A song that goes from vintage commercial to weird folk. Scomber deserves some credit here - probably wouldn’t have sung it so much like Don Henley if he hadn’t stuck that idea in my head!

Pella is here: http://ccmixter.org/files/a...


If you choose a song for the minute
Get it right this time
You’re making me testify
To a melody crime
You’re giving me prison time
For a melody crime
If you choose, you’ve go to pick ‘em good

If they hand you those little lead blocks
To put the story down
You better not let those ink-stained scribes
Turn the story around
Cause they will given half a chance
Get the story wrong
If you spill, you’ve got to spill ‘em good

I might take my sources for a ride
Loop them round the block
I’ve seen the sea, I can’t turn the tide
You can’t make them talk
They’ll wave, they’ll smile, they’ll wink
You can’t make them talk
If you quit, you’ve got to quit ‘em good.