Jamie Dole

I'm super, nerd-ily proud of my new song "Reason to Smile". The lyrics started out as a stand up act,

"I'm like Alvin & the Chipmunks – no one seems to like me."

lololol. I thought they were all funny, but then I put them to music, and it's quite depressing, lol.

However, my pride in the lyrics hasn't changed. I just want to explain - a lot of people have never heard of the short story/book/movie "Flowers for Algernon". This is the Wikipedia description:

"Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled."

Also, the famous line, "Heavy is the head that wears the crown" is from King Henry IV, Part II. It's always misquoted. The real line is "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown". But my head is so heavy sometimes, it felt fitting.

I LIKE LYRICS. :D

-Jamie xx

So, for some unknown reason, I started a mission of learning the lyrics to this infamous "list song" (infamous to me, list songs are ridiculous because there's no plot to follow when remembering. Anyway. Here I am, almost completely singing the song to a karaoke track ...at 200% the speed. lol.

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The lyrics are:

Harry Truman,


Doris Day,


Red China,


Johnnie Ray


South Pacific,


Walter Winchell,


Joe DiMaggio


Joe McCarthy,


Richard Nixon,


Studebaker,


Television


North Korea,


South Korea,


Marilyn Monroe



Rosenbergs,


H-Bomb,


Sugar Ray,


Panmunjom


Brando,


The King And I,
& The Catcher In The Rye,


Eisenhower,


Vaccine,


England's got a new queen


Marciano,


Liberace,


Santayana goodbye

!

We didn't start the fire [etc...]



Joseph Stalin,
Malenkov,


Nasser
& Prokofiev


Rockefeller,


Campanella,


Communist Bloc

.

Roy Cohn,


Juan Peron,


Toscanini,


Dacron


Dien Bien Phu Falls,


"Rock Around the Clock"


Einstein,
James Dean,


Brooklyn's got a winning team


Davy Crockett,
Peter Pan,


Elvis Presley,
Disneyland


Bardot,


Budapest,


Alabama,


Khrushchev,


Princess Grace,


Peyton Place,


Trouble in the Suez!



We didn't start the fire [etc...]



Little Rock,


Pasternak,


Mickey Mantle,


Kerouac,


Sputnik,


Zhou Enlai,
"

Bridge On The River Kwai".



Lebanon,


Charles de Gaulle,


California baseball.


Starkweather Homicide,


Children of Thalidomide!



Buddy Holly,


"Ben-Hur,
"

Space Monkey,


Mafia,


Hula Hoops,


Castro,


Edsel is a no-go,


U-2,


Syngman Rhee,


Payola
& Kennedy


Chubby Checker,


"Psycho",


Belgians in the Congo!



We didn't start the fire [etc...]



Hemingway,


Eichmann,


"Stranger in a Strange Land",


Dylan,


Berlin,


Bay of Pigs invasion


"Lawrence of Arabia",


British Beatlemania

,
Ole Miss,


John Glenn,


Liston beats Patterson

,
Pope Paul,


Malcolm X,


British Politician sex,


(expired link). blown away,


–What else do I have to say?



We didn't start the fire [etc...]



Birth control,


Ho Chi Minh,


Richard Nixon back again


Moonshot,


Woodstock,


Watergate,


Punk rock


Begin,


Reagan,


Palestine,


Terror on the airline


Ayatollah's in Iran,


Russians in Afghanistan


"Wheel of Fortune",


Sally Ride,


Heavy metal suicide


Foreign debts,


Homeless Vets,


AIDS,


Crack,


Bernie Goetz

,
Hypodermics on the shores,


China's under martial law


Rock 'n' Roller Cola Wars,


–I can't take it anymore!

We didn't start the fire [etc...]

It's the worst list song since "La Vie Bohéme" from RENT (lol, get it? RENT came out after WDSTF). I jokingly say worst, I mean, it's most guilty of being a list song (thoe of which, I keep a list of. lol, it's called "LIST SONGS". If y'all have any you can think of that'd be cool!!

Anyway, "enjoy"?