From the recording (Happy New Year) MEXICO (jf with andy fitzgerald)
recorded and produced by Paul DiBenedetto at Legend Studios LI NY 1994
Jim - vocal, acoustic guitar
Andy - harmony vocal
Recorded live in 1 take at 4 a.m. after "the single" sessions for Innocence, Ignorance b/w In Between or Beyond +/b/w Lullaby. Harmonized as only Andy can do. This is one of my favorite recordings and it was captured only thanks to the great Paul DiBenedetto, our engineer and producer for the project.
©(fitzgerald)
written 1/3pm-4am/94 Brooklyn NY - upon news of the revolution. i had been in the highlands just prior. there's more to it but that's it for now.
Lyrics
(Happy New Year) Mexico
Pool rooms and hotels
Are all I can smell tonight
I feel dirty in my culture
Withdrawn and there’s no denial
Expansion from their mansions
Trickles down like acid rain
“Progress”...oh, yes, they say
Happy new year, Mexico
I knew you once and I’m afraid to know
What they’ll do to you
Like they’ve done before
They’ll make you like us
Till you are no more
Bloody red... vino
Is as close as I’ll get to your suffering
Born guilty or am I guilty
For drowning myself in your sorrows
These cowards will never learn how to negotiate
Why should they when it’s so easy to annihilate
Happy new year, Mexico
I knew you once and I’m afraid to know
What they’ll do to you
Like they’ve done before
They’ll make you like us
Till you are no more
Bloody red, bloody red...
Bloody red, bloody red...