Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe and the Fish [Live at Woodstock 1969]

Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe and the Fish

Lyrics:

She hides in an attic concealed on a shelf
Behind volumes of literature based on herself
And runs across the pages like some tiny elf
Knowing that it's hard to find
Stuff way back in her mind,
Winds up spending all of her time
Trying to memorize every line

Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.
Sweet lady of death wants me to die
So she can come sit by my bedside and sigh
And wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes
Then softly she will explain
Just exactly who was to blame
For causing me to go insane
And finally blow out my brain,
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
You were raised up in the city
And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,
Ah, 'bout country ways.

The joy of life she dresses in black
With celestial secrets engraved in her back
And her face keeps flashing that she's got the knack,
But you know when you look into her eyes
All she's learned she's had to memorize
And the only way you'll ever get her high
Is to let her do her thing and then watch you die,
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Now she's the one who gives us all those magical things
And reads us stories out of the I Ching,
Then she passes out a whole new basket of rings
That when you put on your hand
Makes you one of the Angel Band
And gives you the power to be a man,
But what it does for her you never quite understand
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
You were raised up in the city
And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,
Oh 'bout country ways, oh 'bout country ways,
Yeah, about country ways, oh, country ways ...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Not
• So
• Sweet
• Martha
• Lorraine
• Country
• Joe
• McDonald
• and
• the
• Fish
• live
• at
• woodstock
• 1969
• director's
• cut

[grimgrimdeath666]

Never seen this before thax for this post im in ur det kind sir :)

[jfrey0725]

no problem!

[georgef76]

Iv'e always wanted to see more footage of them at Woodstock after seeing the Woodstock Diary' dvd.

What's dvd is this from ? I read Flying High was the only new song on the Collectors dvd  . I know this track is on the new 6 cd box set.

[jfrey0725]

it can be found in "Woodstock: The Director's Cut"

[ovelonse]

it's awesome.......i wanna back to the 60's

[laberlaban]

First time I both saw and felt music inside my mind and body was in '68, listenin' to "Electric Music For The Mind And Body" with my mate. Good dope, too. Joe & Fish must've really liked Denmark 'cause they played here 3 times in '69, Easter with Led Zeppelin as warm-up band!! In the summer we danced on stage with them, a mate loosing his shoulderbag with 200 tabs of acid in it (got it back next day) and in the fall we peed on the policestation before the gig.- Those happy days of youth...! :O)

[JuannabisRoach]

want to add a tremolo bar to my Epi guitar. that sounds great

[ledzeppelin174]

@dirtyxmexican haha I thought I was the only one who noticed the huge change.

[dirtyxmexican]

i like after 2 years they aged 10 years

[TPBXDRicky420]

I want to see the whole CJ&TF woodstock gig.

[omarperaltapeace]

yes i like this great song.

[AlDroog]

@jfrey0725

how it would be "summer dresses" of CJ&F ?

[PAULisDEADMANnumber9]

great song. they did play this better at monterey better in my opinion. this is still one great jam though!

[LSD0Moon]

i love this drummer..

[Django5198]

Melton is a guitar wizard