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lyrics

Milk
America the beautiful/ God spread her grace on thee/ To make you an angel in movies on TV/ I saw her in a forest and I saw her in the skies/ I saw her in the mountains where the monkey buzzard flies/ I saw her in my bed like a golden prize/ I Guess that must have been one of the camera’s lies/ She’s poetry in velvet/ pornogaphy in silk/ And I need her body like a baby needs her milk/ Milk of paradise/ mistress of fire and mother of ice/ When the speakers are quiet and the parties are deserted/ And the camera’s off she’s not so perverted/ When the speakers are silent and the studios deserted/ And the microphones off we’re not so perverted/ She shot that sucker in the head/ Threw me the smoking gun/ “George you’ll know what to do”/ That’s how the story goes/ I fell in love before the second show/ I saw a sad movie where her mother went mad/ She had a crush on a boy who came home with her dad/ She didn’t want to be a movie star/ but a writer or a dancer or a girl behind the bar / Then she ran away with a mean old man/ Who made her advertise pork/ That’s how her life began/ he was a mean old man/ But he loved her pretty well/ She’s poetry in velvet/ pornogaphy in silk/ And I need her body like a baby needs her milk/ Milk of paradise/ mistress of fire and mother of ice/ When the speakers are quiet and the parties are deserted/ And the camera’s off she’s not so perverted/ When the speakers are silent and the studios deserted/ And the microphones off we’re not so perverted/ She shot that sucker in the head/ Threw me the smoking gun/ “George you’ll know what to do”/ That’s how the story goes/ I fell in love before the second show/ One day I’ll direct her in the movie of her life/ Then I’ll look after the kiddies if she will be my wife/ She’s poetry in velvet, pornogaphy in silk/ And I need her body like a baby needs her milk/ America the beautiful/ God spread her grace on thee/ To make you an angel in movies on TV

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from The Shakespeare Monkey, released January 1, 2009
Words & Music (c) George D. Henderson
George: Guitar, Vocals
Gavin: Bass
Ian: Drums
Al Starrett: Viola & 5-string

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The Puddle Dunedin, New Zealand

With their 1986 – 93 Flying Nun Records catalogue long
out of print, The Puddle finally re-emerged in 2006 with 4 acclaimed albums released on Fishrider Records.
The Puddle have always been the most stubbornly underground of the bands associated with the
Flying Nun imprint. Their debut Pop Lib was recently included in SPIN magazine’s list of the best Kiwi pop releases alongside The Clean.
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