Dewayne Basnett <Basnett@his-phoenix-multics.arpa> (11/01/84)
For some really great lyrics try John Prines albums and in particular his first album entitled John Prine. It has notes on the cover by Kris Kristoffeson(sp). For example ...A bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down, and won or ...Theres a hole in Daddys arm where all the money goes. Dewayne
techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew) (11/05/84)
> > For some really great lyrics try John Prines albums and in particular > his first album entitled John Prine. It has notes on the cover by Kris > Kristoffeson(sp). For example ...A bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me > down, and won or ...Theres a hole in Daddys arm where all the money > goes. > Dewayne I've always liked JP. Another good album is "Pink Cadillac" ...Got a sideways hickey from a slant-eyed chickee, Down in Chinatown... Another I really like from the John Prine album (sung with lots of twang) And daddy won't ya take me back to Muhlenberg county down by the green river where paradise waits, He said, "I'm sorry my son, but your too late is askin, Mr. Peabody's coaltrain has hauled it away." Melanie ...Same as it ever was... mhuxt!techpub
bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly) (11/08/84)
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I like these lyrics from the new XTC album, The Big Express. Looks like
Andy Partridge expected this outcome in the U.S. Presidential election.
The song itself is appropriately subdued.
*This World Over*
Ah well, that's this world over.
Ah well, new one begun.
Will you smile like any mother
As you bathe the brand new twins?
Will you sing about the missiles
As you dry odd-numbered limbs?
Ah well, that's this world over.
Ah well, next one begins.
Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land?
About the leader with the famous face?
Will you them that the reason nothing grows in the Garden anymore
Is because he wanted to win the craziest race?
Will you smile like any father
With your children on a Sunday hike?
When you get to a sea of rubble
And they ask what was London like?
Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land?
And how a child through the Virgin came?
Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered everything on the
surface of the world
Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in His name?
That's this world over...over and out.
--
Bill Kelly "Working for paper and for iron."
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