1.Blueberry Boat
Pontoon put-put with the tape on 10
Dixie cup pink wine in the Labor Day sunshine.
I'm sliding the sunfish up through the wakes
Coming up too quick, making mistakes.
Quiet climb the chrome ladder in the front
While they're all yawning, under the awning.
Astro turf green hot to the touch;
Sneak open the cooler, they've got too much.
--Past Taipei, through the Taiwan straits
We sailed on in, me and my mates.
It was my first time running my own ship
But my buddies didn't care they didn't give me no lip,
So many times we've been side by side：
But I never carried a load with so much pride.
You see I'm from Grand Rapids and up my way
We grow the best blueberries in the U.S. of A.
And when we pull into old H.K.
The little markets'll have something special next day.
--At dawn I had a scotch and made them switch off the porn
cause there's nothing that's dirty about the ocean in the morn.
The radar said nothing and nothing crossed my mind
When they came starboard side up from behind.
--Down below deck sip the south island sec
think when last put in port, I was sorting the sort：
and then a girl caught my eye as she was waving goodbye.
Tell me my dear, I said warm and sincere, who do you know on the
ship
And then she curled up her lip：
I don't know no one there yet but just wait see what you get.
--Pop the top and drink your drop we'll never go home.
Curse and cry and why oh why we'll never go home.
We'll never go home.
We'll never go home.
The radar said nothing and nothing crossed my mind
When they came starboard side up from behind.
I never saw them coming even though it was light;
They beat two of my men simply out of spite.
And then they came back to the helm, kicked me over and said
Do what we say or we'll kill you and your men.
I looked back at those pirates with their beady little eyes;
I gathered my courage and I could see their surprise
When I said Go ahead you could cut my throat
But you ain't never getting the cargo of my blueberry boat.
--It's sad and it's cold at the bottom of the sea
but at least I got my blueberries with me.
2.Single Again
I married a man oh then
I married a man oh then
I married a man he was the plague of my life
And I wish I was single again
I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was
single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I
was single again
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope and I think I was broke
And then I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was
single again
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died and I laughed till I cried to think I was
single again
I married another oh then
I married another oh then
I married another he was the devil's grandfather and I wish I
was single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I
was single again
3.Two Fat Feet
Slip me out of my northern noose
My Easter egg
My Western wheel
And a Southern snake
I've got a busted breast and a jiggly thigh
A rumpled roast and a ragged eye
A floppy neck and two fat feet
Sneaky cheeks chewin' greasy gums
You got a wing in your snaggle tooth
And you can't knock it back with no 80 proof
You got a wing in your snaggle tooth
And you can't knock it back with no 80 proof
4.Don't Dance Her Down
Don't dance her down boys
Don't dance her down
Don't dance her down boys
Her man's in town
I played cards in England
I threw dice in Spain
I'm going back to England
To play cards again.
Don't dance her down boys
Don't dance her down
Don't dance her down boys
Her man's in town
My Mom told me
A long time ago
To quit all my rowdy ways
And drink no more
Don't dance her down boys
Don't dance her down
Don't dance her down boys
Her man's in town
5.Wicker Whatnots
Emma was walking with Mandeep and Jingjing
On the second day of spring
Emma was walking with Mandeep and Jingjing
On the second day of spring
She said she was sick of her porch pillows
And golden axletrees and silver snuffers
And all that sort of thing
â~Cause out of the corner of her eye
She saw one cherub ten cubits high
You can immolate all those oxen
You can sacrifice so many sheep
You can immolate all those oxen
You can sacrifice so many sheep
You can be surrounded by your
400 pomegranates and your bright brass shovels
But you still can't hardly sleep
When out of the corner of your eye
You see one cherub ten cubits high
Oh, how do you arrange a room
Around a baby grand piano
In the Arabian tinted library guest room
In the two table dining room art gallery？
And here's one for your party room
An emergency cigarette behind glass
An emergency cigarette behind glass
On a sliding slack rack hangs the Calcutta necklace
With a unique stone rubber duck
I can decorate with giant jacks
With wicker whatnots, oh, with wicker whatnots
And prettier prints with masses of chintz
And candy box fabrics
Or the true meaning of a name
With the poem in the frame
Where blue means fair, pink rain
Purple variable conditions
Give me mirror magic in the maxi mood
And I'll throw away my Hollywood chin band
â~Cause out of the corner of my eye
Saw one cherub ten cubits high
Ulyana, Phoeba and Alan knew to say
We're here for Lucy's birthday
In the Rivoli bar area lounge
But we're worried they might be late
Then Lucy messaged
'My PA Ms. Gill will kindly deal
With all your queries between 6：30 and 8'
Unless out of the corner of your eye
You see one cherub ten cubits high
She was accepting cards and small gifts
Before the photos between 9 and 11
She was accepting cards and small gifts
Before the photos between 9 and 11
When Ghazi, Ovi, Roger and Rachel
Presented her with something that just sent her to heaven
One cherub ten cubits high
That she could see out of the corner of her eye
6.I'm In No Mood
I'm in no mood to comb my hair：
there's a chill in the air.
And it's catching.
Catching.
I was so drunk last night, I didn't even undress for bed
and I swear the pin in my hair got stuck in my head
7.Black-Hearted Boy
Darling black-hearted boy,
all the color's gone out of my ribbon loom
as I've only got the worst to assume.
Take your sheet metal sheers;
cut a slit up the the side of my dark blue dress;
for a last time lie your love confess.
Get your gut,
some home made twine-
string up silk your tiger bow.
Don't paint your board
moonlight white-
go dangle your fishhook out in the gutter again.
You swore you swore you'd never leave
you swore you swore you'd never leave
you swore you swore you'd never leave and now you're gone and
now I'm-
See the smoke from your kiln-
pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog
as I stand cold with my back broke by the bog.
Find your cross cut saw-
come blunt and jagged dry and try
cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high.
I tipped my toe
on the bamboo strip;
I took stone honey in exchange for my rags.
Don't dare paint your board
moonlight white-
go dangle your fishhook out in the gutter again.
You swore you swore you'd never leave
you swore you swore you'd never leave
you swore you swore you'd never leave and now you're gone and
now I'm-
Darling black hearted boy,
I went down to wash my robe in the river;
I thought of you and started to shake and to shiver.
Leaning there on the rocks.
I see myself slip down and float
'til the brackish warm current stops up my throat.
