Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies

Subject: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: Beach
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 06:48 PM

Does anybody know the lyrics to this thing? I haven't sung it for over twenty years and I've got a gig coming up in November where I'm supposed to be singing it! All I can find in the memory banks are two of what I seem to recall as three verses.

Subject: Lyr Add: WAKE UP MY MIND (from the Uglies)
From: rich-joy
Date: 04 Sep 02 - 09:55 AM

WAKE UP MY MIND
Burnett, Holden, and Gibbons : recorded by The Uglies, c.1965

I am a man in the prime of my life
I've got a house and a car and a beautiful wife
There's no chip on my shoulder, I've no axe to grind
And no possible reason to Wake Up My Mind.

And the days break and the nights fall and drift into time …

Somewhere there's hunger, somewhere there's war
But I can do nothing so I'll just ignore
The cruelty around me, pretending I'm blind
In case I start thinking and Wake Up My Mind.

And the days break and the nights fall and drift into time …

I read in the papers, a policeman shot down
Two negro's in cold blood in some racial town
And I'm having a new car but I don't know what kind
But one of these days I will Wake Up My Mind.

And the days break and the nights fall and drift into time …

Yes it seems as though fortune has smiled upon me
But now it's too late I'm beginning to see
I've spent my life searching but no peace I find
And it's left me with no time to Wake Up My Mind.

And the days break and the nights fall and drift into time …

Still a good song! Does anyone know anything about these guys??

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: Stewie
Date: 04 Sep 02 - 07:54 PM

RJ, there is a bit of information on this page:

Click Here

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: rich-joy
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 03:52 AM

Thanks Stew ~ MOST illuminating!!

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: Beach
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 07:25 PM

Thank ya folks! I had forgotten all about that second verse. I used to do it in a Ska/Reggae band back in 1981 and we've got a re-union coming up in November (I think!) and it seems that I'm the only one who even remembered that we used to do the song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: rich-joy
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:44 PM

just had reason to look out this excellent song once again - the link Stewie provided no longer seems to work ... found some other stuff though :

http://www.brumbeat.net/uglys.htm
and
http://www.brumbeat.net/uglyscht.htm


It seems The Uglys were a Brummagen band and this thought-provoking little number was BIG, Down Under in Oz in 1965 (not so in England though)...
Dave Pegg was a former member of The Uglys too ...


Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 02:57 AM

I had entirely forgotten that song until I saw your thread! Another brilliant song of my youth in Oz

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WAKE UP MY MIND - the Uglies
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 01:36 AM

anyone interested in this then..

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THE UGLYS
THE QUIET EXPLOSION

Track Listing:

Wake Up My Mind
Ugly Blues
It's Alright
A Friend
A Good Idea
The Quiet Explosion
End Of The Season
Can't Recall Her Name
And The Squire Blew His Horn
Real Good Girl
I've Seen The Light
Mary Colinto


Previously Unissued Tracks:


This Is Your Mind Speaking
Love & Best Wishes (BBC Session)
Morning (BBC Session)
All That Glitters
Hey Grandma (BBC Session)
Speaking Weekly
Summertime Blues (BBC Sessions)
She Comes In Colours (BBC Session)
Mary Colinto (Alternate Version)
Ill Wind That Blows
Roses In The Rain


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