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The
Whippet Blues
I've got the whippet rib cage
blues,
sick of being skinny
tired of running fast.
I've got the whippet blues
I want to be a whoppet
with a fob watch and a paunch.
I want to be a whoppet
eating Maccas with the lot.
I've got the whippet blues
oh yeah, the whippet rib cage blues.
I'm sick of chasing rabbits
tired of wallabies
I hate those chicken necks
and shiverin' in the breeze.
I've got the whippet blues
oh yeah, the whippet rib cage blues.
I want to be a snippet
(that's just a little whippet
smaller than a packet of tea.)
then I could be tucked into a jacket
toted round like a shitty zhu
(and live in ritzy Toorak, too
with a man who drives a black BMW.)
oh man I've got those whippet
blues
I'm sick of chasing rabbits
tired of wallabies
I hate those chicken necks
and shiverin' in the breeze.
I've got the whippet blues
oh yeah, the whippet rib cage blues.
I want to be a hippet and
wear a blue bandana
all the way down Brunswick Street.
want to sit outside a fake cantina
watch the Fitzroy staffies work the beat.
I want to sip a pupocino, argue Foucault
wear some dayglo, be an urban hero
I've got the whippet
blues, the skinny
rib cage, chicken neck blues.
I'm so sick of chasing rabbits
tired of those wallabies
I hate the goddam chicken necks
and shiverin' in the breeze.
I've got the whippet blues.
oh yeah mama,
got those skinny whippet blues. |
Matthew's Song for Emma's
Fish
(from His Name in Fire)
We're doing the catfish wriggle
mooching the bristle nose mooch
we're staying up all night drinking briney
hooch.
The neon fish are flaunting it
flashing here and flashing there
they're rocking to a salty tune
they haven't got a care.
Doing the catfish wriggle
doing the bristle nose mooch
staying up all night drinking briney hooch.
The black widows live it up
they're sultry and they're fast
they've covered up their tracks in sand
now let the good times blast!
The gouramis fish are kissing
smooching their lippy smooch
staying up all night drinking briney hooch.
We're doing the catfish wriggle
mooching the bristle nose mooch
staying up all night drinking briney hooch
sleeping in until way past noon
then starting it all again too soon!
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