shel silverstein pot song
Steve Ramirez
Does anyone recall a song (actaully more of a poem) by Shel Silverstein,
which tells the story of a great pot smoke-out? I remember that in the
end there was a man and a woman trying to smoke each other out, and
when they ran out of pot, she rolled him up and smoked him!
I only heard it once on Dr Demento, about died laughing, and now
my interest has been re-kindled, I would really appreciate if some kind
soul could either send me the words or tell me how I might find this
song.
Thanks!
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and get drunk and criticize each other" - Sid Vicious on Johnny Rotten
John Eaton
:
: Does anyone recall a song (actaully more of a poem) by Shel Silverstein,
: which tells the story of a great pot smoke-out? I remember that in the
: end there was a man and a woman trying to smoke each other out, and
: when they ran out of pot, she rolled him up and smoked him!
:
: I only heard it once on Dr Demento, about died laughing, and now
: my interest has been re-kindled, I would really appreciate if some kind
: soul could either send me the words or tell me how I might find this
: song.
:
: Thanks!
I do remember the song and seem to remember seeing the poem published in
an issue of Playboy. Don't remember the specifics such as month, year or
decade. The gals name was Pearly SweetCakes or something like that.
Shel has a knack for writing interesting songs. He did "Boy Named Sue" and
the "Unicorn Song".
John Eaton
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Bill de Beaubien
In the laid-back California town of sunny San Rafael (sp?)
Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcakes; you might've know her well.
She'd been stoned 16 of her 18 years and the story was widely told
That she could smoke 'em faster than any man could roll.
That's all I can remember just now; I've got a recording of it by Marty
Burke out in the car, and will try to post the complete version later
Bill
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"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Steve Carnes
>Shel has a knack for writing interesting songs. He did "Boy Named Sue" and
>the "Unicorn Song".
and "On the Cover of Rolling Stone" and "Queen of the Silver Dollar."
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time." - Edward Abbey
Darryl Davis (RA)
>
>Does anyone recall a song (actaully more of a poem) by Shel Silverstein,
>which tells the story of a great pot smoke-out? I remember that in the
>end there was a man and a woman trying to smoke each other out, and
>when they ran out of pot, she rolled him up and smoked him!
>
If my memory (i forget what that is at the moment) serves me well (cue Zimmerman)
...It is on His Freakin' At The Freakers' Ball solo album..
along with
Stacy Brown
Everybody got one
Everybody got one
Stacy Brown got two!
The social renegade
Jon Berger
>jo...@vcd.hp.com (John Eaton) writes:
>>Shel has a knack for writing interesting songs. He did "Boy Named Sue" and
>>the "Unicorn Song".
>
>children's book "The Missing Piece"?
>
>If so, I don't know of his song writing. Does he also perform?
>Does had have any albums out? Musically, are they any good?
Same guy. Also "Where the Sidewalk Ends," "The Giving Tree," and "Uncle
Shelby's ABZ Book," one of the most subversive pieces of literature in the
English language. Some people are just so damn talented that it makes me
want to go out and slit my wrists, and Silverstein is close to the top of
the list. I was fascinated to learn that he's responsible for "Cover of
the Rolling Stone," a truly great silly song. I don't offhand remember
the name of the band that made it famous ("Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show"
rings a bell, but I was doing a lot of controlled substances in those
days); I do remember that Rolling Stone eventually ran their picture on
the cover, with the headline "What's-Their-Names Finally Make It."
In a strange way, Silverstein reminds me of Ewan MacColl: they're both
charter members of the "My God, he wrote THAT, TOO?" club. I've never
heard of any albums but if there are any, I'll buy 'em.
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Jon Berger jo...@ingres.com {mtxinu,sun,amdahl,pyramid}!ingres!jonb
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
-- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
Fil Feit
>In article <12...@inews.intel.com> sram...@milos.intel.com (Steve Ramirez) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone recall a song (actaully more of a poem) by Shel Silverstein,
>
>
>
>along with
>Stacy Brown
> Everybody got one
> Everybody got one
> Stacy Brown got two!
>
>The social renegade
Didn't Silverstein also record a song about Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
not taking out the garbage? Is that also on this album??
I also remember hearing, about 20 yrs ago, a song about Romping Through
The Swamp that sounded alot like SS. Was it? Also, was "You're Always
Welcome at Our House" one of his? Is he on CD? Or is he pretty much
lost forever?
