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| From | Christobal <plattc@optonline.net> |
| Subject | Re: Science Songs, revisionist history, and rick springfield |
| Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:45:05 -0400 |
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Well, I found the complete lyrics, but don't know where you might find a
recording....
Triceratops
Verse 1:
How many horns do you have? None of course.
How many horns does a bull have? Two of course.
But me, but me, I have three.
I’m very special you can see.
Chorus:
Triceratops with three long horns, a beak like a parrot
And a frill where his neck is.
Triceratops with four big legs and a tail in back.
Verse 2:
How many lips does a bug have? None of course.
How many lips do you have? Two, of course.
But me, but me, I’m unique.
Instead of lips I have a beak.
Chorus:
Verse 3
How many legs does a fish have? None of course.
How many legs do you have? Two, of course.
But me, but me, I have more.
I’m so glad that I have four.
Chorus: {repeat}
Chorus: {repeat}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kcronin
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:28 AM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Science Songs, revisionist history, and rick springfield
>
>
> Mark: let me be the first to say: holy crap!
>
> TMBG fans - follow mark's link for the "sun is a mass
> of incandescent gas" song....I swear to god i saw
> those guys sing that in like 1988 and thought "hm,
> that sounds familiar. How can that be?" (only they
> said the sun was comprised of hydrogen, helium,
> estrogen, nutrasweet...) I know I didn't have those
> records, but i'm thinking someone i knew in my youth
> must have...wonder what those puppies go for now in
> nostalgia dollars? I can just imagine me and my
> brothers kicking back with some SpaceFoodSticks in our
> bean bag chairs and learning every word of those
> records, in some alternate universe (wearing hideous
> striped flares, no doubt.) In any event, good work
> Mark! Now keep it up and tell me where I can find
> this one, which was played in my 2nd grade class and
> sticks in my head til this bloody day:
>
> triceratops had three long horns,
> a beak like a parrot
> and a (something) like and (something something.)
>
> As for Bob's revisionist question, i've been wondering
> that myself about my own memory: I clearly recall the
> Madness, and am quite sure it's my first cassette, but
> vinyl I'm having a much harder time with: I'm
> thinking it was either Steely Dan's "Aja" or the
> Doors' "weird scenes inside the goldmine." And I know
> my first cd was either Trip Shakespeare's "Across the
> universe" or David Bowie's "Space Oddity," because I
> had both of those long before I actually had a cd
> player (I was looking to the future) but i can't
> remember which came first, though I do remember at
> which store I bought both of them. which, really, is
> creepy enough.
>
> and for anna, and any other rick springfielders out
> there, my sis-in-law carol and her childhood friend
> Janet just went to see the Man himself and reported
> that he looks good, and that he walked out into the
> crowd on the backs of the chairs (carol: "like Jesus
> on the freaking waters") until Janet seized his leg
> and he couldn't walk out any farther, at which point
> he sang "don't talk to strangers" while holding
> Janet's hand and she ended up with his nasty,
> rocksweaty towel which (Carol reports) she proceeded
> to *huff* for the rest of the show. Carol reports
> also that she's not surprised he's saying it's his
> retirement tour, to wit: "I'd retire too, if I had all
> those big-haired suburban 40 year old sluts grabbing
> my ass every night for 20 years."
>
> Amen.
>
> --kelly
>
>
> --- Mark M Smith <mark.smith@readysteadyhost.com>
> wrote:
> > OK, Craig, prepare for your life to be complete. Not
> > only do I think I know
> > what you're talking about but I even have a link so
> > you can download the
> > tracks. If this is right then there were a whole
> > series of these each
> > covering a different area of science.
> >
> > Have a look here
> > http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/ and hopefully
> > this
> > is what you were talking about.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org>
> > To: <audities@smoe.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: first records
> >
> >
> > > Wow, you guys are amazing. Seriously - I don't
> > have any idea what the
> > first
> > > record I bought with own money was. I wish I did.
> > I'd like to read my own
> > > tea leaves. Damn. I do recall having a pretty
> > impressive collection of
> > John
> > > Denver and Olivia Newton-John cassettes. Except my
> > parents labelled
> > > EVERYTHING. Must of have stock in the DYMO labeler
> > company. To this day I
> > > think of Olivia as ON-John as every damn tape was
> > labelled 'O N John'
> > >
> > > But here's the real question. This one has bugged
> > me for years. If one
> > of
> > > you can help well it'll be scary, it'll feel like
> > the circle of my life
> > has
> > > been completed. So beware if you know the answer
> > to this one. When I was
> > > really a young 'un I remember my parents buying me
> > this album that was
> > like
> > > all these 'Science' songs that just reeked of the
> > era - space technology,
> > in
> > > particular. A couple titles / lines "Seven Miles a
> > Second" (referring to
> > the
> > > required velocity to escape earth's atmosphere).
> > Another had the lines
> > "the
> > > world is just a great big grapefruit, 25,000 miles
> > around; You could see
> > > from here to China, if you could dig through the
> > ground". Any bells
> > ringing?
> > > Scary I realize..but this is like the primordial
> > ooze of my
> > memories....and
> > > I've wanted to find this record for years.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > n.p. Thomson - s/t (or AMG calls it "Nuclear
> > Love") - wow..fans of Cosmic
> > > Rough Riders, Velvet Crush, General Store, ante
> > up..this one is wonderful!
> > >
> >
> >
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