You swore you swore you'd never leave
You swore you swore you'd never leave
You swore you swore you'd never leave
8.Waiting To Know You
I'm waiting to know you far away
Send up the balloon, says 'write to me soon'
I'm waiting to know you far away
Set up to the pier, wait till you get here yea
And when I'm about to give up hope
But note with my telescope
I'm standing guard the Navy yard
To see could there one for me be
Baby, oh no,
Where did you go？
I'm waiting to know you far away
Flashlight the cave, listen short wave
I'm waiting to know you far away
Dredge up the lake, all the trees shake, yeah
And when I'm about to give up hope
But note with my telescope
I'm standing guard the Navy yard
To see could there one for me be
Baby, oh no,
Where did you go？
I'm waiting to know you far away
Send up the balloons, says 'write to me soon'
I'm waiting to know you far away
Flashlight the cave, listen short wave
And when I'm about to give up hope
But note with my telescope
I'm standing guard the Navy yard
To see could there one for me be
Baby, oh no,
Where did you go？
Baby, oh no,
Where did you go？
9.Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
Damn it all, damn it all to hell.
Damn it all, damn it all.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
Damn it all, damn it all to hell.
Damn it all, damn it all.
Preserve me, preserve me; protect me; save me.
So vile, so violent
Whose thoughts are spent
So vile, so violent
in thinking how they may
So vile, so violent
my steps betray
So vile, so violent
how in a foul mishap may me entrap
who hid in traitor grass their cunning cord may catch me as I
pass
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
Damn it all, damn it all to hell.
Damn it all, damn it all.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
I thought myself an unworthy thing,
despairing of my case all the time boys.
Damn it all, damn it all to hell.
Damn it all, damn it all.
I went to the Right Road Ministry at 4801 S. Normandie;
I went to the Armenian Brotherhood Bible Church at 5556 Harold
Way
and while I was at it went to St. Sarkis;
and then I went to the Inglesia Evangelica Rey de Reyes y Se？or
y Se？ores at 2605 W. 7th St;
and the Alpha y Omega - and the Brotherhood of the Cross and
Star and Kingdom of God in Faith at 3810 W. Slauson;
and I drove around listening to the Greater Bethany Tape
Ministry
and to the Sweet Hour of Prayer mission;
and I went to St. Innocent Orthodox and Jesus in Delight;
and then finally I called up the Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
at 323-221-7625;
323-221-7625;
323-221-7625;
323-221-7625
10.Japanese Slippers
Down at the shell shed the boys are pickin' at their pearls
The hole in my mitten lets the rain get in
I bought 22 ounces from the petrol park, waiting at the light
I'm never gonna make it back in time
So Geraldine and me can begin
Before Mister Raymond and his Japanese slippers comes creepin'
in
I sit with the fan on my face and sip shandies all day
I learned to sleep standing up so I don't have to make the bed
No tobacco for my rolling papers, warm water in my cup
I'll have wait all morning
Before Geraldine and me can begin
Before Mister Raymond and his Japanese slippers'll come creepin'
in
Loaded up with turkey carpets and green glass diamonds
I drove back and forth for five long rolling moons
And everyday and every night I thought of back at home
And I couldn't get the notion out of my head
That before Geraldine and me could begin
Mister Raymond and his Japanese slippers'd come creepin' in
Everything is always a little late
Trippin' on those Japanese slippers seems to be my fate
It was my job to cut down all the poplar trees
And I'd sit on the stumps and listen to the finches
And look out at the field and eat honey out of the jar
And wonder why it always seemed
Before Geraldine and me could begin
Mister Raymond and his Japanese slippers would come creepin' in
11.Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise)
As I try to fill all of my empty days,
I stumble round on through my memory's maze;
of all my past, only the sadness stays.
I went moping down by the bridge;
I rode a bike in the snow to the mini-mart;
I thought of the ways that I have broke my own heart.
It's not for me to fill the blue sea with tears,
but when I think back on all the wasted years
all the good cheer and all of the charm disappears.
I wore the exact same clothes for five days;
the bailbondsman gave me a smile;
I was just thinking of only my sins all the while.
As I try to fill all of my empty days,
I stumble round on through my memory's maze;
of all my past, only the sadness stays
12.Crystal Clear
At 4 o'clock
Just after work
I got my check
I held my breath
The phone rings tell 'em I ain't never here
The overunder
Made a blunder
I gave my cell phone
To my cousin
He plays the threats I get to his friends at school
I board the dog
At Uncle Nicky's
I put my hood up
I have to run out
You welched the bet I'm soaking wet too close to an OTB
I took a train
Got off at Trenton
Bought a ticket
A bus to Vinton
Won't stop sweating till I get to Davenport
On the bridge
On the bus
Bye-bye Moline
Look at the water
Filthy, dirty, cloudy, muddy, messy, mucky, crystal clear
I got my palm read
For $7. 50
She looked me over
I bought a crystal
Filthy, dirty, cloudy, muddy, messy, mucky, crystal clear
13.Whistle Rhapsody (Reprise)
The isolated lady,
an isolated older lady;
a dignified dame who keeps her own counsel,
in love with the out-of-the-way;
identifying with the unfamiliar,
contemptuously turns her back on the wicked world
with it's vulgar delusions and correspondingly
scorns its regard.
Our lady alone,
with her scarf over her head
and her pricey purse over her shoulder strap,
wonders up at the heavens
and for yesterday yearns.
The days of old.
Often, she surrounds herself with
like minded bluestockings
and together they regret the dear beloved
simple folk struggle witht their confused
concerns, still.
But she puts her pity on pause,
and withdrawn from the delicate,
and uncorrupted by the crude-
she resigns even her own
designs-
then all at once
brings in a breath,
purses her purple,
her honey-black lips,
and lets loose a high,
and round and resonant,
and glad and grave,
and westward, whistle
14.Evergreen
I was wielding my axe dunk whisky at the bar every night coming
home out of the windshield of my car
I would look through the boughs and think I saw my lucky star.
I was spreading my sheets took dinner all alone every night of
the week awaiting by the phone
And I'd dab off my tears with my favorite pine cone.
Needle prick my spruce root
Dear little hemlock shoot
Make me stay sharp and keen, evergreen.
I would tend to my bees sell honey on the road every fall in the
wet watching lorries take their load
And I'd get all my winnings ask for special sap in code
In August for three weeks I'm back in the village where I clip
all sorts of brambles and thorns from up the hill I pip
In a little clay cup the stuff I cross myself and sip.
Needle prick my spruce root
Dear little hemlock shoot
Make me stay sharp and keen, evergreen.
I was casting my line angling way the day. The stream was swift,
it was clear, ut the light was getting gray.
I bent down by the thistle and thought of what it was I'd say.
Needle prick my spruce root
Dear little hemlock shoot
Make me stay sharp and keen, evergreen.
15.Bitter Tea (Reprise)
I've got a special category business
down by the Multifunctional Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Rollerblade
Rink--
down by the Home of Bitter Tea.
Bitter, bitter, bitter tea;
bitter bitter, bitter tea.
