B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 30, 2021

Can’t life get anyworse.

I’ve been writing music for a song with two chords / That’s all I know; never learned any more. / On guitar, I only know these two chords / And I won’t ever win any writing awards…

But he does have a name.

“Tea in the Sahara, with Yoooooooou!” Sting

In the desert you can remember your name,

‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.

It felt good to be out of the rain.

“After nine days, I let the (tortoise) run free’Cause the desert had turned to sea.

There were plants and birds and rocks and thingsThere was sand and hills and rings.

The ocean is a desert with it’s life undergroundAnd a perfect disguise above.

Under the cities lies a heart made of groundBut the humans will give no love…"

Walking down Ventura Highway.

I say it every time. You have nothing else to do. Name the freaking horse!

I guess, that’s America.

I was at a birthday party in a beach house and someone put this record (brand new at the time) on the turntable. This was one of the old turntables that, if the swing arm wasn’t locked over the record, the needle would just pick up, move back to the beginning, and start over. It play literally All. Night. Long.

Since we’re bringing up the song…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEHBTjIYejE

♫ “He’s goes through the desert on a turtle named John,

… they’ve been together for way too long.”

♫ “Dookey Bird and Turtle – it’s always the same

… ‘cause he’s sometimes a friend and sometimes a pain.”

♫ "La, la, la, la, la, la … "

" … and I won’t urinate on your grave!"

Maybe John needs an ejection seat button on his shell. Launching Dookey-Bird, who has no flight feathers, could be an interesting experiment. AND it might keep him shut for a while.

In sand, no one can hear you scream. …or b1tch.

but you can be so happy together.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEURntrQOg

I remember this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpSdePGgVyQ) and two others that, the first time I heard them was at some public place where they were blasting on a good stereo system, and really knocked my socks off. The other two were Cat Stevens’ “Tuesday’s Dead” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__b5oNCfKLU) and Tony Joe White’s “Polk Salad Annie” (The following link is a live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXHxh3Sye0).

Unlike the Eagle’s version, there is someone there to give you pain……

Randy Newman once described it as “this song about a kid who thinks he’s taken acid.”

After the cayuse I rode, there ain’t no one for to give me no pain.

when

What’s the purpose of adding the rest of the lyrics?

It’s ok. In the desert there ain’t no one to give you no pain

I would have buried that bird in the desert years ago.

Thanks for the laugh, but not for the ear worm!

Should have sang Sister Golden Hair…

I remember Joe Niagara of WIBG in Philly running a contest to name the Horse. Sinombre, won

Funny ’toon today ♥♥

Called a “turtle” acts like a tortoise.

The turtle is John the bird has said it before

I didn’t know the Byrds & the Turtles covered this???