Smuggler's Anthem (from "Inherit The Earth")

My Flask (from "Inherit The Earth")

This cover was requested by our friend Melissa Cerise, for her birthday party in 2012. We liked it so much that we kept playing it.

Written by Poly Styrene, arranged by The Mongrel Jews. Originally recorded by X-Ray Spex on the album of same name in 1978.

"Germ Free Adolescents" (X-Ray Spex)

From the compilation "Don't Be Fooled: A Tribute to The Preserves." Lyrics and music written by Rian Johnson and Nathan Johnson. Arranged and performed by Aaron J. Shay, Sarah Shay, and Annie Hughes.

Happy birthday, boss.

Proteus, King Of The Wine Red Sea (The Preserves cover)

One night, while crawling on Pike street
Met a girl who thought me a swell
The things we had tasted
Had made us quite wasted
And walking a straight line to hell
She scooted in close to me sweetly
As I fed her another bad line
Oh I didn't have to beg
With her hand on my leg
Well, she asked if that stiff drink was mine
No! It's just my flask in my pocket
That I like to share with my friends
It's just my flask in my pocket
And a means to enjoyable ends.

We ran from the pub in excitement
But I lost her in the crowd on the street
As loud as I was
Singing like a drunk does
I fell prey to a cop on the beat
He told me he needed to frisk me
In his search for some illegal greens
No hint of panache
This thick-necked mustache
Thought he grabbed a magnum in my jeans
No! It's just my flask in my pocket
That I like to share with my friends
It's just my flask in my pocket
And a means to enjoyable ends.

Now, when this old life is over,
And my flask and my liver are gone
I'll sit at the gates
subject to the fates
Who'll expect I'll admit all was wrong
Saint Peter will give me the stink-eye
When my funeral mourners all dance
Oh he'll ask and he'll frown
Looking me up and down
What's sticking out of my ethereal pants?
Oh! It's just my (stomp) in my pocket
That I like to share with my friends
It's just my (stomp) in my pocket
And a means to enjoyable ends.
Well! It's just my (stomp) in my pocket
That I like to share with my friends
It's just my (stomp) in my pocket
And a means to enjoyable ends.
And a means to enjoyable ends
And a means
To enjoyable ends!

My Flask

Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Smuggle by day, drink by night, hey hey hey!
Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Travel from town to town
Casing your mansions and stealing your antiquities

Riding on the railway, heading for the coast
Steamer ship across the sea, well, I don't like to boast
But we're the baddest band of smugglers you ever have seen
Taking this and taking that and trading for the green

Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Smuggle by day, drink by night, hey hey hey!
Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Travel from town to town
Casing your mansions and stealing your antiquities

I don't want a safe roof and and early bed
Cornered on a midnight run, you might just lose your head
But when you're the best, all the rest can take a flying leap
You'll never have to worry about dying in your sleep!

Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Smuggle by day, drink by night, hey hey hey!
Oh, I wanna be a smuggler
Travel from town to town
Casing your mansions and stealing your antiquities

Smuggler Song

Why can't I be the wind,
Why can't I feel my hands all blow past your face?
And why does everything seem so still
Still now?
Why can't I be the night,
Why can't I come protect you with the darkness?
And why does everything seem so bright
Right now?
Tell me! I can handle it.
Tell me! I'm a big girl now.
Tell me! I can handle it.
Tell me! I'm a big girl now.
Why, my little fawn, you seem so far away from home!
Don't come any closer, the wolf is waiting for you to come
Skipping along without a care for the world that you live upon
He will snatch you up
Like
Like
Bread,
Like bread!




Like Bread

I went to a funeral for a man I did not know
I went to a funeral for a man I didn't know was dead

Faded bride, full of wine uncasked
Tells me your story unbidden and unasked
I come uninvited, my life just begun
To drink to a man who's thread's been unseen

I went to a funeral for a man I did not know
I went to a funeral for a man I didn't know was dead

Holding court at the center of it all,
Your friends and your lovers all remembered your fall
You rise up, for one night, forgiven of your sins
And your child lies sleeping as the rumpus begins
(harmonica break, double-time counted in)

I went to a funeral for a man I did not know
I went to a funeral for a man I didn't know was dead

Midnight comes,
A gentleman's toast to a man unknown
When the noise breaks the walls, we break out and away
To the moon and the river that carries us away
I went to a funeral for a man I did not know
I went to a funeral for a man I didn't know was dead

The Funeral Song

Folk by punks, punk by folks.

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