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Cover Art Cover Art The cover is a take-off of the Woodstock poster, which featured a white dove. Blue  Bob Dylan: "Tangled Up in Blue" But all the while I was alone The past was close behind, I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew Tangled up in blue.  U2: "Bullet The Blue Sky" Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue  Rogers and Hart [performed by Bob Dylan]: "Blue Moon" Blue moon / You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own  Elvis Presley: "Blue Suede Shoes" You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.  The Who: "Behind Blue Eyes" No one knows what it's like to be a bad man, To be a sad man, behind blue eyes. Red  Rolling Stones: "Paint It Black" I see a red door and I want it painted black  Led Zeppelin: "Black Dog" Eyes that shine burning red, dreams of you all through my head  The Doors: "Peace Frog" Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh The river runs red down the legs of a city The women are crying red rivers of weepin'  Jimi Hendrix: "Red House" There's a red house over yonder, Yeah, that's where my baby stays.  Nick Cave: "Red Right Hand" On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man In a dusty black coat and a red right hand. Green  Led Zeppelin: "Immigrant Song" How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.  George Baker Selection: "Little Green Bag" Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag, Got to find just the kind or I'm losin' my mind  The Lemon Pipers: "Green Tambourine" Drop your silver in my tambourine / Help a poor man fill his pretty dream Give me pennies I'll take anything / Now listen while I play / My green tambourine  Leonard Cohen: "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.  Pink Floyd: "Echoes" Overhead the albatross / Hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves / In labyrinths of coral caves An echo of a distant time / Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine Yellow  Neil Young: "Helpless" Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes.  Jethro Tull: "Thinking Round Corners" Think back to that dream you had. Blue boy sorry, pink girl sad. Yellow cow, big-eyed moon / all coming round the corner soon.  Beck: "Guess I'm Doin' Fine" All the battlements are empty / And the moon is laying low Yellow roses in the graveyard / Got no time to watch them grow  Cream: "White Room" Yellow tigers crouch in jungles in her dark eyes  Donovan: "Mellow Yellow" They call me mellow yellow ( quite rightly ) Purple  Hank Williams: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" The silence of a falling star / Lights up a purple sky. And as I wonder where you are / I'm so lonesome I could cry.  Tommy James and the Shondells: "Draggin' the Line" My dog Sam eats purple flowers. We ain't got much, but what we've got's ours. We dig snow and the rain and the bright sunshine.  Led Zeppelin: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.  Jimi Hendrix: "Purple Haze" Purple haze all in my eyes Don't know if it's day or night You got me blowin', blowin' my mind Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?  Jane Siberry: "The White Tent The Raft" There's a red leaf / that falls from / a purple tree it falls / it floats down Black  Country Joe and the Fish: "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" The joy of life she dresses in black / With celestial secrets engraved in her back  Cream: "White Room" In the white room with black curtains at the station  Danny Hill and Marijohn Wilkin: "Long Black Veil" [performed by Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and others] She walks these hills in a long black veil. She visits my grave where the night winds wail  Ray Charles: "Black Coffee" I'm feelin' mighty lonesome / Haven't slept a wink I walk the floor an' watch the door / In between I drink / Black coffee  Troy Seals and Eddie Setser [performed by Eric Clapton]: "Black Rose" The dogs are howling at the midnight moon. I'm on my way to where the black rose blooms. The mountain's high, the night is cold. I feel the sunshine; a black rose grows. Not Used  Garbage: "Milk" I am milk / I am Red Hot Kitchen And I am cool / Cool as the deep blue ocean  Nigel Kennedy / Jane Siberry: "Innig" Dark dark bar / Bright bright day / A man in a yellow suit / Pushes his drink away Art for Framing  Prints Artwork and lyrics are also printed on 11" x 17" Somerset Enhanced watercolor paper All illustrations and sketches in this site Copyright ©1990-2007 Michael Gibbs www.michaelgibbs.com |