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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]]''. 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 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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[[Category: | [[Category:AMC songs]] | ||