Who did it originally? I'm only familiar with the Pogues version.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2010 4:11:59 pm PST #2631 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dana - Mar 06, 2010 4:27:44 pm PST #2632 of 6436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
billytea - Mar 06, 2010 4:31:53 pm PST #2633 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
Yep, Eric Bogle. He's a Scottish-born Australian folk singer.
Dana - Mar 06, 2010 4:34:57 pm PST #2634 of 6436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Now I have an earworm. A really depressing earworm.
Hayden - Mar 07, 2010 11:55:57 am PST #2635 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
According to several news outlets, it appears that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide yesterday. He was one of my favorite living songwriters, up there with, well, Vic Chesnutt. And now both of them are dead by their own hands in just over two months. Perhaps I need to listen to more uplifting music. As I write those words, though, my iPod serves up Jay Reatard.
DavidS - Mar 07, 2010 12:02:45 pm PST #2636 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
it appears that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide yesterday.
Fuck!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 08, 2010 10:14:02 pm PST #2637 of 6436
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Tragic. Sparklehorse was awesome.
Theodosia - Mar 09, 2010 4:01:42 am PST #2638 of 6436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'd missed the news about Chesnutt too. SIGH
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2010 5:07:12 am PST #2639 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Sandinista Project, once again free for a limited time
A few years ago, I produced The Sandinista Project, in which 36 performers each covered one song from The Clash’s Sandinista! It was a fun and crazy project. Last summer, on Joe Strummer’s birthday, I made the record free for a day. The free download was a great success although what I learned from the experiment was more mixed.
I’ve been having a wonderful time on Boing Boing during my guestblogging residency and I’d like to say “thank you” by making the record free again, for a limited time. Instead of making it free for one day, which slowed the hamsters running the guterman.com servers to a crawl because everyone downloaded at once, I’m going to make the record, along with digital images of the packaging, available until midnight U.S. eastern time on Sunday night, so you’ll have plenty of time to download this before it goes away.
Just in case you don't know, this album has a track by The Lothars....
Jon B. - Mar 09, 2010 6:14:12 am PST #2640 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There are other good tracks on that as well...