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Bought This Shirt in Paris (Version Two)

from ANCIENT CHAINS by JOHN TERLAZZO & VOICES IN THE HALL

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BOUGHT THIS SHIRT IN PARIS (VERSION TWO)
I bought this Shirt in Paris / On the old Champs-Elysees / From a guy with one arm / Wearing a navy blue beret / I give the man a dollar / & he danced with some wild poodle dogs / Then I put this Shirt on my naked back / & went to see Mildred & Maude / I showed my Shirt to Mildred / I showed my Shirt to Maude / I showed my Shirt to an old blind cow / Down where they keep the hogs / Soon everyone was speaking in tongues / And bitin’ poison snakes clean through / In this modern complex society / There’s no end to what a new Shirt can do / I took my Shirt to a mental place & fixed a broken man’s head / Then me & my Shirt went down to the morgue & raised some people from the dead / Fed the poor, fixed the garage door / & made everybody good in bed / Then we all went down to Albert Camus’ house, before the Plague arrived, you know, & then we just fled / Now, I wasn’t born for tinsel town awards / Nor to compete with strangers or peers / I wasn’t born to dazzle the hordes – They’d cannibalize my Shirt with their leers / Who are these so-called “judges” with their cellophane titles? / I have no use for show-biz sneers / nor their ‘murican Idols…

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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