Thursday, 07 September 2006

• "Peaches for Sale" lyrics

  Hi everyone. A couple of weeks ago I atteneded WUMB radio's Summer Acoustic Music Week. This was a wonderful week of music, friendship and haute cuisine on the shores of Lake Winnepesauke, New Hampshire.

  At the open mic on Thursday night I played and sang my song "Peaches for Sale," ably accompanied by Mr. Scott Ainslie playing his National resonator guitar. Thank you, Scott! For those of you who asked, here are the lyrics:
  
  

  Peaches for Sale
  By Paul Martin Bauer

  Central California
  South side San Joaquin
  Highway 99
  degrees in the shade, black

  hair down to her Levi's
  boots up to her knees
  white shirt, brown skin
  like smooth Spanish leather

  And I said ... 

  "Hola, señorita [Hello, miss]
  "Me llaman 'Olvidato' [they call me 'forgotten one']
  "Are these your daddy's orchards?
  "Are these his fine trees?"

  And she said ...

  "No tengo un papa [I don't have a papa]
  "No tengo una mama [I don't have a mama]
  "No tengo nada [I don't have anything]
  "but these peaches for sale"

  "Peaches for sale," she said
  "flesh just like candy
  "See how they hang
  "so free in the air
  "Ripe, but still young
  "Firm, but forgiving
  "Peaches for sale
  "Here in the sunshine"

  Drive through the desert
  Walk through a wasteland
  Wade muddy waters
  Death dry on your tongue
  The sand and the sagebrush
  Cactus and carrion
  Serpents in the shadows
  Across No-man's-land
  And you find ...

  Highway 25
  Socorro, New Mexico [socorro=succor, help]
  motel dice nada [a motel that says nothing]
  sweaty sheets and warm beer

  And she said ...

  "Olvidado querido [beloved forgotten one]
  "I can't go to Mexico
  "Tengo California [I have California]
  "and my peaches for sale"

  Peaches for sale
  flesh just like candy
  see how they hang
  so free in the air
  Ripe, but still young
  Firm, but forgiving
  Peaches for sale
  Here in the sunshine

  Peaches for sale
  reach up your empty arms
  pick 'em right from the orchard
  pull 'em straight from the tree
  Peaches for sale
  fill up your emptiness
  peaches for sale
  here in the sunshine

  Peaches for sale
  I got peaches for sale

  Peaches for sale
  Peaches for sale
  

  © Paul Martin Bauer, 2002. All rights reserved, all wrongs redressed.

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