“Send Lawyers, Guns and Money....”

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 17 March 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Yes, Meat Loaf had a slightly different version of the song, which also showed up on Google.

John / Billybob

[AlaskaErik]

Whenever I hear the name Warren Zevon, I think of Werewolves of London. That's all I know him for.

[MissMagnolia]

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

[MitchellC]

Armor for Congress PING!

John Armor for Congress

John Armor on YouTube

Freepmail or ping me on the thread to be added to the John Armor for Congress ping list.

[JennysCool]

Thanks for keeping Warren’s memory alive. One of the true, irreplaceable greats.

[Tenniel2]

As Rick so memorably put it in "Casablanca," "You were misinformed."

As Rick actually put it in Casablanca, "I was misinformed."

Do try to get it right.

[PGalt]

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.

[Tax-chick]

and throw money out the back with a pitch folk

Once they're done, could we borrow the pitch folk to use on the Union County Commissioners?

[Zevonismymuse]

Thanks for keeping Warren’s memory alive. One of the true, irreplaceable greats.

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.

[don'tbedenied]

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.

[don'tbedenied]

Make that Feb 17, 1999.

[Little Ray]

Well, nobody likes lawyers, until they need one.
Maybe not even then.

[Little Ray]

I like “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” myself.

[Old Student]

” I wish the GOP was a little cooler.”

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.

[Cacique]

btt

[saganite]

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.

[Zevonismymuse]

I knew Warren as a fan, not a friend, but did get to meet him several times. My first public singing/guitar playing performance was to Warren after one of his shows. Last year when his authorized biography was published, with excerpts from his diary, I was very thrilled to see he had made a journal entry about my performance. The song I sang to him was one he wrote for Dwight Yoakum called "Heartache Spoken Here". Dwight Yoakum sang the back-up vocals on Warren's recorded version. It is one of the best C&W songs ever; not my version....Warrens'. There was also another story in the biography, "Warren Zevon; The Dirty Life and Times" about me as an unnamed fan.

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.

[George Smiley]

While we're nit-picking for the sake of accuracy, you misquote Rick's line from Casablanca:

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.