Beautiful cut from Crazy Love. Photo ©Randy Morrison

Stand Together

Achingly beautiful, live in London, '75...

MELANIE Leftover Wine (live '75)

This will have a soft flute and fiddle added, eventually. It started out as a folk song inspired by both Melanie and Denny Laine.
It's track 3 on "The Mystic Angels Project"
On Losing Imagination -Kirtley/Nelson/Morrison

3) Lance Kirtley - On Losing Imagination Mix1

Rare track from a UK 12" single release in '83. 

PUT A HAT ON YOUR HEAD
Writers: Melanie Safka and Peter Schekeryk
Publishers: EMI Music/Ramalam Music
Bonus song on the 12" single EVERY BREATH OF THE WAY (1983)

I got punk rock cut this morning and I look like me to you
But to me I looked too Eighties so I got a perm by two
I used to love to be natural but now I’m looking for style
But I don’t know what to do with my hair
(She don’t know what to do with her hair)
I don’t know what I’m going do with my hair
So I’ll wear a hat for a while

Put a hat on your head when you get out of bed
To keep you feeling Sunday
And underneath you can grit your teeth
But your hat attitude's gonna get you through
And keep you from feeling blue Monday

I used to love to be natural but now I’m looking for style
But I don’t know what to do with my hair
(She don’t know what to do with her hair)
I don’t know what I’m going do with my hair
So I’ll wear a hat for a while

Put a hat on your head when you get out of bed…
And underneath you can grit your teeth…
And keep you from feeling blue Monday

I used to love to be natural but now I’m looking for style
But I don’t know what to do with my hair
(She don’t know what to do with her hair)
I don’t know what I’m going do with my hair
So I’ll wear a hat for a while

Oh I went down town ‘bout a week ago and saw an old friend of mine
He had his hair down to his waist with a Nitty Gritty T-shirt on
Oh I used to love ’em natural but now I’m looking for style
But I don’t know what to do with my hair
(Don’t know what to do with her hair)
I don’t know what I’m going do with my hair
So I’ll wear a hat for a while

Put a hat on your head when you get out of bed
To keep you feeling Sunday
And underneath you can grit your teeth
’Cause your hat attitude's gonna get you through
And keep you from feeling blue Monday

I used to love to be natural but now I need some style
But I don’t know what to do with my hair
I don’t know what I’m going do with my hair
I’ll wear a hat for a while

MELANIE Put A Hat On Your Head

Silent Revolution

Wonderful vocal performance by Melanie at Gusman Hall, Miami, 1978

Photo: Marc Mercurio (?)

MELANIE Running After Love - Gusman Hall, Miami '78

Fred Neil wrote this song, originally titled "The Other Side Of This Life". It was included on his 1965 album "Bleecker And Macdougal" and has been recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Youngbloods, and, most famously, the Jefferson Airplane, as well as by Melanie who in '75 recorded this version that has come to be known as Another Side. but was never released. Original lyrics:

Would you like to know a secret
It's just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next
I don't know where I'm gonna be
 
But that's the other side to this life
I've been leading
But that's the other side of this life
 
Well my whole world's in an uproar
My own world's upside down
I don't know where I'm going
But I'm always bumming around
And that's another side to this life
I've been leading
And that's another side of this life
 
Well I don't know what I'm doing
Half the time I don't know where I'll go
I think I'll get me a sailing boat
And sail the gulf of Mexico
 
And that's another side to this life
I've been leading
And that's another side of this life
 
Well I think I'll go to Nashville
Down to Tennessee
The ten cent life I've been leading here
Gonna the be the death of me
 
But that's the other side to this life
I've been leading
But that's the other side of this life
And that's another side of this life
 
Would you like to know a secret
It's just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next
I don't know where I'm gonna be
 
But that's another side to this life
I've been leading
But that's another side of this life

MELANIE Another Side

"Again (Melanie Safka)" from my new album with MY DAD, 'You Got Me Singing'!!

for the story behind this and all the songs go to amandapalmer.net/you-got-me-singing/

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Maybe Not For A Lifetime

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