Re: Fariña quote
Robert Norton
rnorton at unm.edu
Thu Dec 17 13:25:35 CST 1998
I've got all of the lytics at home. The first line of the last verse is "It
was a Red, White, and Blue naked whore on the floor"
On 12/17/98, at 10:01 AM, David Casseres wrote:
>Can anyone come up with the lyrics of another Fariña hit, the one about
a
>trip to Cuba? It did a nice job of beginning with the Dionysian
>in-it-for-the-joyride side of the Movement --
>
> Tourist Information said to get on the stick,
> You ain't movin til you're groovin with a Cubana chick
> So I jumped on a plane, I took a pill for my brain
> And I discovered I was feelin all right!
>
>and ending with the in-it-for-real, political, not-exactly-Appolonian
side:
>
> It was the Red, White, and Blue comin down on the poor
> Blind Mother Justice on a pile a manure
> Say yer prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance every night
> And tomorrow you'll be feelin all right, hey hey hey!
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