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"Calling Alameda"

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"Calling Alameda" is the follow-up to "Tumble", the first all-new original WORDS collaboration since 1998. The band's 2nd new single of 2012 incorporates trademark WORDS elements of melody, lush harmonies, and an infectious, sunshiny bounce.

Note: The original inspiration behind "Calling Alameda" was Davy Jones' contribution to The Monkees' "Zilch" (1967). "Alameda" was written and partially recorded just days before Davy's untimely passing this past February.

WORDS would like to dedicate this single to the memory of David T. Jones, a man whose music has influenced our own since day one.

lyrics

LYRICS:
V1
Whoever thought, whoever dreamed
We'd ever see a boat with wings?
November 1935
Alameda.

V2
China Clipper first of three
Martin M-140
Bringing airmail to the islands
From Alameda...oh Alameda.

chorus:
Calling Alameda
Land of Poplar trees
Calling Alameda
Hope & prosperity
Calling Alameda
Thirty feet above the sea.

V3
China Clippers two and three
Tragically both lost at sea
Number one last to survive
'Till '45.

repeat chorus

bridge:
China Clipper number one
Crashed in 1945
The first was the last to survive
1945.

© & ℗ 2012 C-Shell Tunes

credits

released 17 April 2012
Music & Lyrics by Jeff Anderson
All sounds performed by WORDS.
© & ℗ 2012 C-Shell Records

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Jeff Anderson
Bobby Lawson
Kim Ralston
Matt Van Slooten

Words are ... more friends from Northeast Minneapolis who grew up digging the same vinyl records by The Beatles, The Monkees, The Beach Boys. Over the years Words have self-released four full-length cassettes, a 7" vinyl single, and a CD. Watch for new stuff here in 2012! less