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photograph copyright Anton Corbijn, used with kind permission

Poems:

Gill (before 1969) Manta Ray (before 1969) Odd Jobs Hollow Smoke The Tired Plain (before 1970) Sun Dawn Dance (1970) Untitled, from the sleeve of Lick My Decals Off Baby (1970) Infra-Grams Brown Star You Should Know By The Kindness Of Uh Dog The Way Uh Human Should Be A Christmas Card From Don van Vliet Doped In Stunned Mirages The Smith That Clear Our Stars (1983) Seam Crooked Sam The Beep Seal One Man Sentence untitled poem A Tin Peened Reindeer (1987) Three Months In The Mirror (1987) Safe Sex Drill (1990?) Tulip (1991)

Songwords:

Many of these lyrics originally appeared at Justin Sherill's Home Page Replica. Many thanks to him for kindly passing them over.

Abba Zaba Ah Feel Like Ahcid Ant Man Bee Apes-Ma Ashtray Heart Autumn's Child Bat Chain Puller Beatle Bones And Smokin' Stones Bellerin' Plain Big Eyed Beans From Venus Big Dig, The (The Smithsonian Institute Blues Bills Corpse Blabber 'n Smoke Blimp, The (mousetrapreplica) Brickbats Buggy Boogie Woogie Call On Me Candle Mambo Cardboard Cutout Sundown China Pig Circumstances Clear Spot Click Clack Clouds Are Full Of Whiskey, The Crazy Little Thing Dachau Blues Dirty Blue Gene Dirty Blue Gene - early version Doctor Dark Drink Paint Run Run Dropout Boogie Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back, The 81 Poop Hatch Electricity Ella Guru Fallin' Ditch Flash Gordon's Ape Floppy Boot Stomp, The Frownland Frying Pan Funeral Hill Gimme Dat Harp Boy Glider Golden Birdies Grow Fins Grown So Ugly Harry Irene Here I Am I Always Am Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat Hobo Chang Ba Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O, The Hot Head Ice Cream For Crow I Love You, You Big Dummy I'm Glad I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Ink Mathematics I Wanna Find Me A Woman Kandy Korn Kiss Me My Love Lick My Decals Off, Baby Little Scratch Long Neck Bottles Love Lies Low Yo Yo Stuff Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee Man With The Woman Head Mirror Man

Moonchild Moonlight On Vermont My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains My Human Gets Me Blues Natural Charm (see Little Scratch) Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish New Electric Ride Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man Old Fart At Play On Tomorrow Orange Claw Hammer Owed T'Alex Pachuco Cadaver Party Of Special Things To Do Past Sure Is Tense, The Pena Petrified Forest Plastic Factory Pompadour Swamp Rock and Roll's Evil Doll Run Paint Run Run Safe As Milk Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top Seam Crooked Sam Sheriff Of Hong Kong She's Too Much For My Mirror Skeleton Makes Good Smithsonian Institute Blues, The (The Big Dig) Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man Space Age Couple Spotlight Kid, The Steal Softly Thru Snow Sue Egypt Sugar N' Spikes Sun Zoom Spark Sure 'Nuff And Yes I Do Sweet Sweet Bulbs Tarotplane Telephone There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evening Stage Thousandth and Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole, The Too Much Time Tropical Hot Dog Night Trust Us 25th Century Quaker Twist Ah Luck Upon The My O My Veteran's Day Poppy Well Well Well Well When Big Joan Sets Up When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy When It Blows Its Stacks Where There's Woman White Jam Who Do You Think You're Fooling? Wild Life Witch Doctor Life, The Woe Is A Me Bop Yellow Brick Road You Know You're A Man Zig Zag Wanderer

Miscellania:

(untitled) 'One Nest...' - handwritten by the Captain (untitled) '...paranoia...' - handwritten (untitled) 'what the bull ate' - handwritten

Your help needed:

If anyone is able to clarify the date of any poem's completion, or has any songwords that are missing above please contact me at graham@beefheart.com. Many thanks.