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- From: isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769)
- Subject: Re: worst song & lyrics
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:08:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.032702.9254@leland.Stanford.EDU>, trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) writes...
- >>how about the absolutely atrocious pop ballad "Seasons in the Sun"?
- >>It's about this guy who is dying, and includes such awful lyrics as
- >>"Goodbye, my love it's hard to die
- >>When all the birds are singing in the sky"
- >>
- >>and my personal "favorite chorus part:
- >>"We had joy, we had fun
- >>We had seasons in the sun,
- >>But the stars we could reach
- >>Were just starfish on the beach"
- >>
-
- Around the same time as that turkey, or maybe a year or so earlier, was
- another zinger called "Timothy" (I think), which was
- about...cannibalism! The lyrics are about three guys starving to death
- in a mine after being trapped by a cave-in ("...Joe, and me, and
- Ti-mo-thy..."). At the end of the song, "Joe and me" are rescued and
- are no longer hungry, and the chorus is:
-
- "Timothy, Timothy, where on Earth did you go?
- Timothy, Timothy, God what don't I know?"
-
- Anybody else out there remember this tender ballad?
-