I saw your book at a Borders in Kentucky, Under a sign that said "New and Recommended," I stole a look at your picture on the inside sleeve, and then I couldn't leave...
Pulitzer and Hearst, they think they got us. Do they got us? No! Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothin'. Are we nothin'? No! And the world will know.
"Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay." "I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking. Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away."
Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road. Rock Island Line is the 'road to ride. Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road, If you want to ride it, gonna ride it like you're flyin', Get your tickets at the station for the Rock Island Line.
--From an album of folk songs that my parents had when I was a kid. About a railroad. Maybe a radio jingle?
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Well, they got an apartment with deep-pile carpets
And a couple of paintings from Sears
Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
I saw your book at a Borders in Kentucky,
Under a sign that said "New and Recommended,"
I stole a look at your picture on the inside sleeve,
and then I couldn't leave...
--A Summer in Ohio, from The Last 5 Years
Though at first we said, "No, Sir!"
Now we're two little dears
You might say we are closer
Than Rosebuck is to Sears
(Rodgers & Hart, "Bewitched")
Pulitzer and Hearst, they think they got us.
Do they got us? No!
Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothin'.
Are we nothin'? No!
And the world will know.
from "Newsies"
"Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay."
"I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking.
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away."
--John Prine
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, i must make amends
Maybe if you forget to hide the keys
I'll take a ride to Applebees
I'll come home drunk on daiquiris
And throw up on the neighbor's lawn
Shop Vac
Jonathon Coulton
My name is Johnny Walker and I won't wanna make any advertising, you know?
Munich Girls by Falco
Tell me why I bid on Shatner's old toupee?
Found it on eBay.
--"The eBay Song," Weird Al Yankovic
Take the National Express,
When your life's in a mess,
It will make you smile
National Express - Divine Comedy
Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road.
Rock Island Line is the 'road to ride.
Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road,
If you want to ride it, gonna ride it like you're flyin',
Get your tickets at the station for the Rock Island Line.
--From an album of folk songs that my parents had when I was a kid. About a railroad. Maybe a radio jingle?
Spaghetti Carbonara, e una Coca Cola
Carbonara, e una Coca Cola
Carbonara by Spliff
They say that Richard Corey owns one half of this whole town
Simon and Garfunkel
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner
That is what I truly want to be
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner
Everyone would be in love with me
Downstairs at Danny's
All-Star Joint
they gat a jukebox
that goes doit-doit...
---Ricki Lee Jones
MGM has got a leo,
But mama has got a trio
From The Bandwagon I think, song maybe Triplets???
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