[lit-ideas] Re: Dr. Feelgood and the Interns
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:48:54 EDT
In a message dated 8/22/2004 8:15:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
For an illustration that understanding one's life is a question/s with
answer/s, I refer once again to the movie I saw last night, House of Sand and
Fog.
In that movie, the motives of the Colonel were transparent. The Deputy
Sheriff's actions were, by contrast, bizarre but very imaginable. He and the
lead character (actress Jennifer Connolley) would have done well to examine
their motives. As to whether philosophy would have helped, I read somewhere
that Russell Bertrand was depressed to where he was contemplating ending his
life. Then while walking on a beach he began to consider life, and it gave
him
enough purpose, shall we say, to keep going.
Exactly. Incidentally, below, the lyrics to Aretha Franklin (aka 'The Negro
Problem', Geary says) and her (and T. White's) "Dr. Feelgood", complete with
verse -- as Geary recalled it. Now, she could _real_ sing... -- Cheers,
JL
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Dr. Feelgood
by A. Franklin (aka "The Negro Problem") and T. White
cited in the OED, supplemental additions, 2007
Verse
In E7b -- after modulation:
Part I
I don't want nobody, always
Sittin' around me and my man
I don't want nobody, always
Sittin' around there
Lookin' at me and that man
Part II
Be it my mother, my brother, my sister
Would you believe, I get up
Put on some clothes
Go out and help me find somebody for this self,
If I can?
(Bridge towards Refrain):
Now I don't mind companee
Because companee's alright with me
Every once in awhile
Yes it is,
Now I don't mind companee
Because companee is alright with me.
Every once in awhile, yeah
And ooooooooooooooh
When me an that man get to lovin?
I tell ya girl, I dig ya, but I don't have time
To sit, and chit, and sit and chit - chat an smile
Refrain:
A1
Don't send me no doctor
[To] Fill me up with all a those pills
I got me a man named Doctor Feelgood -- yeah, yeah --
That man takes care of all my pains -- and ills.
A2
His name is Doctor Feelgood in the morning
To take care of business is really this man's game,
And after *one* visit to Dr. Feelgood,
You understand why I feel good -- in this pain.
Scat:
Oh! Yeah! Oooh!
Oh, good God a - mighty
Coda:
The man sure makes me feel real... goooooooood!
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