Kasper, Ivor Cutler looks very interesting. I like the two that you've
given, especially Local Natural Sounds. It reminded me of a character from
one of Auden's more troubling "shorts" who, "unable to find a neighbour to
glare at, went in and beat his wife". It goes something like that.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:52 AM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tom Lehrer is a favourite of mine. I know most of his songs by heart.
>
> a scottish comic performer in a similar, but way more abstract, vein
> is a bespectacled auld gentleman called Ivor Cutler, in whose wacky
> storytelling rhythms & musical vignettes I partook already as a
> youngster, urged by my father. he wrote 'poems' too, wonderful little
> things.:
>
> LOCAL NATURAL SOUNDS
>
> A man laid his ear to Ben Nevis to hear what a mountain sounded like.
> But his ear was too small so he heard only local natural sounds. The
> mountain was there yet it eluded him.
>
> He went home and put his ear to his consort. She grew incensed and put
> her brogue to his kilt.
>
> The next time he passed Ben Nevis he spat, but it fell short.
>
>
> FREE WOOD
>
> I hate wood.
> Wood is wood.
> I hate it.
> I hate shape.
> Wood has a shape.
> Oh! I hate that wooden shape.
> Shape is round the wood to give it shape.
> Air surrounds the shapes and presses it in.
> I will suck the air away,
> set the shape free and
> let the wood run wild.
>
>
>
>
> KS
>
> 2008/5/25 Martin Dolan <[log in to unmask]>:
> > 'Every Sperm Is Sacred' from Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life' does
> it
> > for me.
> >
> >
> >> Yes, wonderful! I just found it
> >> here<http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/VaticanRag.htm>
> >> .
> >> This is a good lyric:
> >>
> >> "Two, four, six, eight
> >> Time to transubstantiate"
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Tom Lehrer's The Vatican Rag does it for me
> >>> --
> >>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> >>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> >>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> >>> The Go-Betweens
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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