Posted on 05/11/2007 9:07:23 AM PDT by real saxophonist
Roland searched the continent...for the man who’d done him in.
He found in him in Mombasa...in a baroom drinkin’ gin.
Roland aimed his Thompson gun. He didn’t say a word. But he blew Van Owen’s body from there to Johannesburg...
When ever I hear that song it makes me think of the movie “The Wild Geese”. Ever seen it?
MOST of his best work was done by other musicians. Linda Ronstadt did quite a few of his songs.
That's how it goes. 'Crazy Train' was a throwaway for Ozzie and Rhoads.
I get tears in my eyes when I hear “Tenderness on the Block,” thinking of my own little girl (currently 12) growing up.
Mama, where’s your pretty little girl tonight
Trying to run before she can walk - that’s right
She’s growing up
She has a young man waiting
She’s growing up
She has a young man waiting
Wide-eyes
She’ll be street-wise
To the lies
And the jive talk
She’ll find true love
And tenderness on the block
Daddy, don’t you ask her when she’s coming in
And when she’s home don’t ask her where she’s been
She’s going out
She has a young man waiting
She’s going out
Can’t keep her young man waiting
She’ll be okay
Let her have her day
It’s a long way
It’s a long walk
She’ll find true love
And tenderness on the block
I know how much it hurts to see her go
She has a mind of her own, you know
She’s all grown up
She has a young man waiting
She’s all grown up
She has a young man waiting
She was wide-eyed
Now she’s street-wise
To the lies
And the jive talk
She’ll find true love
And tenderness on the block
She’ll find true love
And tenderness on the block
I saw John Edwards drinkin’ a pina colada at Trader Vic’s...And his hair was perfect.
But when I introduced them to the earlier Linda, who pretty much got famous singing Warren's lyrics, they were kinca shocked.
Now that’s funny. My nominee for Chuckle of the Day.
Now I'm hiding in Honduras...
I'm a desperate man...
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money...
The Sh-t has hit the fan!
I know we all have politics on the brain, but come on. Excitable Boy is simply Zevon's bizarre composite caricature of the whack jobs making "news" every day. Well maybe it is liberalism, but I feel certain that Zevon did not intend it so.
No flames from this quarter. Dylan is so cryptic that I have come to believe that he never knew what he was even trying to say. Zevon's words have meaning.
My kids LOVE Werewolves in London. arrooooooooo
“The man could write lyrics. The Dylan of the 80’s but (and I know I’ll get flamed for this) with more talent.”
You’ll get no flame from me. Zevon was likely the most talented, humorous, and poignant lyricist whose work I’ve ever marveled over and enjoyed.
From “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” to “Desperados Under the Eaves” and everything in-between, Zevon was tough to beat. Even his lousier material, such as “Werewolves,” smoked - and still smokes - the vast majority of the crap that’s been out there for the past 30 years or so.
Didn’t mean to imply Zevon had ANYTHING implied in his song...just enjoying the irony of the mindset it implies.
I am with you there. One of the things I liked about Zevon was the fact he was "political" but not an over the top cookie cutter liberal. That's good enough in the entertainment industry.
Yep . . . or “The Wild Bunch!”
Me too, and i kant spel... Shoulda been ‘kinda schocked’, of course...
Wow... ‘shocked’. I’m going to shut up now, before I end up like that skeleton in the fundraising pictures...
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