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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 94 times, most recently at Robyn & Emma's house on November 27, 2024. He first performed it at KGSR on October 29, 2004, 20 years earlier.

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2021

Here are two early incarnations of songs that some of you may be familiar with from my 2004 record "Spooked".

These demos of "Sometimes A Blonde" and "Full Moon in My Soul" were recorded in London, 2003 at Gravity Shack in Tooting. Ding, ding!

The personnel is: Kimberley Rew and self on guitar, Terry Edwards on keyboards and saxophone, Morris Windsor on drums & harmonies, and Paul Noble on bass.

Both of these tunes had some way to evolve before I got them on tape in Nashville with Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings at their Woodland Studios. Looking back it’s odd to see the words and melodies heading for places that they never quite reached.

At Woodland, Gillian & Dave helped me splice a new song “Ghosts Walk” into “Sometimes A Blonde” so this early demo is quite a different creature to one that wound up being released. "Full Moon In My Soul" in its London demo format is more or less the same shape but with a spikier outline.

I had no inkling when Ms Welch and Mr Rawlings introduced me to 5 Points in East Nashville that I would wind up living there ten years later as their neighbour. You never know how big a part a blonde is going to play in your life until they’re playing it...

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And ghosts walk in the bodies of children
With their own guns, proud to be on video
Young enough to feel like the skin grows back, yeah

And ghosts walk in the shadows of an obsolete scene
Plum straw plum light blue plum straw plum
Ask for Colin and he'll eat you
And time only comes around again
At the end

And ghosts walk in the ambulations of hound dogs
Bonbons, cinemas, and Matalo
Make you number seven walk the wrong way round, yeah

And they walk in the twenty-first century
And you are gonna get yourself together now, aren't you
I know you're a blonde sometimes
I know you fade

Heavenly nightshade
Heavenly nightshade

And ghosts walk in the fire of angels
Honeycombs and principles, ocelots and meerkats
Catch you looking stupid but you just don't care
When your sights are on infinity, you don't fire blanks, no

I know you're a blonde sometimes
I know you fade
You fade, and you're gone sometimes

I met a shapeshifter
I let her fade
Heavenly nightshade
Ooh, heavenly nightshade
Ooh, heavenly nightshade
It's where you came from