DK & The Hoop Snakes
Part 1 of Alchemical Infusion: A Festival Groove
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Animals Think
In the ditchbed behind the houses the lone coyote sets
Waiting to kill and eat all the neighborhood pets
Got no mate and got no litter committing such atrocity
Tell me why tell me why tell me why
I wonder what do animals think
I wonder what do animals think they don’t talk
I wonder what do animals think
On the beach down behind the jetty a broken-off antenna in my hand
Carving naked pictures in the sand
Got no job and got no money don’t you wonder why I’m wasting time
Tell me why &c.
In the basement you’re disappearing I know you won’t be coming out too soon
I guess you feel alright with a needle and a spoon
You got tons of friends and tons of money I guess it makes me wonder why
Tell me why &c.

When Speaks the Iron Man
Additional words by Robert Johnson 1936
Three old ladies three old weavers woke
Like a light spike inside your head
Who’s gonna hang when the filament broke
Like a flame up inside your head
Somebody’s written down what somebody spoke
Like a light spike inside your head
Flame up inside your head
When speaks the iron man
Eighteen wheeler rig with acid phones
Like a light spike inside your head
Night transporter ride the tragical bones
Like a flame up inside your head
They built a shrine to the precious guns
Like a light spike inside your head
Flame up inside your head
When speaks the iron man
Everything you can have everything candy from a baby
Take it away take it away take it away
Lightweight Luger in a sharkhunt fight
Like a light spike inside your head
He don’t know nothing but he knows his rights
Like a flame up inside your head
Bluebird flies from the left to the right
Like a light spike inside your head
Koolaid mushrooms have yourself a bite
Like a flame up inside your head
Bluebird flies from the right to the left
Like a light spike inside your head
Asking whatchu have to say for yourself
Like a flame up inside your head
Some people tell me say these blues ain’t bad
Like a light spike inside your head
Worst damned feeling you most ever had
Like a flame up inside your head
When speaks the iron man

Doublemint Cage
What will the market bear what will the street allow
What is the cost per share where does the price stand now
You bartered me in trade you named a price and paid
You bargained in good faith you bartered me in trade
What are fresh souls going for today
Everything’s negotiable they say
Gain the world and throw it all away
Throw it away throw it away throw it away
I bash my head against the wall these choices ain’t no choice at all
I’m mighty limp with broke tick rage I’m in the doublemint cage
What are fresh &c.
You bartered me &c.

Everything (instrumental)

Fly Venus
Additional words by John Keats 1819
Here’s no time here’s no space
Here’s no climb here’s no race
Here’s no belt here’s no boot
Only flesh only fruit
Just one drop light your fire
Precious blood warm desire
Fly Venus fly her bodily
You’re feeling mighty good
Away away for I will fly to thee not charioted by Bacchus and his pards but on the viewless wings of poesy though the dull brain perplexes and retards already with thee
See her glance hear her moan
Water dance wave and foam
Feel the feel feel the flow
Ride the wheel get some more
Everything that we share
Take your pick ride the air
Ride the water
Fly Venus &c.

For Certain
Where does that tree begin and end
What was the cause of the Crimean War
What was it that you said I need reminding of
I can’t say for certain that you’ll never know
I’m pretty sure I’m not my mother
I’m pretty sure I’m not my father
I’m pretty sure I’m not the president
I can’t say for certain &c.
Long time ago somebody spoke it
Long time ago somebody wrote it
They spoke and wrote in Aramaic into Greek
I can’t say for certain &c.

Song (How sweet I roam’d)
Words by William Blake 1783
How sweet I roam’d from field to field
And tasted all the summer’s pride
‘Til I the Prince of Love beheld
Who in the sunny beams did glide
He loves to sit and hear me sing
Then laughing sports and plays with me
Then stretches out my golden wing
And mocks my loss of liberty

Spicy Hot Roll
We could go for a spicy hot roll yeah
We hip we shock roll and we rock

Tick Tock
Words and Music by Debra Lynn Rodriguez

Back to the World (instrumental)

The Ballad of Briarcliff Road
Up in Atlanta stands a stunted pine tree out on Briarcliff Road
But in the pine wisteria all riotously grows
Its flowers clustered like the grape but hanging empty hanging dry
While wisteria flourishes the Georgia pine tree dies
And right up to the ruined KFC all gutted once with fire
Through the pine and the wisteria runs electrical wire
And a mockingbird alight upon that Georgia Power line
Flings his soul abroad in strains of unpremeditated rhyme
Why do you cherish every failure
You think each sin makes you more human
That monument down in Decatur
Supposed to justify your crimes
See yourself see yourself
No joy no sorrow yeah but only naked triumph tells me that
The little bird fancies himself an aristocrat
He looks so fine he looks so dapper in his uniform of grey
And it was given me to translate what I heard the singer say
You love your jim crow republic
You love your rotten old lost cause
Your wretched oaths and sacred contracts
Your dirty bills of sale
See yourself see yourself
The cars swerve by they’re all sealed up they neither hear nor do they see
The pine tree or the singer or the ruined KFC
Or how you’ve got to burn the past before the future can arrive
Or how all smothered up in beauty Georgia pine tree struggles to survive

