Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying.. Looking at the devil, grinning at his gun.... Beat on the brat, with a baseball bat... When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town, down around San Antone... Madmen, bummers, drummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat... And my favorite of all time (in a sad way), for its historical significance: "They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown..." The song opens with a report that "they're selling postcards of the hanging", and notes "the circus is in town". Polizzotti, and other critics, have connected this song with the lynching of three black men in Duluth. The men were employed by a traveling circus and had been accused of raping a white woman. On the night of June 15, 1920, they were removed from custody and hanged on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue East. Photos of the lynching were sold as postcards.[16] Duluth was Bob Dylan’s birthplace. Dylan’s father, Abram Zimmerman, was eight years old at the time of the lynchings, and lived only two blocks from the scene. Abram Zimmerman passed the story on to his son.[17][a 1] The 1920 Duluth lynchings occurred on June 15, 1920, when three African American circus workers were attacked and lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors had circulated that six African Americans had raped and robbed a teenage girl. A physician's examination subsequently found no evidence of rape or assault. The killings shocked the country, particularly for their occurrence in the northern United States, although four earlier lynchings had occurred in Minnesota.[1] In 2003, the city of Duluth erected a memorial to the murdered workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolation_Row
Always loved Queen's We R the champions beginning... "I've paid my dues, time after time. " Maybe not the best but the way it was sung and the eventual passing of Mercury made it much more. He just knew the end was near.
On a lighter note, you just can't beat Little Richard! A whop bopa-a-lu a whop bam bam....Tutti Frutti <iframe width="854" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gVWm9PQeYtE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> ....... ....... .......
" So you been to school for a year or two and you know you've seen it all" - DK "A dreaded sunny day so I''lol meat you at the cemetery gates" - Smiths "Who was that on the window ledge? Did he jump or was he pushed? He left a note which no one read" - Zounds "They're tearing up streets again. They're building a new hotel. The mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper bird, letting the curtains turn to beating wings" - Weakerthans
"Marry Me" by Drive-by Truckers Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized Rock and Roll means well, but it can't help tellin' young boys lies Spoiler <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VlcOs3fCN3M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Stones "Gimme Shelter" "oh a storm is threatening.....my very life today....if I don't get some shelter.... oh I'm gonna fade away" along with the opening guitar riff :grin:
♫ La cucaracha... la cucaracha... ya no puede caminar... porque no tiene, porque le falta... marihuana pa' fumar... ♪
I can't lie on this bed anymore It burns my skin You can take the truthful things you've said to me And fit them on the head of a pin Poor Napoleon
"Darkness at the break of noon..." "Ah, look at all the lonely people..." "Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?" "Hey, ho, let's go!" "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" "God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
nobody mentioned immigrant song yet??? "AHH AHH AHH AHH - AHH AHH AHH AHH We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow." another sun kil moon song - first tune on 'ghosts of the great highway' (one of the best albums of the 21st century)... Cassius Clay was hated More than Sonny Liston Some like K.K. Downing More than Glenn Tipton Some like Jim Nabors Some Bobby Vinton I like 'em all