I've seen you slinking off of snake alley.
Why not come up through the hall of butterflies
and past Lane 170
into our Dragon Protector Layout
and try some bitter tea？
Bitter, bitter, bitter tea;
bitter bitter, bitter tea.
On the 13th day of the 5th lunar month
Outside a hot spring bath
the old banyan tree looked down on me
Aren't you curious？
Aren't you curious？
A little curious,
about what the osmanthus blossoms taste like？
I think you're curious-
yes, you're curious-
a little curious
about what the osmanthus blossoms taste like
with a cup of bitter tea.
Bitter, bitter, bitter tea;
bitter bitter, bitter tea.
On the 13th day of the 5th lunar month
Outside a hot spring bath
the old banyan tree looked down on me
I am a crazy crane;
I lost my true love in the rain
I am a crazy crane;
I lost my true love in the rain
16.Chris Michaels
Later at lunch with the taco lettuce crunch crunch
She sets herself apart the bunch.
How bad does she seem？
She makes me wanna scream.
On the phone with the West Glen Ellen rest home
Talking up a tattle tome：
How bad does she seem？
She makes me wanna scream.
My mom is gonna babysit tonight;
Did you hear Melinda got into a fight;
You whore you bitch she said, well then it serves her right.
Talking all mad you know she really isn't being sad：
Her baby daddy's name is Tad.
How bad does she seem？
She makes me wanna scream.
Well yesterday you know she didn't none of that to say：
She queen-bee turned and walked away.
How bad does she seem？
She makes me wanna scream.
Then boyfriend calls her up on the other line;
She tells him sweetie sweetie sweetie mine, but he spaces out
and thinks to himself all the time：
My baby's got a stick stuck out her beak,
My baby takes a drink out of the leak,
My baby's got a blue-green sweater,
And a nest down by the creek.
Plume bloom bloom blaby bloom
Cheep cheep beep bee-bee beep.
Where did you for lunchtime go？
Did Kevin and Jenny show？
Do you wanna go out tonight？
No.
Plume bloom bloom blaby bloom
Cheep cheep beep bee-bee beep.
Remember that girl down the end？
She was my friend.
But just now she's angry came up
And said You're so so stup'
It's all disrup'
You're blah blah this this that so now sh'up
You messed it up.
Remember that girlfriend of Al's？
We'll we were pals.
Today she was angry came up
And said You're so so stup'
It's all disrup'
You're blah blah this this that so now sh'up
You messed me up.
Then Tony of the Franklin Park hockey club
Went to Gunzo's and bought a goalie glove.
Jessica was 'posed to meet him back on Mannheim
Kitchen back door by all the grease and grime：
Was a little bird at my window
Said that he's been messing round;
He's working up the courage so to leave you;
He's getting ready to say he doesn't love you.
Well Tony took it all in stride
Said don't be silly but wondered who had spied.
Jessica was driving down Wolf Road
Roll up the windows baby talk in code.
I'm the little bird at your back door
Said your true love's let you down.
I'm the little bird through your chimney
Said he's been running round;
He's working up the courage so to leave you;
He's getting ready to say he don't love you.
Then she bumped into purses stole a credit card;
Writing Chris Michaels, no it wasn't hard.
Number five terminal with a yogurt cup,
Reading a young miss as she slurps it up;
Nasty message when he don't pick up.
Layover Aden watch the local news;
99 and humid Oh the Red Sea blues
Landing at Delhi take a third class train;
Umbrella vendor in the autumn rain.
Then the cops come by and ask your name.
With his chillum and chillum-chee
The cazee sentences me;
So now go where you're supposed to be
And give up your Devi Desi.
I's paraded on through the choke
When my leg irons broke
And my bicycle wheel spoke：
The Bombay army's no joke.
On the top of a Naracan Dam
Started our picnic then Bam!
My Devi 'n me had to scram：
Quick down to Madras a'lamb.
Thought as a tindal that I could blend
As I got to pretend,
From laziness, the gang defend：
pick up your pick axe and rend!
Fasten your seatbelt and take hold of my arm
That's what she said before setting off my alarm：
Baby gotta go baby gotta go.
I know
She's gonna go
I know
She's gonna go
Down in Columbo girl whatever you want
But the surf and cobras, tigers all taunt：
Baby gotta go baby gotta go.
I know
She's gonna go
I know
She's gonna go.
17.Quay Cur
I had a locket, a little silver charm,
Given to me so to keep me out of harm.
Canvasing the quayside trying to earn my keep,
A killick tore it off my neck and threw it in the deep.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
Up to the quarentine, late night aboard,
Try to raise our fees but we get what they afford.
Busy work below deck according to form;
Waiting for the clear to leave but then comes up a storm.
We hid beneath the barrels of blubber hoping that the rain had
passed
But when the wind kept up the rats cut down the rigging off the
mast
And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea
we're cast.
The clouds dried and cracked
It was calm in fact
The ship had been towed,
By sea Dyaks towed
So we're sold Kolaba
'n sent -- I let out a sob, a
cry oh no it's disaster -- T-Ranter Bay Madacascar.
Great gulps of Greek fire get us in;
Sling sticks at the stockade Fort Dauphin;
A guardsman gave a griffin said grease my duke：
Down by the chimney and out through the fluke.
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal：
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked：
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Course it wasn't long till I caught the croup,
Dawding on the drizzy deck of my majesty's sloop.
If only the hlmsman would turn from his whip staff
With my azimuth compass I'd go by the hectograph
Up to the whaling fleet in Gilbert sound
Then back in the hull when we come around
With 100 seals and 2 polar bears
Nearly in the harbor without any cares,
But then：
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal：
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked：
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Half hour sandglass
Seven saker round shot
Ice for the moonshine
And chichsaneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
Look awennye
Get out my sawygmeg
Yliaout, yliaout
Weave us on shore
Unuiche quoysah
Maconmeg
And I gave a sasobneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
And now we live by muskles, water weeds with small relief in
store
And all the sick men in the Galean were then put upon the shore
And on the 22nd we didn't see our general any more.
Down came our trestle-trees, no pitch tar or nails;
Fore shrouds break no rope we trust;
Only shift of sails.
Drink my Rosa Solis; struck suddenly ahull
Yield ourselves we spoomed, my sinews stiff,
My eyes were dull.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
And as we pass the equinoctial only 5 of us could stand
And while the capsten without sheets or tacks by all of us was
manned
And on the 11th day of June ran in at Barehaven to land.
18.My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found
I kicked my dog
I was mean to him before
I guess that's why he walked out my door.
I really wish I could see him some more.
