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24 May 04 - 10:35 PM (#1193301) Subject: Lyr Add: ENTERING MARION (John Forster) From: Haruo This was on Mad Moskowitz last night. It's apparently by John Forster: ENTERING MARION (John Forster) Every year I drive out to Cape Cod for the last part of June. Leave the city by ten and you're there in the late afternoon. On the way there's a village called Marion that you pass through. The first time I approached it, I'll always remember the sign that came into view. It said, "Entering Marion." And I thought, "What a fun little sign!" But the feeling of entering Marion had a kick that was hard to define. A rapturous rush, a physical flush, chills up and down the spine. For the few minutes I was in Marion, all Massachusetts was mine. [spoken] Well, it got to be kind of an annual thing ... the event that would start each vacation off with a bang! Then one year—who knows why?—I decided to try a new route. So I got out my map and I traced one I thought was a beaut. After driving all morning, I came to the top of a hill, Where a sign stood before me that promised a new kind of thrill. It said, "Entering Beverly," which was lovely and not overbuilt. And the pleasure of entering Beverly far outweighed any feelings of guilt. I could say I'm contrite but it wouldn't be right, for the truth is that later that day, I found myself entering Sharon. It was there. So was I. We enjoyed it. Hey, what can I say? By the next year I'd try any route, just for novelty's sake. I was cursed with a thirst that no single township could slake. Oh, at the wheel I looked calm but inside I was running amok, When a sign in the road dead ahead sent me straight into shock: "Entering Lawrence." My God! I was out of control. And I'd no sooner finished with Lawrence than Boom! I was entering Lowell. Then I backtracked and re-entered Lawrence, then Quincy and Norton as well. Around midnight I pulled into Athol and flopped in a fleabag motel. I slept fitfully in my clothing And awoke in a pool of sweat and self-loathing. Lying there, feeling lower than carrion, A name came clear as a clarion. I jumped in my car And before very far-- I was entering Marion. How totally, wonderfully great! How grand to be entering Marion after tramping all over the state. Every sleaze-bucket burb, every tryst by the curb, had really just helped me to find I'm happiest entering Marion. I guess I'm the Marion kind. Oh yes, I'm the Marion kind. Looks like it's © 1988 Limousine Music, from Forster's website I think it's pretty neat, nearly seamless in its refusal to crack a chuckle (but then I was at a Boy Scout Camporee over the weekend, where we all ate a bunch of brownies)... |
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24 May 04 - 11:43 PM (#1193331) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: wysiwyg Uh oh! :~) ~Susan |
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24 May 04 - 11:47 PM (#1193336) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Haruo http://www.com-www.com/JohnForster/enteringmarion-1.mp3 very clearly enunciated MP3. Haruo |
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25 May 04 - 01:23 AM (#1193371) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Amergin I thought this was going to be about our Marion.... |
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25 May 04 - 01:51 AM (#1193380) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Haruo Sorry. ;~) ... Haruo |
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25 May 04 - 01:59 AM (#1193383) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Joe Offer Good one, Haruo. This song has been mentioned many times on Mudcat, and I assumed it has already been posted. I couldn't find it, so I guess it hasn't. Forster has a wicked sense of humor. -Joe Offer- |
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25 May 04 - 02:20 AM (#1193385) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Haruo Thanks for supplying the correct authorial orthography, Joe. I keep writing "Foster" when I mean "Forster". I had never heard it before last night. It sure walks the fine line between cartography and promiscuity, doesn't it? ;-) Haruo |
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25 May 04 - 02:22 AM (#1193386) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Blackcatter One of my favorites too. I don't think I've ever dated a town, however, so it'd be difficult to personalize the song. |
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25 May 04 - 05:46 AM (#1193463) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Dave Bryant I pass through Pratt's Bottom quite frequently ! In fact so will most of the people who go to the Knockholt weekend in a few weeks time. |
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25 May 04 - 06:41 AM (#1193481) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: GUEST, Hamish Sorry, Dave, when you say you "Pass through Pratt's Bottom", does that make you... ...no, maybe not. ;-) |
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25 May 04 - 10:13 AM (#1193644) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Blackcatter Interesting, considering that a pratt is sort of an asshole. |
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25 May 04 - 06:41 PM (#1193975) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Bill Hahn//\\ On the subject of John Forster you should try to give a listen to his song FUSION. A great spoof of Paul Simon---but you have to hear him do it on his CD since it is not the lyrics that put it across---rather it is the rhythm and the sound he creates. And he does the voices too. What a wonderful and witty talent. His take-off on "fast food" is also good. In addition he is also a serious composer who has created a wonderful musical that debuted at Kennedy Ctr (DC) about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt---ELEANOR. Bill Hahn |
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26 May 04 - 11:13 AM (#1194214) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: voyager Dave Von Ronk covers this tune on the "For All My Friends in Far-Flung Places" CD. Von Ronk Discography Irreverant, ironic, and hysterical. voyager |
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27 Sep 08 - 04:31 PM (#2451754) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Entering Marion From: Haruo refresh, just for those few who may not have seen it, prompted by the renascence of the "Long Way Home" thread. Haruo |