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Originally Posted by Tophat665
T...Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Sundown, and pretty much everything else....
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Hey now, stop frontin' on my homeboy.
"At 7am the ol' cook came on deck, sayin 'Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya..."
"And at 7pm the main hatchway gave in, he said 'Fellas, it's been good to know yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
I sing that song when I daydream. I don't know why. I guess that it happened near when I was born, and I found the song when I was in grade school and the teacher asked us to do a project about the time when we were born. We had to research the news and culture of the world in 1975.
I had a "Xerox" copy (it was new to the library, and cost 10c when 10c meant something to me) of the cartoon section on the day I was born. I looked it up myself. Did you know that ol' Charlie Brown got the football yanked away from his foot just as he was about to kick it? Comedy gold, I tell you.
In high-school, I worked on the recieving dock at a supermarket. I worked the weekend night shift, and was often the only guy in the store. Unfortunately, my supervisor liked this top-40 "Soft Rock" shit, and he turned on the overhead speakers to the WORST RADIO STATION ON EARTH, and then locked his office so that you couldn't change the station or turn down the volume.
Achey-Breakey Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus was pumped in my ears every night, for like 5 months straight, at least 4 times a night. It was torture. There was no escape. Rod Stewart got in there every once in a while with "Forever Young" and Phil Collins would round it off with a nice "Sususudio, ohh-ooh".
I would try to wash off the dirty feeling when I got home, but I could never get clean. Not until Nirvana's Nevermind hit my "Portable CD player". It was brand new technology, and you had to treat the thing like an egg or it would skip, but I could finally listen to my CD's like a Walkman!!! Yeah, baby.