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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: Jagger In Lyrics |
| Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:37:22 -0800 (PST) |
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"Folk-rock."
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Drew MacDonald wrote:
> Jeez, of course! Not only was Simon's Dylan parody certainly the first
> instance of Jagger-checking I'd ever heard, the album it appeared on
> (PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY & THYME) was one of the first albums I ever owned.
>
> I asked my parents for a Simon & Garfunkel record after one of the nuns at
> St. Michael's School used "I Am A Rock" to introduce us tykes to the concept
> of lyric metaphor. Pretty cool of her, in retrospect. She also cited Bob
> Lind's "Elusive Butterfly Of Love" in the same lesson.
>
> Drew,
> who's dropped his harmonica, Albert.
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 9:45 PM, Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> wrote:
>
> > Can't believe no one has mentioned Simon & Garfunkel's "A Simple Desultory
> > Philippic (or how I was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" (how's *that*
> > for a pretentious song title):
> >
> > "I been Mick Jaggered, been silver daggered.
> > Andy Warhol, won't you please come home?
> > I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled,
> > Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled.
> > I just a-discovered somebody's tapped my phone."
> >
> >
>
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