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White Lightning/The Dredger EP

Original UK release

First released 13 August 1990 on Cog Sinister via Fontana 7": SIN6; 12": SINX612; 12" Limited Edition: SIN612; and CD: SINCD6

01. White Lightning (Richardson) 2:15

In North Carolina way back in the hills
Lived my pappy and he had him a still
He brewed white lightning 'til the sun go down
Then he'd get out a jug and pass it around

Mighty mighty pleasin'
Poppa kept a-squeezin' and called it
White Lightning

G-men, T-men, Revenue too
Searching for the place where he made his brew
They were lookin' tryna book him
But my pappy kept a-cookin' it
White Lightning

I asked my pappy why he called the brew
White Lightning's full of morning dew
Took one sip then I knew
When my eyes bulged out and my face turned blue

A city slicker came and said "I'm mighty tough,
I wanna get a taste of the powerful stuff"
Took one slug and drank it right down
And I heard him moaning as he hit the ground

Shout!

02. Blood Outta Stone (Smith/Beddington) 3:35

Unfortunately I'm coming from a bad end
And I'm destined for a bad end

But hanging around with you is like blood outta stone
Getting stuff outta youse is like blood outta stone
Blood outta stone

You're history
You've quit existation
You're green grub

And if I had any guts
I'd turn those money tables up
You dis-corporate bore
You make me tired to the bone

Cos getting things outta you....

When all your friends have dissolved
And you're yakking on the phone
You're techno-grounded
You're blood outta stone
Might appear deranged
But you're blood outta stone
You're mutton dressed as lamb
Cos you're blood outta stone
At least I've got an aim, chick
Blood outta stone
But I'm working to an aim

03. Zagreb (Movement II) (Smith/Schofield)

Walking at night past the closed shop
Behind the counter
Crouched a blue figure
It sang this song
You get five minutes with me
Then I'm off around the world
You get five minutes Johnny with me
Then off around the world
Open-plan graves
Blown-over trees
Muted mystics impasse
Glittering beach
Johnny he replied back
With me you struck a pact
ZV day
Five minutes with you
Then you're off around the worlds
Zagreb day

My neophyte
My sweetheart
My liebshen
My librium
My lover
My friends
You get five minutes with me
Then I'm off round the worlds

04. The Funeral Mix (Smith/Black/More) 3:31

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05. Zagreb (Movements I+II+III) (Smith/Schofield) 5:56

06. Life Just Bounces (Smith/Scanlon) 4:14

(in parallel)
Dr Boring had a relationship with the drug company too
And I'm half-associated with the Softness Group PLC
On TV today somebody claimed their dog
Had been molested by a textile chemist

But life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
Sometimes life just bounces so don't you get worried at all

The prescription's filled but I'm surprised at their standards
I watch with a tight lip, retina amazed

But life just bounces....

Come a light-brown varnish morn
London is full of people leaving their homes
They got lack of length in their beds and in their rooms
And the cops say don't dare leave your home

I tell yer, Life just bounces....

Dr John sez you are very ill
And your top-knot is in the region of your soul
I was vortexed I was going for a fall

But all music bounces, so....
I tell yer music bounces, so...
I tell yer all life just bounces, so...
All life just bounces

(7" side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(12" side 1: tracks 1,3; side 2: tracks 2,4)
(12" Limited Edition side 1: tracks 1,2; side 2: tracks 5,6)
(CD: tracks 1,2,5,6)

Credits

Mark E Smith - vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Martin Bramah - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Marcia Schofield - keyboards
Simon Wolstencroft - drums

Produced by: Craig Leon and Mark E Smith (tracks 1-3 & 5-6); Coldcut (Matt Black and Jonathan More) (track 4)
Cover artwork: Pointblanc, London

Recording info & notes

Recorded mid 1990 (track 4 late 1989).

The 12" limited numbered edition and CD were entitled The Dredger EP and the 12" was limited to 5,000 copies. Some copies of The Dredger EP came with a free poster. M. Beddington was a pseudonym used by Martin Bramah for his co-composition credits (track 2). White Lightning is a Big Bopper cover. A promotional 7" was issued with tracks 1-2 and it came with a miniature bottle of White Lightning tequila.