A Mighty Wind

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> yes, it is probably hard for people who didn't live through the period
> to quite envision but to the late-50s pop musical ear the liberal and
> mildly left sentiments in this commercial folk music seemed very very
> outre (ootray).
> 
> P.


Yesterday, Spring finally stuck its toe in the cool lakes of Central
Park in Manhattan so we went there so I could check out the new bikes
and the roller-bladers behinds...and we walked up past the Falconer
(turning and turning in the...gyre) to Strawberry Fields where people
placed Tulips on the Imagine mandala and a few young men we playing John
Lennon tunes...Hey, you've got to hide your love away (Dylan inspired?)
and I sat with them and sang, 

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
                from uptight-short sighted - narrow minded hypocrytics,

                All I want is the truth, 
                Just gimme some truth,

                I've had enough of reading things
                by neurotic - psychotic-pig headed politicians,

                All I want is the truth,
                Just gimme some truth,

                No short haired - yellow bellied
                son of tricky dicky,
                Is gonna mother hubbard,
                Soft soap me,
                With just a pocketful of hope,
                Money for dope,
                Money for rope,

                I'm sick to death of seeing things
                from tight liped - condecending -
                mommies little chauvanists,

                All I want is the truth,
                just gimme some truth,

                I've had enough watching scenes of 
                schizophrenic - ego - centric - paranoic -
                prima - donnas,

                All I want is the truth,
                Just gimme some truth.

And I felt better for having blown that in the wind and I went to see
the quite american and had a glass of french wine and thought, what an
idiot wind I wuz when I was so much older then/than.