Pok: Wear a Feather in Your Hat

Wear a Feather in Your Hat by Pok the Bard. Album: Anthology WEAR A FEATHER IN YOUR HAT Well we came across some Indians, they were sitting in our road And with careful words we offered peace and them our weapons showed They made it and said that they sought a man with such purple skin If we had him there on board they’d scalp and do us in “It’s a long time since I saw such a man,” I said and they replied “OK, go on, you tell the truth. I can see it in your eyes.” Later on our road there was a boulder in our path Meg the man said “What can we do? No way can we get past.” I steamed a bit and thought a bit and said “This man tells the truth.” So I gave up being leader and sat down to pick my tooth Meg took on the role and quickly had it sussed With forty pounds of dynamite the rock he did bust Soon the cook was heard to cry: “There is no more water left in here! – I am making a casserole and the pot is boiling dry.” So I threw a coin up into the air, said: “This one I’ll try.” A few words from the good old book and rain fell from the sky “What was the other choice you had?” they asked and I replied “I don’t want to answer that now. Now let me out, I want to pass.” Vainly nightfall does its bit and we rattle on in dark Toothy starts a-singing, he says it’s for a lark Unfortunate for him it wakes something to cause his demise A stowaway that was on board pokes his head outside Toothy gets a fright and falls down and dies What was more was still to come – at night, colour lies Of the four of us left on the bus – Mook, Meg, Mog and I Not one of us did realise until the sun did rise That the new man who’d spent the night explaining who he was and where he’d been Had a case of the most purple skin we’d ever seen We whistled nervously ’til mid-afternoon Then Meg saw a bunch of Redskins, I fell down in a swoon Round about that time an eagle flies on down Says we gotta wrap it up here before we reach the next town So he does a bit of act shifting, messes around with our scene The Indians become a film projection on a Hollywood film screen What a pity they had to go like that, we could have made some friends The purple man smiles, disappears, and leaves a feather where he’s been Get up, stand up, be yourself, wear a feather in your hat If you truly believe in yourself you will remember that When you see your light a-coming, and come to you it will Expose yourself to its full rays and just soak up your fill You can be so lonely or you can be amazed Take my advice my friend and wear a feather above your face Get up, stand up, be yourself, wear a feather in your hat If you truly believe in yourself you will remember that When you see your light a-coming, and come to you it will Expose yourself to its full rays and just soak up your fill You can be a man of wud or you can go insane Take our advice my friend and wear a feather above your brain Music and lyrics by Simon Miller. Copyright © 1985 Pok Songs / Explicit Music. This arrangement by Pok, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund. Performers: Pok the Bard – voices, lead and rhythm acoustic guitars Maxx Damage – bass Sven Stiglund – drums, percussion Pok’s guitars and voices recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2017. Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024. Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024. Originally released 4th March 2024. Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records. Fun Facts: See Explicit Music link below. See also: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/ https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/ https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/wear-a-feather-in-your-hat https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/wear-a-feather-in-your-hat https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/laughing-sun/indeed-1985/ https://www.youtube.com/@poktv6148/videos https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard http://pookofpok.blogspot.com/ https://linktr.ee/pokthebard