I looked under the mats and I asked all the cats
I went to the vet have you heard anything yet
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I went to the bar and they said not so far
I went to the gym have you taken a walk with him
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I went to the run but they were having too much fun
I put up a flyer and gossiped the town cryer
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I stood on the corner and called up the coroner
I emailed the station and told 'em my location
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I went to the DQ cause I thought I might see you
I went to the Super K have you seen any recent stray
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I went down to the market where tied up you used to bark at
Went where you got adopted felt so bad I nearly dropped dead
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I put a mortgage on my lease and went to the police
I bribed my way on the system cause I really, really missed him
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I finally went to ground gave some pence to the pound
I finally went to ground gave some pence to the pound
My dog was lost but now he's found
My dog was lost but now he's found
I went to the church that Wednesday night
The guest preacher said I bark but I don't bite;
I saw my dog, but he'd seen the light：
My dog was lost but now he's found.
19.Spaniolated
I was 18 years old just a research volunteer;
I walked home from the TCBY each night with no fear.
One particular starry 11 o'clock
I went down by the water;
an old man with a burlap bag
said How you doin' my daughter.
He put me the hole of his old rusty crawler
and fed me three pills a day to keep me from getting taller.
Learned me the rosary and made me pray to Santiago：
I wish I wish I was back in Chicago.
Up the river to Seville I was rowing and strumming
on my portable guitar my fair lady a humming
The pain, the pain, in Spain falls mainly on me.
The pain, the pain, in Spain falls mainly on me.
20.Name Game
In the cracker barrel dumpster I found a bag：
Red-white striped, I opened it - gag：
Mummy day Pizarro dressed in a Inca rag
Call on in to work quick
Tell 'em that I'm sea sick.
Uncle Ricky's schooner's docked at Pampano Beach：
Weigh anchor and me and him each
Need some extra sunblock, do it for 'em he can't reach.
San Juan by next Sunday
Mummy, mummy, mummy.
Walking through the market, stop buy some rum and coke：
Plantains please, my mummy man spoke,
But you have to pay 'cos you know dude, I'm broke.
Sitting outside the sunset, are we in Cadiz yet？
Over to Majorca for few audience fit
Juan Carlos, his throne he go sit,
Throw the Mummy in the dungeon bottomless pit.
Appealing in The Hague say,
Mummy, mummy, mummy.
I was listening to Classic VH when I pulled an H. Singh
Drank myself to a stupor, ears started to ring
And I'll go to Finally Al's and type my brains away
Let's play Bacci and Horseshoes and Croquet
But no, not cricket 'cause I can't say their names
And I'll go to Finally Al's and type my brains away
Penguin, Moe, Sal, Chris
Penguin, Moe, Sal, Chrisssss
21.Birdie Brain
I hate the steam train that whistles woozy my bird brain,
That sends my spaniel insane.
And I'll stop riding side saddle if they don't stop the clickity
clattle,
I'll jump in the undertow penguin paddle and drown in my wedding
gown.
I've been told the Bronx River stream on moonlit nights is meant
To seem like the Rhone in a glacier icy dream but then in a poof
t's sulfur steam.
I hate the aeroplane that nearly misses my birdie brain,
That terrifies my terrier insane.
And I'll stop riding side saddle if they don't stop the clickity
clattle,
I'll jump in the undertow penguin paddle and drown in my
dressing gown.
I was drinking by the Des Plaines River when the naught of night
Served for making me shiver and me the squirrels would hold
hands
And quiver cause that damnable diesel never fails to deliver.
I hate the livery cars that has my bird brain seeing stars,
That drive my Doberman to drink in bars.
And I'll stop riding side saddle if they don't stop the clickity
clattle,
I'll jump in the undertow penguin paddle and drown in my wedding
gown.
I hate the steam train that whistles woozy my bird brain,
That sends my spaniel insane.
And I'll stop riding side saddle if they don't stop the clickity
clattle,
I'll jump in the undertow penguin paddle and drown in my
dressing gown.
22.1917
Going down Morgan with Janko, Jerko, and Jerry,
We downed our Pils, and over at the South Shore, they sipped
their sherry.
I opened my Kaiserized speller to learn what they know：
Nurse killers, annexers-executioners, wo!
Hey Slavonians, be ye mindful
That our âtis tongue dies never.
The happy Hun Felsch sure likes his blond beer
And I like his doubles so much I might even cheer.
Last year he had enough and got fixed on the cardinal
Who'd pardon all
The riff-raff and all their sinister ways and halfs and he
laughs
Over on 56th, and he's got the arsenic on his left White Sock
And he sees the chicken stock in a big black pot
And he pours in the lot, but what ruined or saved the day
Was that the soup then turned gray, and a hundred higher-ups
came
Back from the hospital to keep getting wafers from Mundelein：
But now the Gigantics are getting the tar taken out of their
pine
By my hero Red Faber and I'm ready to get rapprochement with my
neighbor
As part of the healthy back and forthâ'
But not if he's from up north.
So I ask Dad, Why can't we ever win, ever win, once？
Go ask Dad, why you can't ever win, ever win, once.
23.Slavin' Away (Intro)
Slavin' away
All for you my love
And i've nothin to show for it
Cept my dusty old book full of pictures
A dusty old book
Tell me a story
Bout how i wasn't so tired
From my slavin' away
I ran off
Put on corduroy knickers that i got from the coal shovelin' kid
And hitchhiked in a rickety old ford
Hitchhiked in a rattly old norton side car
Down strange roads
In the purrin' rain, as the poet put it
On up to st. Paul
On a cold day in the middle of the fall
And they picked me up for not wearin a dress
And suspended my sentence
If i wore somethin with a strap that was pink
And i scrubbed up on somebody's sink
So now i catch the canadian pacific
And not be too specific, just somewhere up north
And get into lumber and slumber when i like
And in the spring ride down into cheyenne on my bike
I looked out the window
And i stuck my head out the door
And the snow was melting so slow...
And the sky was light but so gray...
Slavin' away
And all for nothin' my love
Cookin and washin in the morning
And startin at 9：25
I assemble six boxes of little plastic christmas trees
And put in the blue leds
On kid toy cell phones with borg batteries
And then on to the sewing machine
Stick the labels on purple t-shirts
And the arms on pull-over jumpers for the uk
Slavin' away
All for you my love
And i've nothin to show for it
I've nothin to show for it
I could see her lookin in the mirror at me
Wonderin' if it wasn't plain for everyone to see
Nothin ever seemed to turn out how it might be
I could see her doubting now that all had gone and went
That anything she got was equal what that she'd spent
That she never seemed to get back what that she'd lent
Anyway they did have a son
And by the time he was married and i played at his wedding too
at holy trinity
I was choir director myself
Rehearsals in the basement twice a week
I demanded we'd be in peak condition
And everything seemed to be going quite well
I got along well with the priest...
