Robyn Hitchcock Song Catalogue

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Title Author Note Lyrics Tabbed Count
(A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs       Yes     5 
1974       Yes   Yes   8 
4th Time Around   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
The Abandoned Brain       Yes     4 
Absolutely Sweet Marie   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Acid Bird       Yes     22 
Adoration of the City       Yes     1 
Adventure Rocket Ship       Yes     4 
Aether       Yes     2 
Agony of Pleasure       Yes   Yes   10 
Airscape       Yes     16 
Alien       Yes     2 
All I Have To Do Is Dream   Everly Brothers     Yes     2 
All I Wanna Do is Fall in Love       Yes     7 
Alright, Yeah     German, Swedish   Yes   Yes   16 
America       Yes     24 
Amputated       Yes     2 
Another Bubble       Yes     8 
Antwoman       Yes     7 
Aquarium       Yes     8 
Arms of Love       Yes     9 
As Lemons Chop       Yes     2 
The Asking Tree       Yes     5 
August Hair       Yes     2 
The Authority Box       Yes     4 
Autumn is Your Last Chance       Yes     7 
Autumn Sea       Yes     4 
Ballad of a Thin Man   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
The Ballad of Hollis Brown   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Balloon Man       Yes     24 
Banana Boat Song   Belafonte/Burgess/Attaway     Yes     1 
Bass       Yes     10 
Beautiful Girl       Yes     11 
Beautiful Queen       Yes     12 
Bells of Rhymney   Pete Seeger/Idris Davies     Yes     8 
Belltown Ramble       Yes     4 
Billy 1   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Birds in Perspex       Yes     9 
Birdshead       Yes     6 
The Black Crow Knows       Yes     4 
Black Snake Diamond Rock       Yes     5 
Bloat       Yes     2 
Blowin' in the Wind   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Blues in A       Yes     6 
Blues in the Dark       Yes     4 
The Bones in the Ground       Yes     7 
Born in Time   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Brenda's Iron Sledge       Yes     23 
Bright Fresh Flower       Yes     3 
The Can Opener       Yes     3 
Captain Dry       Yes     2 
The Cars She Used to Drive       Yes     25 
Cathedral       Yes     8 
'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)   Robyn Hitchcock/Andy Partridge     Yes     4 
Certainly Clickot       Yes     8 
The Cheese Alarm       Yes     5 
Cherries       Yes     2 
Child of the Universe       Yes     4 
Chimes of Freedom   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Chinese Bones       Yes     6 
Chinese Water Python       Yes     8 
City of Shame       Yes     14 
City of Women       Yes     2 
Clean Steve       Yes     10 
Clothesline Saga   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Cold Turkey   John Lennon     Yes     6 
College of Ice       Yes     4 
Comin' Through       Yes     1 
Cool Bug Rumble       Yes     1 
The Crawling       Yes     6 
Cynthia Mask       Yes     11 
Daisy Bomb       Yes     1 
Dancing on God's Thumb       Yes     5 
Dark Green Energy       Yes     7 
Dark Princess       Yes     3 
De Chirico Street       Yes     6 
Desolation Row   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
The Devil's Coachman       Yes     5 
The Devil's Radio       Yes     9 
Dignity   Bob Dylan     Yes     3 
Disconnection Of The Ruling Class       Yes     1 
Do Policemen Sing?       Yes     8 
Do the Chisel       Yes     6 
Don't You       Yes     2 
Dr. Sticky       Yes     4 
Dreams       Yes     4 
Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)       Yes     13 
The Duke of Squeeze       Yes     2 
The Dust       Yes     2 
Dwarfbeat       Yes     4 
Each of Her Silver Wands       Yes     2 
Earthly Paradise       Yes     4 
Eaten By Her Own Dinner       Yes     7 
Eerie Green Storm Lantern       Yes     2 
Egyptian Cream     Demo version included on some versions of FegMania   Yes     24 
