Posted on 11/20/2001 3:40:03 PM PST by youngFreeper
Just for fun I would like to see what songs everyone feels has a coservative flavor.
"A Space In Time" seemed a little better, though.
On that "Sweet Jane" album cover ['Transformer'] waaay back when, I thought Reed looked eerily like Herman Munster.
"A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams Jr.
(by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen)
In the mornin you go gunnin'For the man who stole your water
And you fire till he is done in
But they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all singin'
As they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn't hangin'
And they put you on the street
You go back Jack do it againWheels turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back Jack do it again
When you know she's no high climberThen you find your only friend
In a room with your two timer
And you're sure you're near the end
Then you love a little wild one
And she brings you only sorrow
All the time you know she's smilin'
You'll be on your knees tomorrow
You go back Jack do it againWheels turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back Jack do it again
Now you swear and kick and beg usThat you're not a gamblin' man
Then you find you're back in Vegas
With a handle in your hand
Your black cards can make you money
So you hide them when you're able
In the land of milk and honey
You must put them on the table
You go back Jack do it againWheels turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back Jack do it again
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
(c) 1984 Bruce Springsteen
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I'm the phrase "born in the U.S.A" is meant sarcastic
Well, yeah! Velvet Underground. The Art Group that WAS an Art Group.
The song? Mary Jane? DREADED WEED FROM HELL?
Mebbe. But to Sontag's Against Interpretation I would amend: Against Too Much Interpretation! (I accept Lennon's account of the genesis of LITSWD. I'm gargling enough annoyance without having to tweak it out.)
The lyrics are NOSTALGIC and, to my mine, positive.
. . but those were different times . .
Poets walk among us. BEVARE!!!!!!
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