Dream Me (New Year's Eve mix)

C'mon Let's Go

(when we re;eased this song, it was on a cassette.  just think about THAT.)

Hear me out before you raise objections to it
Kiss me in a motel on the beltway
The lights are on and the rates are low enough

Oh oh oh oh  oh oh oh oh

Talk me out of these clothes and I will love you for it
Kiss me with my face down on the matress 
The lights are on the door is locked and the rates are low enough

Lead me out of the darkness with your body
Fix me in a motel on the beltway
The lights are on the door is locked our names are fake but our need is real enough

Hear me out hear me out hear me out hear me out
Oh oh oh oh  oh oh oh oh

Hear me out before you raise objections to it
Kiss me in a motel on the beltway

Hear me out hear me out hear me out hear me out


Hear Me Out

We played at MercuryLounge, Fez, The Living Room, Nightingale Bar, The Cooler, CB's Gallery, Siné, Waterworks Recording... wow.  The 90s.  NYC.  Cottonhead was an awesome band that specialized in moody, alt-country, fuzzy-twang.  It was the brainchild of myself and Greg Talenfeld.  Then we added Joe Mendelson, Kirsten Jansen, and Jeremy Chatzky.  What fun, (and what booze) we all had!

If You Want My Love

An old Shel Silverstein tune.  I still get Shel and Frank Zappa mixed up in my head.  And believe it or not, even Roger Whittaker occasionally gets lumped in with those two.

Silvia's mother says Silvia's busy too busy to come to the phone
Silvia's mother says trying to start a new life of her own
And Silvia's mother says Silvia's happy so why don't you leave her alone?

And the operator says "40 cents more for the next three minutes, please."

Please, Mrs. Avery, just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her awhile
Please, Mr/s Avery, just wanna tell her goodbye

Silvia's mother says Silvia's packing.  She's going to be leaving today
Silvia's mother says Silvia's marrying some fella down Galveston way 
And Silvia's mother says "Don't you say nothin' to make her start cryin' and stay." 

And the operator says "40 cents more for the next three minutes, please."

Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please, Mrs. Avery, just wanna tell her goodbye

Silvia's mother says Silvia's hurrying.  She's catching the nine o'clock train
Silvia's mother says take your umbrella, cuz Silvia it's starting to rain 
And Silvia's mother says "Thank you for calling, and sire won't you come back again."

And the operator says "40 cents more for the next three minutes, please."

Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please, Mrs. Avery, just wanna tell her goodbye

Silvia's Mother

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THE RED BUTTON - "She's About to Cross My Mind"

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Call me up and calm me down call me girl call me precious
Call me anytime you want but I can't even make a sentence

Well, I thought that I would be the one to tie you down
With all them pretty words that dance and float around inside my head
But instead I just watch you walk on by and I can't even...
Make a sentence

Call me cryin' and calm my nerves 
Call me smart. Leave a message 
Call me anything you need but I can't hardly make a sentence
Can't hardly...

Well, I thought that I would be the one to tie you down
With all them pretty words that dance and float around inside my head
But instead I just watch you walk on by and I can't even...
Mmm.
Make a sentence



Sentence

[Another old rehearsal cassette tape recording from Mary Birdsong & the OK Canaries.  I think it was originally recorded by a singer named Ruby Blevins (aka Patsy Montana). Sorry this is very distorted.  I will upload it again later and tweak it so it's not so grungy.]

MONTANA PLAINS

I wanna drink my java from an old tin can when the moon goes to shin in' high
I wanna hear the call of the whipper-will I wanna hear that coyote whine.
I wanna have my saddle horse by my side, a-ridin' him out on the range
Just to kick him in the side, just to show his stepping' pride.  Out on Montana plains!

(yodeling)

Each night in my dreams somehow it seems I'm back where I belong- just a country hick from way back in the sticks.  Back where I belong.
These city lights and all these crazy city ways they're driving me insane.
Oh I wanna go back.  Oh, yes, please take me back- back to Montana plains.

(yodeling)

Sometime soon I'll be going back- back where the skies are blue.
In a little hut that's just built for two.  Back where our dreams come true.
Oh, I'm tired of subways and forty-story shacks.  I'm a-craving the wide-open range.
Oh I wanna go back.  Oh, yes, please take me back- back to Montana plains.

Montana Plains

Goodbye Cleaning

Cancer, Cancer, Cancer

Shuttle Bus Service Is Being Provided

Most people know mary birdsong as "Deputy Kimball" on the COMEDY CENTRAL tv series RENO 911, but she does a bunch of other stuff, like... 
singing songs! (in recording studios)
singing songs! (on broadway)
writing songs! 
writing non-songs! (one-woman shows, short plays, comedy sketches, short stories, humor essays, and now a BOOK!) 
drawing pictures! 

most songs posted here are from the  many years she spent with her favorite band ever- the "alt country/twangy-moody" rock band called COTTONHEAD.

there are also songs on here from her rock/comedy band (ROCKOMEDY, if you will) called 99 CENT WHORE.

"the whore" (mary & "99 cent whore" are really close, so mary's allowed to call her close personal friend "the whore" for short) is part rock band, part comedy act, part off-broadway musical, part indie rock movie musical, part love letter to loretta lynn and dolly parton).

Silvia's Mother

Mary Birdsong

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