Mary

Title: Mary

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: Unknown

Available On: Summer of Flowers  (4:11)

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Mary I said don’t go
It will only end in tears
And the perfume that you carry
Can’t take away your fears
Mary I said don’t go
Walk away while you can
Don’t go down there pretty baby
It’s a dangerous land

Mary you were always on the wild side
Running with a dream in your head
I’d gladly sell my soul to have you close
‘Cause you could always save it once again

Mary she was smiling
She ran down the road
Her hair it was flying
She had her hair down low
She burst in through the front door
And threw herself at his feet
Washed them in her hair and her tears
Where grace and love meet

And all the other men stood around and shouted out
But he tore a strip off them instead
Said it was a fine thing she had done
And then he raised her to the skies and not to bed

Mary she went away
The very next day
Said she had to follow now
Come what may
I heard that he died
Alone on a hill
And Mary goes around and says
She sees him still

Mary you were always on the wild side
Running with a dream in your head
I’d gladly sell my soul to have you close
‘Cause you could always save it once again

If You Were Here

Title: If You Were Here

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: Unknown

Available On: Summer of Flowers  (2:47)

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If you were here
I’d know where to go
Like a thousand stars
I’d know what to do
The greyest sky
Would all turn blue
In a world like that
I would choose you

If you were here
If you were here

A shopping mall
A souvenir
The sun beats down
This time of year
This time of life
I have found
Looking back
I walk around

If you were here
If you were here

Set to roam
My mobile phone
I’ll try email
A pigeon too
I’ve got to get
This message through
In a world like this
I choose you

If you were here
If you were here

If Sian was here
I’d know where to go
Like a thousand stars
I’d know what to do

If you were here.

Drag You Bleeding

Title: Drag You Bleeding

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1997

Available On: Best of the Backsides  (3:03)

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If I could drag you bleeding
If I could take you there
Wherever I am going
Well we both could stop and stare
You see the reason why we feel this way
Say that it’s not fair
The reason why it hurts so much
If we really care

If I could drag you, drag you bleeding
If I could take you, take you there
If I could drag you bleeding and screaming and dreaming
If I could take you there

If I could drag you bleeding
Through fields of swaying corn
Through pools of cleaning water
To sit with those who mourn
To bless the poor and the merciful
With flowers at their feet
You know what really matters
When light and darkness meet

If I could drag you, drag you bleeding
If I could take you, take you there
If I could drag you bleeding and screaming and dreaming
If I could take you there

If I could drag you bleeding
To where the sun will shine

If I could drag you, drag you bleeding
If I could take you, take you there
If I could drag you bleeding and screaming and dreaming
If I could take you there

If I could drag you bleeding
To where the sun will shine
Those who ask to stand
Where the mountains drip with wine
And those whose wounds are healed now
Well they are first not last
And They swim in streams of joy
Because our sorrow there is past

If I could drag you, drag you bleeding
If I could take you, take you there
If I could drag you bleeding and screaming and dreaming
If I could take you there

If I could drag you bleeding
If I could take you there
If I could drag you bleeding and screaming and dreaming
If I could take you there

(Lyric kindly provided by Debs Gurton)

Summer of Flowers (album)

Album Title: Summer of Flowers

Year of Release: Unknown

Label: PQ Productions

Format: Cassette / CD

Available from: Not Currently Available

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I am working on the assumption that this was a Passport Queue releases from the 1990s. We have several of these kicking around the house – this one is in here because the last two songs don’t seem to be available anywhere else, but curiously it also contains a very early version of One Step Up.

Track Listing

1. Not Far From Jerusalem  5:03
2. Don’t Talk About Love  4:37
3. 4 The $  3:58
4. Dic Penderyn  5:56
5. Half Of A Man  3:21
6. I Will Follow  2:57
7. Good Man 3:05
8. One Step Up  4:22
9. Mary  4:11
10. If You Were Here  2:47

Summer of Flowers

Title: Summer of Flowers

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1997

Available On: Best of the Backsides  (4:43)

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I know how soft the tears fall
Can’t make no sense of it all
The quiet longing here
Underneath though something else
You’re left so bruised and alone
The finished work’s not your own
You try to walk away but you
Somehow feel that you gotta stay

You can build a thousand dreams out there
You can build up a hope so high

I wish you summers of flowers
I wish you golden dreams
When life gets cruel like it seems to do
I pray you’ll hold on with faith like a tree

I know how tough the world gets
I know the things we regret
I’d love to see you free
There’s so much for you to see
And when you’re there all alone
You’ll always find the way home
That’s the quiet waters flowing
As the river passes by

You can build a thousand dreams out there
You can build up a hope so high

I wish you summers of flowers
I wish you golden dreams
When life gets cruel like it seems to do
I pray you’ll hold on with faith like a tree

You can build a thousand dreams out there
You can build up a hope so high

I wish you summers of flowers
I wish you golden dreams
When life gets cruel like it seems to do
I pray you’ll hold on with faith like a tree

Keep a-holding on
Don’t you let go
Keep holding on
Don’t you let go, no
Summers of flowers
Summers of flowers one day
Summers of flowers
Don’t you let go

Simply No

Title: Simply No

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1997

Available On: Best of the Backsides  (3:15)

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Did it really rain on Sunday?
Did it really spoil your day?
Did the postman not bring birthday cards
To make it all OK?

