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Friday, September 05, 2008

When the Sun Go Down

It's a classic old song. One of the seminal r&r tunes. Chuck Berry duck walks! Keith Richards has been playing those Chuck Berry licks for years and years. It's the theme song of John McCain's campaign. It was written a long time ago - 1958. And I guess it really is appropriate for an old man trying to put an old potion in a new bottle.

Who is he trying to fool?

His mother told him someday you would be a man,
And you would be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
"Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight!"

Maybe the guy who can lie with a straight face, the guy who can re-write history, the guy with no conscience, has the immediate advantage, but I do believe that the lies will finally fizzle and die in the light of day. Yes, I do!

I recommend this version of that same old song - Chuck B. never played with his teeth!

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