24.Asthma Attack
I woulda had a asthma attack
If I seen the shark bite back
I woulda had a asthma attack
If I seen the shark bite back
Yeah it's paradise island I know
Yeah, yeah, yeah I been there before
Once, twice, three times maybe
Once with my Moms and twice with my baby
I shook my silver bracelet at a thousand times
They like the shimmer-glimmer but said
No never, no never, no never swim in the dark
Once, twice, three times maybe
Once with my Moms and twice with my baby
I woulda had a asthma attack
If I seen the shark bite back
I woulda had a asthma attack
If I seen the shark bite back
Yeah, yeah it's just a figure of speech
A python ate my babe when he hit the beach
25.Tropical Ice-land (Reprise)
Goat's head in the deli case
Oh sweet angel-angel-bearded face
Paper maché parade on at night
That's what you do with no sunlight
In the tropical tropical
Tropical ice-land
Bleak church on a cold tundra
Mountain-glacier-glacier-glacier-stream
Black stone beach and a black death bottle
Is all me and my baby'll need
In the tropical, tropical
Tropical ice-land
Take intermission at the movies
Freeze outside for one quick smoke
Take a klondike bar from the pop machine
Hey it's ice cream, no not coke
In the tropical tropical
Tropical ice-land
Let's meet in Kristiana next summer
Let's get out before we melt away
I've seen enough stray ponies and puffins
To get me through till the end of May
In the tropical tropical
Tropical ice-land
26.The Wayward Granddaughter
He said 'Come on now babe
Let's take a little drive
Go slumming down the Carson's in my black X-5.'
Samples from the Clinique counter and up the escalator
And then a knowing glance from last night's cute, talkative
waiter
Surprise, surprise
Going through five hundred king Egyptian size count satin cotton
sheets
A smirk hello from the tanning salon boy
My man mumbled, he realized
'They told me that she cheats.'
'Oh, don't you start! Jealous heart.'
Jealous heart. Jealous heart
I put one foot forward and one foot back
My hand upon my hip
I gave my hair a flip
I can't help it
What's he think I got all this loving for
Well guess what
He don't pay my bills no more
Well I guess
All this stuff
That'll befall ya and bedevil ya
And try ya
I'll move back in with Yaiyai
My daughter, we named her Maureen
Can you believe it
I never believed it, or her
Because she called you Connie
The Don Juan he, my husband, loved redheards and thought this
name
Would turn his baby into the same
And each time I see you, Connie
Yes？
I say God bless, my dear departed Peter
That he never had to meet her
His beautiful granddaughter who dyed
It would have killed him again
Her gorgeous red-brown hair black
When she turned 15 behind my back
You lived with me at that time
Yes, I did
You were such a cute and smart and obedient and happy and pretty
little kid
My beautiful granddaughter who dyed
Her gorgeous red-brown hair black
When she turned fifteen behind my back
And which Kevin were you dating
I mean letting take advantage of you then
the black one, or the white one
Once upon a time there were two Kevins
You mean two jerks
Once upon a time there were two Kevins
And being with one Kevin was being in one heaven
And not being with the other swell was being in another, well
Kevin and Kevin were best friends since seven
La la la-la-la la la
When they met at Joey Meyer's
Red White and Blue Demon basketball seminar tutorial clinic day
care camp
For underprivileged kids
And overstimulated brats.
And they're both wearing vintage throw-back fourty five dollar
Nineteen eighty three White Sox hats
And now at H-F
Point guard and shooting guard
And now at H-F
Point guard and shooting guard
And the drill team shouting themselves deaf
And then back in the back yard
Yours, Yaiyai
With the one and then the next night with the other one and one
big secret
I mean two
But little did I know that they knew
They knew
And would slap each other on the back
About what it was they'd do
They knew
They knew
Well, we can talk about it, Connie
But often, memories are better off sung
Remember when you were young
Remember when I was young
Remember when you were young
Remember when I was young
La la la...
La la la...
27.A Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag
A night out in the tropics
Turned out I couldn't cope
After the School of Fancy Cookery
With Antoinette Pope
I learned brazing and saucing, meringue and sift
Knead, flute and flour
Each Thursday for an hour
Cobblers and plum cakes, tarts savory and sweet
A candymaker's knife in my handbag
A candymaker's knife in my handbag
Well I learned brazing and saucing, meringue and sift
Knead, flute and flour
Each Thursday for an hour
Cobblers and plum cakes, tarts savory and sweet
A candymaker's knife in my handbag
A candymaker's knife in my handbag
That night I was to meet my husband's father, for the very first
time
I wore the scarf he sent to me
French silk, scarlet blue and cream
He sits, he waits, a coffee on his knee
I wonder if it's as bad as it might seem
Zapped by the Zombie
Zapped, zapped by the Zombie
Zapped by the Zombie in the two-door Dodge
Twice-baked brioche and pastry pockets
And lock its two-door Dodge
Zapped by the Zombie
Zapped, zapped by the Zombie
Zapped by the Zombie in the two-door Dodge
And I did not fail
To bust off a nail as the Dodge door handle dodges my hand
Delicate, delicate hold my hand
Delicate nectarine upside-down chiffon cake
Dodge down the downtown loop the loop lightly
Hazelnut baby loaves
Hazelnut baby loaves
Hold my hand inside-out upside-down marzipan Milanese
My brain is a blur
Hodge-podge - cardinal slice - two-door, brand new
What am I gonna do
'Cause on the street the amber lights were hellish hot
And the wind in the windows was not giving air
And tropical Napeolons
But it was too late and I didn't care
And I didn't care
Because first I went to meet Dr. Christopolous and his wife
Claudette
Who at the time was my close girlfriend
They picked my up in their brand-new Dodge
And we went to Trader Vic's, or Mr. Rick's
And I ordered, like the others, a Zombie
And it bombed me, it just bombed me
And when we got to the stoop my father-in-law said 'Were you
attacked？'
My aunt, being helpful, said something that made my heart just
go sunk
And with a look on her face like something had stunk
'She's just drunk!' she hissed
I reached for the arm of the armchair and missed
A night out in the tropics
Turned out I couldn't cope
After the School of Fancy Cookery
With Antoinette Pope
I wore the scarf he sent to me
French silk, scarlet blue and cream
He sits, he waits, a coffee on his knee
I wonder if it's as bad as it might seem
28.Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second St.
Now, as for my aunt
Who told on me
She was always wearing her turbans
Sailing back to Greece on the Normandy
Having dinner at the captain's table
Sitting on the deck with 5 men surrounding her
With uncle Sam in the back row
Back at home, riding up the Taygetus on a donkey named David
With her soft leather boots dangling off to the side
So full of pride
So full of pride.
