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Som nevnt skrev Asbjørn Krogtoft "Graveyard Paradise" allerede som 18 åring i 1966. Han hadde vært på kino og sett en Dracula-film med Christopher Lee, og på vei hjem fikk han idéen til denne låten Opprinnelig hadde melodien 4 vers, men da den ble spilt inn på plate sensommeren 1967 ble det 4 verset kuttet ut (egentlig var det tredje vers på låten). Bakgrunnslåten på denne sida (som du formodentlig hører) er "det ukjente verset" som ble utelatt, og stammer fra et radioopptak fra 1966. Asbjørn Krogtoft had been to the movies and watched a Dracula-film with Christopher Lee. On his way back home he got the idea to "Graveyard Paradise". The first version had four verses, but the final version only have three verses. You are now (probably) listening to "The unknown fourth verse" (actually the third verse) from a radiorecording from 1966.


 Graveyard Paradise

 Asbjørn Krogtoft - 1966
 The pale white-collared gentlemen, they're coming side by side
The holy court of justice, to a meeting in the night
They do not talk they do not smile they think and that's enough
They will not make their judgement till the moon rises off above
And of a thousand soldier boys
At last they've made their choice
Another victim soon arrives at Graveyard Paradise

And there's a smiling little girl, whose dinner was a snail
It's hard for her to walk, she's got her brother in a pail
Her father's lying in the mud, her mother's been murdered too
Her bloody eyes can't even see, and she don't know what to do
But the pale white-collared guys
Those desperate vampires
They're watching her with bloodshot eyes from Graveyard Paradise

Yes, everything is black and cold in Graveyard Paradise
And when somebody is talking there is it just to tell you lies
Those pale white-collared gentlemen, yes I saw them as they stood
Outside the Graveyard gates, they would be laughing if they could
And when somebody dies
When the moon rise in the skies
They're watching you with bloodshot eyes from Graveyard Paradise

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