ban it in 2004

I know them; they're like the Inland revenue; you have to pay your taxes on the 15th? Did they butcher Jealous Guy too?

Fifteenth of April, unless you have a business and then you pay estimated taxes quarterly, April 15, June 15, September 15, and January 15 and fess up in April.

I think that the IRS muzak was country... I didn't recognize anything, except a wall of bad sound.

I shudder to think how many ways that Jealous Guy could be slaughtered. Bad. Bad.

A little ode of smpathy.


Riding elevators up & down
muzac squirting in my ears
The IRS wring blood from a stone
Tedious waiting music on the phone
It'll send us climbing up the wall
leave us hanging from the ceiling
Drom hates class divisions ?
Piffka maybe doubts TV ?
Dys waits ages for the lift
Then 4 arrive all together
If we create & make a fuss
The Powers That Be brush us off
And say don't bother us with that stuff
But if we owe them 1 small bill
The heavy mob will say kill, kill, kill

Heh! heh! Ban the auditors:

They make an appointment
And you're the prime cause.

They knock on your door
You try and look poor.

You say, "Yawl come in."
With a honest wide grin.

They scan all the sheets,
They're hungry for meat.

You can't claim your dog,
You can't claim your cat,
They hold you suspect
The book slams,
That's that.

Pay the two bucks, Letty

Various crappy here-today-gone-tomorrow pop bands have slaughtered it, namely in a DUET version.

Thinking about things, they should ban DODGY Covers! Of Dylan, Lennon, everyone.

Heard a cover of "YMCA" the other day and then immediately following that, a Strauss waltz. The Vietnamese restaurant sure plays some wacky stuff.

Hey Letty, I usedta be an auditor ....

Jes, I guess somebody had to do it. As give 'em hell Harry use to say:

"There're gonna be taxes, and you're gonna have to pay 'em". Anyway, thanks for keeping me from being invisible.

Good plan.

How could there be a duet of Jealous Guy? <trying to imagine (heheh) and singing> "We're just those Jealous guys..."

Jespah -- Yikes. An IRS Auditor?

YOU CAN'T DO THAT NO MORE


The Government went & banned it all
or tripled the tax & put it out of reach
They want us to be politicaly correct
Don't do this & don't that
Don't eat sugar & don't eat fat
Don't smoke baccy
Don't drink beer
Small cars only
No more planes
Electric busses & electric trains
will go & take you everywhere
once they built 'em
and put in the tracks
If you don't recycle you get retrained
by the new regime & their crazy game
Jobs are going down the drain
Nothing new is coming round
I used to work in a hi-tech job
Now I sweep up at Official HQ.
It used to be a theme park
but it got closed down
cos it weren't Politicaly Correct no more
Joy & pleasure is alien ground
Just grin & bear it
Do what you can
The new job don't pay a lot, cos the State is broke
I got a jangling pocket
full of treasury shrapnal
add it all up but it won't go far
a bus downtown,
a pack of smokes
a couple of beers
and a burger too
all sugar & fat
see me
hear me
I cant pay my tax
see me
hear me
I can't pay the rent
see me
hear me
I just spent my last bit o' change
on a non politicaly correct Camel
what ya gonna do about that

John, I swear that was terrific. But, unfortunately, we can't sing and dance our way outta this one...

Improvise

I wasn't an IRS auditor. I used to audit law firms, and the way I was treated, it was as if the IRS had come to their doorstep. I checked for billing irregularities or not complying with what the insurance company wanted them to do.

<whew>

No... it was even worse than that. It was some guy and some girl out of some awful TV 'talent' show- like American/Pop Idol; I was talking to someone for ten hours yesterday, and they suggested that we all dig up Baudelaire and use him to fight these kind of people- they guy sang 'I'm just a jealous guy' and the girl sang 'you're just a jealous guy.' Major cringe.

That sounds worse than awful, but kind of funny. Poor John, rolling over & over, just like Beethoven.

Yeah--- it's almost as bad as when someone slaughtered one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs- 'Most of the Time'- by turning it into a faux R&B track and changing most of the words...

interesting point drom. there is an old blues song
--- Crossroads (blues) originaly written & recorded in 1935/6. Very much an accoustic version. I first heard this song in the mid 60s, very much an electric rock version recorded by Cream, with a superb guitar solo by Eric Clapton. I love blues music & as a rule prefer the original version rather than the much later covers.
Another example, the Rolling Stones recorded a song called Little Red Rooster in the mid 60s & not bad at all but I prefer to back to the original by Willie Dixon

I like blues music too; what I don't like is the numerous people pretending to be blues: Beyoncé, Craig Da-vid, etc. Although dodgy muzak would go into my Room 101, my other points (anti State censorship and for meritocracy, especially) are more urgent . It's amazing some of the things covered now, isn't it?

yeah, cover versions are legit BUT rarely as good as the original. The shockers you & piffka mentioned are heresy.
I'm waiting to hear the Salvation Army Band doing John Lee Hooker's song, House Rent Blues