--f2
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Still crazy after all these years
Judy Miller
>Shel has a knack for writing interesting songs. He did "Boy Named Sue" and
>the "Unicorn Song".
Is this the same shel silverstein as the poet who wrote the
children's book "The Missing Piece"?
If so, I don't know of his song writing. Does he also perform?
Does had have any albums out? Musically, are they any good?
Judy
MYRON A LIEBERMAN
Yes, it is the same Shel Silverstein that wrote a number of children's
books and humorous poems, many of which became his songs. The Missing
Piece, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and a series of "Uncle
Shelby's ______ " books are examples. Recorded albums include "Inside
Folk Songs", "Drain My Brain", and "A Boy Named Sue". What distinguishes
his works tends to be more the humor than the music, but he is very good.
Jon Berger
>Does had have any albums out? Musically, are they any good?
Here's what appears to be an exhaustive Silverstein discography, thanks
to one Barbara Swetman, who mailed it to me, for some reason. I'm posting
it at her request, only very slightly reformatted.
Incidentally, the way I read this, it looks like _all_ of Dr. Hook's songs
were by Silverstein. This makes me wonder if he was actually a member of
the group. Does anyone know?
Anyway, here it is.
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//_// //_/ jo...@ingres.com it will fall over."
_/ --------- - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
Here's a very quickly captured and edited list from a library database of
recordings with Silverstein's name as an access point (that's librareese
for author, composer, performer or making any other contribution the
cataloger thinks you might want to know about) There were a lot of
control codes & I hope I have deleted all, but since I probably missed
some odd letters are probably the result. "1 sound disc digital" means
a CD. I only tried to capture one record per title so some of these may
also have been issued in other formats, there may also be duplicates
because of different interpretations of titles. The limitations of libray
collections in terms of popular music and cataloging that may not cover
pre mid-70's items means this is only a start.
Barbara
bswe...@itsmail1.hamilton.edu
Bare.
Columbia KC 35314. p1978.
Majority of selections by S. Silverstein.
Bobby Bare, vocals; vocal and instrumental accompaniment.
Big Dupree.--Finger on the button.--The gambler.--Yard full of
rusty cars.--Greasy grit gravy.--Too many nights alone.--Childhood hero.--
February snow.--This guitar is for sale.--Sing for the song.
Country music
Belly up.
Columbia BL 32270. p1973.
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.
Songs; performed by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, principally
composed by Shel Silverstein.
Acapulco Goldie.-Penicillin Penny.--Life ain't easy.--When Lilly was queen.
--Monterey Jack.--You ain't got the right.--Put a little bit on me.--
The ballad of...--Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie.-Come on in.--The
wonderful soup stone.
Silverstein, Shel.
Bobby Bare sings lullabys, legends and lies.
RCA Victor CPL2-0290. [1973]
2 discs. 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.
With orchestra.
Lullaby, legends and lies.--Paul.--Marie Laveau.--Daddy what if?--The
wonderful soup stone.--The winner.--In the hills of Shiloh.--She's my ever
lovin' machine.--The mermaid.--Rest awhile.--Bottomless well.--True story.--
Sure hit songwriters pen.--Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe.
Country music
Silverstein, Shel.
Boy named Sue and his other country songs.
New York, N.Y. : RCA Records, c1969.
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo
Alimoney -- Dirty ol' me -- Cloudy sky -- Kick it again --
Someday's here -- Time -- Boy named Sue -- Pathetic way of getting over me --
Somebody stole my rig -- Comin' after Jinmny -- Daylight dreamer -- Bigtime.
Silverstein, Shel.
Doctor Hook
New York : Columbia,[1973?]
1 sound cassette
Songs; Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show.
Sylvia's mother -- Marie Lavaux -- Sing me a rainbow -- Hey,
Lady Godiva -- Four years older than me -- Kiss it away -- Makin' it natural
-- I call that true love -- When she cries -- Judy -- Mama, I'll sing one
song for you.
Silverstein, Shel.
Drinkin' from the bottle, singin' from the heart [music and lyrics
by S. Silverstein].
New York, NY : Columbia, c1983.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Songs; Bobby Bare with ensemble.
Recorded at the Soundshop, Nashville, Tenn.
