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Johnny Don’t March! (lyrics) Johnny Grab Your Gun! Sign Yourself Up! You can fight overseas or March on Washington. Think of your Mom! You’re her only Son. If You Grab that Gun, or March for Anyone. It’s not worth your life. Those Boots for Battle. The Drum Beats to Bloodshed. We’re not Old Enough to Know the Voices Silenced, Shot Down decades ago. Wish it were more than a dream, but this War on War is the Evil Scheme. Think of Your […]
Mr Jonze and Me. ‘I wish I was Beautiful.’
Criminal. So William Burroughs, the beat poet, was getting heavily intoxicated with his girlfriend. She blurted, “Hey! If you such a damn good shot. Take your pistol and blow this apple of my head!” He missed. So in response, I did a cover version of Fiona Apple’s hit song from the 1990’s in a true garage rock fashion.
Psychotherapy! Here is another old school punk tune from way back in the bad old daze. I must chill out. I believe that I have pissed off the neighbors again. They are banging on the walls. oops….
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me. David van Ronk wrote this tune. I changed a few lines to fit my experience. Once again, Live to 2-track.
Let Me Follow You Down. This is a cover, live to 2-track.
I’m Looking Through You. I did the song as a confidence builder. Sometimes a football quarterback is put fresh in a game, and is given an easy lateral screen pass to throw immediately to show him that he can do his job. That is why I choose the tune, because these days I am not feeling very confident in my abilities.
I Wanna Be Sedated! I have an admonition to give from my personal history, personal experience. Do not go to your local psychiatric unit, and sing this song. The doctors may be all too willing to oblige.
Look What You’ve Done. There is something about how the song was written that seems very Beatle-ish.
Modern Love. Really should be Post-Modern Love. Description: Post-modern is easy. We are in the post-modern era. Basically everything has been done and there’s nothing new under the sun so the new way of creating is to take pieces of older stuff (deconstruction) and reassemble it. The variations are endless and so a new era of expression had been born.
Blue Jean. I really had no idea who or what ‘Blue Jean’ is. My first thoughts, knowing that the song came out in the 1980’s, was that Blue Jean is a code name for cocaine. The problem being that if your cocaine is Blue then it is mostly likely cut, and poison. That doesn’t jive. So I have settled that Blue Jean is a beautiful temptress female, which is the common logic. Hope you dig it!
She Belongs to Me. All I can say is… ‘I am a walking antique.’
Artist- Ted Giffin - Musician 