The tune is performed on lap slide guitar tuned to Open G or 'Spanish' tuni… Read Full Bio ↴The tune is performed on lap slide guitar tuned to Open G or 'Spanish' tuning (DGDGBD) .
IFC staff member Paul Bryant writes: This is the first thing by Fahey I ever heard, on John Peel’s “Top Gear” show on BBC Radio One, way way back in 1969. It was pretty much the strangest thing I’d ever heard. It had the effect of slowing you right down to a dead stop. You had to hear it again.
JF in 1969 [on the Guitar Guitar TV show, released on video]: “I used to live in Mount Diablo and I’d ride into school every morning, and there was a lady who raised peacocks, and she had one peacock left.
JF in 1994 expanded a little: “A lady named Mrs DeJesus raised peacocks there, and they kept getting hit until there was only one left.”) Then it got run over one morning, and it laid in the street for two or three days, then somebody cut its tail off. I was very upset.” Interviewer: “And so you wrote a song about it.” JF: “Well, no, but it made a good title.”
IFC staff member Paul Bryant writes: This is the first thing by Fahey I ever heard, on John Peel’s “Top Gear” show on BBC Radio One, way way back in 1969. It was pretty much the strangest thing I’d ever heard. It had the effect of slowing you right down to a dead stop. You had to hear it again.
JF in 1969 [on the Guitar Guitar TV show, released on video]: “I used to live in Mount Diablo and I’d ride into school every morning, and there was a lady who raised peacocks, and she had one peacock left.
JF in 1994 expanded a little: “A lady named Mrs DeJesus raised peacocks there, and they kept getting hit until there was only one left.”) Then it got run over one morning, and it laid in the street for two or three days, then somebody cut its tail off. I was very upset.” Interviewer: “And so you wrote a song about it.” JF: “Well, no, but it made a good title.”
The Death Of The Clayton Peacock
John Fahey Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by John Fahey:
Blueberry Hill I found my thrill On Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill Whe…
Boddle Am Shake Boodle am, boodle am, boodle am, boodle am, boo Toodle am,…
I I wish I knew how It would feel to be free I…
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old Fr…
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning Fred: Well, keep a-your lamp Annie Mae: (Trimmed an burni…
Layla What'll you do when you get lonely And nobody's waiting by…
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Song Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at you…
St Louis Blues I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
The Little Drummer Boy Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King…
Tulip I met you in a garden in an old Kentucky…
Will The Circle be Unbroken I was standing by my window On one cold and cloudy…
You On and on she'll walk this earth Her face like a…
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