Pussy Cats (2)
While writing the review of the Pussy Cats album I typed the line about 'Johnny making medicine' and it all started...Just what were these sessions like?
Here is my rewrite of Dylan's classic fresh from a warped mind!
Sub-alcoholic Home-share Blues
Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
Keith's on the carpet
Seeing spiders on the parapet!
Harry in his trench coat -
Badge on, cap off -
Says he's got a bad cough.
(Have another brandy quaff!)
Look out kid
It's something you did!
God knows how
You're still standing now!
(you better) Try to sing like Danny Kaye
Spit into a Kleenex.
The man in the black shades
Making the mix-down
Don't wanna know if your
Voice left town!
Ringo comes: face clean,
Fingers stained with nicotine,
Talking bout how Keith ate
All the jar of nitrate!
The phone rings anyway
(What's that that Alice say?)
"Meet me in the alley way
By Rainbow Rooms in old LA."
Look out kid
God knows what you did!
Just keep yourself on your toes,
Sing the polyphonic prose.
Better stay away from those
Who'd infect your fire hose!
Keep a clean nose
And forget the UFO's!
You need to be together man
To know which way the song goes!
Get sick, fart smell,
Make the house a stink well!
Susie Bell, hard to tell
If this LP'll ever sell!
Get hard, get barred,
Get back, coke trails
White powder, Black Sails
Major diatonic scales
(Look out kid
You're gonna get your hit
But users, cheaters
End up losers.
Thrown out of theatres.
Girls from a type pool,
Lookin' out for any fool,
Feed us, speed us
Keep singing through the bleeders!)*
Ah get born, blow the horn
Green plants, Romance, Last Dance!
Undressed, (well-blessed?)
Hope I'll be a success!
Please John, play on? Buy gift
Don't run, get stiffed!
Twenty years of drinking
And a ton of coke that Harry sniffed
Look out kid
Better keep it all hid!
Snort in a manhole,
Inhale by a candle,
Sing like a man who'll
"Croak, f**k, fangool!"
Don't wanna be a bum,
Drink 'til your throat's numb!
The voice don't work!
Just can't handle all the scandals!
*bracketed verse not in Nilsson's version
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