Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for March 21, 2025

The band manager’s an officer and he prefers a major key.

One, two, three, four

♪ Working in a coal mine, going down down ♪

He sussed that..

Sure, I can dig it.

Anthracite Rock!

They’ll do anything for Cole.

A minor ?

The Springhill mine disaster, 1958. Sorry, not funny.

“By the way, my daughter, Loretta, wants to join the band. She’s a good singer, really!”

Is a miner key down low?

A sharp idea but the punchline fell flat.

Maybe you could play the theme to SHAFT

Sixteen tons, whadda ya get?

Won’t it sound kind of dark?

Missouri S&T. Go Miners!

Does he know anything from Cole Porter?

That key is way down deep.

Time to get down and dirty?

They need a soprano to sing the oreia.

Or are they doing heavy metal?

Well, if you insist.

Peter, Paul and Slurry.

Ain’t nobody that can sing like me, way down yonder in a minor key…

Man, he can do something swinging with that ax.

You can, but you’ll just make the song sad

Spelunk, spelunk, splunk

Play Fleetwood Mac’s “ Coal Dust Woman.”

“Miners, not minors!”.

Are we singing harmonies or in union?

The group the Canaries refuse to open for them.

How low can he go?

“miner, not minor!”… “ya lost me”…..