November 30, 2025
Abstract Truth (1970, RSA) 7 tracks
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Abstract Truth "Jersey Thursday"
(lyrics found)
* From album: "Totum"
** Cover of: Donovan "Jersey Thursday"
[Tiny piece of coloured glass
My love was born
Reds and golds and yellows
Were the colours of the dawn
Night brought on its purple cloak
Purple to the sky
Girls go willing spinning
On Jersey Thursday] 3x
[On Jersey Thursday] 3x
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Abstract Truth "Coming Home Baby"
(instrumental)
* From album: "Totum"
** Cover of: Ben Tucker "Comin' Home Baby"
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Abstract Truth "Oxford Town"
(lyrics found)
* From album: "Totum"
** Cover of: Bob Dylan "Oxford Town"
Oxford Town, Oxford Town
Everybody walks with a head bowed down
The sun don't shine above the ground
When you go down to Oxford Town
He went down to Oxford Town
Guns and clubs followed him down
All because his face was brown
He went down to Oxford Town
Me, my girl and my girl's son
We got met with a tear gas bomb
So I don't know just what I've done
Better get away from Oxford Town
Oxford Town around the bends
Open the door, you can't can't get in
All because the color of your skin
What do you think about that, my friend?
Oxford Town in the afternoon
Everybody’s singing the sorrowful tune
Two men died beneath the Mississippi moon
Someone been to investigate soon
[Oxford Town, Oxford Town
Everybody walks with a head bowed down
The sun don't shine above the ground
When you go down to Oxford Town] 2x
[When you go down to Oxford Town] 2x
[Oxford Town] 2x
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Abstract Truth
"Ain't Necessarily So / Take Five"
"Ain't Necessarily So / Take Five"
(lyrics found)
* From album: "Totum"
** Cover of: Gershwin "Ain't Necessarily So"
+ Desmond "Take Five"
+ Desmond "Take Five"
[It ain't necessarily so] 2x
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so
[Jonah, he lived in the whale] 2x
He made his home in
That fish's abdomen
It ain't necessarily so
[It ain't necessarily so] 2x
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so
[David was small, but oh my] 2x
He slayed, oh, Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
It ain't necessarily so
[Moses was found in a stream] 2x
There came Pharaoh's daughter
Who fished him from water
She fished and she said from that stream
[It ain't necessarily so] 2x
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so
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Abstract Truth
"Scarborough Fair" (lyrics found)
"Scarborough Fair" (lyrics found)
* From album: "Totum"
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to the one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seams nor frayed and ripped lines
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and sandstone strands
She'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it with a sickle
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
With a lot of color of the gold forgotten
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to the one who lives there
[She once was a true love of mine] 3x
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Abstract Truth "In A Space"
(instrumental)
* From album: "Silver Trees"
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Abstract Truth "Two"
(lyrics self-transcribed)
* From album: "Silver Trees"
Golden showers for gently
And caressive pale white cheeks
Clear blue eyes gazing gently
Life in while she speaks
Too young to know
Further had to go
See caress at downstreet
Provide the music for her dream
There'll be times when she'll be sad
Her hands full with tears
She'll find that things aren't so bad
That they'll ease over the years
Though she grow older
No one grow for colder
Bless her sleep with golden dreams
Provide the music for her dream