Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 15, 2020
October 14, 2020
October 16, 2020
Transcript:
richard's poor almanac by richard thompson urban folksong sing-along funtime corner big jean-henri big jean-henri was a pepper-grindin' man grindin' that fresh pepper all over the land. came over here by way of paris, france. never saw him a salad that he couldn't enhance. (chorus) grind, grind, grind that pepper! oh lordy, grind that pepper fine! yumtumyodliyeeyiaohohoo! yumtumyidloyaheeitetaoinshrdlu! metro lullabye ridin' the metro feel the train sway. all of a sudden you're dozing away. heavy eyes close now sleepy head drop. before you know it you've missed your stop. metro commuter sing lullabye. head on the window drool on your tie. midnight will find you, sure as you please, out in the trainyard stacking up z's. jump-rope rhyme slick willie's winkie ran amok, slick willie's really got some luck. all of the women all of the men say, "what is the big deal? i'd vote for him again."
Cpeckbourlioux almost 4 years ago
I do miss Bill.
Kaputnik almost 4 years ago
Hand me the grinder and I’ll grind the amount of pepper I want on my own salad. You won’t get it right.
Or I would have. The restaurants that used to do that probably aren’t doing it these days. And they’d never just hand you the grinder anyway, come to think of it.
well-i-never almost 4 years ago
Now I’ll have Big Jean-Henri stuck in my head all day…yumtumyidloyahee….
DCBakerEsq almost 4 years ago
Slick Willie, President for Life. If only.
Sisyphos almost 4 years ago
Gotta love this Urban Folk of the ’90s!
(BTW, Metro Lullabye encapsulates one of my greatest phobias….)
NatureBatsLast almost 4 years ago
Slick Willies “workfare” single mom’s guttin’ chickens for minimum wage at Tyson. Ended the New Deal and turned the banks into casinos for his Goldwater girl.