Along with the literally hundreds of artistes I have never heard of, there are certainly some heavy hitters among those born in the month of September. There’s Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen and Bryan Ferry for starters, as well as two members of the Grateful Dead – one still with us (Micky Hart) and one long gone (the mighty Pigpen).
And there is also Marc Bolan. I like to believe that I was in pretty early with my appreciation there – certainly long before he glammed up and became T Rex.
Prior to that, as many will know, he was half of Tyrannosaurus Rex – a duo (with Steve Peregrine Took) that eluded most of the traditional genre descriptions: I reckon that ‘psychedelic folk’ would be about as close as you could pin them down.
I owned both of their first two albums, the snappily titled ‘My People were Fair And Has Sky In Their Hair… But Now They’re Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows’ and the marginally more approachable ‘Prophets, Seers And Sages:The Angels of The Ages’ (both 1968).
‘Deboraarobed’ is the opening track on the second of these. As simply ‘Debora’ it had been a minor UK hit around the time of the first album’s release. Observant readers may notice that it’s a palindrome, which is not unrelated to the fact that the second half of the track is basically the first half played backwards. Ah, those were the days.
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Oh Debora, always look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the Spanish Main
Oh Debora
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Da-da-da-da-da-Debora
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-naah
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Oh Debora, always dress like a conjuror
It’s fine to see your young face hiding
‘Neath the stallion that I’m riding, Debora
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Dug and redug and dug and redug, redug
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Written by Marc Bolan
the only deadhead in the hameau 
Great choice a favourite of mine – I have featured him previously- I haven’t heard this one in years- so thanks 🩷
Nice choice. I didn’t know this Marc Bolan song, but it was very nice.
Great choice, and it’s good that you went back to his roots. He died in September too – on my 24th birthday.
Most of the Tyrannosaurus Rex albums were weird and wonderful. I was glad when they shortened it to T. Rex though. They were Glamtastic then.
You had me at the mention of Marc Bolan. Unfortunately, the video wouldn’t open for me here in NY; I’ll check it out on YT.
This is so much my era … what a great song … and the lyrics… hardly flattering but I would of been happy with them but my name is not Deborah…
A great choice …he died a horrible death too soon 💜💜💜