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letra de nevada city, california - ani difranco & utah phillips

[intro]

at the onset, those of you may have heard me
should probably turn to those who have not
and calmly reassure them that this is in fact what happens when i sit on a stage
not much more
this is about it
you will notice no sudden or dramatic change in either my instrumental or vocal attack as it were
this is nonetheless an american folk song
did you recognize it as such?
of course you would, i mean, you’re folkies
you don’t hear ’em much anymore
you don’t hear ’em on your am radio, huh?
folk singers hardly ever sing ’em
that’s causе they’re boring
folk music is boring
black fall the di-do blow yе winds hi-ho h-ll that’s boring
but!
i am a folk singer
this is a folk music organization
you are ostensibly the folk, n’est pas?
that means we own this song together, right?
we have thereby incurred certain social obligations, which we will faithfully discharge, right?
we’re gonna sing this d-mn song together boring or not!

[verse]
i was still in nevada city, california
up there in the foothills of the sierra
call them the foothills cause it’s spelled like that
oh, the old gold mining town
i’ve talked to some of you about that
2700 people there, one of the forty-niners town
and i also told you about the only social life in town being the books of harmony new age bookstore
where people go down in the evening and channel dolphins and martians
it’s a new age chrono-synclastic infundibulum
or epicenter as it were in nevada city, california
well i was gone for a bit on one of the trips since i saw you last
and i got back and my wife had bought the bookstore
um, so i am now ostensibly part proprietor of a new age book store in nevada city, california
heh heh heh can you picture that?
whee!
well, and i’m open to all those things
if you live in california you’ve got to be open
if you’re not they pry you open
[verse]
and i read as much as i can, cause they’ve got all the new men’s literature in there
most of my men friends belong to men’s—robert bly, men’s drumming circles, they do that here?
it’s healthy!
they’re out in the wilderness, caterwauling and flailing away at those things
and dragging their scr-t-ms through the underbrush
it’s healthy i suppose
we swing in the trees and we steal sheep
we don’t have a drumming leader, we have a grooming order
robert bly came by on one of his workshop trips to teach us how to drum
we ate him
(nevada city, california)
(nevada city, california)
(nevada city, california)
anyone know what i’m talking about?
(nevada city, california)
(anyone know what i’m talking about?)
(nevada city, california)
(anyone know what i’m talking about?)
good…

[verse]
narps, you got narps around here?
new age rural professionals
(nevada city, california)
out cruising the back roads in their old green carry-alls
with their car stereos blaring meditation music out into the wilderness
it’s a conscience…
shole place lightning-struck by the peripatetic ruminations of the tibetan ruling class in exile
lot of buddhists ’round there
meanwhile this very minute old jesse mcveigh the well-digger
no one knows how old he is, lived in that county all his life
is sitting at the bar of the national hotel this very minute
looking at the freaks out in the street and muttering under his breath
“no matter how new age you get
old age gonna kick your ass.”
(anyone know what i’m talking about?)
(nevada city, california)
(nevada city, california)
(nevada city, california)
(nevada city, california)

- ani difranco utah phillips

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