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Thread #66758   Message #4177685
Posted By: GUEST,Doodles
26-Jul-23 - 09:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: songs by Elmer Beal, Jr (Bok recordings)
Subject: Lyr ADD: More Weather by Elmer Beal Jr.
Thirteen years since Kristin's message requesting the lyrics to More Weather, but I have the recording of that song from The February Tapes and I'll do my best to transcribe.

MORE WEATHER
(Elmer Beal Jr.)

Now some who sail say there's never any wind when you've got someplace to go
Or if you've planned a skiing trip there's never any snow
Some say if you want some rain, hang out your clothes to dry
But I say the weather doesn't have any will, and here is the reason why:

Well the sun shines down on the good and the bad and it melts the snow in spring
And it may flood and dump some mud even if you cry or sing
There's no reason or rhyme to the weather that lies in store
But that doesn't matter very much to me, just as long as we get some more

Now winters when the snow is late, we play in the sunny warm days
Still some can't enjoy them and think that fun is like a debt to pay
"Buy now, pay later," they mope and say, putting on their heavy coats
[But I got them on] when I sing my song, and this is how it goes:

Well the sun shines down on the good and the bad and it melts the snow in spring
And it may flood and dump some mud even if you cry or sing
There's no reason or rhyme to the weather that lies in store
But that doesn't matter very much to me, just as long as we get some more

Now you may think there's a message here that it doesn't matter what you do
Don't get me wrong - my belief is strong in the honest and the true
But if you think that clouds can tell when you deserve a [hand]
You better hope that somebody else will care - the weather doesn't give a damn

Well the sun shines down on the good and the bad and it melts the snow in spring
And it may flood and dump some mud even if you cry or sing
There's no reason or rhyme to the weather that lies in store
But that doesn't matter very much to me, just as long as we get some more


There are two spots where I'm not entirely confident in what I'm hearing, the sections I've put in [square brackets].

The liner notes to those tapes are long gone, so I'm assuming that Kristin is correct in naming Elmer Beal as the writer. I only have the internet as a resource here so I'm limited in what I can find. There is this PDF of a WERU program guide which lists More Weather by Elmer Beal and Different Shoes as one of the songs they were playing in their first year on air.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/weru/storage/25th-anniversary/Salt%20Air/2013/Salt%20Air%20Summer%202013.pdf

If anyone has any clarity on what those iffy lyrics are, it would be much appreciated!

D.L.