The jogger (4:14) -- Easy as dreaming / T. Ghent (3:35) -- Rodeo queen (2:51)
-- Me and Jimmy Rodgers (4:49) -- Three-legged man (2:53) -- Diet
song (2:59) -- Jennifer Johnson & me / S. Silverstein-F. Koller (4:00) --
Drinkin' from the bottle (3:52) -- Someplace to come when it rains (4:06) --
Stacy Brown got two (2:58) -- Time (3:12)
Country music
Silverstein, Shel.
Freakin' at the freakers ball
New York, NY : Columbia 1972.
1 sound disc (39 min.) : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.
Thumbsucker -- I got stoned and I missed it -- Sahra Cynthia
Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out -- Stacy Brown got two -- Freakin'
at the freakers ball -- All about you -- Don't give a dose to the one you love
most -- The peace proposal -- Masochistic baby -- Liberated lady 1999 -- The
man who got no sign.
Humorous songs.
Silverstein, Shel.
The Great conch train robbery
Chicago, Il. : Flying Fish Records, c1980.
1 sound disc 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.
So good to so bad -- June 25th at the Fourth of July -- Don't go to sleep on
the road -- Quaaludes again -- Going down to Texas -- You ain't
here -- Rough on the living -- He buys the wine -- Yes, Mr. Rogers -- Piece of
mind -- The Great conch train robbery.
Songs; vocals by Shel Silverstein and others.
Silverstein, Shel.
Hard time hungrys.
RCA Victor APL1-0906. p1975.
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.
Songs; sung by Bobby Bare with ensemble.
Hard time hungrys.--The farmer feeds us all.--Alimony.--Two for
a dollar.--Back home in Huntsville again.--Daddy's been around the house too
long.--Warm and free.--Able bodied man.--$100,000 in pennies.--Bottles and
boxes.--Truck driver, truck driver.--The unemployment line.
Silverstein, Shel.
Inside folk songs
New York, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Atlantic 8072. c1962.
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm.
Bury me in my shades.--Have another espresso.--Bananas.--Liz.--
You're always welcome at our house.--Civil war song.--Boa constrictor.--25
minutes to go.--Folk singer's blues.--Beans taste fine.--The Slitheree-dee.
--It does not pay to be hip.--Blue eyes.--Standing on the outside of your
shelter.--Wreck of the old '49.--Never bite a married woman on the thigh.
--The unicorn.
Silverstein, Shel.
Inside Shel Silverstein
[S.l.] : Atlantic, 1970.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.
Shel Silverstein accompanying himself on the guitar, with
assisting instrumentalists and vocalist.
Leprechauns & unicorns / The Irish Brigade.
Mt. Vernon, N.Y. : Release Records, Inc., [198-?].
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm
Songs and stories arranged and adapted by Irish Brigade.
The unicorn / S. Silverstein -- The Irish rover / J.M. Crofts --
Sick / S. Silverstein -- P for Paddy / trad. -- If you will marry me / trad. --
The little boy and the old man / S. Silverstein -- Marvelous toy / Tom Paxton
-- The mermaid / trad. -- The leprechaun Dooley McDougle O'Day / Tim Feeney
--The garden song / David Mallet -- Carrots / Brendan Shine -- The crocodile
& the dentist / S. Silverstein -- Kerry Mountain reel / trad. -- Wee Hughie /
Elizabeth Shane -- I'll tell me Ma / trad.
Silverstein, Shel.
Ned Kelly : original motion picture / Words and music by Shel Silverstein.
Los Angeles : United Artists, [1970]
1 sound disc (34 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.
Songs, featuring Waylon Jennings, Mick Jagger, Kris
Kristofferson, and Tom Ghent, with instrumental ensemble.
Ned Kelly -- The wild colonial boy -- Son of a scoundrel --
Shadow of the gallows -- Lonigan's widow -- Stoney cold ground -- The Kelly's
keep comin' -- Ranchin' in the evenin' -- Blame it on the Kellys -- Pleasures
of a Sunday afternoon -- Hey Ned.
Revisited / Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show ; [all songs written by Shel
Silverstein].
New York, N.Y. : CBS Records, p1976.
1 sound cassette : Dolby processed.
Sylvia's mother -- Acapulco Goldie -- Freakin' at the Freaker's
Ball -- Makin' it natural -- Penicillin Penny -- Cover of the Rolling Stone --
Get my rocks off -- Carry me, Carrie -- Queen of the Silver Dollar -- Roland
the roadie and Gertrude the groupie.
