Shake some action, psychotic reaction
No satisfaction, sky pilot, sky Saxon
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
Blitzkrieg bop to the jailhouse rock
Stop, stop at the hop, do the bluejean bop
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
That’s what I like

Better get off my cloud ’cause two’s a crowd
Better get off the phone, there’s nobody at home
I’m gonna work it on out, I’m gonna twist and shout
I’m gonna ride a white swan and get it on
Let’s all turn on

Born to lose those summertime blues
In blue suede shoes (The Hoodoo Gurus)
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
Waiting for my man, baby, can the can
I wanna hold your hand, remember Sam the sham?
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
That’s what I like

Better get off my cloud ’cause two’s a crowd
Better get off the phone, there’s nobody at home
I’m gonna work it on out, I’m gonna twist and shout
I’m gonna ride a white swan and get it on
Let’s all turn on

When you walk in the room, sunny afternoon
A-wop-bop a-loo-bop, a-lop-bam-boom
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
Sugar, sugar, talk, talk, money, honey, boardwalk
Who wears short shorts? (We wear short shorts)
That’s what I like
That’s what I like
That’s what I like, ha

Turn on
Turn on
Turn on
Turn on

I Want You Back
(Dave Faulkner)

I can still recall the time
She said she was always mine
Then she left, as people do,
And forgets what we’ve been through
Does this sound familiar to you?

It’s not that she’s gone away
It’s the things I hear that she has got to say
About me, and about my friends,
When we’ve got no defence.

That’s her.
I’ll never believe her again.
She might have deceived all my friends
I know they will see in the end
What it all means when she says (yeah!)

I want you back.
I want you back.
I want you back.
I want you she says, she, says, she says.

But what’s worse, she thinks it’s true
But that’s just her.
She always was a little bit confused!
She’s not worth the time I had to lose.

I want you back.
I want you back.
I want you back.
I want you she says, she, says, she says.

Arthur
(Dave Faulkner/Rod Radalj

Arthur played the bass.
He had an angel’s face.
Jiving with the Hoodoos, man,
No one could take his place, no, no, no.
No.

He needed extra cash
So he drove his brother’s cab.
The day we heard the news, you know,
It really hit us bad, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was the day that Arthur died.
Was the day that Arthur died.

A black gelato van
Finished for the day
It met with Arthur’s taxi head on
Down St.Kilda way
By the Prince Of Wales.
That was the way that Arthur died
Upon the day that Arthur died.
I cried.

Arthur played the bass.
He had an angel’s face.
Well, he jived with the Hoodoo Gurus, man,
You know no one’s ever gonna take his everlovin’ place!
No, not me, not anyone here.
Not since the day that Arthur died.
Ever since the day that Arthur died.
Ever since the day that Arthur died.

Death Ship
(Dave Faulkner/Rod Radalj/Alan Sharples)

I am the captain of a ghostly crew,
Sail the seven seas with nothing to do.
The girl that I thought was untrue
Really loved me.
Boo, hoo, hoo.

Near hidden reefs we appear in the gloom
Luring mariners to their doom.
As we’re condemned, we condemn others too.
Who would love me? Who?
Would you?
I’m asking you.

I’m on the Death Ship,
I sail the seas alone.
Death Ship.
I can call no port home.
Lost souls cry to hell in the wind,
Let us in, let us in, let us in!

I need somebody who will die for me
To free me of this misery.
I need someone who will cry for me.
Really love me.
Really.

Dig It Up
(Dave Faulkner)

My girlfriend lives in the ground.
My friends ask why she’s not around,
She won’t come home.
I’m so alone.
You’ll never know!
You can’t bury love,
You’ve gotta dig it up.
Yeah, you’ve gotta live it up.

I take her flowers each day.
I place them over her grave.
I want her back
Because I look so bad, so bad in black,
Like a maniac.
You can’t bury love,
You’ve gotta dig it up,
Yeah, you’ve gotta live it up.

Please, darling, come home to me.
Well, I’ll make you so happy, you will see!
I’ll paint your room
In pink and blue
I’ll even choose the colour scheme for you!
You can’t take away my love
I’ll never give it up!
Yeah, I’m gonna dig it up.

Don’t!
Don’t!
Don’t tI don’t want to know!

