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« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2006, 08:45:17 AM »
ooo! "Taxi"! VHM2

Is there a "Parkside Lane" in SF, or did Harry make that up?
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2006, 08:45:36 AM »
BOS #4, Harry Chapin "Taxi"
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2006, 08:50:30 AM »
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ooo! "Taxi"! VHM2

Is there a "Parkside Lane" in SF, or did Harry make that up?


can't find it on Yahoo! maps...

I love this song but I always forget the awkwardness of this one line until I stumble across it each time:  "...through the too many miles and the too little smiles..."

sb "too few"

It actually works if you read it as "...through the too many miles and the two little smiles..."
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2006, 10:26:08 AM »
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Gary Glitter -- Best Rockin' Pedophile of Set?


Didn't Elvis court Priscilla while she was still underage?
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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2006, 11:09:09 AM »
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Gary Glitter -- Best Rockin' Pedophile of Set?


Didn't Elvis court Priscilla while she was still underage?


Yup, think so. With her daddy's permission, as I recall.
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« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2006, 11:14:40 AM »
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Gary Glitter -- Best Rockin' Pedophile of Set?


Didn't Elvis court Priscilla while she was still underage?


yes, but I think Mr Glitter (allegedly) had pics of kids much younger than 14 on his hard drive.
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« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2006, 11:16:43 AM »
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ooo! "Taxi"! VHM2

Is there a "Parkside Lane" in SF, or did Harry make that up?


can't find it on Yahoo! maps...

I love this song but I always forget the awkwardness of this one line until I stumble across it each time:  "...through the too many miles and the too little smiles..."

sb "too few"

It actually works if you read it as "...through the too many miles and the two little smiles..."


"too few smiles" is too few syllables :wink:
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2006, 12:07:33 PM »
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ooo! "Taxi"! VHM2

Is there a "Parkside Lane" in SF, or did Harry make that up?


can't find it on Yahoo! maps...

I love this song but I always forget the awkwardness of this one line until I stumble across it each time:  "...through the too many miles and the too little smiles..."

sb "too few"

It actually works if you read it as "...through the too many miles and the two little smiles..."



"too few smiles" is too few syllables :wink:


See also: poetic license
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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2006, 01:14:32 PM »
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ooo! "Taxi"! VHM2

Is there a "Parkside Lane" in SF, or did Harry make that up?


can't find it on Yahoo! maps...

I love this song but I always forget the awkwardness of this one line until I stumble across it each time:  "...through the too many miles and the too little smiles..."

sb "too few"

It actually works if you read it as "...through the too many miles and the two little smiles..."



"too few smiles" is too few syllables :wink:


See also: poetic license


poetic license and meter don't make something stop being awkward.  That's why I prefer to think of it as "She only smiled at him twice."
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« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2006, 07:06:02 PM »
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It actually works if you read it as "...through the too many miles and the two little smiles..."


I'm going to regret belaboring this, but it also works if you think of it as "too-little smiles," as in, the grins aren't broad enough, so don't smile a little smile for me, Rose Marie.  It'd be a lame and uninteresting observation, but it'd be grammatically correct.
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« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2006, 08:19:36 PM »
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The Band's Rock of Ages beats "World Class Rock of Ages" :wink:

ETA: ooo! double play! "Drove Old Dixie" into "Great Divide".


Wow, big BOS to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."  I can't hear this as anything but its moment in The Last Waltz.  So powerful.
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« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2006, 09:31:09 AM »
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The Band's Rock of Ages beats "World Class Rock of Ages" :wink:

ETA: ooo! double play! "Drove Old Dixie" into "Great Divide".


Wow, big BOS to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."  I can't hear this as anything but its moment in The Last Waltz.  So powerful.


not to mention that the J. Baez version fudges the lyrics.
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