April 13, 2026

Melissa (1971, Australia) 1 song

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Melissa "Cuckoo"

(lyrics found and modified)

* From album: "Midnight Trampoline"

Well, cuckoo is a pretty bird

And she wobbles and she wobbles and she wobbles

And she flies away

But she never follows, cuckoo

Till the first day of spring

[Jack of diamonds] 2x

And she rides my fourth pocket of silver

First you hurt me, then you desert me

And lead my mind astray

[Cuckoo] 4x

Well, mama tell your children

Not to be a gambler man

'Cause the cards, you know, they’ll get you

Then, then they’ll desert you

And lead your mind astray

[Cuckoo] 4x

Well, cuckoo is a pretty bird

And she wobbles and she wobbles and she wobbles

And she flies away

But she never follows cuckoo

Till the first day of spring

Well, mama tell your children

Not to be a gambler man

'Cause the cards, you know, they’ll get you

Then, then they’ll desert you

And lead your mind astray

[Jack of diamonds] 2x

And she rides my fourth pocket of silver

First you hurt me, then you desert me

And lead my mind astray

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March 04, 2026

Blackfeather (1971, Australia) 2 songs

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Blackfeather "Seasons Of Change Pt. 1"

(lyrics found)

* From album: "At The Mountains Of Madness"

** Video: Program "Happening 71" on ATV-0

[See the snow falling on the ground

Days of old, oh so cold

Wretched sailing amongst the cloud

Melts the snow, still it's cold

People dancing in the streets

In the town, a small boy cries

Eyes of love turn to nerves of stone

Blind the sun, not for me

A season goes so quickly

You don't know where you are

A season goes so quickly

You don't know where you are

I said I'm sorry

Don't you know I try

Everybody's watching

And it makes me cry] 2x

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Blackfeather "The Rat Suite" (shorter version)

(lyrics self-transcribed)

* From album: "At The Mountains Of Madness"

* Video: TV series "GTK"

[Lives in a hole

Eating nothing but cheese

Nobody likes him

Spreading disease

Running round town

Putting you down

You better watch out

'Cause the rat is around

Show them to blow, show them to blow

Show them to watch out for their heads in the dying] 2x

Somebody's screaming

Somebody cry

Everyone downs him

Nobody lies

You're leaving him out

You're putting him down

You better watch out

'Cause the rat is around

[It's a rat] 2x

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March 04, 2026

Kelly (1971, Australia?) 1 song

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Kelly "See My Way"

(lyrics found and modified)

* ABC-TV program Hit Scene (1971)

** Cover of song: Blodwyn Pig "See My Way"

Think I'd like to see my hand out

I can't help it if I stumble

Over those things

That I've v set before me

Wanna see, see my way

Need a friend

To help me through

When I'm down

Pick my body up and carry me

Home, take me home

Think I'll wind up watching my life

I can see it's been so wrong

Climbing mountains

Without even looking

Wanna see, see my way

Need a friend

To help me through

When I'm down

Pick my body up and carry me

Home, take me home

Think I'd like to see my hand out

I can't help it if I stumble

Over those things

That I've v set before me

Wanna see, see my way

Need a friend

To help me through

When I'm down

Pick my body up and carry me

Home, take me home

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February 24, 2026

Kahvas Jute (1971, Australia) 1 song

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Kahvas Jute "I Can't Stop"

(lyrics self-transcribed)

Get to the top, then I'll go down again

Wait for a while and then I'm 'round again

Taking my soul now

Yes, I'm losing control now

I can't stop

Light's growing dimmer then you look at me

I can see everything I want to see

Can't get control now

Yes, you're taking my soul now

I can't stop

Get to the top, then I'll go down again

Wait for a while, yes, I'm 'round again

I need some time now

To work on my mind, yes, I'll do 

I can't stop. I can't stop. 

