Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project : Transcripts
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.

Tape Number : Q 410

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Music of the Jonestown Express.

Tape starts with series of technical problems, recording at wrong speed.

The music begins with six instrumentals. The third selection has a false start, cuts off, and begins again.

Song 7 (Male singer)

Run to the sunset hand in hand

A lonely beach

The warmth of her laughter

This is the place and time you'd rather be

Not for now

Forever after

When you think of the beginning

When your love is true

The joy and the sorrow

Are feelings that are true

This day we'll be together

For as it goes

Love becomes impressions in the diary of your mind

Love becomes a precious gem so hard to find

When you think of filling all the spaces in your life

Lonely places in your life

You think of her

You think of her

(Musical interlude)

When you think of filling all the spaces in your life

And when you stand to the silent invitations of her eyes

You draw her near to make sweet love

Till the sound begins to rise

You know just how to touch each other

In your body, mind and soul.

There is no greater ecstasy

(Musical interlude)

Run to the sunset hand in hand

A lonely beach

The warmth of her laughter

This the place and time you'd rather be

Not just for now

But ever after

When you think of the beginning

When your love is true

The joy and the sorrow

Are feelings that's true

This day we'll be together

For as it goes

Love becomes impressions in the diary of your mind

Love becomes a precious gem so hard to find

When you think of filling all the spaces in your life

Lonely places in your life

You think of her

Oh yeah

(Musical interlude)

And when you stand to the silent invitations of her eyes

You draw her near to make sweet love

To the sound begins to rise

You know just how to touch each other

In your body, mind and soul.

There is no greater ecstasy

Than when love has taken hold

In these days

For as it goes

Love becomes impressions in the diary of your mind

Love becomes a precious gem so hard to find

When you think of filling all the spaces in your life

Lonely places in your life

Oh, you think of her

Well well well well

Keep on running

Through your mind

Keep on running

Through your mind

Think of her

Through your mind

(Tape edit)

(Song 8)

Summertime

And the livin' is easy,

Fish are jumpin'

And the cotton is high.

Your daddy's rich

An' yo' mama's good lookin'

So hush, little baby,

Don't you cry.

One of these mornin's,

I'm gonna rise, rise up singin'

Then I'll spread my wings

An' I'll take to the sky.

But until that mornin' comes,  mornin' comes, mornin' comes, mornin' comes,

There's ain't nothin' gonna harm me

With my Mama and Daddy

Standin' by.

(Song 9)

Guyana is so beautiful to me

Guyana is so beautiful, yes it is, to me

Yes, I see,

It's everything I'd ever hoped for

And it's everything to me

Guyana is so so beautiful to me

I wanna say it again

Guyana is so beautiful, when I look around,

When I look around, to me

Guyana is so beautiful, every day, mmmm, to me

Yes, I see,

It's everything I'd ever hoped for

And it's everything everything everything to me

Guyana is so beautiful

I wanna say it again

Guyana is so beautiful

If you know what I mean

Guyana is so beautiful

I wanna clap my hands

Guyana is so-

One more time, one more time, one more time

Guyana is so beautiful to me.

To me, yeah yeah.

(End of side 1)

(side 2)

(end of last song)

-yeah

(Song 10)

(false start, or double taped, song starts again)

I'll make the first step

And you will make the next

We'll join hands the farther we go

The hills may sometimes seem hard for you to climb

But I know we can make it if we try

We'll go on for years

(unintelligible line)

We'll live together in peace

I'll make the first step

And I know you, you will make the next

And we'll join hands the farther we go

The hills may sometimes seem hard for you, you to climb

But I know we're gonna make it by and by

Oh, (two unintelligible lines)

To live together in peace.

(Song 11)

Anybody here seen my friend Cuffy

Can you tell me where he's gone?

He freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I just looked around and he was gone.

Anybody here seen my friend Martin [Luther King]

Can you tell me where he's gone?

Oh, he freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I looked around and he was gone.

Anybody here seen my friend Medgar [Evers]

Can you tell me where he's gone?

He freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I looked around and he was gone.

(Musical interlude)

Anybody here seen Che Guevara

Can you tell me where the man is gone?

Well, he freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I looked around, the man was gone.

Anybody here seen Mahatma Gandhi

Can you tell me to where he's gone?

Yes, yes, he freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

Oh, I looked around, the man was gone.

Anybody here seen Che Guevara

Can you tell me where that man has gone?

Oh, he freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I looked around, and he was gone.

Anybody here seen my friend Cuffy

Can you tell me where that man has gone?

Oh, he freed a lot of people but the good, they die young

I looked around, and he was gone.

I just looked around, the man was gone.

I just looked around, and he was gone.

(Song 12)

(instrumental)

(end of tape)


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