Рет қаралды 31
A jazz rap about the 1950s - and related things. Mostly this is a series of 2-5-1 chords in the key of D.
I had some problems with the visual clips - so please ignore the black bits, and keep listening (there is nothing wrong with the audio) : )
LYRICS
I’ll sing you a song about the nineteen fifties;
Beatniks, drive-ins, political shiftys.
Postwar world with birth-rates booming;
Bing Crosby crooning, Jet planes zooming;
Americans lying all abed,
With Sputnik orbiting overhead.
Sliced white bread for you and me;
Terry Riley’s tune “In C”.
Colonel Parker, Elvis P;
Rats in the kitchen; DDT.
Aspect ratio, plain to see; Bill and Ben on the BBC.
Mickey Mouse and Muffin the Mule;
Teachers caning kids at school.
Milky Bar Kid and “What’s My Line”;
John Coltrane blowing in shuffle time.
Queen Elisabeth takes to the throne;
Laika the dog dies, all alone.
Stalin’s gone and Castro’s on the rise;
Commies in the kitchen;
Apple pies.
Mercury flies;
Mercury flies.
Out on the coast of WA,
A British bomb, is brewing they say;
Uranium machined to a thousandth mil.
Deterrence, based on a threat to kill,
Countless people, innocent souls;
Hypothetical, calculated-death-tolls.
War in Korea.
Nuclear moles.
Electrocution; Execution;
Discouraging others, from revolution.
Military might is now televised.
A billion babies open their eyes.
A billion babies open their eyes.