"This album was previously released as "The best of Dr. Hook"--
Cover.
Silverstein, Shel.
The Serendipity Singers sing of: Love, lies and flying festoons
[Chicago] : Philips, [1965]
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.
Popular music written by Silverstein, performed by the
Serendipity Singers.
Little Sally Saucer -- When peaches grow on lilac trees -- The
monkey and the elephant -- Modern talk -- Everytime -- The clam -- The
beanstalk -- The slitheree-dee -- Some days -- Muddy old river -- Willowy,
billowy land -- Plastic -- If you come back in summer -- The flying festoon --
Boa constrictor -- The lion.
Silverstein, Shel.
Shel Silverstein's hairy jazz : with the Red Onion Jazz Band.
New York, N.Y. : Elektra, [1959]
1 sound disc. : analog, 33 1/3 rpm
Songs ; Shel Silverstein with various singers ; Frank Laidlaw,
trumpet ; Joe Muranyi, clarinet ; Steve Knight, trombone and tuba ; Steve
Larner, banjo ; Bob Greene, piano ; Arnie Hyman, bass ; Bob Thompson, drums.
I'm satisfied with my girl -- Somebody else not me -- Go back
where you got it last night -- Broken down Mama -- Good whiskey -- I whonder
who's kissing her now -- Who walks in -- Kitchen man -- Sister Kate -- A good
man is hard to find -- Pass me by just like you never knowed me -- Ragged but
right.
Singin' in the kitchen.
RCA Victor APL 1-0700 p1974
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. Stereo.
Bobby Bare and his family, country songs; Shel Silverstein,
principal composer.
Singin' in the kitchen.--The monkey and the elephant.--Lovin'
you anyway.--Where'd I come from.--Ricky ticky song.--The giving tree.--You
are.--The unicorn.--Cloudy sky.--She thinks I can.--Scarlet ribbons.--See that
bluebird.
Sloppy seconds / [all songs (words and music) by Shel Silverstein].
New York, NY : Columbia, p1989.
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. 9
Performed by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. 9
Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball -- If I'd only come and gone --
Carry me, Carrie -- The things I didn't say -- Get my rocks off --
Last mornin' -- I can't touch the sun -- Queen of the Silver Dollar
-- Turn of the world--Stayin' song -- Cover of the Rolling stone --
Lookin' for pussy.
Silverstein, Shel.
Songs & stories.
Parachute RRLP 9007. p1978.
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.
Humorous songs and recitations; the composer accompanying
himself on guitar.
The father of a boy named Sue.--Peanut butter sandwich.--
Goodnight little house plant.--Show it at the beach.--Diet song.--Sure hit
songwriter's pen.--The smoke-off.--They held me down.--Scum of the earth.--
Never bite a married woman on the thigh.--Someone ate the baby.--Paranoid.
Tompall.
MGM Records M3G 4977. p1974.
1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. stereo.
Songs; Tompall, vocals and acoustic guitar, with vocal-
instrumental ensemble.
Recorded and remixed at Glaser Sound Studios, Nashville, Tenn.
I ain't lookin' for the answers anymore.--Roll on.--Mendocino.--
Country gospel good book rock & roll.--Put another log on the fire.--Musical
chairs.--Grab a' hold.--Echoes.--Old New Orleans custom.--If I'm there.--
Oleander.
Silverstein, Shel.
Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible
things about me? Music and lyrics by Shel Silverstein.
Columbia S 30791. [1971]
2 s. 33 1/3 rpm. stereophonic.
Principally songs, performed by various singers and musicians;
includes dialogue by Dustin Hoffman and others.
The last morning.--Don't tell me your troubles (D. Gibson)--
Bunky and Lucille.--Happy dancing fingers--Goodbye to goodbye.--Free as a
bird.--Calypso.--The ricky ticky song.--Georgie Porgie.--The last morning.
Jason Goldman
also has his follow up song, "Father of a Boy Named Sue". I don't remember
all of the lyric for The Great Smoke Off, but I'll get them when I get
home. I remember it started:
In the laid back California town of Sunny San Rafael
Lived a girl name Pearly Sweetcakes, you probably know her well...
