Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)

Subject: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: PHJim
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 10:14 PM

I'd love to get a lyric sheet for Nancy White's song, "Stickers On Fruit".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 07:26 PM

Hi, Jim - do you have any part of it transcribed? Can you give us a link to a recording?
For some reason, Jennifer Cutting was talking about stickers on fruit yesterday, but not about the song.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: cnd
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 08:18 PM

I also had no success locating the title song. There once was a YouTube video on her account but it's since been deleted.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: PHJim
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 12:22 AM

It is on this site, but I can't get it to play.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iKYhlDpD105bV4x1AAKLE
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iKYhlDpD105bV4x1AAKLE

Subject: Track List- Albums by Nancy White
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 12:44 AM

Hmmm. Spotify has two albums listed for Nancy White, Gaelic Envy (1998) and Stickers on Fruit (2002).



I can't play Stickers on Fruit, but here is the track listing:

1. Jesus at Tim's
   
2. I Sweep the Sidewalk with the Hose
   
3. River Mend my Heart
   
4. And I Copied It
   
5. Stickers on Fruit
   
6. Les Belles belles Fesses
   
7. Freefloating Anxiety
   
8. Love in Wartime
   
9. My God
   
10. Like an Old John Deere
    
11. Mitterand's Last Meal
    
12. Nova Scotia Squirrel Stuffer
    
13. The Shabbas Goy C'est Moi
    
14. So Damn Taut
    
15. Ballad of the Wannabe
    
16. Procrastination Rag
    
17. Gone Like Brigadoon
    
18. Mary Jane's Got Your Number

And here is the track listing for Gaelic Envy, which is playable on Spotify and YouTube (and very enjoyable)

1. Gaelic Envy
2. Bet He Can Tango
3. Un Peu Cochon
4. Pierced Matron
5. Gracias a la Vida
6. Clapping Song for Grown-Ups
7. When You Fall in Love Like That
8. He Wrote Too Many Songs About His Girlfriend
9. Manly Band
10. Seamless Dance of the Old Folks
11. Moose on the Highway
12. A Dream I've Had of Late
13. My Life Is Picking Up
    

Subject: ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 04:41 AM

Just a couple of bits I couldn't decipher marked by asterisks:

STICKERS ON FRUIT
(Nancy White)

When I was a girl I was idealistic
Goin’ on the marches, carryin’ the sign
Social injustice made me go ballistic
I’d chant for the people on the picket line

Well the years went by and I got a little weary
All tied up in the needs of a child
Well I don’t read the papers and I have no theory
But there’s one thing that drives me wild

I’m talkin’ ‘bout

Stickers on fruit!
Stickers on fruit!
God, I hate those stickers on fruit!
My distress is so acute
When I deal with stickers on fruit

Sticker on a apple, sticker on a pear
Why do they put those stickers on there?
If you don’t get them off on the very first day
They take the skin away

I used to get annoyed at the government of Chile
I used to boycott Nestle (****onic?)
I shed a lot of tears when I watched Free Willy
And OJ’s trial just made me sick


I sent a lot of benefit to ******?
I got agitated by the Agitprop
Now I know it's hopeless to right those wrongs
But there's one thing we've got to stop

Are you with me?

Stickers on fruit
Stickers on fruit!
God, I hate those stickers on fruit!
My distress is so acute
When I deal with stickers on fruit

Stickers on the berries, the red and the blue
And of course they put stickers on the vegetables too
Well call me thick and call me lazy
But dealing with the stickers has made me crazy

Stickers on fruit
Stickers on fruit!
God, I hate those stickers on fruit!
Take me away to the institute
Where I won't have to deal with stickers on fruit!


LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: cnd
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 11:51 AM

Long Firm Freddy, PHJim, or others, if you have a way to record and send it to me (I can PM my email address) I'll be glad to help try and fill in the empty spots.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stickers On Fruit - Nancy White
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 04:07 PM

LFF, where'd you find the recording?

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 10:49 AM

In case it is useful to someone here
Stickers on Fruit from Nancy White Discography https://www.richardhess.com/nw/index.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 12:31 PM

Joe, cnd: Found it on Amazon music; should be available as an mp3 download from Amazon if you don't subscribe to Prime.

LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 02:29 PM

"I sent a lot of benefit to ******?"

Should be:

"Well...

I sent a lot of benefits, I wrote a lot of songs"

Still no idea about the onic word - it sounds exactly like that, rhyming with tonic.

LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 03:23 PM

I once bought some bananas in Bantry market & noticed they had a sticker saying 'Irish Organic Produce'

Someone pointed out they do grow bananas in ICELAND, but using heating from their natural hot springs- I don't think Ireland possesses such things?

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 09:29 PM

I think I did see a banana tree in the West of Ireland - but I was told it wasn't very good at bearing fruit.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: PHJim
Date: 25 Jun 23 - 01:24 PM

Many thanks to Long Firm Freddie.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 25 Jun 23 - 04:53 PM

You're welcome PHJim.

I must have listened to the "onic" bit 30 times or more but still can't make anything else out of it!

I hadn't heard of Nancy White before, but I'll certainly enjoy getting to know her back catalogue, so thanks, PHJim, for introducing me to her music!

LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Stickers On Fruit (Nancy White)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 28 Jun 23 - 04:34 PM

The Spotify help desk said
It looks like Nancy White's distributor has been taken down from the app.
then the connection broke.