Frank, thanks. I remember Ray Watson playing flamenco at Barbarossa a few years after the Gate Of Horn days.

And Illinois has a PERU too---we live there.

...and here's one of the few I've ever written that I bothered to sing --- around 1962 but updated in '76---It never was put on a released recording--but maybe one o' these years 'cause I've found some old live tapes... Joe, I think it's on the one I just sent you.
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CHICAGO TOWN BLUES
by Art Thieme

I went walkin' 'round town,
Just seein' the sights,
Saw a whole bunch of winos,
And one or two fights,
Saw the dead rise up,
For a $5.00 note,
Saw 'em walk to the poll,
Saw 'em go in and VOTE.

----There ain't no limit
----to the things you'll see in Chicago town,
----Just one thing, babe,
---you gotta be sure not to let it get you down.

A speed freak walking down Lincoln,
As hip as he could be,
He bit off half a capsule,
And threw the rest away,
His friend said, "Man, that's wasteful,
What's the big idea,
Don't you know there's thousands of people
Sleeping in india??"

Well, my mother became my father,
My father is now my mom,
My uncle has silicone implants,
And my aunt calls herself John.
Some of that silicone got mixed in
With a batch of refried beans,
Made the best damn "silicone carne",
That you have ever seen.

A patronage worker died
one day at city hall,
The undertaker came at noon
To make his grisley call,
He didn't get back to the mortuary
'Til six o'clock and he said,
"I had to wait around 'til quitting time
To figure out which one was dead."

There ain't no limit...

Now, there's hookers in New York City,
And there's winos in D.C.,
Murderers out in Frisco,
Moonshine in Tennessee,
Gambling in New Orleans,
And corruption all around,
And I bet you'll find them all,
In old Chicago town.

----Ain't no limit
To the things wou see in Chicago town,
----Just one thing, babe,
You gootta be sure not to let it get you down.

----There ain't no limit...

Art Thieme