I've also got _Freaking_At_The_Freaker's_Ball_, which is really good
(it includes the "Don't Give a Dose" song among others) and I used to
have _The_Great_Conch_Train_Robbery_, which I didn't like nearly as much.
A brilliant man!
Kevin Cole; Washington DC
"Some folks like pork chops,
And some folks like ham hocks,
And some folks like vegetable soup.
Roland the Roadie,
Loves Gertrude the Groupie,
But Gertrude the Groupie likes groups."
By the way, did he do a children's poem which starts out:
"Nothing to do, nothing to do..."
And then procedes to offer some rather outlandish suggestions like covering
your sister with glue, etc. If so, where can I find it?
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Phydeaux
Two Shel Silverstein albums are being released next month on CD They are:
Light In The Attic and
Where The Sidewalk Ends
They are due out on 8/25/92.
reb
Lynn Gold
>Yup. Luciano Pavarotti he ain't. Then again, I'd hate to hear Luciano
>try to carry off one of Shel's songs.
On the other hand, I once heard what was touted as being "Luciano
Pavarotti singing 'Twisted Sister.'" It was hilarious!
Imagine an operatic tenor voice singing "We're not gonna take it!..."
--Lynn
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>Imagine an operatic tenor voice singing "We're not gonna take it!..."
>--Lynn
Or better yet, on one of Weird Al's polkas, he does "We're not gonna take
it!..." Lawrence Welk-style. Killer.
My friends cringe when I put one of his tapes in......
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(Curtis Swanson) writes:
> Or better yet, on one of Weird Al's polkas, he does "We're not gonna take
> it!..." Lawrence Welk-style. Killer.
>
> My friends cringe when I put one of his tapes in......
Speaking of albums to cringe to, how about the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra?
They do Also Spratch Zarathustra (or however it's spelled) also known as the
theme to 2001. And I couldn't sit through their version of the Stones "Miss
You" without laughing til I hurt. I seem to remember some other fun stuff on
there, but it's been several years since I heard the thing.
There's also Martin Mull's "2001 Polka" and "Dueling Tubas" (a parody of
"Dueling Banjos" from the movie "Deliverance"). Both on "Martin Mull and His
Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room", if I recall correctly.
And The Bobs do some pretty funny stuff (Hendrix "Purple Haze" a cappella, with
a cappella instrumentation), and Led Zepplin's "Wanna Whole Lota Love".
Jason Goldman
Jason Goldman
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The Smoke Off - Shel Silverstein
In the laid-back California town of sunny San Rafael
Lived a girl named Pearley Sweetcake, you prob'ly knew her well
She'd been stoned fifteen of her eighteen years and the story is widely told
That she could smoke 'em faster than anyone could roll
Her legend finally reached New York, that Grove Street walk-up flat
Where dwelt the Calistoga Kid, a beatnik from the past
With long browned lightnin' fingers, he takes a cultured toke
And says, "Hell, I can roll 'em faster, Jim, than anyone can smoke!"
So a note gets sent to San Rafael, "For the Championship of the World
The Kid demands a smoke off!" "Well, bring him on," says Pearl,
"I'll grind his fingers off his hands, he'll roll until he drops!"
Says Calisto, "I'll smoke that twist till she blows up and pops!"
So they rent out Yankee Stadium and the word is quickly spread
Come one, come all, who walk or crawl, price -- just two lids a head
And from every town and hamlet, over land and sea they speed
The world's greatest dopers, with the world's greatest weed
Hashishers from Morocco, hemp smokers from Peru
And the Shamnicks from Bagun who puff the deadly Pugaroo
And those who call it Light of Life and those who call it boo.
See the dealers and their ladies wearing turquoise, lace and leather
See the narcos and the closet smokers puffin' all together
From the teenies who smoke legal to the ones who've done some time
To the old man who smoked "reefer" back before it was a crime
And the grand old house that Ruth built is filled with smoke and cries
Of fifty thousand screaming heads all stoned out of their minds
And they play the national anthem and the crowd lets out a roar
As the spotlight hits The Kid and Pearl, ready for their smokin' war
At a table piled up high with grass, as high as a mountain peak
Just tops and buds of the rarest flowers, not one stem, branch or seed.
