FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

I’m back in Atlanta after a short sojourn in the Great White North, ready to fire up the Little White Choon-Box.

Every week, I post a Random Assortment of Goodies from the iPod d’Elisson. If I really wanted to be random, I suppose I could post this list on random days of the week...and then this would be a Random Random Ten. But I gotta have some structure, OK?

This week’s Choon Selection starts off with a Tom Waits classic. What’s next? Why, that would be telling!

1. Get Behind The Mule - Tom Waits
   
   Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp
   With a horrid little pistol and a lariat
   She’s goin to the bottom
   And she’s goin down the drain
   Said she wasn’t big enough to carry it
   
   She got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   She got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   She got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   She got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   
   Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods
   You gotta meet me by the fall down tree
   Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid
   And I know they’ll come lookin for me boys
   And I know they’ll come a-lookin for me
   
   Chorus:
   Got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   Got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   Got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   Got to get behind the Mule
   In the morning and plow
   
   Big Jack Earl was 8'1
   He stood in the road and he cried
   He couldn’t make her love him
   Couldn’t make her stay
   But tell the good Lord that he tried
   (Chorus)
   
   Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville
   On the wreck of the Weaverville stage
   Beulah fired on Beatty for a lemonade
   I was stirring my brandy with a nail boys
   Stirring my brandy with a nail
   (Chorus)
   
   Well the rampaging sons of the widow James
   Jack the cutter and the pock marked kid
   Had to stand naked at the bottom
   Of the cross
   And tell the good lord what they did
   Tell the good lord what they did
   (Chorus)
   
   Punctuated birds on the power line
   In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Joaks
   I’m diggin’ all the way to China
   With a silver spoon
   While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boys
   The hangman fumbles with the noose
   (Chorus)
   
   Pin your ear to the wisdom post
   Pin your eye to the line
   Never let the weeds get higher
   Than the garden
   Always keep a sapphire in your mind
   Always keep a diamond in your mind
   (Chorus)
   
   
2. Adventures In Failure - MC 900 Foot Jesus
   
3. A Fateful Meeting - James Newton Howard, King Kong Original Soundtrack
   
4. Child Is The Father Of The Man - Brian Wilson
   
5. Ravel String Quartet in F Major - Ysaye Quartet
   
6. European Son - The Velvet Underground
   
7. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
   
8. Yesterday - The Beatles
   
9. L’Éléphant - Tom Tom Club
   
10. Thirteenth Dalai Lama - Philip Glass, Kundun
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?