My girlfriend lives in the ground.
My friends, you ask me why she’s six feet down.
I can’t tell you why ‘cos if I even try
I’d fall down flat on my face
And I’d cry, “You can’t take away my love,
I’m gonna dig it up!”
Yeah, I’m gonna live it up.
I’m gonna dig it up, dig it up.
I’m never gonna stop
With that loving cup.
Gotta fill it up.

My Girl
(Dave Faulkner)

Once a girl took my love until I couldn’t give anymore.
Then I tried to pretend no to see what I couldn’t ignore.
Oh, my girl don’t love me at all
My girl don’t love me at all
My girl don’t love me at all
Anymore.

I took her to the dance and then I didn’t see her all night.
Then a friend said he saw her with some other boy just outside.
When I went out, she was alone.
She said, “I would like to go home”
I asked her, “Who were you with?”
She said, “No one.”
I could tell that she lied
And a voice said inside

My girl don’t love me at all,
My girl don’t love me at all,
My girl don’t love me at all
Anymore.
Not at all.

My girl don’t,
My girl don’t love me.
She don’t love me.
My girl don’t love me.

Zanzibar
(Dave Faulkner)

Did we ever meet in Zanzibar,
Two caucasians at the town bazaar?
Are you who you say you are?
Did you offer me a dutch cigar?
You must have thought you were so bourgeois.
Are you who you say your are?

After all these years, you haven’t changed at all
But I can’t say you look the same.

Summer days are hot in Zanzibar
And at night the sky is filled with stars.
Listen – you can hear guitars.

Native people, skins as black as tar,
Wear bright-coloured robes in Zanzibar.
They’ve never even heard of ska.
On a guided tour of limestone caves
Did we see where the traders kept their slaves?
Was that how we spent the day?

After all these years, you haven’t changed at all
But I, I can’t say you look the same.

I have never been to Zanzibar,
I have always thought it was too far.
You’re not who you say you are.
You’re not who you say you are.
You’re not who you say you are.

Leilani
(Dave Faulkner//Rod Radalj/Kimble Rendall/James Baker)

Somewhere on a South Pacific island
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth.

She was brown, her hair was black, her eyes were blue.
A chief’s daughter, Leilani was her name.
She and her young man made a handsome two
But lava tore them both apart again.

He said, “Leilani, don’t go to the volcano.”
He’d say, “Please don’t go to the volcano.”

They were saving for a little hut,
She collected seashells every day.
Everynight they’d share a cigarette
But the ancient, angry gods got in the way.

He’d say, Leilani, don’t go to the volcano
He would plead. “Please don’t go. I’ll miss you so.”

(ritual ceremony)
Katoomba! (Hey!) Macumbah! (Ho!)
Umgawah.
Katoomba! (Hey!) Macumbah! (Ho!)
Umgawah.
Katoomba! (Hey!) Macumbah! (Ho!)
Umgawah!
Hey! Ho! Hey-eh!
Hey! Ho! Hey-eh!
A-ah.
Leilani crulabulaulladullawokatai
Abalabalaba. (Hut!)
Abalabalaba. (Hut!)
Leilaninevagetahutaterracottatile
Abalabalaba. (Hut!)
Abalabalaba. (Hut!)
Umgawah!
Hey! Ho! Hey-eh!
Hey! Ho! Hey-eh!
Hey! Ho! Hey-eh!
A-ah. Aah-a-a-ah.

Still the young man sits upon the beach,
He’s staring misty-eyed out into space.
He’s thinking about his girlfriend, of late, deceased.
At least her death had purpose, his life is a waste.
His life is a waste.

He said, “Please don’t go, I love you, I love you, I love you so.”
She to him was to be wed, she chose the mountain god instead.
“Listen, Leilani, I can’t stand this carrying on all around.
Come on down from that mound.
You know that ain’t no sacred mound.
Listen, please!”
She’s gone, gone, gone.
Gone.

Tojo Never Made It To Darwin
(Dave Faulkner)

Tracy. Tracy was angry.
A bad mood.
I told her, “It’s an ill wind
Blows no good.”
Then she told me,
“Tojo never made it to Darwin.”

I said, “Tracy, won’t you listen? This is Christmas!
Don’t you go.”
She said, “David, I wouldn’t miss this for the world but I
Got to blow.”
Then she said again,
“Tojo never made it to Darwin.”

