Barrytowners in Mao III or what was on the tube or in the morning papers (315)

[Joe Allonby]

California tumbles into the sea, that'll be the day I go back to Annandale...

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barrytown "I can see by what you carry / That you come from Barrytown"
> Song: Barrytown    Album: Pretzel Logic
>
> A town in upstate New York, close to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard
> College (Becker & Fagen's alma mater). Its biggest claim to fame would
> be as the headquarters of The Unification Church, a.k.a. "The
> Moonies", a religious cult who gained notoriety in the 70s from
> reports of its mass weddings & alleged brainwashing of members. As a
> fundraising measure, followers would often stand at street corners,
> carrying small bouquets of flowers for sale (hence the lyric).
>