Part 2 of Alchemical Infusion: Roll and We Rock

Too Good
Don’t be too good now my baby
You’re pretty good now my baby
Don’t be too good babe
‘Cause any better’d be too good
We’d have to start over
Don’t be too good baby

My Heart Leaps Up
Words by William Wordsworth 1802
My heart leaps up when I see a rainbow in the sky
So was it when my life began
So is it now I am a man
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die
The child is father to the man
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each
In natural piety
The child is father to the man

September 13
No cloud interrupted the perfect sky the air just hinting autumn’s cool
Afar a dog was raising up its voice the kids were all safe in school
And not a tender leaf trembled on the tulip tree
Nobody acted mean on September 13
The neighbors raised a hand in greeting then and raised the outward-turning palm
So sweet the sign of civility so sweet serenity and calm
And not a tender &c.
Which god creator of benevolence could make such a perfect sky
That day when over Atlanta not a single plane did fly
And not a tender &c

Well of Happiness
It is the object of my pleasure
In its bright clean loveliness
It is the object that I treasure
It is the well of happiness
It takes the rough stuff that I’m bringing
It takes my loving fond caress
It is the song I am singing
It is the well of happiness
It is the well of happiness
Image breaking image making making your own free choice
Pen, pallette, or fiddle bow you know you will find your voice
In this world of shame and sorrows
In this world of sore distress
On this day and all tomorrows
It is the well of happiness
Image breaking image making making it doing it right
Nothing to fear when day turns to night
When the lamp lights a light
Remains a friend
When everyone’s gone
Makes it true makes it real
Cause it knows how it feels
And it rains every day in a song
Well of happiness

You Don’t Need Everything
You don’t need you don’t need everything
You don’t need you don’t want everything
You don’t need you don’t need everything

Wild Guitar
Everybody’s crazy living in their homemade worlds
Boys dream of boys girls dreaming about girls
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of their lives
It is an unnatural act it is an unnatural act it is an unnatural act
To play the wild guitar
Flying eight miles high I forgot to bring the plane
I think I can see my house from up here I believe that makes me sane
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of my life
It is an unnatural &c.
Don’t jump for joy when they wash out your cage
They get around to it once in an age
You’ve got a reason to set your soul on fire
I feel it streaming right down through the wire
Moving microwave ovens dreaming of love and fame
Tasting the blood of strangers seeing they’re not to blame
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of our lives
It is an unnatural &c.

Hard to Leave
I see the dawn I see the sunset
I see beauty out my doorstep
The daffodils came early again this year
Ain’t it hard to leave Ain’t it hard to leave the place you love
I see your face light up with gladness
I see you knocked down hard with sadness
I’ve heard you tell the world how it’s gonna be
Ain’t it hard &c.
When I get back to the world where I’m supposed to be
When I get back to the world that was so hard to leave
I see everybody worry
I see everybody hurry
They’re gonna get there soon enough anyway
Ain’t it hard &c.

Just a Toy
You forget to think about what she might want
She’s just a prize to be won
She’s just a female sex toy to you
She’s just a toy
Get her drunk and drugged enough she can’t say no
You don’t want her to know
She’s just a &c.
Well now here’s a thought you know you could be kind
It never enters your mind
She’s just a &c.

Eyes Shine
Your lynx eye
Your castle eye
Your cat’s eye
Your acid eye
Your makeup eye
Your street eye
Your needle eye
Your region eye
Your eyes shine with seeing
Your eyes shine with singing
Your eyes shine with saying
I know
Your leaf tongue
Your cat’s tongue
Your crown tongue
Your wailing tongue
Your arrow tongue
Your animal tongue
Your golden tongue
Your strenuous tongue
Your eyes shine &c.
I know I know I know
You got illuminating eyes You got universal eyes
Your eyes drive the water up from the ground
Your meat thumb
Your emphatic thumb
Your late thumb
Your impact thumb
Your tool thumb
Your greasy thumb
Your sharpened thumb
Your snap thumb Your eyes shine &c.

Peace March
Words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.