captain beefheart - don van vliet fine arts - 'brown star' (drawing and poem 1972)

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don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts

BROWN STAR

poem & untitled drawing
from usa promotional booklet BROWN STAR mid 1972
reproduced usa magazine (WARNER / REPRISE) CIRCULAR vol.4 #? ??0572
poem reprinted germany magazine SOUNDS germany 010672
drawing reproducedliner notes THE SPOTLIGHT KID / CLEAR SPOT two-on-one ceedee 1990
reproduced liner notes THE DUST BLOWS FORWARD album 1999

notes:
lyrics to the title track of an intended album which shrank to the elpee 'clear spot'
originally - and quite original - printed on brown paper
the meant brown star is the earth

announcement:
'brown star' is the title of captain beefheart's next album, succeeding 'the spotlight kid', 'lick my decals off, baby', 'trout mask replica' and the rest, which is history

captain beefheart / don van vliet - drawing - 'brown star' - warner bros / reprise promotional booklet 05.72

i know of a brown star

that only very certain people have found

for years and years they been looking around

a lot of people looking up

but very few of them looking down

well they searched high and low for that little glow

that'll make them happy

some searched fast and they went on past

some went slow but couldn't let it go

i know of a brown star

that only very certain people have found

you can ask a dog why he's so happy

just wagging his tail around

or a frog what makes him jump around

follow a sailing cloud until it dumps

the rain right down

but ask a man and a woman if they've seen

a brown star around

some will say yes and some will say no

some will just laugh and some will just glow

some will say why do you ask

some will say well don't you know

then there'll be the one that says

it's already been found

but you ask a child and they'll just jump up and down

saying we found a brown star

right on the ground

don van vliet 1972

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