Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine-Country Joe & The Fish

[ti:Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine] [ar:Country Joe & The Fish] [al:The Collected (1965-1970)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe & The Fish [00:18.62]She hides in an attic concealed on a shelf [00:26.88]Behind volumes of literature based on herself [00:35.72]And runs across the pages like some tiny elf [00:40.45]Knowing that it's hard to find [00:44.71]Stuff way back in her mind [00:49.09]Winds up spending all of her time [00:53.45]Trying to memorize every line [00:57.42]Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine [01:06.00]Sweet lady of death wants me to die [01:14.74]So she can come sit by my bedside and sigh [01:23.55]And wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes [01:28.60]Then softly she will explain [01:31.93]Just exactly who was to blame [01:36.68]For causing me to go insane [01:41.08]And finally blow out my brain [01:44.80]Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine [01:53.68]Well you know that it's a shame and a pity [01:57.86]You were raised up in the city [02:01.90]And you never learned nothing about country ways [02:09.09]Ah about country ways [02:15.32]The joy of life she dresses in black [02:23.83]With celestial secrets engraved in her back [02:32.51]And her face keeps flashing that she's got the knack [02:36.80]But you know when you look into her eyes [02:41.66]All she's learned she's had to memorize [02:45.64]And the only way you'll ever get her high [02:49.96]Is to let her do her thing and then watch you die [02:53.88]Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine [03:03.29]Now she's the one who gives us all those magical things [03:12.00]And reads us stories out of the I Ching [03:20.57]Then she passes out a whole new basket of rings [03:26.12]That when you put on your hand [03:29.31]Makes you one of the Angel Band [03:34.32]And gives you the power to be a man [03:38.78]But what it does for her you never quite understand [03:42.34]Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine [03:51.55]Well you know that it's a shame and a pity [03:55.58]You were raised up in the city [03:59.64]And you never learned nothing about country ways [04:06.73]Oh about country ways oh about country ways [04:15.07]Yeah about country ways