Unless I’m mistaken, #133 is still standing out there, all naked and lost…
133)You remember when the ship went down
You left me on the deck
The captain’s corpse jumped up
And threw his arms around my neck
For all these years I’ve had him on my back
This debt cannot be paid with all your jack
Y’all get one hint: Bad, bad teeth.
And how about:
182)Treating today as though it was
The last, the final show
Get to sixty and feel no regret
It may take a little time
A lonely path, an uphill climb
Success or failure will not alter it
133 = The Pogues - Song of the Damned (??guessing on the title, but pretty sure of the group)
BTW, my 2 as-yet unnamed tunes:
168). Joan of Arc was burning at the stake
somebody had made a big mistake
she had lit a cigarette
in an airport where you get
all your fingers taken off for smoking
meanwhile up the road a factory’s choking
the ones who killed her work there, I’m not joking
170). A nice breeze blows in
whenever the big fella cracks a grin
and when the time and the place is right
we sit down, sip some bouillabaisse
Damn close…it’s Turkish Song of the Damned. #185:Bitchin’ Camaro by The Dead Milkmen (Hey, don’t forget to get your Motley Crue t-shirt. Y’know, all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail…)
Break my body with the back of your hand
Doesn’t make sense from where I stand
Baby, baby why you wanna mess it up
Sooner or later I’ll find my place
Find my body better fix my face
Please don’t ask me
how I’ve been getting off
No, please don’t ask me
how I’ve been getting off
(On an unrelated side-note …
129)When I looked out of the window
on the hardship that had struck
I saw seven phials open
the plague claimed father and son
Four men at a grave in silence
with hats bowed down in grace
A simple wooden cross, it had no epitaph engraved
and
130)Got my best suit and my tie
Shiny silver dollar on either eye
I hear the chauffeur comin’ to the door
Says there’s room for maybe just one more . . .
unless these have already been guessed, in which case I’m an idiot.
