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14 Apr 00 - 01:14 AM (#211539) Subject: Talking pop art From: GUEST,Poe Does anyone know the chords to this Tom Paxton song? |
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06 Apr 05 - 06:02 AM (#1453419) Subject: Lyr Add: TALKING POP ART (Tom Paxton) From: Jim Dixon 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."] |
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06 Apr 05 - 09:27 AM (#1453550) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton) From: DonMeixner 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 |
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06 Apr 05 - 03:39 PM (#1453731) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton) From: GUEST,Jim I Pretty well g then c then d (or d7) then repeat several times |