PROCOL HARUM - LIME STREET BLUES

LIME STREET BLUES

PROCOL HARUM

SONGWRITERS: GARY BROOKER & KEITH REID

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: PROCOL HARUM

LABEL: DERAM RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK PROGRESSIVE

YEAR: 1967

Procol Harum is the debut studio album by English rock band Procol Harum. It was released in September 1967 by record label Deram in the US, following their breakthrough and immensely popular single "A Whiter Shade of Pale". The track doesn't appear on the UK version of the album, but was included on the US issue. The UK version of the album was released in December 1967 by record label Regal Zonophone.

Procol Harum was released in September 1967 in the US, and three months later in the UK. Though the album was recorded on multitrack, it was issued as mono-only in the UK, and in mono and rechannelled stereo in the US. Despite extensive searching, the original multitrack tapes have not been located and thus a stereo mix of the original ten tracks may never be possible. Several alternate takes, however, have been mixed into stereo and are available on CD. As recently as 2004, the original single, mixed to stereo, has appeared on a "Dick Bartley Presents: Classic Oldies" compilation on Eric Records.

Lime Street in the afternoon

everybody crazy as a coon

I'm running round in my underpants

trying to find some kinda romance

Quarter past three [sic] on Lime Street

I got whipped right offa my feet

Didn't realize that I'd been caught

till I found myself in the County Court

'Mr Judge,' I said, 'Won't you please be kind

Have pity on me, a poor orphan child?'

Mr Judge he says with a long mean frown

'Orphan or not, you're going down!'

Well I screamed on my knees in the witness box,

'Lord have mercy on my golden locks.'

The judge I could see that he was snide

He says, 'The only kind of blonde you are's a peroxide!'

Oh Lime Street, Lime Street

Lime Street, that's where we meet.