Leslie Fish - Some Kind Of Hero

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Leslie Fish - Some Kind Of Hero

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The mythology of the future. Are we ever going to spread out, or will we be rock-slime forever?!
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Dinochrome wrote:The mythology of the future. Are we ever going to spread out, or will we be rock-slime forever?!
No.

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And if one waits around on the state to do it, it'll look that way forever.
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I wonder if Leslie Fish has ever done, "The Green Hills Of Earth"? Or how about, "Wanted Fan"?
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I found the lyrics but not the audio:


BLACK POWDER AND ALCOHOL (A teaching song)
CHORUS: Black powder and alcohol,
When the states and the cities fall,
When your back is against the wall;
Black powder and alcohol.

Gimme charcoal to the measure two:
Send the bullet where you want it to.
Gimme sulphur to the measure three:
Make the powder gonna keep you free.
Gimme saltpetre, measure fifteen:
Sweetest shooting that you've ever seen!
(chorus)
Gimme water, yeast, and veggie-trash:
Leave it sitting in the slurry-mash.
When it's ready, put it in the still:
If you can't heat it, then the sunlight will.
Draw the alcohol away, and then
Put the slurry back, and start again!
(chorus)
Booze'll clean your cuts, or run your car.
You can make it anywhere you are.
Black powder in your cartridge shell
Will send the robbers running clean to Hell.
You can make them if you just know how.
So kids, remember what I tell you now!
(chorus & repeat chorus)

Nothing about blue bread-mold(pennicillin). :(
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Blue Bread Mold - Leslie Fish

Find a few survivors! A doctor's come to town.
Tell me all your symptoms, please, and haul your trousers down.
Half your troubles, please; these don't need to be told,
And I can cure the other half with blue bread mold.

Chorus:
Blue bread mold, the story must be told.
Nothin' keeps ya livin' like the blue bread mold.
Blue bread mold, the story must be told.
Nothin' keeps ya livin' like the blue bread mold.

I notice that you're bleeding, and it isn't monthly flow.
How ya got yourself cut up, I don't need to know.
But wash your wounds with alcohol before they're dry and cold,
And finish it with a dusting of the blue bread mold.

Now you, you've left this cut too long. It's stinking, and it's blue,
But don't consider suicide, I've just the thing for you.
Come here, you guys, and hold 'im down, if you would be so bold,
We'll clean this out with bleach and then with blue bread mold.

And you, you've got a nasty cough, a fever, and the shakes.
So swallow this stuff twice a day, a spoonful's all it takes.
That'll cure it proper, if it ain't the common cold.
For ten days gargle garlic juice with blue bread mold.

Now you look strong and healthy. So what's the problem, please?
Say there's just no flavor in your local sheepmilk cheese?
Well, dust this powder in the curds, stir and roll and fold.
You can change your cheese to roquefort with the blue bread mold.

So listen to your travelin' doc before I have to go.
To keep your wounds and water clean, you already know.
But listen, you survivors, if you plan on growing old,
Then keep a generous breeding stock of blue bread mold.

Blue bread mold, a treasure more than gold.
You can call it penicillin, but it's blue bread mold
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Dinochrome wrote:I wonder if Leslie Fish has ever done, "The Green Hills Of Earth"? Or how about, "Wanted Fan"?
No, not to my knowledge. There are 3 or 4 tunes floating around for Green hills of Earth. Joe Ellis has a tune for Wanted Fan that is different than the one Larry intended.

I do hear through the secret filk grapevine that Leslie has an album in post production right now. I don't know if it's new or the long awaited re-release of Firestorm. (both Blue Bread Mold and Black Powder and Alcohol were on Firestorm)
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NVGdude wrote:
Dinochrome wrote:I wonder if Leslie Fish has ever done, "The Green Hills Of Earth"? Or how about, "Wanted Fan"?
No, not to my knowledge. There are 3 or 4 tunes floating around for Green hills of Earth. Joe Ellis has a tune for Wanted Fan that is different than the one Larry intended.

I do hear through the secret filk grapevine that Leslie has an album in post production right now. I don't know if it's new or the long awaited re-release of Firestorm. (both Blue Bread Mold and Black Powder and Alcohol were on Firestorm)
At Midsouthcon a while back, she mentioned having another re-release between finishing Lock & Load & re-doing Firestorm without the horn section.
"If it ain't the Devil's Music, you ain't doin' it right." - Chris Thomas King

"When liberal democracies collapse, someone comes along who promises to make the trains run on time if we load the right people into them." - Tam K.
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I didn't think folk music could get any worse, but mixing it with sci-fi certainly does make it more painful for me to listen to :D

She's got her head screwed on straight when it comes to the subject of freedom though, I'll say that for her...
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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