Come and listen to a story about a man named Rod
A poor governor, barely kept his family clod,
Then one day he was shootin at some donor,
And up through the ground came a tap on the phone.
I’ll leave it to others to fill in the rest.
- The End Is Near - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:06 pm:
“Mighty Quinn” a/k/a “Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)”
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away cause I’m busted.
I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I’m busted
My brother said there ain’t a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you ’cause I’m busted.
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he’s busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I’m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I’ll make a living, just where I don’t know cause I’m busted.
Well, life in Carbondale is kinda laid back
Ain’t much a Simon girl like me can’t hack
I never would have this job if my last name was Pack….
Thank God, I’m a Simon Girl!
Gotta stop that man….I’ve gotta stop that man…COLD…before he stops meeeeee [ from “How to Succeed in Business (Politics?) Without Really Trying” as sung to Quinn]
If you need a friend, you know what to do
You can count on me,’cause I’m the Number Two
One day at the beach, the next at the zoo
I’m always around, I’m the Number Two
To the tune of “I’ve been working on the Railroad”
I’ve been working on the campaign
All the live long day
Runnin on the ticket with Pat Quinn
Don’t care what others say
Might as well play the banjo
Were gonna win anyway
Quinn is handy with a press conference
Cohen GO AWAY
Brady won’t ya blow, Brady won’t ya blow, Brady won’t ya blow this race? (Repeat verse)
Simon is running with Pat Quinn
Simon is running you know
You should vote for Simon
Because she can play banjo
Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me!
When they told us the Guv would get another term
We thought it was really funny
But what we didn’t know was the term they meant
Was life in prison– plus twenty!
Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me!
(Repeat chorus and variations ad nauseum, ala Hee Haw)
Dude Looks Like A Lady - Aerosmith, enhanced by VanillaMan
Cruised into a bar in Carbondale
I had to do a double take to see if it was male
He was wearing something sexy in wild hot pink
I just wish Pat would just work for Chippendale
That’s right
Backstage we’re fundraisin’ and having
the time of our lives until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
I saw you in the Pride Parade just yesterday
Are you Miss Foozey or are you Divine?
Dude look like a lady (4x)
So never judge Pat by his cover
Or who you gonna vote for in November
Pat put me wise to politics in disguise
He had the body of a Reformer
Lord imagine my surprise!!
Dude look like a lady (4x)
Baby let me follow you down
To Roland’s Tombstone my dear
Baby let me read all that praise
Do me, do me, do me, then give me a raise!
Baby let me follow you ’round
As you flip-flop in town
Pat Quinn can I be your b**ch?
Do me, do me, do me, like Blagojevich!
What a funky Governor!
He like it like it like it like that
He was a lady
I don’t know…. Who is advising these candidates? I know a former chief of staff, that would have put the kabosh on this idea, just because of the pics that would be printed. (And he was always right.)
I’m sitting in the Springfield station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands
my suitcase and banjo in hand.
And ev’ry stop is neatly planned
for the governor and his one-man band.
I’m thinking something small: bi-partisan across the State at first. We can expand out to the entire Midwest by the end of the year, take over the Country by the June of next year, and rule the world first Q of 2012.
- Deep South - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:49 am:
Illinois Breakdown
- John Bambenek - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:49 am:
“Every Gansta, Every Hood” by 50 cent
- in absentia - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:50 am:
Old and In the Way
- Alexi Kirk - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:52 am:
“Dude looks like a lady” by Aerosmith
- Jake from Elwood - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:54 am:
Like the pine trees lining the winding road
I got a name
I got a name
Like the singing bird and the croaking toad
I got a name
I got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
But I’m living the dream that he kept hid
Moving me down the highway
Rolling me down the highway
Moving ahead so life won’t pass me by
And I carry it with me and I sing it proud
If it gets me nowhere I’ll go there proud
Plus Jim Croce on the banjo seems fitting.
JFE
- Independent Minded Dem - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:55 am:
IT aint easy being Green by Kermit the Frog….
- Living in Oklahoma - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:57 am:
Stupid Blues by Junior Brown.
- Cincinnatus - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:03 pm:
Come and listen to a story about a man named Rod
A poor governor, barely kept his family clod,
Then one day he was shootin at some donor,
And up through the ground came a tap on the phone.
I’ll leave it to others to fill in the rest.
- The End Is Near - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:06 pm:
“Mighty Quinn” a/k/a “Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)”
- Easy - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:07 pm:
Tangled up in blue
- curiouser - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:09 pm:
Sheila Simon as Sandy Cheeks (from Spongbob Squarepants) singing:
“I wanna go hommmme hooommmmmme hommme oh oh
Yodle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, a lay-ee, alay-ee”
- dupage dan - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:16 pm:
Oh, Suzanna.
