Songwriter: Michael Stipe Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Peter Buck Bill Berry
Producer: R.E.M. Tony Gayton
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Girl and dog, he bore his cross
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
A long, low time ago
People talk to me
Johnny Reb, what's the price of fans
Forty apiece or three for one dollar?
Hey, Captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks
Night wings, or hair chains?
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times
I walked that path a hundred ninety
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot, cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Marching feet, Johnny Reb
What's the price of heroes?
Six of one, half dozen the other
Tell that to the captain's mother
Hey, captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
Night wings, or hair chains?
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We're all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
We are all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Girl and dog, he bore his cross
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
A long, low time ago
People talk to me
Johnny Reb, what's the price of fans
Forty apiece or three for one dollar?
Hey, Captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks
Night wings, or hair chains?
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times
I walked that path a hundred ninety
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot, cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Marching feet, Johnny Reb
What's the price of heroes?
Six of one, half dozen the other
Tell that to the captain's mother
Hey, captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
Night wings, or hair chains?
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We're all free now
What noisy cats are we?
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Complete Rarities: I.R.S. 1982–1987
- Pretty Persuasion
- Finest Worksong [Other Mix]
- Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)
- Bad Day (Outtake)
- Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix)
- White Tornado
- Maps & Legends [Live]
- Tired of Singing Trouble
- Gardening at night - different vocal mix
- All I Have to Do Is Dream [cover]
- Sitting Still (Original Hib-Tone single B-side)
- Gardening at Night (acoustic)
- Tighten Up
- The One I Love (Live)
- Swan Swan H (Acoustic)
- Last Date
- Romance
- Moon River
- Crazy
- There She Goes Again
- Burning Down
- Voice of Harold
- Burning Hell
- Toys In The Attic
- Ages of You
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Femme Fatale
- Walters Theme
- King of the Road
- Disturbance at the Heron House
- Just a Touch
- Time After Time Etc.
- Losing My Religion
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Man on the Moon
- Everybody Hurts
- Orange Crush
- The One I Love
- Nightswimming
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Shiny Happy People
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Drive
- Imitation of Life
- Stand
- Find the River
- Radio Free Europe
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- E-Bow the Letter
- Country Feedback
- The Great Beyond
- Let Me In
- Fall on Me
- Try Not to Breathe
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Ignoreland