Now she’s gone, gone, gone
Just like the wind.
I just sigh,
But I’m dreaming that I’m gleaming
In her eye.
But I’ll always hear,
Tojo never made it to Darwin.

That year, Santa never came.

In The Echo Chamber
(Dave Faulkner)

As I was out walking home alone one night,
I saw this man approaching – he wore a coat of white.
He said, “You don’t know me, but you’ll very soon find out!”
Then the world was darkness as a cloth
clamped around my mouth.
Where am I? I don’t know
How can I escape?

Slowly I recovered. My head was aching bad.
I was laying on the carpet inside this madman’s lab.
Then a voice was speaking from behind a glass-walled booth
It said, “Welcome stranger, we’ve got
some serious work to do !”

Where am l?
Where am I?
Someone say more!
What’s his fiendish plan?

He said “You’re my guinea-pig,
I’m an Unsound Engineer.
I’m going to see how much a man can dig
A thousand voices in his ever-decreasing human ear”

In the Echo Chamber I almost went insane.
Even my own heartbeat caused my eardrum pain.
It was like a Phil Spector nightmare,
The tape echo machine ran wild.
It was louder, getting louder,
I thought that I would die.
Where am l?
Where am I?
Say more.
I never got out of there though I’ve tried and tried
For twenty-more years
That’s why I am where I am now
Where am l?
Where am I?

I Was A Kamikaze Pilot
(Dave Faulkner)

I was a, was a kamikaze pilot
They gave me a plane – I couldn’t fly it.
Taught how to take off, I don’t know how to land.
They say it doesn’t matter and I just cannot understand.

I was a kamikaze pilot.
They gave me a plane,
I couldn’t fly it home.
I couldn’t fly it home.

Left my happy homeland in a Zero,
I got engine trouble so I couldn’t be a hero
Do you think I care?
Now I’ll keep my two feet on the ground
‘Cause when you’re in the clouds
Everybody tries to shoot you down
I was a kamikaze pilot,
They gave me a plane – I couldn’t fly it home

On an island there ain’t too much to do
Look after number one because I think
I can see Lee Marvin chasin’ after you.
Shake me, wake me, tell me when it’s over.
I’ve been waiting 40 years and I can’t wait a minute longer.
No, not for you.

I was a kamikaze pilot.
They gave me a plane,
I couldn’t fly it home.
I couldn’t fly it home.
I couldn’t fly it home.

I was a kamikaze.
I was a, I was a, I was a kamikaze

Cherry blossoms falling down.
Cherry blossoms falling down.
Cherry blossoms falling down.

Leilani – Pt. II (My Love Is A Red, Red Rock)
(Dave Faulkner)

(i) Prologue

Many years have passed since Leilani died
But his broken heart cannot be denied.
He doesn’t think of other girls,
He just sits and mourns for her.
She was the only thing in the world he called his,
Now in the world she is.

(ii) My Love is A Red Rock

Swimming by himself
He found a pretty rock
Well, suddenly he felt
That stone begin to talk (‘Lani-lei-lani-lei-‘)
It was his long-lost love
That he held in his hand:
The pebble’s colour was identical to her tan.

Now she’s a rock
From a volcanic pool.
Before she was hot
But now she is cool.
Now she is here, now she is there,
Now she’s getting carried away.

My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red rock.

Down by the lagoon
You’ll see him with his stone.
They sit beneath the moon
And then he takes her home.
He kisses her goodnight
And puts her in a shoebox.
Well, that’s what life is like
When your marriage is on the rocks.

My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red, red rock
My love is a red rock.

Be My Guru
(Dave Faulkner/J.Baker)

I know what’s going down before it even happens.
I’m the smart boy in town, be it here or Manhattan.
I’m a guru, I’m a Hoodoo Guru.
I’m a guru, I’m a Hoodoo Guru.

I’m yours, will you be mine too?
Be my guru.

We make no bones at all, we’re making a din.
And, in no time at all, your hearts we will win.
It’s a gift we offer you, our music.
Be polite. Accept it, don’t refuse it.

I’m yours, will you be mine too?
Will you be mine too?
Will you be mine too?
Be my guru.

We will grow our hair, yeah, yeah, yeah!
We got nice clothes to wear, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Yeah!