanted you didn't 
live to compromise 
you took the world 
in with yr eyes and cut 
yr portion down to 

size & as you grew 
we always knew 
that yoo were not 
for turning 

but when you take 
this path in life 
remember that you 
light the fire you 
burn in. 

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