----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:24 PM Subject: Re: I need a reality check on aisle 2
> 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 > Well, I guessed the group last week. xponent Partial Credit Maru rob
