mp3 From Sulfur To Sugar Cane 2007-09-30 Bridgeport -lyric

[johnfoyle]

From listserv-

Two more mp3s for your ipod:

From Bridgeport, Connecticut, September 30 -
http://www.mediafire.com/?8ivhmyanism - From Sulfur to Sugar Cane
http://www.mediafire.com/?4gsjmxlxmnn - Down Among the Wine and Spirits

[wardo68]

And again...thank you.

[charliestumpy]

.. Yes indeed - have been looking out for version of FSTSC since your entry

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... ght=sulfur

... lovely sound too for both songs - ta.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Thanks, good to hear these. Pretty trad.

[Miclewis]

Thanks so much.

I was at the Bridgeport concert, and it is great to hear these again.

[johnfoyle]

Sorry for your trouble Stuart.

The original poster of these links on listserv has commented on mediafire being a problematic service. I can only presume that you are encountering same. The same person has serviced these tracks to links on the Costello wiki site.

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... Bridgeport

Perhaps you can make contact via that and , hopefully, sort things out.

[EarlManchester]

...on following your link, it led inevitably to another (possibly the same?) MediaFire page, and therefore the same problem.

You're right -- Mediafire download pages can be confusing.

If you click on "EC - Down Among The Wine And Spirits (2007-09-30 Bridgeport).mp3" (as most people would), it just takes you back to the same page.

The actual download link is the phrase: Click here to start download..

[johnfoyle]

Having listened to the Bridgeport and Albany performances of this song , here is my guess at the lyric

It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane
Everywhere I travel pretty girls call my name
I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink
And I buy their hard headed husbands a long cool drink
You better come up smelling seet 'cos you're a long time stinking
Its a little too late to complain
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane

Now if you catch my eye and it seems to run down your leg
Its like striking a match pretty hard along a powder keg
You tell your farmers boys to the waters of the gulf
If you take all the sugar you'll end up in the sulfur
I'm pleased to meet ya
I wouldn't do you wrong
I would cheat ya, honey
When can I see you again?
Wrap you up in cellophane
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane

Then your eyes fill up with pride (brine?)
'Cos your drowning in wine
It's like the last days of Rome
Where the despots are divine
And there's no place like home for a little doll from China
Its a little too late to complain
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane

Oh, you can go west to Texas
Go east to Mississippi
You can run out of money
You can run out of pity
Throw open your purse until you're crying mercy
Go to Alabama
Escape Louisiana
Dig in like a miner in North and South Carolina
And then if you continue you'll end up in Virginia
Even though they tried to shoot us on the way from Massachusetts
The women in Poughkeepsie
Take of their clothes when they're tipsy
But now they need New York
They've got the filthy way of talking
'Til they get a load of Champagne
But they can get the grape and grain
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane
'Pour some sugar on me '
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane
It's not very far from sulfur to sugar cane

'Pour some sugar on me '

Def Leppard.........great!

[And No Coffee Table]

You tell your farmers boys to the waters of the gulf

I think it's "they tell you from the borders to the waters of the gulf."

But now they need New York

"But in Albany, New York." That's from the Albany performance, of course. Bridgeport has "the women will kill you for sport right here in Bridgeport."

[StrictTime]

Then your eyes fill up with pride (brine?)

I'm pretty sure that it's brine. Not certain, but I think so.