Lyrics: I DO THE ROCK, Tim Curry
KCMOEditor
Here's the lyrics to Tim Curry's "I Do The Rock" (including adlibs).
I DO THE ROCK
(as recorded by Tim Curry)
Edith Sitwell giving readings 14 Moscow Road
Osbert's giving champagne parties, Sachie's got a cold
Gertude's hanging pictures, Alice making tea
Me, I do the only thing that still makes sense to me
I do the rock, I do the rock rock
John and Yoko farming beef, raising protein quota
Sometimes they make love and art inside the Dakota
Rodney's feeling sexy, Mick is really frightfully bold
Me, I do the only thing that stops me growing old
I do the rock, I do the rock rock, I do the rock rock rock
Well, It's stimulating
Solzhenitzen feels exposed, built a barbed-wire prison
Nietzsche's six feet under but his babies' still got rhythm
Einstein's celebrating ten decades but I'm afraid philosophy is just
Too much responsibility for me
I do the rock, I do the rock
Baby Ruth and Dizzy Dean, Best and Colin Cowdrey
Little Mo. Virginia Wade, Pistol Pete and O.J.
I've always liked Di Maggio and Rockne's pretty Knute you know
I could never whack a ball with such velocity
I do the rock, I do the rock, I do the rock
And I can hit it, and it's stimulating, I'm a keen student
Liz and Dick and Britt and Liza, Jaclyn, Kate and Farrah
Meg and Roddy, John Travolta, Governor Brown and Linda
Interview and People Magazine, Miss Rona and the Queen
It must be really frightful to attract publicity
I do the rock myself, I do the rock
Carter, Begin and Sadat, Brezhnev, Teng and Castro
Everyday negotiate us closer to disastro
Idi Amin and the Shah and Al Fatah is quite Bizarre
I could never get the hang of ideology
I do the rock, I do the rock, I do the rock
I do the rock, I do the rock, I do the rock
Do the rock, do the rock, I do, I do, I do, I do, do the rock
Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine
Well you can't get your own poison
Sunshine, sunshine
Oh we got the trombone
If you don't have a trombone, ooh the trombone:
How can you get a sunny day?
Come to the rock, you rock until your ears are:
Stimulating, stimulating
Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine
Well, we really are with you man
You deserve it, you know
Everybody does it, everybody, everybody
Sunshine, sunshine.
Art Laurie
On 14 Apr 1997 00:34:14 GMT, kcmoe...@aol.com (KCMOEditor) wrote:
I may be old, but something doesn't sound right here....
>I do the rock, I do the rock, I do the rock
>I do the rock, I do the rock, I do the rock
>Do the rock, do the rock, I do, I do, I do, I do, do the rock
>Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine
>Well you can't get your own poison
.."Well you can't get enough of it man"
>Sunshine, sunshine
>Oh we got the trombone
>If you don't have a trombone, ooh the trombone:
>How can you get a sunny day?
.."Oh, we got the top down now
if you don't have the top down, pull the top down
How often do you get a sunny day"
>Come to the rock, you rock until your ears are:
>Stimulating, stimulating
It has been a while, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
remember him singing anything about a trombone.
Art Laurie
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An annotation or three to the lyrics of "I Do The Rock":
"And I can hit it"
When I can get it.
"Meg and Roddy"
Mick and Rodney (Still not sure if "Rodney" is just Rod Stewart, or a
nickname for Bianca or Jerry. Any ideas?)
"Oh we got the trombone
If you don't have a trombone, ooh the trombone:
How can you get a sunny day?
Come to the rock, you rock until your ears are:"
Oh, we've got the top down.
If you don't have the top down, put the top down.
Got to get the sun in there.
Come do the rock, the rock will cure your ills, man.
yours,
the long-haired linecraefter of 12th street,
-j
Ruth J Fink-Winter
It's definitely "Meg and Roddy." Linda Fletcher, Tim fan
extraordinaire, copied the lyrics from the sleeve of her album, and
that's what it says.
The lyrics to "I Do the Rock" are available with notes on Linda's site,
The Complete Tim Curry. Very handy for those who are wondering who
"Edith Sitwell" is or who miss the Gertrude Stein reference.
http://www.iastate.edu/~lfletch
Ruth Fink-Winter
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In <<19970414003...@ladder01.news.aol.com>>,
>Here's the lyrics to Tim Curry's "I Do The Rock" (including adlibs).
>I DO THE ROCK
>(as recorded by Tim Curry)
Thanks....
"The Annotated 'I DO The Rock'" will be available shortly....
Truth,
James
KCMOEditor
The lyrics printed are from the Tim Curry's album (lyrics on sleeve) for
the main verses. (Thanks Wfink for the clarification that it was indeed
"Roddy" and not "Rodney"). The remaining lyrics (adlibs) were transcibed
from ear. I did my best. Thanks for all the suggestions as to what they
really are saying. :)
Ruth J Fink-Winter
Here is the Annotated "I Do the Rock" from Linda Fletcher's "The
Complete Tim Curry" page. She is at http://www.iastate.edu/~lfletch
It is included in her FAQ, and includes the updated verse from the
Tracey Ullman Show. James, I'm afraid you've been scooped. One final
note: Linda has the words from the inner sleeve of Tim's album, so these
are the correct lyrics, not her guessing what Tim sings.