Maui Wowie, Panama Red and Acapulca Gold
Kif from East Afghanistan and rare Alaskan Cold
Sticks from Thailand, Ganja from the Islands, Bangkok's Bloomin' Best
And some of that wet imported shit that capsized off Key West
Oaxacan tops and Kenya Bhang and Riviera Fluers
And that rare Manhattan Silver that grows down in the New York sewers
And there's bubblin' ice-cold lemonade and sweet grapes by the bunches
There's Hershey's bars and Oreos, 'case anybody gets the munchies
And the Calistoga Kid he sneers, and Pearley she just grins
And the drums roll low and the crowd yells, "GO!" and the world's first
Smoke Off begins.
Kid flicks his magic fingers once and ZAP! that first joint's rolled
Pearl takes one drag with her mighty lungs and WOOSH! that roach is cold
Then the Kid he rolls his Super Bomb that'd paralyze a moose
And Pearley takes one super hit and SLURP! that bomb's defused
Then he rolls three in just ten seconds and she smokes 'em up in nine
And everyone sits back and says, "This just might take some time."
See the blur of flyin' fingers, see the red coal burnin' bright
As the night turns into mornin' and the mornin' fades to night
And the autumn turns to summer and a whole damn year is gone
But the two still sit on that roach-filled stage, smokin' and rollin' on
With tremblin' hands he rolls his jays with fingers blue and stiff
She coughs and stares with bloodshot gaze, and puffs through blistered lips
And as she reaches out her hand for another stick of gold
The Kid he gasps, "Goddamn it, bitch, there's nothin' left to roll!"
"Nothin' left to roll!" screams Pearl, "Is this some twisted joke?"
"I didn't come here to fuck around, man, I come here to SMOKE!"
And she reaches 'cross the table, and she grabs his bony sleeves
And she crumbles his body between her hands like dried and bitter leaves
Flickin' out his teeth and bones like useless stems and seeds
Then she rolls him in a Zig Zag and lights him like a roach
And the fastest man with the fastest hands goes up in a puff of smoke.
In the laid-back California town of sunny San Rafael
Lives a girl named Pearley Sweetcake, you prob'ly know her well
She's been stoned twenty-one of her twenty-four years, and the story's
widely told
How she can still smoke them faster than anyone can roll
While off in New York city, on a street that has no name
There's the hands of the Calistoga Kid in the Viper Hall of Fame
And underneath his fingers, there's a little golden scroll
That says, "Beware of bein' the roller when there's nothin' left to roll."
Laurie Beth Brunner
a bar who cuts this guy down to size after he "rates" her.
The Giver Goddess
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Cobra
> Does anyone have the lyrics to "Numbers" by Shel? It's about a woman in
> a bar who cuts this guy down to size after he "rates" her.
I have it on 45, it was sung by Bobby Bare, and should be relatively easy to
find...
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> In article <1992Aug4.1...@walter.cray.com>, so...@artgate.cray.com
> (Curtis Swanson) writes:
>> Or better yet, on one of Weird Al's polkas, he does "We're not gonna take
>> it!..." Lawrence Welk-style. Killer.
>>
>> My friends cringe when I put one of his tapes in......
How about "Music for Non-Thinkers" by (I think) the Guggenheim Saurkraut
Band. [Circa 1965] They did some unbelievable Susa marches, and a great
Hungarian Rapsody #2.
Oh, how I wish I could locate my copy.
Ron Capik
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Chuck Lavazzi
on RCA. Dobbs only knows if there's any way to find it now, outside of my
own collection, that is. There's only one Sousa march on it: "The Stars And
Stripes Forever". But it's a doozy.
>
>Ron Capik
>(aka: the NJ Editorial Minstrel)
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Basically, they are a bunch of very good orchestral musicians totally murdering
the classics.
On another note, (ha, get it, note, snicker, heheheheh, OK, I'm TIRED!....),
has anyone else heard "Chicken in the Chimes", roughly based on the
twelve days of christmas? A wonderful little ditty...
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Bill Vermillion
>Then, for the classical dementoids out there, there are the PDQ Bach records.
>Basically, they are a bunch of very good orchestral musicians totally murdering
>the classics.
>On another note, (ha, get it, note, snicker, heheheheh, OK, I'm TIRED!....),
>has anyone else heard "Chicken in the Chimes", roughly based on the
>twelve days of christmas? A wonderful little ditty...
We always used to play that with our Christmas records when I was in
radio in the late '60s.
Sascha Burland (?) on RCA. I'd love to have a tape of it.
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