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Thread #108036   Message #2245246
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
26-Jan-08 - 05:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I'll Tell You Where to Put It If You Like
Subject: RE: Recognize this? -put it in the bin behind the door
Mick, you're brilliant!!

Now Joe, you know my ethical code forbids me from believing people lie and from arguing with people, so I'll just have to accept this!

Actually it was more perseverance than brilliance. I decided from the start that I'll tell you where to put it if you like was the likely title, and then finding a reference in an Eric Winter obit made me believe I was on the right track (Like ClaireBear, I found the blog too, but the wording made me fairly certain that was Kim; not the first time I've found a request duplicated elsewhere. Sometimes, like this one, you can guess from the wording it's the same person, but not always).

Once I found the reference in the obit, it was pretty much just chasing up the Alex Comfort references (more of them than Eric Winter), while sidestepping the references to The Joy of Sex and to Go Limp, another of his songs that Nina Simone sang (was he always thinking of sex?!).

Then, brilliantly, on the 8,471st reference I found it listed in the Oak Index thread here, PMed Joe and there you have it.

Thanks to Joe for taking the time to post it. And as I've said before, if I was looking for the words to a song - not neccessarily even a broad-definition folk song - this is where I'd come.

Mick

(and well-remembered leeneia!).