Dan Minette wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: I need a reality check on aisle 2
>
> > How about CORRECTING your quote?
> >
> > It should be "The man ain't got no culture," not "If a man ain't got no
> > culture."
>
> Well, give me a break. I'm relying on a middle aged memory...Lord, from
> about 30 years ago.
>
> > And I have a lyrics sheet that came with the album to prove it. And I'd
> > go to the book that has the sheet music for it, as well, to prove it
> > from *there* if I hadn't packed *that* early last month, so there! :P
> >
> > Julia
> >
> > who will allow a few hours to let someone *else* have the fun of
> > actually identifying it, because she believes the fun should be shared
> > :)
Seeing as no one rose to the challenge, I'll identify it now for anyone
dying to know.
The song is "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert
McNamara'd Into Submission)", it's by Paul Simon, it's on the Simon &
Garfunkel album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme".
I own the album on cassette; I own a copy of "Simon & Garfunkel
Collected Works" on CD, of whose second CD the album is on; and I own a
copy of _Paul Simon Complete_, which contains the sheet music to
everything he wrote up to at least 1977. (I can't remember if it goes
later than that, and it's packed away so I can't check. Ask me in
September if you really, really, really want to know.) So I had all
*kinds* of opportunities to study the song in question.
Julia
who needs more Beatles & Grateful Dead, still
