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Bougainvillea Waltz

from Playin' On My Team by Jay Spears

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A demented love song with plenty of streaming nectar, and accordion parts by Ron Romanovsky.
See the music video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcz3L94ak4&feature=channel&list=UL
and at www.jayspears.com

If Jay Spears were taken from us tomorrow, the Bougainvillea Waltz would be his monument. Over a simple busker's guitar-line, he goes off on an entirely silly rhapsody about, yes, bougainvilleas, the sort of thing no ambitious young X-factor contender would dream of risking. It's a moment of madness, pleasure and vulnerability, and only he could get away with it:
"The bougainvilleas are insane this year
Like you, so full so juicy
I wanna reach over there and take a huge bite out of you
And the nectar would run streaming down my chest…"

He has sensibly included the song on both his CDs, the only difference being that a breezy Parisian squeeze-box line has been added for the Playin' On My Team version. A man needs to get his monument right.
-- Robert Farrar, psychodrome.co.uk

lyrics

BOUGAINVILLEA WALTZ © 2002 Jay Spears Music ASCAP

The bougainvilleas are amazing this year
With the colors all so full, so ripe, so juicy
Like you could reach over and take a huge bite out of ‘em
And the nectar would run streaming down your chest.
Magenta, purple, even a yellow-orange
And my favorite, the deep deep deep red.

The bougainvilleas are going crazy this year
With the colors all so full, so ripe, so juicy
Like watermelon when we were kids.
Take it outside, take off your shirt, take a huge bite out of it
And the nectar would run streaming down your chest
Mmmm.

Even the oleanders are getting into the act,
But we all know oleanders are poisonous
With their creamy white, creamy pink, dark pink
And my favorite, the deep deep deep red.

The bougainvilleas are insane this year.
Like you; so ripe, so juicy.
I wanna reach over there and take a huge bite out of you
And the nectar would run streaming down my chest.
Magenta, purple, even a yellow-orange
And my favorite, the deep deep deep red.

Yes, my favorite is the deep deep deep red.

credits

from Playin' On My Team, released September 12, 2006
Accordions by Ron Romanovsky
Harmony by Mark Harelik, Mark Herrier, and Paul Hobbs
Words & music; guitar, bass, and vocal by Jay Spears

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Jay Spears Los Angeles, California

Native L.A. singer-songwriter Jay Spears' debut CD "BOY HOWDY" features humorous, boy-meets-boy pop tunes with titles like I LIKE MIKE and CRYIN' OVER BRIAN.
Jay's sophomore CD "PLAYIN ON MY TEAM" includes the full-choir gospel rocker, SMAK DEM CHRISTIANS DOWN, the video for which has over 80,000 views on youtube.
Now here comes his third CD: We Are All Born Lucky. ... more

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