Little America
Lyrics
I can’t see myself at thirty, I don’t buy a lacquered thirty
Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow’s jewelery, again
Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback
Preserved for tomorrow’s eyes, in tree beer tar-black brer sap,
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we’re lost
Who will tend the farm museums? Who will dust today’s belongings?
Who will sweep the floors, hedging near the givens?
Rally round your leaders it’s the mediator season
Diane is on the beach, do you realize the life she’s led?
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, oh man I think we’re lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
A matter of course, Jefferson, Jeffer
Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback
Sky-lied, sty-tied, Nero pie-tied, in tree tar-black brer sap,
Reason has harnessed the tame, a lodging, not stockader’s game
Another Greenville, another Magic Mart, Jeffer, grab your fiddle,
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we’re lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we’re lost
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Reckoning (CD Album)Netherlands – 0777 7 13159 23
released: unknown
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Murmur / Reckoning (Cassette)UK –
released: unknown
- 1. Radio Free Europe
- 2. Pilgrimage
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Moral Kiosk
- 5. Perfect Circle
- 6. Catapult
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. 9-9
- 9. Shaking Through
- 10. We Walk
- 11. West Of The Fields
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Time After Time (Annelise)
- 17. Letter Never Sent
- 18. Second Guessing
- 19. Camera
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Little America
Blue (Bootleg LP)SPLIFF001
released: unknown
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Can’t Get There From Here (Bootleg LP)KAXY 002
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London 10/28/85.
- 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 2. Harborcoat
- 3. Green Grow the Rushes
- 4. Maps And Legends
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Driver 8
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Good Advices
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- 11. Can’t Get There From Here
- 12. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 14. Old Man Kensey
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Life And How To Live It
- 17. Second Guessing
- 18. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 19. Toys In The Attic
- 20. Radar Love
- 21. Burning Hell
- 22. Talk About The Passion
- 23. Little America
First Trip Overthere (Bootleg LP)?? | MC
released: unknown
Recorded: Dingwall\s London 1983.
- 1. Pretty Persuasion
- 2. Gardening At Night
- 3. 9-9
- 4. Windout
- 5. Old Man Kensey
- 6. Radio Free Europe
- 7. Little America
- 8. Burning Down
- 9. Pale Blue Eyes
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 13. Photograph
20th Century Boys – Vol.1 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83
- 1. I Got You Babe
- 2. Second Guessing
- 3. Harborcoat
- 4. Pretty Persuasion
- 5. Pills
- 6. 1,000,000
- 7. Camera
- 8. Talk About The Passion
- 9. Little America
- 10. All The Right Friends
- 11. Letter Never Sent
- 12. Just A Touch
- 13. Secret Agent Man
- 14. Hootenanny
- 15. Route 66
- 16. Windout
- 17. 9-9
- 18. Six Stock Answers
- 19. My Roof, Your Roof
- 20. Pale Blue Eyes
- 21. Tainted Obligation
- 22. Sweet Jane
Boston 1984 (Bootleg CD Album)MM 9116
released: unknown
Recorded 6/27/84, Seattle, WA
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Buy The Sky, Sell The Sky (Bootleg CD Album)DIRTY 13 VOL. 7
released: unknown
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. Old Man Kensey
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 7. Talk About The Passion
- 8. Harborcoat
- 9. Hyena
- 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 11. Sitting Still
- 12. Driver 8
- 13. Catapult
- 14. Chicken Train
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Little America
- 17. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 18. Radio Free Europe
- 19. Femme Fatale
DISTURBANCES (Bootleg CD Album)CA 784A
released: unknown
Recorded Live: Chicago 7/84.
- 1. Letter Never Sent
- 2. I Believe
- 3. Driver 8
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 6. Harborcoat
- 7. Hyena
- 8. Femme Fatale
- 9. Radio Free Europe
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Little America
- 14. Second Guessing
- 15. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
Dynamic Live (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded 1987 and Oslo 12/6/84
- 1. Finest Worksong
- 2. These Days
- 3. Lightnin’ Hopkins
- 4. Welcome To The Occupation
- 5. Driver 8
- 6. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 7. I Believe
- 8. The One I Love
- 9. Exhuming McCarthy
- 10. Wolves, Lower
- 11. Fall On Me
- 12. Superman
- 13. Just A Touch
- 14. Oddfellows Local 151
- 15. Little America
- 16. Hyena
- 17. Driver 8
- 18. Old Man Kensey
- 19. Pretty Persuasion
- 20. 1,000,000
Godzilla vs. REM’s Monster (Bootleg CD Album)Germany – TR009
released: unknown
Recorded: 1-16: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7 July 1984., 17-19: Saturday Night Live, 12 Nov. 94. , 20: Scotland w/Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Harborcoat
- 12. Hyena
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- 18. Bang And Blame
- 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
- 20. Hello In There
Live At Yokohama (Bootleg CD Album)BZCD 009
released: unknown
Recorded: 11/10/84 Yokohama University
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Old Man Kensey
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Harborcoat
- 8. Hyena
- 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 10. Sitting Still
- 11. Catapult
- 12. Chicken Train
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 16. Second Guessing
- 17. Radio Free Europe
- 18. Femme Fatale
Losing My Religion Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)BAN-042-B
released: unknown
Recorded: 9/14/87, Utrecht, Holland (Second Half Of Show)


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