FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Geez, is it Friday already?

Yes it is - and that means it’s time for this week’s Friday Random Ten, the incredibly self-indulgent exercise in which I post whatever miscellaneous assortment of Musical Narrischkeit (that means foolishness, for those of my Esteemed Readers who are Yiddish-impaired) the iPod d’Elisson poops out.

What’s on the box today? Whaddaya say we take a look:

1. Stagger Lee - Professor Longhair
   
   It was early, early one morning
   When I heard my bulldog bark -
   He was barking at the two men
   Who was gambling in the dark.
   
   It was Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons, boys
   And they gambled there very late
   Every time Stag threw seven,
   Billy Lyons told him that he threw eight.
   
   Stagger Lee lost all of his money
   And he lost his Cadillac
   He said, “I believe you been cheatin’, Billy -
   Don’t be here when I come back.”
   
   Stagger Lee went home
   And he knocked upon little Bertha’s door
   He said, “Wake up, little Bertha, baby
   And hand me my .44.”
   
   You know, Bertha jumped out of the bed, screaming
   Boys, she was lookin’ at Stagger Lee’s eyes
   She said, “Come on in, honey,
   I can see some poor man’s gonna die.”
   
   Stagger Lee told Bertha
   That he had lost his brand-new Cadillac
   But he believed Billy was cheatin’,
   And she knew he didn’t go for that.
   
   Stagger Lee went back on the corner
   Boys, he stood up in the barroom door
   He said, “Don’t nobody move,
   ’Cause I got my .44.”
   
   You know, Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyons
   Oh, he shot the poor boy so fast
   The bullet went through Billy
   And it broke the bartender’s glass.
   
   Billy Lyons started to holler,
   He cried, “Stag, don’t take my life -
   You know I got two little children
   And a poor little old sickly wife.”
   
   Stagger Lee told Billy,
   “Yes, I know you got a cute boy and girl,
   But if you wanna see your family, Billy,
   Meet ’em in another world.”
   
   
2. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - Christian Thielemann, Orff: Carmina Burana
   
3. It’s In The Subtext - James Newton Howard, King Kong (2005)
   
4. Houses - Mitch Hedberg
   
5. Chop ’Em Down - Matisyahu
   
6. Life’s Been Good - Joe Walsh
   
7. Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring - Wendy Carlos, Switched-On Bach 2000
   
8. Dona Dona - Moishe Oysher and Sholom Secunda
   
9. Everything You Did - Steely Dan
   
10. Chinese Combo Number 5 - Weird Al Yankovic
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?