Profitis Elias, so high you can see us
4823 22nd St., standing there with cashmere overcoats
And those turbans with their Arabian silver
And ostrich and papagou feather hats
And not far down from our koumbaros Betinis
We've got a secret between us Betinis
In the back of the Hawthorne smoke shop
In the basement of the hat factory
The fedoras got glued together
But in that back basement...
In that back basement, a lot of things got sewn up!
A full compliment of grinchy Italians
Counting up on their stubby fingers, and smoking, I'm told
The least sophisticated cigars
The local lottery and so forth
Like anybody was going to get a nit out of that nut
Though what a lucky loser is our five thousand dollars a day
friend and koumbaros Betinis
We've got a secret between us, Betinis
In the back of the Hawthorne smoke shop,
Haberdashery was the least of it
In the basement of the hat factory
The fedoras got glued together
But in that back basement...
In that back basement, a lot of things got sewn up
We've got a secret between us, Betinis.
Five thousand dollars a day
Five thousand dollars a day
Five thousand dollars a day
Five thousand dollars a day
In the basement of the hat factory
The fedoras got glued together
But in that back basement
In that back basement, a lot of things got sewn up!
We've got a secret between us, Betinis
Not that nobody knows, like nobody knows about the white doves
that flew out the cake at the brother's wedding
In your hat factory, Betinis, they count up all the buffalo
nickels
And silver certificates wrung from Lake Superior spirits
And prize fight foolery, and sluts speaking easy in the closets
on 12th St.
And in exchange you put in your pants $5,000 a day to stick
under your bed for starters
But later in the laundry, so you can feel free to chase your
wife around the table
When you feel she looked at the apricot and boysenberry boy
twice
29.Slavin' Away
Slavin' away
All for you my love
And i've nothin to show for it
Cept my dusty old book full of pictures
A dusty old book
Tell me a story
Bout how i wasn't so tired
From my slavin' away
I ran off
Put on corduroy knickers that i got from the coal shovelin' kid
And hitchhiked in a rickety old ford
Hitchhiked in a rattly old norton side car
Down strange roads
In the purrin' rain, as the poet put it
On up to st. Paul
On a cold day in the middle of the fall
And they picked me up for not wearin a dress
And suspended my sentence
If i wore somethin with a strap that was pink
And i scrubbed up on somebody's sink
So now i catch the canadian pacific
And not be too specific, just somewhere up north
And get into lumber and slumber when i like
And in the spring ride down into cheyenne on my bike
I looked out the window
And i stuck my head out the door
And the snow was melting so slow...
And the sky was light but so gray...
Slavin' away
And all for nothin' my love
Cookin and washin in the morning
And startin at 9：25
I assemble six boxes of little plastic christmas trees
And put in the blue leds
On kid toy cell phones with borg batteries
And then on to the sewing machine
Stick the labels on purple t-shirts
And the arms on pull-over jumpers for the uk
Slavin' away
All for you my love
And i've nothin to show for it
I've nothin to show for it
I could see her lookin in the mirror at me
Wonderin' if it wasn't plain for everyone to see
Nothin ever seemed to turn out how it might be
I could see her doubting now that all had gone and went
That anything she got was equal what that she'd spent
That she never seemed to get back what that she'd lent
Anyway they did have a son
And by the time he was married and i played at his wedding too
at holy trinity
I was choir director myself
Rehearsals in the basement twice a week
I demanded we'd be in peak condition
And everything seemed to be going quite well
I got along well with the priest...
30.Seven Silver Curses
My little sister had a glass of wine
No doubt a glass of wine too many
'I bet he's out right now with his Nazi whore
That's right, I said it, that's what she is, and when he
Finally saunters back at three or four,
Don't let him in, put the chain on the door.'
But of course I'd let him in, the jerk.
Now my silly little sister went to some vlachos coffee-grind
reader
Ad had a gypsy glint in her eye when she'd smirk
'Since that's how you feel, I know what to do
Make sure she gets fixed before she takes him from you.'
It's a hot August night and my sister and I are creeping down
south Halsted
Towards a storefront past a storefront stoop and a moon
And a star and a placard that says Madame Maria's.
'Tell me your troubles,
But five dollars first.'
That's what she said
And of course, I thought the worst
Charlatan, phony
Fraud gypsy bitch whose Greek was bad and English was worse
I held tight to my purse
My sister did the talking and I looked down
And tapped my foot and sort of twisted on one heel.
Madame pointed to corner
And twisted her shawl,
Uncovered a dusty old crystal ball
I peered in despite myself
Somewhere on some love seat, my husband was there
Paying court to his mistress and stroking her hair
I saw it for myself
'I can't believe it!' I cried
Madame Maria said, 'Well, I had a notion
So before you came in, I prepared half a potion
Now you must do the other half
I wrote you a list
You must get seven part-silver curses made special out of bullet
bits by some Pollock I know in Evergreen Park
And dip them in the potion and drop them in Buckingham Fountain
at 3：13 on Friday morning
And then she'll be gone, you'll be rid of her!'
Quick, for the potion, we have to get three dozen crabapples
that fell off a raggedy old tree right in the southwestern
corner of Columbus Park!
Faster, we have to go up to Caputo's Produce and Fruit Market on
Harlem and get the garden snake that lives in the banana bin!
Hurry, we have to get the mercury out of the old thermometer
they have through the north-facing doors
To the left by the shoe-shine boys in the lobby of the Monadnock
building!
And don't be late, for you must get the silver out of the teeth
of one George Karmalitis
Who as we speak lies dead under a dirty wool blanket in the
basement of the morgue of Laretto hospital
The silver teeth of a man killed by a jealous wife!
I wasn't always an old maid
I didn't always walk down the street
And have the children yell at me Spinny Spinny the Spinster
And try to knock the hat off my head
I had a fiancee, or he led me to believe I'd soon be his fiancee
And I did believe him, as I had every right to
And I'd put on my best dress and we'd go dance at all the dances
And I'd never let the boys from the barracks cut in
They'd come out of Great Lakes, usually straight off the farm
anyway
And I'd never really let any of the country club beaus get a
chance
Those cream-colored summer suits were never cut to my taste
anyhow
And those Hyde Park fraternity fellas were out as a matter of
course
I don't enjoy a man in red, so certainly not maroon, that's for
sure
I only had eyes for my guy, see
But one night he had said he wouldn't be able to take me
As he hurt his shoulder and had his arm in a sling
But I went anyway and saw him with another woman
And she was wearing his ring
The silver still smelled and smelted down quick into the copper
or lead or whatever else it was
And when the metal was still soft and hot you'd engrave the
curse into it with a stylus from an old whale bone
I thought for a second of what I might write
Something a little different, but with the correct sort of spite
One of them asked panayia mou to make that blonde's hair fall
straight out
The potion was ready back at my apartment
And my sister and I mumbled and crossed ourselves when we
dropped the curses in
And I thought of my husband
My husband and her
And I thought of me and him, of what we were
I thought of our wedding day
And I was happy, very simply happy
Do you hear it
A modest young woman's simple contentment
It's probably a sunny day, and I think it was
The birds were chirping
And I felt like I was dancing on air
But not very far off the ground
I wonder if I knew even then that things wouldn't always be
perfect
That one day he'd seek solace in the arms of another woman
And that to win him back, to win him back, I'd have to do this
3：11!, 3：12!, 3：13!
