Biography:
Ontario's answer to the Bevis Frond, the Orange Alabaster Mushroom is bedroom D.I.Y. auteur Greg Watson, whose one-man band reproductions of classic circa-1967 psych-pop are so dead-on perfect in every detail that one could play this collection of 1991-1998 recordings for any fan of Nuggets-era obscurities and they'd think it was authentic circa 1967 psych-pop. Farfisa organ, gloriously fuzzy guitars, and rattlesnake percussion (plus occasionally the obligatory sitar and trippy backwards tapes) support Watson's deliciously whiny vocals
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
G# C# G#m
G#m G
Crazy Murray owns a farm beside my summer home
B C#
And Murray is always lonely, though he never is alone
F A
He has a horse named King, and an old dog named King as well
E B
And seven pigs he hangs each spring but never seems to sell
And Crazy Murray had his mother living there with him
She invited us to tea and cookies, me and my friend Jim
The tea had brewed for 14 hours, the cookies they were moist
Her Swedish nurse came with her pills and had to raise her voice
CHORUS:
G#m G B
And Crazy Murray is a lonely man
G#m G B
He'll marry a lovely lady if he can
C#m A
But Murray, he is kind of odd
C#m E
And people will stay away
C#m A G#m
But Murray will be happier some day...
Bb C#
Once we needed wood to build our treefort large and high
And so we asked old crazy Murray, this was his reply:
"If youse can help me fix my pig house, I can help you brother
Just come back not tomorrow, but the next day after another"
CHORUS
G E
B D#m
When the beaver with the chainsaw brings your maples down
A D G# C# G#m
You know that Crazy Murray's been around
Crazy Murray passed away, he froze to death last June
Now Murray's on a holiday, his goal beyond the moon
He's travelled high and touched the sky and reached another plane
But Crazy Murray will come back to touch your minds again
CHORUS
G#m G E B
Props to Greg "Grog" Watson, the man himself from the psychedelic music teleporters
The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, who provided us with the correct lyrics from the song.
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