Well, I come from Carbondale with a banjo on my knee, I want to go to Springfield, my calling is to thee.
I tried to be the mayor, but it was not to be, So now I try for lite gov, to stand by the gov to be.
Oh, dear voters, oh don’t you cry for me, cause I come from Carbondale with a banjo on my knee.
I ain’t no VMan but there you go.
- olddog - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:19 pm:
The theme from “Deliverance”?
- downstate hack - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:19 pm:
“Birth of the Blues”
Quinn and I released it, and we nursed it
But they came out with the news
That the BLAGOs were the birth of our blues.
- Gregor - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:24 pm:
The Ray Charles hit: “I’m Busted”.
———
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away cause I’m busted.
I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I’m busted
My brother said there ain’t a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you ’cause I’m busted.
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he’s busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I’m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I’ll make a living, just where I don’t know cause I’m busted.
I’m broke, no bread, I mean like nothing,
- Behind The Scenes - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:25 pm:
My shoes are too tight…
Been campaignin’ all night..
(Sorry, that’s all I’ve got.)
- Homer J. Simpson - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:26 pm:
No Stairway!
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:27 pm:
Gotta be Theme from Deliverance.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:43 pm:
I Ain’t No Pawnbroker Blues
- Team Sleep - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:43 pm:
“The Republicans paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:49 pm:
Daddy Wasn’t THAT Paul Simon
- ourMagician - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:54 pm:
(tune of Thank God I’m a Country Boy)
Well, life in Carbondale is kinda laid back
Ain’t much a Simon girl like me can’t hack
I never would have this job if my last name was Pack….
Thank God, I’m a Simon Girl!
- bigRob - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:56 pm:
If you like my pickin’ feel free to drop a coin in the hat so I can purchase some new chompers!
- PalosParkBob - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 12:57 pm:
Gotta stop that man….I’ve gotta stop that man…COLD…before he stops meeeeee [ from “How to Succeed in Business (Politics?) Without Really Trying” as sung to Quinn]
- Vote Quimby! - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:13 pm:
If you need a friend, you know what to do
You can count on me,’cause I’m the Number Two
One day at the beach, the next at the zoo
I’m always around, I’m the Number Two
–They Might Be Giants
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:16 pm:
Campaign Races - Foster, enhanced by VanillaMan
Campaign Races are goin’ wrong!,
Doo-da, Doo-da
The Candidates are Ding and Dong!
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my future on an old wind-bag
I hope we can win someway!
Oh, Pat Quinn sure is takin’ flak,
Doo-da, doo-da
Nothin’ to run on, so we gotta attack,
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night!
Goin’ to run amok!
My father told me politics suck
It’s hittin’ the fan, so duck!
I replaced a pawnbroker on this ticket,
Doo-da, doo-da
Until the Speaker told him where ta stick it,
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run this race
Goin’ to win my place
After looki’ around at the candidates,
This state’s politics is a disgrace!
Can’t mention Rod, so I’m tol’
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Can’t touch him with a ten foot pole
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to hope all night
Goin’ to hope all day
Everyone forgets the the last ten years
On Election Day!
Bill Brady is the Republican!
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
That means this year that he might win!
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to play all night
Goin’ to sing all day
This banjo was bought by a lobbyist,
Under Pay to Play
Our bankrupt state is bleeding fast!
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
And Greece may be in our forcast!
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to spend all night
Goin’ to spend all day
Until we’re thrown out on our ear
We’ll flush your money away
Roland, Rod, Scott and our crew!
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
Hope you’ll keep Illinois blue
Oh! doo-dah day!
Goin’ to talk nonsense!
Goin’ to talk garbage!
If you swallow what we say,
In Brooklyn, we’ll sell you a bridge!
- How Ironic - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:35 pm:
Darn you VMan. Lost another keyboard to a ’spit take’ incident.
- Responsa - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:35 pm:
Mamas, dont let your babies grow up to be Blagos….
- Louis Howe - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:38 pm:
“What Kind of Fool am I”
- Old Shepherd - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:40 pm:
“Sheila, how about playin’ ‘Never hit your grandma with a great big stick’?”
“Oh, gee pa. That one makes me cry!”
(Obscure Andy Griffith Show reference to the Darlin family)
- Say WHAT? - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:51 pm:
Vanilla Man, You are making me cry at my desk. Lord, but you make me laugh!
