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Blackbird Medicine Recipe

from Wild & New by westwork

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I courted her
on the train to Beijing,
with long braids and red star of China.
On the banks Beihai
Under a red-painted sky
We laid down in the temple Dagoba.

Lieutenant Yin
Was the belle of Tianjin.
All the red army boys
Would shout and make noise.
When she would walk by
They'd raise their glass of Mou-tai
'There goes the sweetest, fair maiden of China.'

Blackbird Medicine Recipe will make her love me again.

The days and nights passed
I knew it would not last
For she loved the life of a soldier
On the night we came back
From the karaoke bar
I knew that it soon would be over.
Now I'm taken apart, and
Put back together
When I see all her charms
In another man's arms.
I know that it's hopeless
A dream of the lotus.
Still I pray that she'll love me
To the angels above me, oh

Blackbird Medicine Recipe will make her love me again.
Blackbird Medicine Recipe will make her love me again.

She is so far away from me, I can no longer pretend.

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from Wild & New, released October 13, 2022

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