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This is an early home recording and it's not fully produced. It's here because it's |
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or: I Can See for Piles and Piles!
Billy was a kid with unbelievable id
Charlie was an astronaut, worked til he was overwrought
Ellen was a nurse suffering from a family curse |
Peter Cross is the songwriter and the singer.
Commentary:
Along with Dirty Hippy, this was my first real attempt at being
funny in a song. I set the words to a typically simple and fast country music three chord progression which made it
extremely easy to teach it to every band I ever played in. Many thousands of people have heard this song all over this
country and it never failed to get a laugh out of someone. But the person who was supposed to have the most educated
musical ears that ever heard this song fell off his bar stool on account of it. That was Joel Selvin, the number one music
reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and his newspaper review of my band Magic and this song is in
The Peter Cross Montage. As I recall, it took me less than a half hour to write
down these lyrics and I did not use a rhyming dictionary. The crazy rhymes just came to me and I was laughing to myself as
I was writing it and thinking "What are people going to think of me if anyone ever hears this?" I found out that people
just laughed along with me, and not at me. Apparently the subject is a "sore" one with many "normal" people!
Music, lyrics, text, and web page design copyright 1996 © Peter Cross