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Verbal Variants

and Keith Reid's responses

While Keith was checking and changing the song-words published at 'Beyond the Pale'
he made the following observations about various verbal variants ...

Salad Days (Are Here Again) (Brooker / Reid)

We asked Keith for the full version of the variant verse fans have heard in concert, which goes (in part)

... the birds fly in the sky
The weeping willow turns my head
and one bird passes by

Keith Reid's response:
'Never wrote it.'

Quite Rightly So (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)

We asked Keith to check these variant words which are heard on the German version of the Quite Rightly So single (Polydor 59175), the 1997 Westside rarities CD, Shine on Brightly ...plus!, the 2000 Metro compilation, and a BBC session broadcast in 1968:  

Original
And grief and laughter, strange but true 
Although they die, they seldom cry 

Variant
They're seldom meeting, I'm not competing 
It seems to me there's no retreat.

Keith's comment on the variant couplet:
'I don't know anything about these words and I never wrote them.'

Click here to view a scan of a 1968 autograph version of the words

Variant mix –
Rambling On

Into The Flood –
a rewritten song?

Early mix variant –
A Dream in Ev'ry Home

Non-variant words from Procol Harum albums

 

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