On a hot August night everyone is asleep
But the crows were watching, witching and my temple was
twitching
Twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch
Fountain, sweet fountain
Fountain, sweet fountain
Let your water react and turn the curses to fact and come true
Fountain, sweet fountain
Fountain, sweet fountain
Let your water react and turn the curses to fact and come true
And they do
The instant we dropped them in, our hearts started to race
And a wind came up off the lake; make no mistake, we felt
something released out into the city
And I swore
And I swooned
As I swept back somehow to Austin, I don't remember how
Scared of what I had wrought
But terrified, I didn't get what I had sought
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
Oh Jimmy, where you been so long
And as the clock struck eight the next morning
My husband was next to me with a smile on his face
And I looked, no blond hairs on his pajamas
And it was as if I had been awakened from a bad dream
31.Clear Signal From Cairo
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Clear signal from Cairo
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your, back to your
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, love of my life
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, baby doll
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Clear signal from Cairo
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, love of my life
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, baby doll
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, clear signal from Cairo
Clear signal from Cairo
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me back
Back
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Clear signal from Cairo
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Clear signal from Cairo
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
It's a clear, it's a clear
Clear signal from Cairo
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me to back your arms
Calling me back to your, back to your
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, love of my life
Desert winds are strong
But they're not strong enough, baby doll
32.I'm Gonna Run
I slit my wrists with my Swingline
Copied myself 500 times
I pierced my ears with a 3-hole punch
Ate 12 dozen donuts for lunch
But next week I'm a walk, next week I'm a walk：
And the week after that I'm gonna run.
I swam in an Olympic-size pool;
Had a picnic with a ventriloquist
Saw my brother coming up the hill：
He wrapped a beach towel round my wrist
So next week I'm a walk, next week I'm a walk：
And the week after that I'm gonna run.
I dumped Surel for an older man;
Now I'm doing it for Dante.
Gimme some of that nasty water,
I'll take it one sip at a time.
So next week I'm a walk, next week I'm a walk：
And the week after that I'm gonna run.
Next week I'm a walk：
And the week after that I'm gonna run
On one of those things：
It's something like a treadmill I think.
So next week I'm a walk, next week I'm a walk：
And the week after that I'm gonna run.
33.Here Comes The Summer
Last day in May, the afternoon：remember？
Black marks off charcoal from the dune：remember？
I thought it wouldn't be too soon; we'd wait at least until its
June.
The twenty-ninth of March it rained：remember？
You looked so sad that I explained：remember？
You knew it wouldn't be too soon; we'll have to wait until its
June.
I've been waiting since I don't know when and now it finally
seems about to start.
I swear, I swear, that I will do my part.
December dark at six o'clock： remember？
The freezing wind gives you a shock： remember？
You knew it wouldn't be too soon; we'll have to wait until its
June.
October damp on down the street： remember？
The sodden leaves stuck to your feet： remember？
You knew it wouldn't be too soon; we'll have to wait until its
June.
I've been waiting since I don't know when and now it finally
seems about to start.
I swear, I swear, that I will do my part.
July the third we stayed up late： remember？
And thought how long we'd have to wait： remember？
It'll be so long until it's soon; it'll be so long until its
June.
34.Chief Inspector Blancheflower
I wanted to be a typewriter mender when I grew up,
But things didn't work out so. Sleep
Late in the morning, climb up Mt. Olympia and replace a Return：
But I didn't get enough good grades.
My uncle Peter had the Parthenon Business Machine Remediation
outfit,
And right there, on the shop floor,
Hundreds of electric Selectrics, all messed up.
But I didn't get enough good grades.
I had a dexadrine hyperactivity selective
Attend to relevant
Information tempo taken in told to
Mechanism coping concept.
Put my head down crumple my paper.
Sent to look at the future-job folder-binders,
I got distracted by the graphs.
In the resource room Mrs. Petorsky re-enforced me：
Raisins from her Ziploc bag,
And free time after my target behavior I was positive about：
Tickets, tangibles, chips and stars.
Now playing I'm In My Own Little House：
Tickets, tangibles, chips and stars.
I had a dexadrine hyperactivity selective
Attend to relevant
Information tempo taken in told to
Mechanism coping concept.
Put my head down crumple my paper.
After school I was sitting in the sitting room
Looking out at the pavers in their bright orange vests
Holding up the slow-go diamond plastic piece of wood,
And I knew that I'd never be any good
And never wear a hard-hat and do things like that,
So I joined the police force：
Damp in Dumbarton dip about the 14th of May.
The publican dropped me a line thought there had been foul play：
The farmer up the hill came in with his knife
He mumbled something darkly about his young wife.
Riding up on the postcoach I thrummed on my notebook.
The wind was up, I held on my hat. I do up my coat, look：
The farmer stumbled past holding his gun
He mumbled something darkly about his young son.
About your wife, sir.
What about her？
Pray, where is she？
Nowhere you'll see.
Locked him up in the store room of Mrs. McVeigh's Inn.
Take tea up in the manor Sir Robert Grayson.
The farmer through the window came in with his sword;
He mumbled out of breath Forgive me m'lord.
And after that rustic imposition I took a deposition
I shared a Woodpecker Cider with a local fratricider
Who told me all this stuff and more：
Well I rode up to Springfield on my motorcycle
And I's gonna stay with my younger brother Michael.
Mom's Oxycontins and the Amstel Light
But I noticed I was doing most of the talking that night.
So I got both remotes and turned off the DVD
And said Michael is there something that you need to say to me？
Well I don't know how to tell you.
You can tell me any
Thing that you want 'cept 'I started seeing Jenny'：
I started seeing Jenny.
My Jenny？
And he looked down at the floor.
You know damn well she ain't your Jenny no more.
And I said Get her on the phone.
Don't you think it's a little late？
No I don't think it's a little late.
But I went out the room cause I knew I'd better wait
So I went down to her dad's bakery and she said
I'm gonna go outside take a break smoke a cigarette.
I'm still surprised at how mad you get.
Well what'd you expec'？
That you wouldn't try to wreck your little brother's happiness.
And I said Listen to you!
I know what you're trying to do.
