Noche del Guajolote

Noche del Guajolote
Album	I Like Walt
Released	1994
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:03
Previous Track	"The Irony Engine" (Franklin Bruno)
Next Track	"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" (Guiding Genius)

Noche del Guajolote is the second song on the compilation I Like Walt. It was re-released on the compilation Bitter Melon Farm.

Lyrics

The glowing world, the bench backed up against the house
The chicken coops, the darkness surrounding everything
It was late and the night was moving slowly
We laid down on the ground because the world was lonely

If you keep quiet it will stay like this forever
If you'll just keep quiet it will stay like this forever
I feel certain of it now
And all the birds were sleeping in their perches
A little wind, swaying birches
And the North American wild turkey that your father brought home
Woke up and came towards us

And the moonlight and the turkey waking up
And the night air and the moonlight on your skin
And the moonlight and the turkey waking up
And the quiet yard and the turkey and the moon
Unimaginable, unimaginable, unimaginable
Unimaginable

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "I can't play that one without the girls, I'm sorry. Yeah, I've, I've never - I played that one, that was on a radio show and it was written that morning and it wasn't even in its full form until we got to the station and sort of said, 'well, let's see if that doesn't work.' And that, was, like, the first and last time it was ever done... It wouldn't be at all the same without the choir here." -- 2001-05-04 - Brave New Waves - CBC Radio Session - Montreal, Quebec
  • The radio show John refers to may have been 1992-12-13 - KSPC Radio Session - Pomona, CA (although the liner notes for Bitter Melon Farm say Noche del Guajolote was "recorded live at KSPC Claremont one early summer afternoon when the world was simple and people slept with their eyes open.")

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2015-04-13 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA