Margaret-Tiger Rug
By: Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Original Performance: Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Written by: Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Version Of: Margaret-Tiger Rug

This Version:
  • Margaret-Tiger Rug (2:31)
    Available on Oar.
    Credits
    Recorded at: Sunset Sound Studios
    John Stirratt: Bass
    James Gadson: Drums
    Beck Hansen: Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
    Jeff Tweedy: Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
    Brian Lebarton: Keyboard / Synthesizer
    Mikael Jorgensen: Keyboard / Synthesizer
    Pat Sansone: Keyboard / Synthesizer
    Glenn Kotche: Percussion
    Jamie Lidell: Percussion, Vocals (Background)
 
Lyrics:
It's Margaret, the daring songwriter
She's got muscles in her eyes
She's got everything going for her there
So take a ride on her pen, step inside

There goes Margaret, the daring ice skater
She skates the truth on the ice
If she wasn't so daring and dashing
Her lips would be chapped at half price

It appears I sent you off to treatment
With the tiger by the tail
And if he could be free
He wouldn't have stripes on him like jail

Jailer comes in twice a day
And feeds him a hunk of meat
That is just the same
As you get out upon the street

Jungle's home
Why isn't he free?
Just because his head is doesn't mean his limbs are
That can mean the same as a monkey on a tree

It's Margaret, the daring songwriter
She's got muscles in her eyes
She's got everything going for her there
So take a ride on her pen, step inside

There goes Margaret, the daring ice skater
She skates the truth on the ice
If she wasn't so daring and dashing
Her lips would be chapped at half price

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