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Wishbone Ash - Stand And Deliver

Wishbone Ash - Stand And Deliver Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Smoke Without Fire
Released: 1978

Stand And Deliver Lyrics

Stand And Deliver

This song has been criticized for glorifying rape, but it is not a song about forced sex; it was inspired by the Alfred Noyes poem The Highwayman.

Wishbone Ash - You See Red

Wishbone Ash - You See Red Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Smoke Without Fire
Released: 1978

You See Red Lyrics

You See Red

This song was inspired by a personal relationship. After the band moved to the States, guitarist Laurie Wisefield became engaged to an American girl, but when they returned to England their relationship ran into difficulties.

Wishbone Ash - Lady Jay

Wishbone Ash - Lady Jay Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: There's the Rub
Released: 1974

Lady Jay Lyrics

Hear me when I cry,
Listen to my song
The jay, my lovely lady,
To the earth she did belong.

I can't trace her,
Lost her from my life,
But the manor lady's bright young son
Can take her for his wife.

Under the forest branches
She came to me,
Until the day she cried aloud
A father I should be.

That was the last time that we met,
I never saw her again,
For she took her life on princeton wharf
To save my worthy name.

She found death's open arms
And lay in them in grace
I watched as icy fingers
Clawed her lovely face.

Now I stumble through the mist
To where they laid her in the grave,
And maybe I'll remember
The flowers for my days.

Far beyond the sand
I will take your hand,
The spirit of our love will live forever.
Far beyond the clouds
We will laugh aloud,
The spirit of our love will live again.
Writer/s: ANDY POWELL, LAURIE WISEFIELD, MARTIN TURNER, STEVEN UPTON
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
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Lady Jay

This was inspired by a grave on Dartmoor; there is a photograph of it in Blowin' Free , the official biography of the band. Check out the grave in Song Images.

Bass player Martin Turner explained that in days of yore there was a young peasant girl who got pregnant by the son of the Lord of the Manor. When they couldn't marry she committed suicide. At that time, suicide was regarded as a sin, and suicides couldn't be buried in consecrated ground. After that, her lover used to travel there every day and place fresh flowers on her grave. Legend has it that when he died, fresh flowers continued to appear there every day and still do today.

Turner visited the grave with some friends on a windy winter's night and found it "A very weird, spooky experience".

Most versions of the story are far less sympathetic to the girl's lover than the one apparently heard by Martin Turner. Kitty Jay is said to have been seduced or even to have beep raped by a farmer's son who then abandoned her, and the flowers which are left on her grave are said to be placed there by "piskies" - Cornish fairies.

Wishbone Ash - Doctor

Wishbone Ash - Doctor Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wishbone 4
Released: 1973

Doctor Lyrics

Doctor can you help me please
I'm laying on the floor
I need a glass of something
Like you gave me once before
I'll send my little messenger
He'll bring the money to you
He'll slowly make his way back home
There'll be no horror show today my friends
And me well be up and get away
CHORUS:
If I fill your every need
You won't feel so empty
In my web I'll bet your life
You're dead before you're thirty
Doctor can you help me please
I trust you like my mum
I know that you won't stop me turning
All the whole world on
You know that I'll always come to you
When everything goes wrong
You pick me up, don't let me go down
To the horror show today my friend
And me well be up and get away
Writer/s: SAMANTHA JANE POWELL, GINO BARLETTA, GUY BARUCH, SEAN DANIEL VAN DER WILT, JAIME PATRICIO VELEZ JR.
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Doctor

This song was inspired by someone Martin Turner and his brother Glen knew from Torquay, where they grew up. According to bass player and vocalist Martin Turner in the band's official biography: "The first time I saw her she really looked like a witch". She was a heroin addict and "used to send someone round to the doctor to plead for an extra prescription because she was lying on the floor with withdrawal symptoms" - which wasn't true. When she got the drug she used to share it with her junkie friends.

In October 2008, he expanded on this in his on-line question and answer forum:
"Doctor", he said, "was from an idea I had back in the 60s before WA. Musically a bit Who-ish again. The lyric was about my brothers girlfriend circa 67/68 whom I have to confess to having spent a crazy night or two with. She was a state registered heroin addict being treated with Methedrine or Methadone as it its called now. Beautiful girl, a successful model at only 16, but boy was she heavy duty. Had a bunch of young lads staying in her flat all of whom had run away from home, Mark Emery (Hobbit) would remember her. She blazed a trail and made it to her 30s but has been gone a long time now. Thanks for the song babe."

Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free

Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wishbone Four
Released: 1973

Blowin' Free Lyrics

I thought I had a girl
And all because I seen her.
I thought I had a girl
And all because I seen her.
Her hair was golden brown (yes it was)
Blowin' Free like a cornfield.

She was far away
I found it hard to reach her.
She told me you can try
But it's impossible to find her.

In my dreams everything was all right
In your schemes you can only try.

Writer/s: ANDREW POWELL, DAVID TURNER, MARTIN TURNER, STEVE UPTON
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Blowin' Free

This song is about Annalena Nordstrom, the Swedish girlfriend of bass player Martin Turner from his days with Empty Vessels, an Ash precursor. They were playing at Torquay when there were about 200 Swedish girls on holiday. When he met her again in London a few years later, "She hadn't changed a bit."

In an in-depth interview with Lawrence Pugliese at the Moonshine Theatre, Scranton, during the 2005 Ashfest, Andy Powell was asked about "Blowin' Free." He said it was one of the very first songs they ever wrote, about 1971. Although he didn't comment on its inspiration, he remembered where it was written, at the Whisky A Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard.

By "they" he meant himself and Wishbone Ash as it was then, because by the time of this interview, he was the only remaining original member, having clocked up over 35 years with the band, (although the original bass player and vocalist Martin Turner was still performing as Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash).

In our 2013 interview with Andy Powell , he talked about coming up with the guitar riff on this song: "We were on tour with the Who, and I liked some of the chord progressions that Pete Townsend was doing, so all I did was take some of those ideas that he was coming up with and sped them up."