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Originally Posted by John Isbell
Hi Bill,
Yes, that is a haunting song. Michael, I do hope your phoebes are fine.
Don Henley also wrote this:
Can we film the operation, is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet.
Get the widow on the set,
We need dirty laundry.
I love that line Get the widow on the set. The song also contains the line It's interesting when people die.
Update: I should perhaps point out that "Dirty Laundry" is about celebrity journalism, the paparazzi.
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Hey, somehow I missed this post, John.
Yes, Henley is a fine poet. A good drummer and vocalist as well. WOW. It is VERY hard to sing while drumming. Some singing drummers come to mind: that beautiful man in Midnight Oil, the guy who sings "Take a Load off Mandy...", and of course Phil Collins. Some of us hairless apes can do amazing things.
Here's a
beautiful octave from Henley, from "Goodbye to a River":
The dirty water washes down
Poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town
And bearing them away
And the captains of industry
And their tools on the hill
They’re killing everything divine
What will I tell this child of mine
— Don Henley
*Edit: Wow. I hope everyone appreciates the allusion there: "Tools on the hill."
I only just noticed it. You go Don Henley!