Eight Miles High   Byrds     Yes     4 
Elizabeth Jade       Yes     5 
Embryo Twirl       Yes     2 
Empty Girl       Yes     3 
Evil Guy       Yes     1 
Executioner       Yes     8 
The Face of Death       Yes     17 
Falling Leaves       Yes     5 
Fatman's Son       Yes     6 
Fiend Before the Shrine       Yes     2 
Fifty Two Stations       Yes     16 
Filthy Bird       Yes     6 
Flavour of Night       Yes     5 
Flesh Cartoons       Yes     8 
Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)       Yes     10 
The Fly       Yes     15 
Freeze     Shatter Mix   Yes   Yes   12 
Furry Green Atom Bowl       Yes     5 
Gene Hackman       Yes     5 
The Ghost Ship     Ghost Ship   Yes     6 
Give it to the Soft Boys       Yes     16 
Give Me a Spanner, Ralph       Yes     8 
Glass       Yes     7 
Glass Hotel       Yes     16 
A Globe of Frogs     Electric   Yes     19 
Goodbye Maurice or Steve       Yes     3 
Goodnight I Say       Yes     9 
The Green Boy       Yes     1 
Grooving on a Inner Plane     Grooving on AN Inner Plane   Yes     13 
Happy the Golden Prince       Yes     5 
Have a Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof)     Have a Heart, Dennis (orig title)   Yes     14 
Hear My Brane       Yes     12 
Heart Full of Leaves       Yes     7 
Heaven       Yes     34 
Heliotrope       Yes     6 
He's a Reptile       Yes     8 
How Do You Work This Thing?       Yes     10 
Human Music       Yes     9 
I Am Not Me       Yes     5 
I Don't Believe You   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
I Feel Beautiful       Yes     5 
I Got a Message For You       Yes     7 
I Got the Hots       Yes     10 
I Love Lucy       Yes     4 
I Often Dream of Trains       Yes     13 
I Pity the Poor Immigrant   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
I Saw Nick Drake       Yes     7 
I Something You       Yes   Yes   7 
I Used to Love You       Yes     1 
I Used to Say I Love You       Yes     5 
I Wanna Destroy You       Yes     17 
I Wanna, Er. . .       Yes     2 
I Want to Be An Anglepoise Lamp       Yes     10 
I Watch the Cars       Yes     10 
I Wish I Liked You       Yes     1 
The Idea Of You       Yes     1 
Idonia       Yes     1 
If I Could Look       Yes     2 
If You Go Away       Yes     5 
If You Know Time       Yes     7 
If You Were a Priest       Yes     17 
I'll Keep it With Mine   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
I'm Only You       Yes     15 
Innocent Boy   Hitchcock/Mayer     Yes     3 
Insanely Jealous       Yes     16 
Insect Mother       Yes     9 
Into It       Yes     2 
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry   Bob Dylan     Yes     1 
It Was the Night       Yes     12 
It's a Mystic Trip       Yes     5 
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   Bob Dylan     Yes     5 
It's Not Just the Size of a Walnut       Yes     1 
Japanese Captain       Yes     3 
Jewels for Sophia       Yes     5 
Judas Sings (Jesus & Me)       Yes     2 
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
Keeping Still       Yes     2 
Kingdom of Love     "Disco" version   Yes     31 
Knife       Yes     4 
La Cherité       Yes     3 
Lady Waters and the Hooded One       Yes     8 
Leave Me Alone   Lou Reed     Yes     2 
Legalised Murder       Yes     4 
The Leopard       Yes     6 
Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
Leppo and the Jooves       Yes     20 
Let Me Put It Next to You       Yes     3 
Let There Be More Darkness       Yes     7 
Let's Go Thundering       Yes   Yes   5 
Like a Rolling Stone   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
Linctus House       Yes     9 
Lions and Tigers       Yes     3 
Listening to the Higsons       Yes     21 
The Live-in Years       Yes     2 
The Lizard       Yes     9 
Look into Your Mirror       Yes     4 
Love       Yes     8 
Love Minus Zero/No Limit   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Love Poisoning       Yes     7 
