Going to Bangor

Going to Bangor
Album	You and What Army?
Released	1994
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	1:36
Previous Track	"Poke" (Past Punchy)
Next Track	"Horizontal Drift" (John Kuhlman)

Going to Bangor is the nineteenth song on the compilation You and What Army?. It was re-released on the compilation Bitter Melon Farm.

Lyrics

The ocean wind cold on our lips
The wild fern growing, sinking ships
All the signs are easy to read

In the morning you come my way
Your skin is pink, the sky is gray
There's fresh cranberries in your mouth
With thick red water dripping out
You expect me to believe everything you say
Well okay

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "We played this song in Utrecht, Holland, and in my secret heart I'd been hoping that the two-piece version of it was going to whip the audience into paroxysms of emotion. I had envisioned romantic young Dutch men and women taking to the streets, pulling the old men away from their chess games and forming them into minor league baseball clubs with names like the Dordrecht Wild Ferns or the Ooij Interminable Dysfunctional Relationships. Instead the sound man cursed at us because he'd thought that we were making fun of the music he'd been playing over the P.A. as we took the stage. The music was Guv'ner, and I was not making fun of them. I was dancing." -- Bitter Melon Farm liner notes