Jasmine Washington -The Manna Tease

Here's another new song for The Manna Tease, and a video of us practicing it on the rooftop this morning. I came up with this song driving back from Tahoe a month ago, with the obligatory references to William Blake.

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Lyrics & chords here:
http://www.itwaslost.org/2011/09/jasmine-washington-manna-tease.html

Lyrics:
Jasmine Washington

My mother bore me in the wilds of Maine,
And I am white, but oh, my soul is chartreuse.
My heart is healthy but my pleasure is pain.
My blouse is usually tight, but sometimes I let it all loose.

I'm just a white girl named Jasmine Washington.
I'm a little white girl, a white girl.
These colors don't run, girls just want to have fun.
I'm a little white girl, a white girl.
Deep ocean pearl, bright clouds unfurl.
Daughter of the sun, Jasmine Washington.

My father called me his rose of York,
Fertilized in manure, but lovely as the dawn.
The pig is filthy, but I'm as clean as cured pork,
And I am pure, arise my love, the night is gone.

I'm just a white girl, &c...

My boyfriend calls me his albino possom:
He is diverse, I call him America.
I'll shield him from the shade so he can blossom,
And bear my curse, but I am naked beneath my burka.

I'm just a white girl, &c...

©2011 The Manna Tease

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