Hye Kye

Hye Kye is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats, "probably pre-Sweden" according to John Darnielle. It was posted on themountaingoats.net on by Darnielle on December 21, 2008 along with "Extreme South #1" and "Brandy Let's Go" as a reward for those who had donated to help his friend Mike pay for surgery (on the download page, John suggests those who downloaded after the fact consider donating to Ice Hockey in Harlem or Farm Sanctuary).

Lyrics

In December in California, the air was hot
And I carried the Christmas tree down Indian Hill
To the Gemco parking lot
What did I see, what spectacle confronted me
Ten thousand Christmas trees 

And the people standing around, and the smiles on their faces
And the boards in the shapes of Xs
Hammered into the Christmas trees bases
I took in the smell, I looked around
And among ten thousand Christmas trees
I lay down

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

Internet releases by John Darnielle

Exclusive: "Acceptable Damages Sutra" • "All Devils Here Now" • "Ballad of the Errant Scallop" • "The Big Unit" • "Brandy Let's Go" • "Bride" • "Counting Song for Bitter Children" • "Cut Off Their Thumbs #1" • "Deserters" • "Down Here Where the Bullet Bills Are" • "Extreme South #1" • "Flower Song" • "For the Krishnacore Bands" • "From TG&Y" • "Going Back to California" • "Going Invisible" • "Hye Kye" • "New Mountain Goats Tape Song" • "New World Emerging Blues" • "Pure Crystal" • "Short Song for Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi" • "Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love" • "Sign of the Crow 2" • "Song for Sasha Banks" • "There Is Power in a Union" • "Thucydides II-58" • "Tyler Lambert's Grave"• "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" • "You and Me and a High Balcony" Released elsewhere: "Alibi • "Daniel 12:8 (first)" • "Exegetic Chains" • "For the Snakes" • "If You See Light" • "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "Michael Myers Resplendent" • "No Children" • "Ox Baker Triumphant" • "Surrounded" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "Wait for You"