Posted on 03/17/2008 7:38:14 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
John / Billybob
Someone I know uses this as his e-mail ‘signoff’:
I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too.
I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this!
Warren Zevon
Freepmail or ping me on the thread to be added to the John Armor for Congress ping list.
Thanks for keeping Warren’s memory alive. One of the true, irreplaceable greats.
As Rick actually put it in Casablanca, "I was misinformed."
Do try to get it right.
Sounds like we need the nice lawyers from Sylva to settle the disputes on this thread. /sarcasm
Thanks for the ping MitchellC. Good article, Congressman.
Once they're done, could we borrow the pitch folk to use on the Union County Commissioners?
So true. And while he was certainly not a Republican, he was a libertarian. He never played the victim, even while dying of mesothelioma. He called it "the cancer". He took responsibility for his life and never publicly blamed others for his deadly illness.
Ahh, but there are some that are cool. I went to a Warren Zevon concert Feb 17 in Columbus Ohio with a proclamation from the Republican Mayor, Gregory Lashutka. The proclamation lauded Warren Zevon and declared it “Perfect Hair Day” in Columbus. I had two Republican judges (big Zevon fans)with me to award Warren with the proclamation. We met him back stage, gave him the proclamation and got him to sign three Lee Ho Fuk menus that I had picked up in London seven years earlier.
Ah-hoooo indeed.
Make that Feb 17, 1999.
Well, nobody likes lawyers, until they need one.
Maybe not even then.
I like “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” myself.
Wish in one hand, and spit in the other, and see which one gets full first...
(Which probably isn't the way you first heard it, either, but I'm a grade-school teacher.)
That said, I loved “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” myself, and although I didn't and don't own another of his albums, I do have the one with that and Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner. He had a quirky, black sense of humor that I still miss, and no body is as funny.
btt
I stumbled across this thread because I was reading one about Congressman Billybob. I didn’t become aquainted with Warren Zevon’s music until he was near death and only then because I wanted to hear Dwight Yoakam sing Dirty Life and Times. I can’t believe I missed out all those years because he wrote some amazing music. I love Studebaker. I’ve had days like that, fortunatley none recently. It must have been great to know him personally.
Warren was one of the greatest thinkers in rock and roll and I still devote a decent chunk of my time trying to keep his music alive. The reward is in the doing. It has led to some extraordinary experiences. I encourage you to keep listening to his stuff; it will blow your mind. He wrote the song "The Envoy" in the early 1980s and it is amazing how contemporary it remains.
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
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