DEATH VALLEY '69 7"

also appears on:

• Plow! compilation

Line-up:
Thurston - vocals/guitar
Kim - bass/vocals?
Lee - guitar/backing vocals
Bob Bert - drums
Lydia Lunch - vocals

Lyrics   status: confirmed

[Lydia's lines in brackets when they differ]

Coming down
Sadie I love it [Coming down]
Now now now
Death Valley '69

You're right
You're right
You're right
You're right [You were right]
I was on the wrong track
We're deep in the valley
How deep in the gulley
And now in the canyon
Way out in the yonder
She started to holler
She started to holler
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
But she started to holler
So I had to hit it
Hit it
Hit it
Hit it
Deep in the valley
In the trunk of an old car
In the back of a Chevy [I got sand in my mouth]
I got sand in my mouth
You got sun in yr eyes
Blind [Blinded]
And you wanted to get there
But I couldn't go faster
And it couldn't go faster
So I started to hit it
So I started to hit it
And I started to hit it
Hit it (x 7)

Coming down
Sadie I love it
Now now now
Death Valley '69
Death Valley '69
Death Valley '69
Death Valley '69

Kim: "Hi death, it's been a long time"

Thurston: "Nothing to lose"

Lee: "Don't die"

NOTES:

• Death Valley '69 was originally released on a 1984 7" backed with Brave Men Run. Both songs were demo versions recorded in July '84. Death Valley is slightly slower than the Bad Moon Rising version released later. There also isn't as much lyrical interplay between Lydia and Thurston. The 7" was reissued on Smells Like... Records years later.
• The Plow! version is actually an alternate mix with a different Lydia vocal.