I, I can't, no, I can't stop

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March 27, 2025

Helium (1971, Australia) 1 song

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Helium "Don't Think Twice" (lyrics self-transcribed)

* From album: "Kissin' And Squeezin' " (EP)
+ "Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1967-1974 Volume 1"

You carry a black coat in the street

You're marching in a moment of ease 

Always ground peace and quiet

Well, you don't think twice 

[No, you don't think twice] 3x

[A love that should have lasted years] 2x

You're shopping and you're out of the most

You grow your hair, you feel so damn so

Well, these work conditions aren't so fine

Oh, these work conditions aren't so fine 

You don't think twice 

[No, you don't think twice] 2x

You don't think twice 

We're getting it easy

We're getting it free 

Young girls giving in with no second thought 

It didn't work out

You’re old man boy

No, it didn't work out

[You’re old man boy] 2x

Well, you don't think twice 

Oh no, no, you don't think twice 

Oh no, [she don't think twice 3x]

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February 22, 2025

Master's Apprentices (1971, Australia) 8 songs

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Master's Apprentices "Easy To Lie" (lyrics found)

* From album: "Master's Apprentices",
also known as: "Choice Cuts"

** 1971- song, video- ?

Wake up to yourself before you die

The truth is hard but it's easy to lie

I can't tell how to get it on

It's in your head long before you've born

I guess it's all a matter of time

To find the answer's in your mind

One day you'll quickly realise

That the future's right before your eyes

We could be so much closer today

It's not our fault things have happened that way

We live in a world of darkness and sorrow

Now we'll find a new life starting tomorrow

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Master's Apprentices "Death Of A King" (lyrics found)

* From album: "Master's Apprentices",
also known as: "Choice Cuts"

** 1971- song and video,
video- Australian ABC-TV program "Hit Scene"

Don’t go walking in the streets today

Negro was killed and the whites must pay

Panthers on the loose, Panthers on the loose and they’ll cut him down

Revenge is the song that they all sing

Get the man who killed Martin Luther King

Oh I’ve gotta say, Oh what a bloody day

Make your own laws, take a life and he’ll take yours

State militia to the bronx they go

With batons and guns they’ll meet their foe

Panthers on the loose, Panthers on the loose and they’ll cut him down

Revenge is the song that they all sing

Get the man who killed Martin Luther King

Oh I’ve gotta say, Oh what a bloody day

Make your own laws, take a life and he’ll take yours

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Master's Apprentices "Rio De Camero" (lyrics found)

* From album: "Master's Apprentices",
also known as: "Choice Cuts"

** 1971- song and video,
video- ATV-0 program Happening 71

Rio De Camero

Don't you know that's where they go

In majestic splendour

In their heads where evil goes

With a silver dagger

Carve a cross upon their heads

Moonshine on the tombstone

By the light they raise the dead

Don't you know they go there

Where the moon is on the rise

See the talon lady

Tear their flesh before your eyes

Fear I may be chosen

Had a choice I'd suicide

Better than be bitten

By the snake that's in her eyes

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Master's Apprentices "I'm Your Satisfier" (lyrics found and bit modified)

* From album: "Master's Apprentices",
also known as: "Choice Cuts"

Who am I? I'm your one in desire

Who am I? I set your soul on fire

I've come to get you and you want me so bad, drive you mad

Who am I? I'm your satisfier

Here I come, women better watch out

Here I come, can't you see me walking about

Don't look afraid, when I knock on your door you want more

Who am I? I'm your satisfier

Here I am, don't it make you feel good?

Here I am, said I'm not if I could

Woman in St. Louis, are waiting my call, have a ball

Who am I? I'm your satisfier

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Master's Apprentices "Catty" (lyrics found and bit modified)

* From album: "Master's Apprentices",
also known as: "Choice Cuts"

Mother and father gone away for the weekend

Cats are going to play

Get on the telephone, tell him that you're all alone

Can you come over to stay?

Waiting for a chance for a long, long time

We can be soon at home

Bring out the records

Bring out the music and all the rest of the dope

Right now

Get yourself fixed up, beauty from a blue cup

Just about time he arrives

Sound of the door bell

You go and he can tell that it's going to be fine

Right now

Right now

Walk in the living room, hope to be in bed soon

Maybe a joint and we'll see

Place is in an awful mess, hand is halfway to her keep dressed (?)