And what whould that be？
Mess with Michael's head as some kind of revenge back at me.
So I drove up to Springfield in my wife's new car
And I went'n had a drink at my buddy's old bar.
35.Automatic Husband
Thanks for asking, yes, it's true
We've been waiting for you, we've been waiting for you
Persuade your husband
He should stay at our disposal for today
And take down everything we say
About the new school bus assistant stuck in charge
Of leaving seven sleepy children in their seats in a trance
Induced by air conditioning
So I went back up to our room
And told my husband to sit down on the end table
And that he was getting very sleepy
When his eyes went out
I put the pen back in his left hand
At phases 8 and 31, the four faculties are done
But the principals are some
The solar period, if you look is like the bishop in the brook
So it says in this book
About the new school bus assistant stuck in charge
Of leaving seven sleepy children in their seats in a trance
Induced by air conditioning
And don't forget the imaginary map
Of the manifestations of murder making
Owned by the undertaker's office
Otherwise known as the Cadaverous Cosmeticians
Local number dead as a doornail in a church mouse's chin
Or so said the birth chart I sent away to New Mexico
For it was made by a special commission
Of Navajo basketball coaches and blond ladies
36.Ex-Guru
One of those blond ladies
Had a certain hold on me
I went to all the seminars
By the airport in the Doubletree
I even let her use nephew's sea plane
In the Bahamas for free
But she means nothing to me now
I tell myself that everyday
Well, she means nothing to me now
I tell myself every single day
I'm quite convinced I escaped her sway
I burned all my clothes
With eucalyptus juice
Ripped out the floors
Aand painted all the platforms puce
Now went so far
As to sacrifice a second snake to Zeus
So she means nothing to me now
I tell myself that everyday
She means nothing to me now
I tell myself every single day
Still convinced I escaped her sway
But when she mopes in the moonlight
On her Mesa in March
Does she kick up a thunderstorm
When she thinks of my betrayal？
Well, she means nothing to me now
Well, she means nothing to me now
37.Clear Signal From Cairo (Reprise)
It's a clear
It's a clear signal from Cairo
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your arms
Desert winds are strong but they're not strong enough, love of
my life
Desert winds are strong but they're not strong enough, baby doll
It's a clear
It's a clear
Calling me, calling me
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me
Calling me, calling me back
Calling me, calling me
Calling me, calling me back
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear, clear signal from Cairo
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear
It's a clear, clear signal from Cairo
Calling me back to your arms
Calling me back to your arms
Desert winds are strong but they're not strong enough, love of
my life
Desert winds are strong but they're not strong enough, baby doll
38.Philadelphia Grand Jury
There ain't no more favors to ask
There ain't no petitions to pass
It's all in the hands, it's all in the hands
Of the Philadelphia Grand Jury now
More crooked sons of bitches you can't ever have come across
Make sure that they notarized my will
Make sure mom don't look at the news
We already know, there ain't no suspense
That the Philadelphia Grand Jury strings me up
More crooked sons of bitches you can't ever have come across
More crooked sons of bitches you can't ever have come across
Make sure that they notarized my will
Make sure mom don't look at the news
We already know, there ain't no suspense
That the Philadelphia Grand Jury strings me up
More crooked sons of bitches you can't ever have come across
More crooked sons of bitches you can't ever have come across
39.Navy Nurse
I got warnings from jealous friends
Cases of borrowed clothes and a vial of Dramamine from my mother
And she said, 'Forget what mom likes 'cause things have changed'
Taught me how to make booze at home
Call it 'Old Uncle Zeke' and drink it early next week
Now, if there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
If there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
If there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
It's nice to go nautical when choosing a doormat
Oh, so nice to go nautical when choosing a doormat
I trust my navy nurse smile will put them on their feet again
I know my navy nurse smile will put them on their feet again
Save a glacier name for my daughter
For when the snow turns red, when the train pulls away
Listen to them whisper：
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
So on a warm winter night
On a worry-free winter night
Still a woman who enjoys feminine props
like a filmy sky crowded with filmy white clouds
In parrot green and lemon yellow
Appeared champagne's daughter
Sitting in a blue lacquered chair with wide gypsy stripes
If there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
If there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
If there's anything I've had enough of, it's today
For it seems no matter whether I weekend in Nice or Newark
I get no peace, so you shirk
The excursion and watch them remove from the hold
This year's champion Dwarf Marigold
This year's champion Dwarf Marigold
This year's champion Dwarf Marigold
This year's champion Dwarf Marigold
But as there's no snakeroot anywhere on the vessel
Or at any of the scheduled landings
And certainly no leopard flower
At least he's a first-class gold brick
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
(She's alert, she's open-minded, she's involved)
Took the velvet-caped me, let me tell you, from the golden slope
Riding the golden gulf weave
Park this Florida houseboat
On the rocky coast so I can see
Sit side by side beside myself me
On a ninety inch sofa and matching loveseat
Listen to them whisper：
'If there's anything I've had enough of it's tonight
If there's anything I've had enough of it's tonight
If there's anything I've had enough of it's tonight'
40.Uncle Charlie
Listen, I'm so unbored
The magic word is relax
I'll rub Ho-Toi, his God of happiness
The one that came with or without boys
Make 'em wish for the day
No more revenge cobbler whiskey pie
Make â~em wish for the day
No more revenge cobbler whiskey pie
My cheeks with the color
Of dead jellyfish lying on the beach
Let me tell you how
Many 18th Century grandfather clocks you can
Squeeze into your neighbors' niches
If only I knew I offered become a collector of small objects
Make â~em wish for the day
No more revenge cobbler whiskey pie
Make â~em wish for the day
No more revenge cobbler whiskey pie
My cheeks with the color
Of dead jellyfish lying on the beach
Was I a senior junior appraisal appraiser
At Mistie's Auction Hut in Centereach？
Or was I a low level high level appraiser of appraisal
At Snuggaby's crazy quilts
And collectibles collection in Hempsted Hollow？
I can hardly remember
Last year Uncle Charlie sang a different tune
The two words I hate most are â~Good enough'
Flipped through the sliding slack racks
Look at what it says on my red-patched pocket
'If you're going to be something
Why not be something special？'
Pull out the loathsome weeds
â½Don't worry, big girlâ
He sat me down on his handmade
Mexican mountain chair and showed me
His calendar for the next six months
Make â~em wish for the day
No more avenged cobbler whiskey pie
Make â~em wish for the day
No more avenged cobbler whiskey pie
My cheeks with the color of
Dead jellyfish lying on the beach
To locate my ex-boyfriend
Check the Yellow Pages under 'Plywood'
To locate my ex-boyfriend
Check the Yellow Pages under 'Plywood'
We live together under
A Sears Bellissimo bedspread
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