Last Year Of The Blue Men

| | It's the last year of the Blue Men who watchdog Part Two Heaven Giving way to young ones in nineteen ninety seven Who follow in their footsteps and wear the breathing masks And answer all your questions, and ration out your tasks There will be time enough for love, and room enough to play For planting Pieces babies, or passing time away There will be time enough for thought, and room enough for words That float like pillow feathers and sing just like the birds Stock up your provisions, devise a shell rock shelter Where jovial ceilings smile down on every room you enter Paint windows in your gardens, and windmills on your doors And lock away the memory that Daddy died in war There will be time enough for love, and room enough to play For planting Pieces babies, or passing time away | <> | . Turn in your number for a color bye Trade in tomorrow's cake . for yesterday's pie - i - i --- i It's the last year of the full moon that shines on Part Two Heaven But we still play the moon songs from nineteen fifty seven The files of pleasure photos, recall us to our prime And rock-a-bye us, lullabye us back to the good old times ©1973 Kangaroo Music Charted by Dexex Note: In the recording I have, the whole song is a little sharp. If you play along with the recording on a guitar tuned with a digital tuner you'll find the chords in the chart just a little low. If you play the song a half step higher you'll find the half step is too high. I suspect that the record's producers wanted a little more energy from the track, and so sped it up just a little. Speeding up the track would also make it just a little bit higher in pitch. This was not an unusual practice when the track was recorded in 1973. To test my theory I used iRehearse, which is a digital phrase trainer that allows you to change the pitch and/or tempo of digital sound files. (It's a great rehearsal tool.) By lowering the pitch about 1/2 semi-tone (aka -50 "cents") I was able to bring the recording back into perfect tune.