Friday, May 26, 2006

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?

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