What are your favourite lyrics or songlines?

Said the Presidential Skeleton , I won't sign the bill
Said the Speaker skeleton . Yes you will
Said the Representative Skeleton . I object
Said the Supreme Court skeleton , Whaddya expect

Said the Miltary skeleton , Buy Star Bombs
Said the Upperclass Skeleton , Starve unmarried moms
Said the Yahoo Skeleton , Stop dirty art
Said the Right Wing skeleton , Forget about yr heart

Said the Gnostic Skeleton , The Human Form's divine
Said the Moral Majority skeleton , No it's not it's mine
Said the Buddha Skeleton , Compassion is wealth
Said the Corporate skeleton , It's bad for your health

Said the Old Christ skeleton , Care for the Poor
Said the Son of God skeleton , AIDS needs cure
Said the Homophobe skeleton , Gay folk suck
Said the Heritage Policy skeleton , Blacks're outa luck

Said the Macho skeleton , Women in their place
Said the Fundamentalist skeleton , Increase human race
Said the Right-to-Life skeleton , Foetus has a soul
Said Pro Choice skeleton , Shove it up your hole

Said the Downsized skeleton , Robots got my job
Said the Tough-on-Crime skeleton , Tear gas the mob
Said the Governor skeleton , Cut school lunch
Said the Mayor skeleton , Eat the budget crunch

Said the Neo Conservative skeleton , Homeless off the street!
Said the Free Market skeleton , Use 'em up for meat
Said the Think Tank skeleton , Free Market's the way
Said the Saving & Loan skeleton , Make the State pay

Said the Chrysler skeleton , Pay for you & me
Said the Nuke Power skeleton , & me & me & me
Said the Ecologic skeleton , Keep Skies blue
Said the Multinational skeleton , What's it worth to you?

Said the NAFTA skeleton , Get rich, Free Trade,
Said the Maquiladora skeleton , Sweat shops, low paid
Said the rich GATT skeleton , One world, high tech
Said the Underclass skeleton , Get it in the neck

Said the World Bank skeleton , Cut down your trees
Said the I.M.F. skeleton , Buy American cheese
Said the Underdeveloped skeleton , We want rice
Said Developed Nations' skeleton , Sell your bones for dice

Said the Ayatollah skeleton , Die writer die
Said Joe Stalin's skeleton , That's no lie
Said the Middle Kingdom skeleton , We swallowed Tibet
Said the Dalai Lama skeleton , Indigestion's whatcha get

Said the World Chorus skeleton , That's their fate
Said the U.S.A. skeleton , Gotta save Kuwait
Said the Petrochemical skeleton , Roar Bombers roar!
Said the Psychedelic skeleton , Smoke a dinosaur

Said Nancy's skeleton , Just say No
Said the Rasta skeleton , Blow Nancy Blow
Said Demagogue skeleton , Don't smoke Pot
Said Alcoholic skeleton , Let your liver rot

Said the Junkie skeleton , Can't we get a fix?
Said the Big Brother skeleton , Jail the dirty pricks
Said the Mirror skeleton , Hey good looking
Said the Electric Chair skeleton , Hey what's cooking?

Said the Talkshow skeleton , **** you in the face
Said the Family Values skeleton , My family values mace
Said the NY Times skeleton , That's not fit to print
Said the CIA skeleton , Cantcha take a hint?

Said the Network skeleton , Believe my lies
Said the Advertising skeleton , Don't get wise!
Said the Media skeleton , Believe you me
Said the Couch-potato skeleton , What me worry?

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Said the TV skeleton , Eat sound bites
Said the Newscast skeleton , That's all Goodnight

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Runaround Sue
by Dion

Here's my story, sad but true
It's about a girl that I once knew
She took my love then ran around
With every single guy in town
Ah, I should have known it from the very start
This girl will leave me with a broken heart
Now listen people what I'm telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue

I miss her lips and the smile on her face
The touch of her hair and this girl's warm embrace
So if you don't wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue

Ah, she likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue

She likes to travel around
She'll love you but she'll put you down
Now people let me put you wise
Sue goes out with other guys
Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my love still grows
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Sue

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wayneL said:

Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanča, The Flower Duet

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Much better than either Callas or Sutherland, to me. Callas' voice always sounded hooty to me. Sutherland sang this as if she were wading in molassas. This is much closer to the Lily Pons version. Anyway, superb!