Luminous Rose       Yes   Yes   5 
Luxor       Yes     1 
Lysander       Yes     4 
Madonna of the Wasps       Yes     26 
The Man Who Invented Himself       Yes     10 
Man With a Woman's Shadow       Yes     8 
The Man With the Lightbulb Head       Yes     17 
Maria Lyn       Yes     1 
Matty Groves   Traditional, arr. Fairport Convention     Yes     n/a
Meat       Yes     8 
Mellow Together       Yes     6 
Messages of Dark       Yes     6 
Mexican God       Yes     3 
Midnight Fish       Yes     13 
The Moon Inside       Yes     4 
More Than This   Roxy Music     Yes     5 
Mr. Deadly       Yes     4 
Mr. Kennedy       Yes     5 
Mr. Rock 'N' Roll       Yes     2 
Mr. Tambourine Man   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Mr. Tongs       Yes     2 
Museum of Sex       Yes     4 
My Evaline   Traditional, arr. Hall     Yes     2 
My Favourite Buildings       Yes     9 
My Mind Is Connected. . .       Yes     3 
My Wife and My Dead Wife       Yes     26 
N.Y. Doll       Yes     4 
Narcissus       Yes     1 
NASA Clapping       Yes     3 
Never Stop Bleeding       Yes     6 
Nietzche's Way       Yes     1 
Nightride to Trinidad     "Disco" Version   Yes     16 
No Way Out of Time       Yes     2 
No, I Don't Remember Guildford       Yes     9 
Nocturne (Demise)       Yes   Yes   7 
Nocturne (Prelude)       Yes     5 
Nothing       Yes     2 
Oceanside       Yes     16 
Odds and Ends   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Old Pervert     I'm an Old Pervert (Disco version)   Yes     19 
Ole! Tarantula       Yes     5 
Om       Yes     1 
One L       Yes     1 
One Long Pair of Eyes       Yes     15 
One Too Many Mornings   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
Only the Stones Remain       Yes     21 
Open the Door, Homer   Bob Dylan     Yes     1 
Out of the Picture       Yes     9 
Outlaw Blues   Bob Dylan     Yes     2 
Over You   Roxy Music     Yes     2 
Penelope's Angles       Yes     1 
The Philosophers Stone       Yes     2 
The Pigworker       Yes     9 
The Pit Of Souls     Country Version, Parts I-IV   Yes     9 
Pledging My Time   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Point it at Gran       Yes     6 
Polly on the Shore   Fairport Convention     Yes     4 
Positive Vibrations       Yes     11 
The President       Yes     9 
Pulse Of My Heart       Yes     1 
Pulse of My Heart       Yes     n/a
Pulse Of My Heart       Yes     2 
Queen Elvis       Yes     14 
Queen Elvis II       Yes     6 
Queen Jane Approximately   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Queen of Eyes       Yes     17 
Railway Shoes       Yes     7 
Rain   The Beatles     Yes     1 
Rain, The       Yes     13 
Raining Twilight Coast       Yes     10 
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
The Rat's Prayer       Yes     7 
Raymond Chandler Evening       Yes     11 
Red Locust Frenzy       Yes     4 
The Return of the Sacred Crab       Yes     7 
Ride       Yes     7 
Rock 'n' Roll Toilet       Yes     10 
Round Song       Yes     1 
The Ruling Class       Yes     5 
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands   Bob Dylan     Yes     1 
Salamander       Yes     2 
Sally Was a Legend       Yes     4 
San Francisco (Flowers in Your Hair)   John Phillips     Yes     n/a
Sandra's Having Her Brain Out       Yes     12 
Satellite       Yes     12 
Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)   Bob Dylan     Yes     1 
September Cones       Yes     2 
Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom       Yes     4 
The Shapes Between Us Turn into Animals       Yes     5 
She Belongs to Me   Bob Dylan     Yes     1 
She Doesn't Exist       Yes     7 
She Reached For a Light       Yes     3 
She Wears My Hair       Yes     2 
Shelter from the Storm   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Shuffling Over the Flagstones       Yes     1 
Silent Night   Traditional     Yes     n/a
