"Pretty Paper"
(The pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue)
Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
Wrap your presents to your darling from you
Pretty pencils to write I love you
Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
Crowded street, busy feet, hustle by him
Downtown shoppers, Christmas is nigh
There he sits all alone on the sidewalk
Hoping that you won't pass him by
Should you stop? Better not, much too busy
You're in a hurry, my how time does fly
In the distance the ringing of laughter
And in the midst of the laughter he cries
Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
Wrap your presents to your darling from you
Pretty pencils to write I love you
Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
and:
La la la la la
Ooh hey hey hey
La la la la la
Every year about this time the local gentry
Have a meeting in Chickasaw land
They all come to judge each and every entry
That wants to try out for the Okolona band
All the way from the Kosciusko
Up from Biloxi Shore
All in all theres not a half grown man
That wouldn't like to be
In the Okolona River Bottom Band
La la la la la
Ooh hey hey hey
La la la la la
The semi-annual
Come as you can-ual
Five man band-ual
Okolona River Bottom Band
La la la la la
Ooh hey hey hey
La la la la la
The backwood majority
No hold barr-edy
Come as you are-edy
Okolona River Bottom Band
La la la la la
All the way from Kosciusko
Up from Biloxi Shore
All in all theres not a half grown man
Who wouldn't like to be
In the Okolona River Bottom Band
La la la la la
See, I told you society
Green apple pie-ety
Delta variety
Okolona River Bottom Band
La la la la la
Ooh hey hey hey
La la la la la
hehehehehehe.
too right Bobby!
little girl: what is normal mommy?
mommy: its just a setting on the dryer dear!
Christmas has come and gone.
Received a beautiful handmade card from my dearest kin.
and a Sandy Denny vinyl album plus a nearly mint vinyl of Linda Ronstadt Heart LIke A Wheel) plus a beautiful hand reared rib roast of beef.
I cooked it for over four hours and when I pulled it out of the oven it seemed tough but in the mouth it just melted.
yummy.
ON Christmas day the lavender suddenly seemed to go off and Bombus Bombus turned up in large numbers till the wasps arrived after lunch and beat off allcomers.
His nibs next door should do something about them but he is to busy trying to LOOK like a gardener instead of doing something useful.
anyway a pal sent me some $2 packets of wildflower seeds so I had to dig over some dirt and now my back and knee is really complaining!
merry xmas.
wah wah wah.
Got "Small Town Talk" by Barney Hoskyins to read over the holidays and it was very sad to read about the decline into alchoholism and drugs of members of the Band.
People (bottom feeders)would come up from New York to watch Richard Danko getting drunk.
the fuckers and poor Sandy Denny went down to the same disease too.
I know its only rock and roll and sometimes I hate it.
TeeVee back to its mawkish infantilised best.
I quite like the Avengers movie I have seen repeated at least twice this year and wonder why they dont repeat the mini series of Hollywoood Wives or is that too good for the peasants these days?
Memo to Serena Williams
You seem to be a very nice person as well as a good tennis player.
do you know what Spike Milligan said when he was asked how he liked New Zealand?
"Boiled and with Chips".
you have to watch it around here.
"They" would prefer it if you said something controversial so they would have something to go on about for the rest of their tiny little lives.
The Peoples Republic Of China.
congratulations.
when they write the big book of this era they will say that 2016 was the year China closed their domestic ivory trade and saved the elephants.
good work.
had to larf watching the Kansas City Chiefs on the teev.
They have a player called Mr Zombo.
how cool.
Now the big item for this neck of the woods this year is the amalgamation of the local councils.
Cant get a straight answer from anyone.
but:
"Reform is basically the creation of an illusion that something needs to be done when in all reality it doesn't."
You see when they are amalgamated then there is just a bigger target to snatch and grab off the ratepayers.
These people want a revenue stream in perpetuity for themselves.
hmmmmm.
People should know about one south American City that bought a hydro power plant in the late 19th century.
It has never been enlarged and now is the arbiter of social standing if you are connected or not.
thats what THEY want here.
last but not least. RNZ (Radio New Zealand)has featured a clip on their channel 50 about Bill english being a man of lettersfor the last month..
Other items have come and gone but his one goes on forever.
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