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Translation: Down there where shades more deep are glooming, What travelers that, alone, astray?
Around him flame bright eyes, dark depths illuming, but on he journeys as by chance, on the way!
The wolves in their wild joy are howling. As if for their pray they were prowling;
The young girl foward runs, and doth their fury dare.
A ring in her grasp she holds tightly, whence tinkles a bell, slightly sharply,
lightly, a bell that tinkles lightly, that charmers wear.
Stands she dazed, flushed and glowing, more handsome than the rajahs, he!
Yet with a blush, he'll learn his life he's owing to the pariah's fair progeny,
but he, in a dream her enfolding, till to heaven she soars in his holding,
to her he says, "your mead is won" it was Vishnu, great Brahma's son!
And since the day in that dark wood, the traveler hears where Vishnu stood,
the sound of a little bell ringing, the legend back to him bringing,
a small bell ringing like those the charmers wear. EP "Ou va la jeune indoue?"

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2020hindsight said:

a couple of good-ens in baden -baden

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Boyou said:

Have only been following this thread with a fairly dispassionate eye. - reason for that is I am VERY Market/Stock specific..

But I have to say for my first post on this thread....I was amazed to see the juxtaposition of Ginsberg.. he being the rebel poet of the 60's and Macartney the (perhaps mainstream) songster of the same period!

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Aint got no home, aint got no shoes
Aint got no money, aint got no class
Aint got no friends, aint got no schoolin
Aint got no wear, aint got no job
Aint got no man

Aint got no father, aint got no mother
Aint got no children, aint got no
Aint got no earth, aint got no water
Aint got no ticket, aint got no token
Aint got no love

I got my hair, I got my head
I got my brains, I got my ears
I got my eyes, I got my nose
I got my mouth, I got my smile

I got my tongue, I got my chin
I got my neck, I got my t1ts
I got my heart, I got my soul
I got my back, I got my sex

I got my arms, I got my hands
I got my fingers, got my legs
I got my feet, I got my toes
I got my liver, got my blood

Got life , I got my life

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LONESOME CITIES Rod McKuen
There's a few more lonesome cities that I'd like to see,
While the wine of wondering is still inside of me,
There's a few more pretty women that I'd like to know,
Bridge or two I'd like to cross, a few more oats to sow,
Maybe when I've done it all, seen all there is to see,
I'll find out I still cannot run away from me.
But as long as trains keep running, restless man I'll be
And there's a few more lonesome cities that I've yet to see.
Maybe when I've done it all, seen all there is to see,
I'll find out I still cannot run away from me.
But as long as trains keep running, restless man I'll be
And there's a few more lonesome cities that I've yet to see.
One or two more lonesome cities that I've yet to see.

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... i had the honour of meeting Ms. Nina Simone...she told me about the injustices of the music industry and how her trust was every time betrayed by the system......

Nina Simone ......She wrote this (To be young, gifted and black) song with Weldon Irvine.It's not just rhetoric! It's real life. Everytime I hear this song, it makes me so proud...

tis but one race
and i will not
run against you
but with you and the win.d!

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How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

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2020hindsight said:

Dolly Parton - Jolene

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wayneL said:

Another Dolly Song...sung by Katherine Jenkins. Oh me oh my.

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Dolly Parton tells us the story behind her song Coat of Many Colors and then sings it to us. From her concert at the Stockholm Globe Arena, Sweden, March 16th, 2007

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PRECIOUS MEMORIES
As I travel down life's pathway
Know not what the years may hold
As I ponder, hope grows fonder
Precious memories flood my soul

Precious father, loving mother
Glide across the lonely years
And old home's scenes of my childhood
In fond memories appear

Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold

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2020hindsight said:

Emmylou Harris, Chet Atkins - Precious Memories

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