Lyr Req: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton)
From: GUEST,Jim I
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 03:39 PM

Pretty well g then c then d (or d7) then repeat several times

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 09:27 AM

Google "Original Talkin' Blues" and see where it takes you. This is a very deep family of songs based in large part on a common picking pattern.

Don

Subject: Lyr Add: TALKING POP ART (Tom Paxton)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:02 AM

I don't, but it's a standard "talking blues" so the chords for any talking blues should work. Here are the lyrics, copied from http://www.mydfz.com/Paxton/lyrics/tpa.htm

TALKING POP ART
Tom Paxton

Well, I went out for a walk last week.
I passed a shop they call a boutique:
Fancy dresses of every size,
Fancy wigs to pop your eyes,
    Bracelets, diamond rings, stuff for women too.

Well, I didn't want to see no more.
I slipped inside the grocery store.
I took down a can of beans.
I pulled a dollar out of my jeans.
    A fella said, "Hold it! That'll be three hundred dollars."

Well, a feather could've knocked me down.
I mean, I knew this was a high-priced town,
But this was getting hard to take.
I said, "What the hell do you get for steak?"
    He looked surprised; said, "It isn't just a can of beans. It's a work of art."

Now I see what the poor man means.
He's proud of that little can of beans.
I didn't hear what else he said.
I had my eyes on a loaf of bread.
    "White bread, four-hundred dollars; three for a thousand."

Well, just about then a crowd came in,
And pickin's must've been pretty slim,
Because in just a minute, or three, or four,
They'd cleaned out that whole grocery store.
    They bought brooms, fought over watermelons. One fella put down a pickle. Said, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like."

Well, as I stood there wonderin' why,
Two little fellas came cruising by.
Little tight suits, little black ties,
One of them looked at me and said, "My!
    How rustic! I bid a thousand." I said, "I beg your pardon?" "It speaks, I bid five thousand!"

So here I stand in a Superman suit,
And everybody says I'm cute.
I tried to tell them but they would not see,
So they hang their hats and coats on me.
    Well, a job's a job. Still, if I had my preference, I'd rather be Batman.

[Tom Paxton's recording of TALKING POP ART is on "Outward Bound/Morning Again" (two LPs reissued as one CD) and on "Best of the Vanguard Years."]

Subject: Talking pop art
From: GUEST,Poe
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 01:14 AM

Does anyone know the chords to this Tom Paxton song?