[net.music] good lyrics

adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (11/02/84)

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For very good ( := meaningful ) lyrics, I would recomend almost anything by 
Gil Scott-Heron.  I especially recommend a song called "Tuskeegee #626", 
from his "Bridges" album.  It concerns syphillis experiments which were 
performed on Black men in Tuskeegee, Alabama.  The song is 33 seconds long.
If I ever remember to transcribe it, and if there's interest, I'll post it
here.

					-- Mark A.
					...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph

   "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way 
	and you have to do things their way or they blow you off."

	"Everything that was different was a different thing..."

dragon@lll-crg.ARPA (Monica Cellio) (11/04/84)

Some of the best songs I have heard have been written by Eric Bogle, an 
Australian folk singer (well, it's closer to folk than to anything else).
Songs include "A Reason for it All", "No Man's Land" (sometimes called 
"Green Fields of France" or "Willy McBride"), "And the Band Played Waltzing
Matilda", and on the lighter side, "Nobody's Moggy Now" (a song about a dead 
cat... a lament, actually) and "Bloody Rotten Audience".

Does anyone have a complete list of Bogle's albums (and know where thay can 
be gotten)?  Thanks.

UUCP: seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon
ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg

Sebastian Steinberg <ssteinbe@BBNCCW.ARPA> (11/08/84)

hey, hey, the clouds are whey, there's straw for the donkeys and the innocents
can all sleep safely, all sleep safely,
my, my, sun is pie, there's fodder for the cannons and the guilty ones can all
sleep safely, all sleep safely,
and all the world is football shaped, it's just for me to kick in space, 
and i can see hear smell touch taste, and i've got one two three four five
senses working overtime, trying to take this all in, i've got one two three
four five senses working overtime, trying to taste the difference 'tween lemon
and lime, pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.
hey, hey, night fights day, there's food for the thinkers and the innocents
can all live slowly, all live slowly,
my, my, the sky will cry jewels for the thirsty and the guilty ones can all
die slowly, all die slowly,
and all the world is biscuit shaped, it's just for me to feed my face,
and i can see hear smell touch taste, and i've got one two three four five
senses working overtime, trying to take this all in, i've got one two three
four five senses working overtime, trying to taste the difference 'tween lemon
and lime, pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.
and birds might fall from black skies,
and bullies might give you black eyes,
and buses might skid on black ice, but to me it's very very beautiful,
( england's glory!) beautiful, (a striking beauty!)
and all the world is football shaped, it's just for me to kick in space,
and i can see hear smell touch taste, and i've got one two three four five
senses working overtime, trying to take this all in, i've got one two three
four five senses working overtime, trying to tell the difference 'tween goods
and crime, dirt and treasure and there's one two three four five senses working
overtime, trying to take this all in, i've got one two three four five senses
working overtime, trying to taste the difference 'tween lemon and lime,
pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.
						      -andy partridge
							   XCT