Thursday, March 30, 2006

More on "Remember My Forgotten Man":

Here's the first stanza:

Remember my forgotten man
You put a rifle in his hand
You sent him far away
You shouted hip-hurray
Look at him today

I was tempted to put in a great deal of punctuation to make up for the lack of conjunctions, but decided not to: the sarcasm of the song has everything to do with the absence of transitions: nothing is connected to anything else.
Another great thing about this song: the regular march, the unvarying rhythm of the words vs. the lurching crippled rhythm of the music (and especially the violin & piano accompaniment).

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