Tim fans should also check out her pictorial salute to Tim for his
birthday; click on "Tim" in the "Happy Birthday, Tim" section at the top
of the page and you will be rewarded with a collage of 21 gorgeous
pictures of Tim which span his work from "Hair," "Napoleon in Love," and
"William Shakespeare" to "Three Musketeers," "Home Alone II," and
"Muppet Treasure Island" (with oh so much in between!). Truly
beautiful, and I'm not even that big a Tim groupie.
Without further ado:
The Annotated 'I Do the Rock'
The Literature Verse
Edith Sitwell giving readings
14 Moscow road
Osbert giving champagne parties
Sachi's got a cold
Gertrude's hanging pictures
Alice is making tea
Me I do the only thing that still makes sense to me
I do the Rock
I do the Rock Rock
--The Sitwell family: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell.
--Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a writer, editor, and poet.
--Her two brothers were poets.
--Description from list of British authors:
--"..a truly remarkable woman, who, with her brothers,
--Osbert and Sacheverell, formed a celebrated and
--redoubtable literary triumvirate."
--Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts--Picasso & the Surrealists
--her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas, of marijuana cookie fame
--guess the tea was to wash 'em down.
The Rock-Idols Verse
John and Yoko, farming beef
Raising protein quota
Sometimes they make love and art
Inside their Dakota
Rodney's feeling sexy
Mick is really frightfully bold
Me I do the only thing that stops me growing old
I do the Rock
I do the Rock Rock
Well it's stimulating
--John Lennon and wife Yoko, who lived in the
--famous Dakota apartment building in NYC
--Rod Stewart 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?'
--Mick Jagger.
--(He left out this verse after John's death)
The Thinkers Verse
Solzhenitzin, feels exposed
Built a barbed wire prison
Nietzsche's six feet under
But his baby's still got rhythm
Einstein's celebrating ten decades
But I'm afraid philosophy is too much
Responsibility for me
I do the Rock
I do the Rock Rock
--Solzhenitsyn (1918-) wrote The Gulag Archipelago
--about the concentration camps in Siberia, Russia.
--Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 wrote
--stuff like "Twilight of the idols, or, How to
--philosophize with a hammer" and "Also sprach Zarathustra".
--His 'baby' is his philosophy which still has a huge
--influence on postmodernism.
--(Nietzsche is dead--he was famous for saying 'God is dead,'
--but his thinking continues to reverberate.)
--I assume you know of Einstein!
--I believe he had some interesting things to say about
--the responsibility of scientists.
The Sports Verse
Baby Ruth and Dizzy Dean
Best and Colin Caudre
Little Mo, Virginia Wade
Pistol Pete and O.J.
I always liked Di Maggio
and Rockne's pretty Knute you know
I could never whack a ball with such velocity
I do the Rock
I do the Rock Rock
When I can get it, its stimulating, I'm a keen student
--Baby Ruth & Dizzy Dean are baseball.
--George Best was an international level soccer
--player for Manchester United.
--Colin Caudry was an international level English cricketer.
--Maureen Connolly and Virginia Wade are
--championship level British tennis players.
--Pistol Pete Maravich for basketball
--OJ is more famous now for the sport of murder.
--Di Maggio is baseball.
--Knute Rockne was the football coach at Notre Dame.
-----All these sports people were also as famous off court as on.
The Personalities Verse
Liz and Dick and Brit and Liza
Jaclyn Kate and Farrah
Meg and Roddy, John Travolta
Gov. Brown and Linda
Interview and People Magazine
Miss Rona and the Queen
It must be really frightful to attract publicity
I do the Rock myself
--Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
--Brit Ekland and Liza Minelli.
--Jaclyn, Kate and Farrah were 'Charlie's
--Angels', a popular TV show.
--Meg and Roddy? Roddy McDowell?
--California's Gov. Brown was dating Linda
--Ronstadt. Controversial at the time.
--Rona Barett was a famous gossip columnist.
--'The Queen' was a British magazine, founded
--by Andy Warhol
The Politicians Verse
Carter, Began and Sadat
Brezhnev, Teng and Castro
Everyday negotiate us closer to disastro
Idi Amin and the Shah
And Al Fatah is quite bizarre
I could never get the hang of ideology
I do the rock I do the Rock Rock
--You have to remember this was written in 1978-79
--US President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Began
--and Egyptian President Sadat's meetings to find
--peace in the Middle East were big news.
--Brezhnev in the Soviet Union, Castro in Cuba,
--and Mao Tse Teng inn China, were not interested in peace, anywhere.
--Idi Amin was the African President who bragged
--about eating human flesh, the Iranian Shah was not
--popular at home or anywhere else, Al Fatah was the
--name of a Libyan guided missile program secretly
--aided by Serbia.
--Heavy stuff for a Rock & Roll song
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Sunshine, Sunshine
Well you can't get enough of it man
Oh, we got the top down now
If you don't have the top down, pull the top down
How often do you get a sunny day
Come to the rock, the rock will cure your ills, man
Stimulating, stimulating
(something about 'thru the rear window,
you deserve it, man'---just as well, perhaps,
to leave it alone.)
Updated verse, from Tracy Ullman Show 1989
Ronald Reagan's quite upset,
Ollie's been indicted.
Thatcher's lowered taxes,
But the poor can't get excited.
Gorbachev and Glasnost
Are the very latest thing.
But Afghans, Jews and Artists
Find it less encouraging.