Come here and sit on my knee

Right now

Wicked woman - all you need is love

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Master's Apprentices "Games We Play Part I" (lyrics found)

* From album: "A Toast To Panama Red"

Arguments are games we play

In between the fun

Like a dirty driving rain

In between the sun

Love did not pass us by

In it's strange disguise

Like a blind man in the night

Searching for his sign

You may be lost and pray

You want see the end

The soul that Jesus saves today

Is not to late to mend

We have to lose our way

To know where we've been

Don't do all they told you to

Love was never seen

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Master's Apprentices "Games We Play Part II" (lyrics found)

* From album: "A Toast To Panama Red"

And he raised his head

Looked upon the people

His great voice said

When love beckons, follow

Though the path sometimes seems steep and hard

Be old and let the soft wings enfold you

Though the sword hidden among the pinion may cut deep

When the voice speaks to you, believe

For the voice may shatter your dreams

As the north wind lays waste to the garden

For as love is your growth, so it is your pruning

As it ascends to your height
And caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun

So it shall descend to your roots
And shake them in their clinging to the earth

All these things shall love do unto you

As you may know the secrets of your heart

And in that knowledge become a fragment of life's heart

Go into the seasonless world

Where you shall laugh not all you laughter

And weep not all your tears

For love gives naught but itself

And takes naught but from itself

Think not you can direct the course of love

For if it finds you worthy will direct your course

Love has no desire but to fulfil itself

To melt and be like a running brook 

That sings its melody for eternity

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Master's Apprentices "Answer Lies Beyond" (lyrics found)

* From album: "A Toast To Panama Red"

We are here, we are where 

We are together and live as one

Doing right, doing wrong

Who knows who's right

The answer lies beyond

You and I, you know

Look at me, look and see

You're a leaf in a forest 

Praying autumn doesn't come

Look at me, look and see

I see the world's spins 'round

Don't let it go

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February 03, 2025

Fanny Adams (1971, Australia) 3 songs

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Fanny Adams "Mid Morning Madness"
(lyrics found)

*From album: "Fanny Adams"

It's not good to be so far into me

You're in jeopardy with my madness

It's for both our sakes I don't give just take

My loves your mistake in my madness

[Madness will come in the morning

Descending without warning] 3x

Madness will come in the morning

It's not hard to see the big change in me

When I'm helplessly in my madness

Battle for control of my mind and soul

Just an empty hole is my madness

[Madness will come in the morning

Descending without warning] 3x

Madness will come in the morning

Sunshine pour on me insane energy

Spirit inside me is my madness

It's not hard to see the big change in me

When I'm helplessly in my madness

[Madness will come in the morning

Descending without warning] 3x

Madness will come in the morning

Battle for control of my mind and soul

Just an empty hole is my madness

[Madness will come in the morning

Descending without warning] 3x

Madness will come in the morning

It's not good to be so far into me

You're in jeopardy 

[With my madness] 4x

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Fanny Adams "Yesterday Was Today"
(lyrics found)

*From album: "Fanny Adams"

Pack my bags and head for the station

Ain't no use reviewing situations

Woman, you don't treat me like you oughta

Reasoning with you ain't in order

Ever since the moment I said I love you

You did your best to prove me untrue

Baby, you kept begging for my loving

And all the while, you gave me nothing

Yesterday was today

[Gave you a lot of laughs before my awakening

I was always there for the taking

But observe a man in the making

Yesterday was today

Have you ever loved someone?

I doubt it if you would

Have you ever cried for someone?

I doubt it if you could

And I know

Half of one is nothing

When you are alone

Who'll be left to grieve you

When you're dead and gone?] 2x

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Fanny Adams "Got To Get A Message To You"
(lyrics found)

*From album: "Fanny Adams"

I'm just a simple boy from LA

Never had a woman who could treat me the way

That you do, baby

I told you, woman, be gentle with me

I've spent no time in the company

Of a woman, baby

Got to get a message to you

[I want you] 3x

I want you so bad

You spent a lot of time to practice your art

And all of this loving left a pain in my heart

It's voodoo

Give me little time, be patient with me

I'll do you right, baby, you'll see

You’ve got the goods and I'll buy

Got to get a message to you

[I want you] 3x

I want you so bad

I'm just a simple boy from LA

Never had a woman who could treat me the way

That you do, you do, baby

I told you, woman, be gentle with me

I've spent no time in the company

Of a woman, baby

Got to get a message to you

[I want you] 3x

I want you so bad

I said I want you

[I want you] 2x

[I want you so bad] 5x

[I said I want you so bad, baby] 2x

[I want you bad, baby] 2x

I said I want you so

[Bad, bad, bad] 3x

I want you so bad

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