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Pensacola Lyrics
Take me on a trip, man
I'll never get sick
Take wherever you go
and I won't complain along the way
Well I've been waiting so long
to say bye! bye! bye!
This town ain't give me nothing but
bald head and trouble
Well if it can't be better,
if it can't be tried
Doesn't matter much boy
and I will dry me eyes
I could be your boyfriend
or I could be your shame
'Till I see your eyes and
they're filled with pain
I came from the delta down to the bay
well I came from the delta right through plains
right through the plains
I came from the delta
down to the plains
when I got back home
there was nothing I'd arranged
the woman that I love had
took another man
well nothing ever ends up
quite like what you planned
Take me to the Central station
and I'll jump on board of that bus the long way
Time to take my trip
give me that ticket man
straight to Pensacola
Straight to Pensacola, straight to Pensacola straight to Pensacola...
I'll never get sick
Take wherever you go
and I won't complain along the way
Well I've been waiting so long
to say bye! bye! bye!
This town ain't give me nothing but
bald head and trouble
if it can't be tried
Doesn't matter much boy
and I will dry me eyes
I could be your boyfriend
or I could be your shame
'Till I see your eyes and
they're filled with pain
well I came from the delta right through plains
right through the plains
down to the plains
when I got back home
there was nothing I'd arranged
the woman that I love had
took another man
well nothing ever ends up
quite like what you planned
and I'll jump on board of that bus the long way
Time to take my trip
give me that ticket man
straight to Pensacola
Straight to Pensacola, straight to Pensacola straight to Pensacola...
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The surgeon W.C. Minor was diagnosed with monomania after being transferred from Governors Island, New York to Fort Barrancas, Florida, which guards Pensacola Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. He had recently broken up with his fiancee.
Minor later became a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, volunteering his services from the confines of a lunatic asylum in Berkshire, England. He spent thirty years in the asylum, convicted of murder and declared criminally insane. He was later diagnosed with dementia praecox and returned to the United States to live out the remaining eighteen years of his life.
The story of W.C. Minor is recounted in the Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester, which seems to have been quite an influence on this song and the album it comes from. Neon Junkyard and Blue Agent are particularly evocative of the shame, obsession and paranoia that haunted the surgeon throughout his life and became overwhelmingly apparent during his incarceration.