Tonalità: G major•
Verse 1
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Yeah, those angels of mercy
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used to sing and beg down in
Pershing
Square,
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L .A.
Voices that haunted me and still do,
lost nightmare
Jesus sounds coming out of the coins
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rattling in a cup from two blind ladies.
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I was born in the city of angels
in the late 1940s, down on
Hope
Pershing
Square and
Clifton's cafeteria in the pantry and all
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them old strip joints on 5th and
Main.
You know, tonight,
White
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Fury and her twin 44s,
Charles
Bukowski territory, beat outsider
America
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and the music that's been lost from that time,
taken off the radios.
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You had to have been there.
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The backdrop is
MacArthur
Park and
Hollywood
Court
Apartments and racetracks.
The old
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America when music still resonated through nightclubs,
people gambled and drank
and screwed and smoked.
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People went down to the border and sipped highballs
and cocktails and went to the bullfights.
The old
America where the big guilt and political correctness
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and the chain stores hadn't sunk
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in so deep. I thought,
you know the best person to read these memories would have been
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Little
Jack
Horton.
He was a circus midget who actually used
to drink with
Bukowski back in the 1950s.
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Then I find out
Little
Jack
Horton's still alive and living in
Gidtown,
Florida with
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all the old -time carnies and circus people.
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So why the hell do we need any
fake
Hollywood tough guys here?
Here today, gone tomorrow,
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boys in masks, flim
flamers, magazine faces.
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We don't need them.
Little
Jack
Horton was the king of the carnival,
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the voice of the great
American
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Midway, a voice that sounds like ukulele icon laughing gas,
the real thing.
He's been shot out of cannons,
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he did the pass of death on a
Shetland pony, he rode
the four walls of eternity on a motorcycle,
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appeared in movies like
The
Terror of
Tiny
town at one -eyed
Jack's with
Marlon
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Brando, and he wrote poetry.
This is a true
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American voice from the sawdust
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backlots of the old world.
I saw little
Jack a little while ago,
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gave him some cassette tapes and a cheap cassette
recorder and asked him to read some
of these pages on
Charles
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Bukowski memories.
Real low -fidelity
Americana the way it used to be.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's matinee time.
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Here's little
Jack
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Horton.
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Thank
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