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A precious remnant. We have only this and one other song in professionally recorded form from the '76 Australian tour. Melanie accompanied by David Doran (guitar) and Jay Woolfe (bass). Venue uncertain. Thanks to Oldshore for making this available: "Some Say (I Got Devil)" by the great Melanie Safka.

MELANIE Some Say LIVE AUSTRALIA '76

Melanie and Mike Heron (Incredible String Band) recorded this together in '75, the year after it was written by Heron to perform with Melanie at Drury Lane, London, in '74.

MELANIE and MIKE HERON The Desert Song

Stunning live performance of an enigmatic song unreleased elsewhere, at Carnegie Hall in '78.

MELANIE Singing 'em Blue (live)

Melanie Safka -  Teeroo

Happy Birthday, Beau

Melanie and Beau perform "Uncle Pat", live from Hicksville High, August 1997.

Melanie Safka - Uncle Pat

A live European recording of the classic Alexander Beetle," from 1994.

Europe 1994                   

Alexander Beetle

"Maybe Not For A Lifetime," recorded live in 1974 at Drury Lane. Photo ©Randy Morrison

Drury Lane 1974

Maybe Not For A Lifetime

Live recording of "Song Of The South," recorded in 2001 at the Amazing Grace Bayfront Music Festival in Duluth, MN

These Nights

Song Of The South

ORDINARY RAIN
Writer: Melanie Safka
Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP)
From the album EVER SINCE YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME (2010)

People woke to another day
It had rained throughout the night
Ate breakfast went to church and
Did the things that people do
With no let up in sight

Just an ordinary rain
Ordinary rain 
Who could have thought, such a drowning flood
In an ordinary rain

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

When the rains came down in Nashville
And the Dam was compromised
Rivers rose and all hell broke loose
Hit the people by surprise

Just an ordinary rain
Ordinary rain 
Who could have thought, such a drowning flood
In an ordinary rain

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

To some it is a blessing,
But what I've come to know,
Is the same rain that drowns one world
Helps another to grow.

Ordinary Rain
Ordinary Rain
Ordinary Rain

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Agnew Stephen