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From: marno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley)
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Subject: Re: Re: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 18:36:20 EDT
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In reply to Greg Skinner's remark that "Let 'Em In" by Wings
was probably not meant to be taken seriously; I have to say
that he is probably right.  In the case of "Abracadabra" I
agree that it is not his best work.  Why is it that an artist's
most popular work is rarely his best?

I didn't mean to make you feel old.  I agree that the songs
I mentioned are not that aged.  How's this for an oldie moldie:
     She wore an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini
     That she wore for the first time today...
     So in the water she decided to stay

I think that definitely beats out "I am the Walrus" for the
title of the World's Worst Lyrics.

I would like to introduce a new category: "The Wildest Lyrics
You've Ever Heard".  My first nomination would be
"The Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis.  Anybody know it?

Sorry I came off so sarcastic, Greg, it's just that I've
been feeling my age ever since this last summer.
Even though I finished college only four years ago, the
students I've met this year looked at me like I was a
martian when I told them I attended the Chicago Beatlefest
this summer.  For a moment I thought I had made a mistake and
told them I had attended a Lawrence Welk concert.  I felt
like I had committed the ultimate faux pas, admitting that
I had done something that uncouth.  That must have been the
way I reacted to my sister (12 years older than I) when she
told me some years ago that she wanted to see Elvis Presley
in Las Vegas.  What a weird feeling!  Is 25 really the age
one turns into an old fogie or did I just have a bad encounter?

Yours in oldness,
Marilyn Ashley