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| Facts: |
| Neil performs this song from Rutland Weekend Television, one of the many he wrote for the show, at the Python's City Center performance in New York in April 1976. The 'hippie protest' thing was well on it's way out by this time and so this song wasn't performed at the Hollywood Bowl concert a few years later. Both Neil's 'Idiot Song' and 'Urban Spaceman', however, had no cultural 'use by' date and were just fine when the Pythons went to Hollywood. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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| Song Lyrics: |
Eric Idle: Well, now ladies and gentlemen, it's 'Talent Spotting Time', and please put your hands together for a a very big warm welcome please to Raymond Scum!
Neil Innes: Uh...(tunes guitar)...uh...(tunes guitar)...uh, this next song is a protest song...(tuning)...uh...(more tuning)...
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music
Now it's your turn...
(Terrible harmonica playing)
All the prophets of doom
Can always find room
In a world full of worry and fear
Tip cigarettes
And chemistry sets
And Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
So I'm goin' back
To my little ol' shack
And drink me a bottle of wine
That was mis en bouteille
Before my birthday
And have me a ******' good time
Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum
We're marchin' for freedom today ...hey
Turn on your headlights and sound your horn
If people get in the way
(More terrible harmonica playing)
Let me turn you on
To the chromium swan
On the the nose of a long limousine
Even hired for the day
It is somethin' to say
But what the hell does it mean?
I may be accused
Of bein' confused
But I'm average weight for my height
My phil-o-so-phy
Like color TV
Is all there in black and white
RAI ..Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum
We're marchin' for freedom today ...hey
Turn on your headlights and sound your horn (honk honk)
If people get in the way (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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