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	'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. An early version of the song, performed in 1986, was entitled "Compassion", although it bore little resemblance to "Blue And Grey Shirt" musically or lyrically apart from a few lines. It also includes a few lines from the then unwritten "[[Nightwatchman]]".		'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. An early version of the song, performed in 1986, was entitled "Compassion", although it bore little resemblance to "Blue And Grey Shirt" musically or lyrically apart from a few lines. It also includes a few lines from the then unwritten "[[Nightwatchman]]".

	The song is about [[Mark Eitzel]]'s mother and her dying of cancer.		The song has been said to be about [[Mark Eitzel]]'s mother and her dying of cancer. Eitzel told ''Unhinged'' that it "was written about the colours of the dawn when I was sitting around waiting for Bill to show up, about the grass and the trees and no drugs, NO DRUGS - the ground was shaking and then when the sun was up..."<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://americanmusicclub.com/index.php?title=Articles:Unhinged_-_Winter_1989 \| work=Unhinged \| date=Winter 1989 \| author=Drew \| title=American Music Club \| accessdate=March 27, 2018}}</ref>


	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==

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	'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. An early version of the song, performed in 1986, was entitled "Compassion", although it bore little resemblance to "Blue And Grey Shirt" musically or lyrically apart from a few lines. It also includes a few lines from the then unwritten "[[~~Nighwatchman~~]]".		'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. An early version of the song, performed in 1986, was entitled "Compassion", although it bore little resemblance to "Blue And Grey Shirt" musically or lyrically apart from a few lines. It also includes a few lines from the then unwritten "[[Nightwatchman]]".

	The song is about [[Mark Eitzel]'s mother and her dying of cancer.		The song is about [[Mark Eitzel]]'s mother and her dying of cancer.

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==

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	'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. The song is about Eitzel's mother and her dying of cancer.		'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. An early version of the song, performed in 1986, was entitled "Compassion", although it bore little resemblance to "Blue And Grey Shirt" musically or lyrically apart from a few lines. It also includes a few lines from the then unwritten "[[Nighwatchman]]".

			The song is about [[Mark Eitzel]'s mother and her dying of cancer.

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	'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''.		'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start\|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. The song is about Eitzel's mother and her dying of cancer.

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==

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	# '''"Blue And Grey Shirt"'''		# '''"Blue And Grey Shirt"'''
	# "[[Bad Liquor]]"		# "[[Bad Liquor]]"
	# "[[Now ~~You’re~~ Defeated]]"		# "[[Now You're Defeated]]"
	# "[[Jenny]]"		# "[[Jenny]]"
	# "[[Western Sky]]"		# "[[Western Sky]]"

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Blue And Grey Shirt
| Cover = AMC-California.jpg
| Caption = California cover
| Artist = [[start|American Music Club]]
| Album = [[California]]
| Released = 1988
| Format = LP / CS / CD
| Length = 3:33
| Label = [[Grifter Records]]/[[Frontier Records]]/[[Demon Records]]
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Tom Mallon]]
| Tracks =
# "[[Firefly]]"
# "[[Somewhere]]"
# "[[Laughingstock]]"
# "[[Lonely]]"
# "[[Pale Skinny Girl]]"
# '''"Blue And Grey Shirt"'''
# "[[Bad Liquor]]"
# "[[Now You’re Defeated]]"
# "[[Jenny]]"
# "[[Western Sky]]"
# "[[Highway 5]]"
# "[[Last Harbor]]”
}}

'''"Blue And Grey Shirt"''' is the 6th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''.

==Lyrics==
I sat up all morning and I waited for you 
With my blue and grey shirt on 
Yeah I thought that's my lucky one

I'll sit and face the road now 
I don't have a heavy load now 
I got nothing to keep me hanging around here 
From now on

Where's the compassion 
To make your tired heart sing 
I'm tired of being a spokesman 
For every tired thing

There's nothing in the world outside 
Just some things that I see from the side 
I'm just a shy boy sitting in a house 
When everyone is gone from now on

I sat up all morning and I waited for you 
With my blue and grey shirt on 
Yeah that's my favorite one 
I sat up all morning so why did you call? 
'Cause now I just sing my songs 
For people that are gone from now on

==Video==
Mark Eitzel performing "Blue And Grey Shirt" in 2013 at Knust in Hamburg, Germany.
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwpprkSs1Z0</embedvideo>

== Personnel ==
===American Music Club===
* [[Mark Eitzel]] - vocals, guitars
* [[Danny Pearson]] - bass
* [[Vudi]] - guitar, accordion
* [[Tom Mallon]] - drums, producer, engineer

===Others===
* [[Bruce Kaphan]] - pedal steel

==Also appears on==
* ''[[United Kingdom|United Kingdom & California]]'' CD
* ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' Mark Eitzel - live version
* ''[[A Toast To You]]'' Live version
* ''[[Ten Years Of Tears]]'' Mark Eitzel - live version
* ''[[The Konk Sessions]]'' Mark Eitzel - alternate version

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Songs]]