A couple weeks ago my dad was down in Cincinnati, helping me with some house projects. Before we started, I went through my CD collection, found five that we could agree on and put them in the stereo on shuffle.
(It’s funny…when we went on car trips when I was little, there wasn’t much beyond Fleetwood Mac and the Beatles that we could all be happy with (especially when I was all about eighties glam rock)…now that I’m older, I find that I like a lot of “their” music…and they like a lot of “mine.”)
But I digress…
One of the CDs I pulled out that day was Arlo Guthrie’s Outlasting the Blues. When I was a kid, this was one of the albums everyone in the car could sing along to, but it’s not one that I listen to all that often these days.
One song in particular struck me as funny…. Here are the lyrics to “Telephone.” (If they’re not completely accurate, blame it on the lyric site I found…)
Every morning just as soon as it's light
Get out of bed and I'm feeling alright
Make me some coffee and I sit down alone
The rest of the day I'm on the telephone
Hang up, hold on
You got a dime so you come on so strong
Save your money and let me be
Hang up the phone and quit bothering me
I got a phone in my bedroom and one in the barn
A phone in my car and one in the yard
A phone on my saddle for when I'm out on the range
A phone in my pocket for when I'm down at the grange
Hang up, hold on
You got a dime so you come on so strong
Save your money and let me be
Hang up the phone and quit bothering me
Now with devaluation all over the land
The whole wide world has got more money in their hand
They'll be calling me up from Peking and Nome
I'm going to rip out my telephone
(It probably loses something if you don’t know the tune that goes with it…)
Anyway, I remember liking the song when I was a kid because it was just so ridiculous. How could you ever have a phone in your pocket? Or in your car? Hmmm…
4 comments:
Does your Dad still have the little Chet Atkins ditty followed by "we'll be right back" on the machine?
wow. i completely forgot about that. i was mortified by that when i was in high school.
I never forget anyhing. It's both a blessing and a curse. If You ever hear me say "I don't remember," chances are I'm lying. By the way, the shift key is the second one up in the lower left corner. For added convenience there is also one in the second row up in the right hand corner. Bending pinkies is sometimes difficult but I just know you can do it.
it's not enough that you stir up trouble on your own blog...now you're messing with mine?!? i actually do know where the shift key is, thanks. oddly enough, i dont know how to use the one on the right. no joke. no matter what i am typing, i use the shift key on the left. capital A, for example? shift with my pinkie, hit A with my ring finger. awkward, yes. but i honestly cant figure out how to use the one on the right.
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