Do you crave for better clothes to wear
A nicer car to drive
To travel to some far off land
And not come back alive

Did the wheel of fortune pass you by
Did you not look up your street
Do you throw yourself at passing cars
To everyone that you meet

Did your lover let you down again
Has a new one come along
Is this music not quite the style for you
Would you like a sweeter song?

Did you raise the sign of peace somewhere
Did you march for human rights
Did you cry for the students in Peking
And cheat upon your wife

Did you look beyond your diet plan
Did you look beyond your stars?
Is your value in somebody else’s hands
Or does it hang around near Mars?

Tell me now
Tell me now
Simply no
Simply no
Who will I hate to be
Simply no
Simply no
Our pride won’t let us see

Does a farmer gaze at idle hands
Are his fingers rough or smooth
And did you really think that who you are
Is that all there is to prove?

Did you really?
Did you really?
Simply no
Simply no
Who will I hate to be now
Who will I hate to be
Simply no
Simply no
Our pride won’t let us see
Simply no
Simply
Simply no

Heartbreak Hotel

Title: Heartbreak Hotel

Music and Lyrics: Tommy Durden / Mae Boren Axton / Elvis Presley

First Release: 1997

Available On: Best of the Backsides  (3:03)

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Well, since my baby left me
Well, I found a new place to dwell
Well, it’s down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
Where I’ll be – where I get so lonely, baby
Well, I’m so lonely
I get so lonely, I could die

Well, the bellhop’s tears keep flowin’
And the desk clerk’s dressed in black
Well, they’ve been so long on Lonely Street
Well, they’ll never, they’ll never get back
And they’ll be so, where they’ll be so lonely, baby
Well, they’re so lonely
They’ll be so lonely, they could die

Although it’s always crowded
You still can find some room
For broken-hearted lovers
To cry there in the gloom
And be so, where they’ll be so lonely, baby
Well, they’re so lonely
They’ll be so lonely, they could die

So if your baby leaves you
And you have a tale to tell
Just take a walk down Lonely Street
To Heartbreak Hotel
And you will be, you will be, you will be lonely, baby
You’ll be so lonely
You’ll be so lonely, you could die

In The Ghetto

Title: In The Ghetto

Music and Lyrics: Mac Davis

First Release: 1997

Available On:
Best of the Backsides  (2:54)
Official Bootleg – Volume 4 (3:38)

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As the snow flies
On a cold and grey Chicago morning
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
‘Cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
It’s another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

People, don’t you understand
The child needs a helping hand
Or he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me
Are we too blind to see?
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way

Well, the world turns
And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night
And he learns how to steal
And he learns how to fight
In the ghetto

Then one night in desperation
The young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car
Tries to run, but he don’t get far

And his mama cries
As a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man
Face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
And as her young man dies
On a cold and grey Chicago morning
Another little baby child is born
In the ghetto

Best of the Backsides

Album Title: Best of the Backsides

Year of Release: 1997

Label: PQ Productions

Format: Cassette

Available from: Not Currently Available

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Track Listing

1. Drag You Bleeding  3:03
2. Simply No  3:15
3. In The Ghetto  2:54
4. Summer of Flowers  4:43
5. Dolphins Make Me Cry  6:04
6. Contradictions  5:16
7. He Never Said (w/Tom Robinson)  5:04
8. Sunday’s Coming  3:51
9. Heartbreak Hotel  3:03
10. An Aching And A Longing  5:10
11. Don’t Talk About Love  3:35
12. Pardon Me  2:43

Man of War

Title: Man of War

Music and Lyrics: Steve Knightley

First Release: 2005

Available On: The Bridgerow Sessions   (6:43)

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He could measure the worth of an acre of land
And say when the wind would blow
Reach down through the earth as it ran through his hands
Well he’d tell you just what he could grow

His family had stood on these ridges and hills
Seven generations or more
Born to the fields, the streams and the sky
But now he’s a man of war

Strong winds bring him back, haul away

When his father, when the land was carved
With one piece for every son
When there’s barely enough for a family to feed
Well there’s barely enough for one

So he went to the harbour, stood on the quay
Saw the waves crash to the shore
Turning the cries of a man of the land
Into a man of war

Strong winds bring him back, haul away