[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 11:37:55 +0100

*Amazing*, really it is: I always think of that song as

> Short People got no right
> To live

!

perhaps because I once read an academic row about it (between a man
called Wayne Booth and Stanley Fish)

perhaps because of all the trouble Randy Newman got into


thanks for the lyrics

Judy

Sunday, May 29, 2005, 4:14:32 AM, Mike Geary wrote:


MG> Judy Evans:
>> MG> Mike Geary
>> MG> with no reason to live
>> 
>> you mean with no right to live? we don't got no right to.


MG> No, I mean as in Randy Newman's song: "Short People."

MG> Short People
MG> Randy Newman


MG> Short People got no reason
MG> Short People got no reason
MG> Short People got no reason
MG> To live

MG> They got little hands
MG> And little eyes
MG> And they walk around
MG> Tellin' great big lies
MG> They got little noses
MG> And tiny little teeth
MG> They wear platform shoes
MG> On their nasty little feet

MG> Well, I don't want no Short People
MG> Don't want no Short People
MG> Don't want no Short People
MG> Round here 

MG> Short People are just the same
MG> As you and I
MG> (A Fool Such As I)
MG> All men are brothers
MG> Until the day they die
MG> (It's A Wonderful World)

MG> Short People got nobody
MG> Short People got nobody
MG> Short People got nobody
MG> To love

MG> They got little baby legs
MG> And they stand so low
MG> You got to pick 'em up
MG> Just to say hello
MG> They got little cars
MG> That got beep, beep, beep
MG> They got little voices
MG> Goin' peep, peep, peep
MG> They got grubby little fingers
MG> And dirty little minds
MG> They're gonna get you every time
MG> Well, I don't want no Short People
MG> Don't want no Short People
MG> Don't want no Short People
MG> 'Round here

MG> Mike Geary
MG> tall in the Seatte
MG> but stuck in the Memphis
MG> for the moment.



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