"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
23 May 2005Down by the deli-sideSome songs are associated with various dates: Bruce Springsteen's "Sandy" (which is officially titled "Fourth of July, Asbury Park"), Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" (the third of June), the Bee Gees' "First of May" (duh). Then there's this:
When you go to the delicatessen store
Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst I repeat what I just said before Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst Oh, buy the corned beef if you must The pickled herring you can trust And the lox puts you in orbit A-OK But that big hunk of liverwurst Has been there since October first And today is the 23rd of May So when you go to the delicatessen store Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst It'll make your insides awful sore Don't buy the liverwurst Don't buy the liverwurst The very last segment of Allan Sherman's "Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other," the last track on My Son, the Celebrity, ostensibly "recorded live at Allan Sherman's birthday party (November 30, 1962)," and the only song I can think of that actually mentions the 23rd of May. Don't expect me to post "Ode to Billie Joe" next Friday. (And actually, I don't have to: Francis W. Porretto has already blogged the story of what happened in and around the Tallahatchie Bridge.) TrackBack: 6:21 AM, 24 May 2005 » Don't Know Much About Poetry, Part Seven: The Versified Story from Eternity Road (Didn't think you'd be seeing any more of these, did you?) The story told in poetic form is among the most powerful forms of art. It harnesses effects and devices not available to the prose fictioneer. Sometimes those extra tools are what mak......[read more] Aha! A song of my childhood...and of my children's childhood, too, come to think of it, since I've been known to sing the whole thing on occasion. Incidentally, the iTunes Music Store now has a number of the original Allan Sherman albums; the only one they're missing, so far as I can tell, is My Son The Folk-Singer. Posted by: Will Duquette at 9:26 PM on 23 May 2005It was the third day of September Now I am going to have to get out my Allan Sherman records! Thanks, that song brought a smile to my face! Posted by: Donna at 6:36 PM on 24 May 2005 |