Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 24, 2020

fun song (not really)

Shel Silverstein? Sounds like something he would have written.

I’m getting images of Violet from the original Willie Wonka movie.

Next up we’ll hear a song about Alice and the bathtub, moral being skinny girls named Alice shouldn’t take baths.

How excitingly! Nap time will e a breeze today, Blissie!

An emotional powerhouse that brought the house down!

Saw a concert pianist use a fore-arm SMASH in a legitimate concert!!!

Sounds like one of Heinrich Hoffman’s “Struwwelpeter” rhymes, if they had bubble gum in the 19th century

Now there’s my ear worm for the day. Lovely.

Wow, they didn’t destroy the piano bringing it in.

What has Alice got in her hand there?

Catchy!

Google “Winsboro Cotton Mill Blues”..

Woah, I could see the Ramones doing this song!

This works with the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star/ABC Song?Baa Baa Black Sheep/Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman.

Go ahead and cry at songs, movies too, Dill. The girls will love you. Well, maybe you don’t want girls to love you. So stop. Stop it I tell you!

that’s the style of piano we had when i was growing up. my mom and her siblings could play anything just by hearing it first; never had a piano lesson; me not so much. is that a real song or did Mr Thompson just make that up? which ever Dill loved it.

Dill loves the classics ;)

I had no idea Miss Bliss was so avant garde! :)

An instant classic.

I prefer music with valuable life lessons.

The composition was in Dill’s wheelhouse. He’s such a connoisseur of the fine arts.

I think the real lesson in the song is, if you are going to chew bubble gum, don’t blow bubbles.

Is that a Shel Silverstein song?

Teachers hate Gum , I don’t know why.

Definitely a piano-forte.

Anti-gum propaganda

Miss Bliss was really caught up in her cautionary song!