Mash away, Bill, it does nifty things…
Doug
> On Feb 8, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Manipulated to death, yes I think that’s well put, Doug. I only know about
> those early years through a biography on Johnny Cash I read years ago. Cash
> and Carl Perkins did not get somuch support from Sun after Presley and his
> act appropriated black acts fo a growing white audience.
>
> Though of doingba mash up of songs Presley sang and Costello wrote but
> somehow I got to thinking of Diana Ross and Love Child and have mashed it
> with Elvis’s Edge of Reality.
>
> Child of reality: love edge
>
>
> Started school, walk along
>
> a fake line, thin darling
>
> Dark shadows
>
> somebody threw out
>
>
> Oh I hear strange voices
>
> She drove me to the point
>
> in poverty. Never meant
>
> to follow me to tenement slum
>
>
> The brink of society
>
> tormenting me, Whoa;
>
> if she’s not real
>
> in a worn, torn dress
>
>
> then I’m condemned to
>
> laughing. She sits there,
>
> old, cold, so afraid
>
> I can’t explain
>
>
> I’ll only end up hating
>
> Hold on, nameless face,
>
> so afraid that others knew
>
> the name of shame
>
>
> Here’s where life’s dream
>
> lives in doubt -
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> the edge, what I feel -
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> misunderstood mockery
>
>
> bw
>
> 9.2.18
>
Douglas Barbour
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