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Thread #4199   Message #4145528
Posted By: GUEST,piersante sestini
26-Jun-22 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Carolina Rua (Thom Moore)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carolina Rua (Thom Moore)
These are the notes given (probablly) by Thom Moore himself on Broadjam.com (a musical blog that he used to frequent)
Unfortunately, the site was restyled lately and some of his contributions are lost or cut. The Defence Language Institute is the school where Thom studied slave languages after returning in the States from LLebanon

story Behind The Song
Hothouse atmosphere at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey: old guy gets flirted with by kittenish youngster sharpening her claws, fall heavily and stupidly, with only this song to comfort him in his dotage.

Song Description
Man rests on his laurels, unprepared for the notion that yet another woman -- this time an absurdly young one -- is going to harpoon him. As performed by Mary Black, the fundamental conflict of the word "school" in the various dialects of English means th.. (sentence interrupted on the web site)