HONEST JOE

First released 1994

Honest Joe was one of the first Wah Wah tracks to be unveiled, being performed on the European Neil Young support slots in summer 1993, the US WOMAD tour and the UK Winter tour in 1993.  A remix by Dave Baynton-Power appeared on a free tape with Select Magazine in the summer of 1994.  The hypnotic strobe effects and Tim and Saul's improvised lyrics followed by Tim's spiral dance and Mark's keyboard finish made this a live favourite and it remained in the set until Reading 1997 and made occassional appearances before the 2001 split, before forming a key part in many of the live sets in 2007.

WHERE TO GET

Album Version : Wah Wah 2LP (522 827-1), CAS (522 827-4), CD (522 827-2)

Selections From Wah Wah promo (SACD 947)

Album Version : The Gathering Sound boxset USB stick

Folk Testosterone Abort Mix : Select Unheard Pleasures cassette

Live Version (Reading 22.8.97) : Destiny Calling CDS2 (JIMDD 19)

Live Version (Brixton 1993) : The Gathering Sound boxset CD2

CHORDS

*capo on 4th fret

Am, C, F, C, all throughout

LYRICS

Honest joe

Screws the lamb

Indian call

Indian plan

Weight of gold

You're a gay

Catch your life

Catch your life

Messerschmidt

You're a ghoul

Hurricane, hurricane

Novatol, novaciane

Dexadrin, dexadrin, opium

It's the way way you break down all your food

It's the way you comb your hair

It's the way you wear the tie so crooked

The way you have that smile that smells of despair

It's the way you like to satisfy

The way you set the smile

The way you crawled into my life and stayed there for a while

It's the way you like to lick your paws

The way you screw the bolts

The way you groom your friends and neighbours

The way you get a cause

Novacaine, makes us smile

Novacaine, no one can

I know where

It's a gun

It's a dream of a christian marytrdom

Move your way

Do your spin

Get a dish, get a dish and spin

Totempole, it's my goal

I don't care where you're gonna take it from

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah