King Crimson - The Great Deceiver

Full Album Playlist: THE GREAT DECEIVER (Wetton, Palmer-James, Fripp) Health-food faggot with a bartered bride Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride Once had a friend with a cloven foot Once he called the tune in a chequered suit Great Deceiver In the door on the floor in a paper bag There’s a shoe-shine boy with a gin-shop slag She raised him up and she called him son And she canonised the ground that he walked upon Great Deceiver Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary Cigarettes, ice cream, cadillacs blue jeans In the night he’s a star in the Milky Way He’s a man of the world by the light of day A golden smile and a proposition And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition Great Deceiver Sing hymns make love get high fall dead He’ll bring his perfume to your bed He’ll charm your life ’til the cold winds blow Then he’ll sell your dreams to a picture show Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary Cadillacs, blue jeans, dixieland playing on the ferry Cadillacs, blues jeans, drop a glass full of antique sherry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David Cross: Violin, Viola, Keyboards Robert Fripp: Guitar, Mellotron, Devices John Wetton: Bass and Voice William Bruford: Percussives Produced by King Crimson at AIR Studios, London. January 1974. Acoustic Co-ordinator: George Chkiantz Assistant Engineer: Peter Henderson Cover Design by Tom Phillips #KingCrimson #RobertFripp