A Journal of Humor and Verbal Anarchy

 

choir practice

KIDDER PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

a new album of Ithaca folk music from all your favorite artists

'singing to the choir'



TRACK 1 talking ithaca blues
(Puffy and the Progressives)

i'm going over to autumn leaves.
Gonna work for peace on earth,
i'm going over to autumn leaves,
gonna fight for social justice, baby.
I'm going over to autum leaves,
gonna create a cleaner planet,
and they got the answers there.

Chorus

you know, i've got the talking ithaca blues,
can talk all day about the issues,
can tell you, baby, just what's in the news,
Got my greenstar card, nothing left to lose,
you know, darling, i've really paid my dues.

i'm going over to autumn leaves
gonna fight for a living wage,
i'm going over to autumn leaves.
Gonna join the wymen's army,
i'm going over to autumn leaves,
gonna talk and talk and talk
because they got all the answers there.
Chorus

you know, i've got the talking ithaca blues,
can talk all day about the issues,
can tell you, baby, just what's in the news,
Got my greenstar card, nothing left to lose,
you know, darling, i've really paid my dues.

TRACK 2 doggie style rag
(Pooper and the Scoopers)

they don't let my doggie on the commons,
unless he needs his ears lowered,
ain't that a drag, ain't that a pity,
what would they do if I had a kitty.

Cause he's a good ole doggie,
Likes his lovin doggie style,
he's been known to leave a pile,
why should he have to go on trial?

One day I'm gonna see the mayor,
just walking on down the street,
gonna let my doggie off the leash,
let him do a number, do you capiche?

'cause he's a good ole doggie,
likes his lovin' doggie style,
he's been known to leave a pile,
why should he have to go on trial?

TRACK 3 love it or leave it
(Paul Glover and the Diehards)

they call me mister protest,
i've been round here since the sixties,
some's that calls me a social pest,
they think it's some kind of disease.
It's just that I have a cause,
I like and try to make things better,
nothing what I say should make you pause,
so why did I just get this strange letter
from the people over at the FBI,
they tell me I need to report,
they say I've got a ticket to fly,
they toss around the word 'deport',
get my beret and baggage, too
love it or leave it, that means goodbye,
all because of my point of view,
ain't it enough to make you cry.
I took a stand against the war,
and now it's time to say au revoir.

TRACK 4 singing to the choir
(The Ithaca Tabernacle Choir)

it just came over the news wire,
there's a war in the desert,
a scandal in DC, another Bush alert,
it's time again to start singing to the choir,

preaching the gospel to the converted,
getting those old lawn signs out,
if you had a momentary doubt,
that we're progressive, clear it from your head.

You're living in the protest capital,
where peace and justice flourish,
it's here love and harmony gets nourished,
and dissent among the ranks is really very minimal.

We all love to hear the latest dirt,
on bush, rumsfeld and cheney,
at the risk of sounding whiney,
ain't it time we stand to assert

our views on just about everything,
tell the world how to improve,
and fit right in the groove,
oh, brother, oh sister, hear the church bells ring.

We're singing to the choir,
we'll be holding sunday school,
we'll be sending out a flyer,
to every single fool.

Oh, Ithaca, oh Ithaca,
You are so great,
Oh Ithaca, oh Ithaca,
We know you rate.

Let freedom ring, let the choir sing,
from gorge to shining lake.

(Everybody flashes a peace symbol )




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