- Tidal Wave - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 1:53 pm:
I got the 1994 Blues
- siriusly - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:09 pm:
I Bet They Won’t Play This Song On The Radio, Monty Python
- Joe from Joliet - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:10 pm:
“Foggy Budget Breakdown”
(think of the tune from “Bonnie and Clyde”)
- Say WHAT? - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:15 pm:
To the tune of “I’ve been working on the Railroad”
I’ve been working on the campaign
All the live long day
Runnin on the ticket with Pat Quinn
Don’t care what others say
Might as well play the banjo
Were gonna win anyway
Quinn is handy with a press conference
Cohen GO AWAY
Brady won’t ya blow, Brady won’t ya blow, Brady won’t ya blow this race? (Repeat verse)
Simon is running with Pat Quinn
Simon is running you know
You should vote for Simon
Because she can play banjo
- HoosierDaddy - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:19 pm:
Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me!
When they told us the Guv would get another term
We thought it was really funny
But what we didn’t know was the term they meant
Was life in prison– plus twenty!
Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me!
(Repeat chorus and variations ad nauseum, ala Hee Haw)
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:46 pm:
Dude Looks Like A Lady - Aerosmith, enhanced by VanillaMan
Cruised into a bar in Carbondale
I had to do a double take to see if it was male
He was wearing something sexy in wild hot pink
I just wish Pat would just work for Chippendale
That’s right
Backstage we’re fundraisin’ and having
the time of our lives until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
I saw you in the Pride Parade just yesterday
Are you Miss Foozey or are you Divine?
Dude look like a lady (4x)
So never judge Pat by his cover
Or who you gonna vote for in November
Pat put me wise to politics in disguise
He had the body of a Reformer
Lord imagine my surprise!!
Dude look like a lady (4x)
Baby let me follow you down
To Roland’s Tombstone my dear
Baby let me read all that praise
Do me, do me, do me, then give me a raise!
Baby let me follow you ’round
As you flip-flop in town
Pat Quinn can I be your b**ch?
Do me, do me, do me, like Blagojevich!
What a funky Governor!
He like it like it like it like that
He was a lady
- flabergasted - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:58 pm:
“freedom’s just another word for noting left to loose”
- PPHS - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 2:58 pm:
I don’t know…. Who is advising these candidates? I know a former chief of staff, that would have put the kabosh on this idea, just because of the pics that would be printed. (And he was always right.)
- MC - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:02 pm:
“fortunate son” by CCR.
- dmac - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:03 pm:
FREEBIIIIIIIIRD!!!!!!!!
- Shelbyville - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:03 pm:
Fe fi fiddly I O, I can’t play the accordion, but I can play the old banjo.
- jt - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:06 pm:
RECONSIDER BABY BY ELVIS
- been there - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:32 pm:
i get tears in my ears from lying on my back in my bed while i cry over you.
- curiouser - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:33 pm:
I’m sitting in the Springfield station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands
my suitcase and banjo in hand.
And ev’ry stop is neatly planned
for the governor and his one-man band.
Written by PAUL SIMON
- curiouser - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:35 pm:
okay - NOT written that way by Paul Simon
- Sent from my iPhone - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 3:45 pm:
FREEBIRD!
- Cincinnatus - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 4:03 pm:
I do think FREEBIRD is the definitive answer and that Rich should close this thread to further comment…
- zatoichi - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 4:15 pm:
‘Voodoo Chile (slight return)’, ala Jimi, SRV, and Robert Randolph. Monster Marshall, some feedback distortion, and she’s ready to take on Buddy Guy.
- dupage dan - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 4:17 pm:
VMan is the master.
- Captain Illini - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 4:47 pm:
“She’ll be comin’ round the mountain of debt…She’ll be comin’ round the mountain of debt…”
- HatShopGirl - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 5:13 pm:
VMan, you are our “Weird” Al Yankovic.
- Concerned Voter - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 5:53 pm:
From Steve Martins’ album “Let’s Get Small”
I’m a Ramblin’ Guy oh ohhhh
Ramblin ramblin ramblin
- Honest Abe - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 6:39 pm:
Smelly cat its not your fault
It’s something that they feed you!
- 22skidoo - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 6:45 pm:
Gotta be “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
- conda67 - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 7:17 pm:
Deliverance, dueling guitar banjo pick it dude.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 9:48 pm:
V-Man, after all these years, I think I’ve developed a teen-age crush on you. Can I be Prez of your official fan club?
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 9:56 pm:
I’m thinking something small: bi-partisan across the State at first. We can expand out to the entire Midwest by the end of the year, take over the Country by the June of next year, and rule the world first Q of 2012.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 15, 10 @ 11:16 pm:
A little OT, but I’m sure that all of the “oldies” at CapFax (EVEN 47TH…humpf!) will undertand:
Hopelessly devoted…
…to V-Man!!!!!!!!!!!
(Olivia Newton John. Yeah…I know. What?!!!! Got somethin’ say about it?!!!)
Yeah! Let’s sing it again!