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We Are Not Sheep

December 4th, 2023 · No Comments

We Are Not Sheep is now available from Black Scat Books! This delightful collection, first published in 1896, shows the peerless French humorist Alphonse Allais in full pursuit of the ridiculous. You’ll find  a painter who trains bats to act as a parasol, the love life of a one-man band, a plan to make sandals […]

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The Worse It Gets, the Better We Like It

April 29th, 2021 · Comments Off on The Worse It Gets, the Better We Like It

We have here a rousing song about humanity’s fundamental perversity. I often sang this back in the ’90s, with Carol Benner playing a vigorous obbligato on the viola.

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We All Work So Hard

April 15th, 2021 · Comments Off on We All Work So Hard

“We All Work So Hard” is a song taking umbrage at the work ethic. It can be found in The Doug Skinner Songbook, so you can sing it yourself.

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When a Snowman Melts

December 24th, 2020 · 2 Comments

As the title indicates, a song about what happens when a snowman melts. I recorded this for Meg Reichardt’s Holiday Recording Party, in an arrangement for ukulele, ‘cello, and psaltery. If you follow that link, you can also hear my piano arrangement of “Underjordisk Musik,” a Norwegian folk tune traditionally attributed to the trolls in […]

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Wreck of a Man

October 12th, 2020 · 2 Comments

Here’s another song from White Knuckle Sandwich, giving me a chance to sing gloomy lyrics in my lower range. I’ve also performed this with David Gold adding an obbligato on viola and duck call.

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We Are Not a Pretty People

April 22nd, 2020 · Comments Off on We Are Not a Pretty People

There has been so much art and literature celebrating the human body. Here, for variety, if nothing else, is a song expressing disgust for it.

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We Are the Chorus That Preaches to the Choir

March 1st, 2020 · Comments Off on We Are the Chorus That Preaches to the Choir

This profession of faith is ideal for sanctimonious choral groups. Here are the first two pages.

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What Could Be More Interesting Than That?

February 2nd, 2020 · Comments Off on What Could Be More Interesting Than That?

A song about bores. White Knuckle Sandwich performed this one a couple of times, shortly before we separated.

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Whine

September 25th, 2019 · 2 Comments

This song appears on my album That Regrettable Weekend, available on Bandcamp. I also performed it once with the Dixon Place Ukulele Ensemble, way back when. Here’s the first page, plus the first page of the arrangement for voice, melodica, Tremoloa, and baritone uke.

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Walter & Benny in Stereo

March 24th, 2019 · Comments Off on Walter & Benny in Stereo

An experiment: a stereo picture in gouache and ink. As usual, you can click to enlarge.

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