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Swan Swan H (Acoustic)

R.E.M.
Track 40 on And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 

Producers

R.E.M. & Tony Gayton
Feb. 19871 viewer

Swan Swan H (Acoustic) Lyrics

Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Girl and dog, he bore his cross
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
A long, low time ago
People talk to me

Johnny Reb, what's the price of fans
Forty apiece or three for one dollar?
Hey, Captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks
Night wings, or hair chains?
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times

I walked that path a hundred ninety
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot, cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Marching feet, Johnny Reb
What's the price of heroes?

Six of one, half dozen the other
Tell that to the captain's mother
Hey, captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
Night wings, or hair chains?
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We're all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine

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And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 (2006)
R.E.M.
  1. 1.
    Begin the Begin
  2. 2.
    Radio Free Europe
  3. 3.
    Pretty Persuasion
  4. 4.
    Talk About the Passion
  5. 5.
    (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  6. 6.
    Sitting Still
  7. 7.
    Gardening at Night
  8. 8.
    7 Chinese Bros.
  9. 9.
    So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
  10. 10.
    Driver 8
  11. 11.
    Can’t Get There from Here
  12. 12.
    Finest Worksong
  13. 13.
    Feeling Gravitys Pull
  14. 14.
    I Believe
  15. 15.
    Life and How to Live It
  16. 16.
    Cuyahoga
  17. 17.
    The One I Love
  18. 18.
    Welcome to the Occupation
  19. 19.
    Fall on Me
  20. 20.
    Perfect Circle
  21. 21.
    It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  22. 22.
    Pilgrimage
  23. 23.
    These Days
  24. 24.
    Gardening At Night (Demo) (Missing Lyrics)
  25. 25.
    Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)
  26. 26.
    Sitting Still (Original Hib-Tone single B-side)
  27. 27.
    Life And How To Live It (Live at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, 1987) (Missing Lyrics)
  28. 28.
    Ages Of You (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  29. 29.
    We Walk (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  30. 30.
    1,000,000 (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  31. 31.
    Finest Worksong [Other Mix]
  32. 32.
    Hyena (Athens Demo)
  33. 33.
    Theme from Two Steps Onward
  34. 34.
    Superman
  35. 35.
    All The Right Friends (Studio Outtake)
  36. 36.
    Mystery to Me
  37. 37.
    Just A Touch (Live in the Studio) (Missing Lyrics)
  38. 38.
    Bad Day (Outtake)
  39. 39.
    King of Birds
  40. 40.
    Swan Swan H (Acoustic)
  41. 41.
    Disturbance at the Heron House
  42. 42.
    Time After Time (Annelise)
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Recorded At
Seney-Stovall Chapel, Athens, Georgia
Release Date
February 1987
Swan Swan H (Acoustic) Is A Live Version Of
Tags
RockIn EnglishUSACollege RockAlternative RockAcoustic
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