NP: The fine art of missing the arse

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 22:39:26 CST 2006


isn't that from the Dizzy Gillespie to Woody Guthrie's Bird, the voice
I hear reading the Emerson quote at the family reunion in Vineland,
Pete Seeger?

"slip the fluid to me, Louis"

"slip the claret to me, Barrett"

It's funny, I only heard it a few times...catchy as all get-out

wikipedia set met straight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Norvus
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/nervous_norvus/transfusion.html


On 3/7/06, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Anyone recall a novelty tune in the 60s or 70s about a guy who needs to
> speed in his car and eventually crashes, maybe called "Transfusion," in
> which part of the chorus uses the line, "Slip the blood to me, bud"?
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> while laughing out loud, it all came back to me: I realized that there was a
> mention of a reference to a lesser Barry Manilow song which included the
> phrase "slip the talcum to me, Malcolm"
>
>


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