Well I Don't Know - Trev and the Collective Unconscious

WELL I DON'T KNOW 
The original lyrics 1970 by Trev Teasdel. Music by Johnny Adams (1973) for original version, Trev Teasdel, Steve Gillgallon, Steve Ingledew (1986) for the version below which has no vocal track!


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Well I Don't Know - Song Story

The days of OMD, Kraftwerk, Human League, the 80's. 1986, Palm Street, Middlesbrough, armed with keyboards, synths and an X15 portastudio, we spent our weekends creating music. This track featured, Steve Gillgallon bass / keys. Steve Ingledew keys, drum-machine programming. Trev Teasdel - guitar (hidden in the mix as a guide) & keys, began as a lyric in Cov 1970 after reading the 'Story of the Blues' and walking home from the GEC observing kids out of school throwing stones and kicking balls around! "Well I don't know, I got no stone throw, Well I don't know, I got no ball to catch. My friend the sun, fled to Australia, Oh please come back and dawn on me!". In 1973 Johnny Adams - who later was in the punk band Squad after Terry Hall left to join the Specials, put music to it on guitar, in a Ralph McTell picking style. It became folk not blues. In 1986, Middlesbrough, I played the song to my Middlesbrough musician friends. We began to redevelop it as a keyboard track, adding a new bridge and changing the melodic structure. After multi-tracking, there wasn't room for the vocals (bad planning) but i found it difficult to sing over as the melodies were too strong so I left it as an instrumental. I think it works. It appeared in 2007 on my Gnome album Songs from the Coventry Underground.

WELL I DON'T KNOW

by Trev Teasdel.

I don't know

I got no stone to throw

Well I don't know

I Got no ball to catch.

My friend the sun

Fled to Australia

Oh please come back

And dawn on me.

I don't know

Perhaps I'll leave here

Perhaps I'll go

Far far away ..ay.

I don't know

My soul's a star

Trapped in a jar

It all seems so far ..

(Bridge)

The road is calling but I

Can't go on

This restless feeling calls

Me on and on

The lake she sings to me

Says I have no fish to give.

The tree he watches me

With no place to live.

I don't know

I got no place to be

Oh I don't know

Oh I don't know

It doesn't worry me.

I don't know

I'm so alone now

Along ways from home.

I don't know

perhaps I'll lose my way

Well I don't know

why should I stay

but then again

I got no way to lose

All I possess

Is the blues.

(Bridge)

The road is calling but I

Can't go on

This restless feeling is calling

Me on and on

The lake she sings to me

Says I have no fish to give.

The tree he watches me

With no place to live.

I don't know

Guess I'll write a song

Oh I don't know

It all seems so wrong.

Lyrics by Trev Teasdel 1970

Trev Teasdel - guitar, lyric and music.

Johnny Adams - music

Steve Gillgallon - Bass guitar, keyboards, arrangement.

Steve Ingledew - keyboards, drum machine.

This audio/vid is a draft version we in rearranging an acoustic song for keyboards.