"Heh! Oh Lord! I feel so faint.
Those fingers get a lot of exercise you know.
Believe me they would.
Do you have the itches in your ear?
I'm not too healthy though.
Quit banging on those keys, keys, keys.
I love you. Oh, oh, oh! Cody! Oh Ralph! Hud! Oh...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X and Y and Z
I am a baby I am so big and tall.
I am a baby I am so small.
I run and jump and play with my dolly
And Ralph comes and plays with me.
He loves to run around in the field
Then he climb up in the tree.
Ow! Don't push me. I don't want to fall.
Just Help me up and get me on that branch.
Don't! Dont'! Don't! I don't want to go down.
I just want to stay up here all day
And be up near the sky.
I want to fly like a bird and be real high.
The feeling gets me happy and makes me feel so free
That when we're together we feel like a tree.
Do you remember that tree, North Riverside,
Down at that park?
We sat there for almost three hours
And oh, what a sight!
Such things you can see in a tree.
They tell stories, stories, stories, stores.
What I saw, oh what I saw!
Ooh what I saw!
Oh, my eyes can't believe what I saw!
The sky turned black
And the earth was shaking.
My feet couldn't stand
And my eyes were quaking.
What? Help me! Help me I cried! What?
Don't! No! It hurts so bad! Don't let me fall!
Look out! Hey! Help! Catch me!
We're almost there! No! Dont' shoot, no!
Don't shoot! It only hurts for a while
Then the pain all goes away.
Left, left, left, right, left. Left, left, left, right, left.
Right, left, up, down, oh, in, out, no! High! Low!
One, we are one!"
Ralph Warchol, his girlfriend at the time Jacqueline Kulawiak, and myself having fun in the recording studio. The acid started kicking in right at the start of this song. Jacqui shines with her improvised lyrics and melody. Ralph played piano and sang while I scratched in audio from a sound effects record. As recording engineer, I also applied tricks with the echo while Ralph played and we all sang. In this way we improvised with each other live. This was recorded at Faith Chapel Radio Recording Studio in Berwyn (yes, Svengoolie's Berwyn). I had access to that studio after I began working there in January of 1981.
