1. Black Hair                     4:34
 2. Babe, I Got You Bad            3:50
 3. The Garden Duet                6:14
 4. Are You the One (...)?         4:24
 5. Farewell, Goodbye, So Long     3:25
 6. I Got Another Woman Now, Dear  9:06
 7. West Country Girl              3:09
 8. Opium Tea                      5:25
 9. I Do, Dear, I Do               7:01
10. Wake Up My Lover               5:10
11. Sheep May Safely Graze         4:40

More songs from the 1996 Boatman's Call sessions at Sarm West.
Warren is not there, and I don't hear a trace of Blixa.
Judging from the songs, these are all recorded some time
before final versions. Excellent sound quality.

Black Hair, West Country Girl and Are You The One are not as good
as the album versions. Babe, I Got You Bad is also less worked out,
more clearly revealing that the rhythm of that song is a slowed down
version of Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life". I never noticed that before.

THE GARDEN DUET is a real duet. Uptempo, about two lovers looking
forward to meet. Nick does both voices, which is a pity, it would
have been nicer to hear Kylie sing "I will open up my legs for him".
Somewhat annoying are the bombastic church bells that introduce
this song, which would need further working out.

FAREWELL, GOODBYE, SO LONG is a slow ballad, realizing the relationship
is over. Would have fitted perfectly on The Boatman's Call.

I GOT ANOTHER WOMAN NOW, DEAR is quite different from the sketches
of the song as played in Loladamusica on Dutch TV, late 1997.
This song has a strong bass line like O'Malley's Bar or Stagger Lee,
and the singing also sounds more like that era. The title says it
all: lyrically this is quite the opposite to "I Do, Dear, I Do".
He is telling his former love how happy he is with this new woman,
(blue eyes and straight blond hair) in a very bitter manner.
The last 5 minutes of the songs consist of an amateurish piano solo.

OPIUM TEA is in King Ink II, page 178.
A nice song, jazzy with an organ. The singing is more like
MB than TBC, but where would this one fit in? 
It would make a great b-side for sure.

I DO DEAR I DO, a slow ballad about wishing the very best
to a past lover. Another true gem for Boatman's Call fans.

WAKE UP MY LOVER is the weakest song of this collection.
The singing is sloppy and the song does not sound finished.
Some lyrics have later appeared in 'Come Into My Sleep'.

SHEEP MY SAFELY GRAZE, my favorite. It's a lullabye that
Nick sings for Luke. Very tender, very beautiful.
See King Ink II, page 176. 
One could imagine Nick doing an album of lullabies, doing 
songs like this one and All The Pretty Little Horses.
(Some may argue that TBC is already an album of 
lullabies, but ok. ;)
Apparently this song was rejected by The Bad Seeds (as Nick says
in the Cucamonga interview), but I hope they will reconsider
that. It didn't fit on TBC, but might be appropriate elsewhere.
Just imagine Luke falling asleep with all comforting words,
and then, finally asleep, his father ending with:
"The fox has its hole
 The bird has its nest
 But the son of man
 Has no place to lay his head and rest."