OF FECKING COURSE!! THANK YOU! <with a Yiddish accent> Twenty *years* I am listening to this album and I never heard it that well!
I always heard "the gold endive" and wondered why she was eating bad lettuce? Please excuse my MG moment. (Hey, MG!) But seriously, James Leahy, that is a nice bit of scholarship, there. Thanks. Jim L'Hommedieu From: James Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Watching three rings in the sun The golden dive, the fatted flake And sizzle in the [their?] mink oil In the DJRD songbook there is a period after 'sun.' The vinyl fold-out does not include a period; nor does the Complete Poems & Lyrics. At one point I thought that the three grammatical constructions after 'three rings' were 'dive', 'flake', and 'sizzle' and that they were all nouns and that they were all examples of the 'rings'. But now I think they are three verbs with two subjects: "The golden dive. The fatted flake and sizzle in their mink oil. -----------