Sinister But She Was Happy       Yes     8 
Skool Dinner Blues       Yes     7 
A Skull, a Suitcase, and a Long Red Bottle of Wine       Yes     6 
Sleeping with Your Devil Mask       Yes     8 
(Like a Real) Smoothie       Yes     4 
So You Think You're in Love       Yes     29 
Solpadeine       Yes     1 
Some Body       Yes     4 
Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl       Yes     16 
Somewhere Apart       Yes     8 
Song No. 4       Yes     7 
The Sound Of Sound       Yes     1 
Sounds Great When You're Dead       Yes     9 
The Speed of Things       Yes     4 
St. Petersburg       Yes     10 
Star of Hairs       Yes     6 
Statue with a Walkman       Yes     3 
Stranded in the Future       Yes     2 
Strange       Yes     6 
Strawberry Mind       Yes     8 
Strings       Yes     3 
Stuck in the Middle With You   Stealer's Wheel     Yes     n/a
Sudden Town       Yes     3 
Superman       Yes     5 
Surgery       Yes     8 
Sweet Ghost of Light       Yes     4 
Swirling       Yes     4 
Take Your Knife Out of My Back       Yes     2 
Ted, Woody, and Junior       Yes   Yes   7 
Tell Me About Your Drugs       Yes     6 
Tell Me Mama   Bob Dylan     Yes     4 
That's When Your Heartaches Begin   Fisher, Hill, Raskin     Yes     3 
Then You're Dust       Yes     3 
There's Nobody Like You     aka "I Don't Mind Dressing in Black"   Yes     6 
This Could Be the Day       Yes     6 
This is How it Feels       Yes     3 
Tiny Montgomery   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
To Be Alone with You   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Tombstone Blues   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Tonight       Yes     9 
Too Much of Nothing   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Trams of Old London       Yes     7 
Transparent Lover       Yes     4 
Trash       Yes     6 
Trilobite       Yes     1 
Tropical Flesh Mandala       Yes     7 
Ugly Nora       Yes     5 
Ultra Unbelievable Love       Yes     8 
Uncorrected Personality Traits       Yes     15 
Underground Sun       Yes     5 
The Underneath       Yes     1 
Underwater Moonlight       Yes     16 
Unidentified Song       Yes     n/a
Unprotected Love       Yes     3 
Unsettled       Yes     5 
Vegetable Friend       Yes     6 
Vegetable Man   Syd Barrett     Yes     8 
Vegetation and Dimes       Yes     4 
The Veins of the Queen     Royal Mix   Yes     7 
Vibrating       Yes     7 
Victorian Squid       Yes     2 
Visions of Johanna   Bob Dylan     Yes     5 
Viva! Sea-Tac       Yes     5 
Vyrna Knowl is a Headbanger       Yes     5 
Wading Through a Ventilator       Yes     15 
Wafflehead       Yes     4 
Wang Dang Pig       Yes     2 
Watch Your Intelligence       Yes     7 
Wax Doll       Yes     8 
Went to See the Gypsy   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole       Yes     8 
When I Was a Kid       Yes     19 
When I Was Dead       Yes     7 
Where are the Prawns?       Yes     9 
Where Do You Go When You Die?       Yes     4 
Which of Us is Me       Yes     1 
Wide Open Star       Yes     1 
Wild Mountain Thyme   Byrds     Yes     6 
Winchester       Yes     6 
Winter Love       Yes     4 
The Wolf House       Yes     1 
The Wreck of the Arthur Lee       Yes     3 
Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus       Yes     7 
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread   Bob Dylan     Yes     n/a
The Yip Song       Yes     15 
The Yodelling Hoover       Yes     7 
You Ain't Going Nowhere   Bob Dylan     Yes     2 
You and Me       Yes     2 
You and Oblivion       Yes     6 
You Remind Me Of You       Yes     1 
You'll Have to Go Sideways       Yes     10 
Young People Scream       Yes     13 
You've Got       Yes     2 
You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You Baby       Yes     2 
Zip Zip   James A. Smith     Yes     3 
Zipper in My Spine       Yes     3 

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