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Why do you sign your forum screenname after each post? If I wanted to see who posted the message I just read I could easily look in the appropriate spot, right? And that Justin guy does this too. This sort of bothers me.

It is certainly different and only a tiny minority do it but that it actually bothered you to the point of asking why is equally, if not more, interesting. (I guess the same could be said about my need to respond. Hell, about every damned post in the history of message boards. Well, shit every word ever spoken too. I'd best shut up now).

I can't find an emoticon for feeling like a fool...

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Here's another:

 

 

"The Unwelcome Guest"

 

To the rich man's bright lodges

I ride in this wind

On my good horse, I call you

My shiny black Bess

 

To the playhouse of fortune

To take the bright silver

And gold you have taken

From somebody else

 

And as we go riding

In the damp foggy midnight

You snort, my good pony

And you give me your best

 

For you know and I know

Good horse 'mongst the rich ones

How oftimes we go there

An unwelcome guest

 

I never took food

From the widows and orphans

And never a hardworking man I oppressed

 

So take your pace easy

For home soon like lightning

We soon will be riding

My shiny black Bess

 

No fat rich man's pony

Can ever overtake you

And there's not a rider

From the east to the west

 

Could hold you a light

In this dark mist and midnight

When the potbellied thieves

Chase the unwelcome guest

 

I don't know, good horse

As we trot in this dark here

That robbing the rich

Is for worse or for best

 

They take it by stealing

And lying and gambling

And I take it my way

My shiny Black Bess

 

I treat horses good

And I'm friendly to strangers

I ride and your running

Makes my guns talk the best

 

And the rangers and deputies

Are hired by the rich man

To catch me and hang me

My shining black Bess

 

Yes, they'll catch me napping one day

And they'll kill me

And then I'll be gone

But that won't be my end

 

For my guns and my saddle

Will always be filled

By unwelcome travelers

And other brave men

 

And they'll take the money

And spread it out equal

Just like the Bible

And the prophets suggest

 

But men that go riding

To help these poor workers

The rich will cut down

Like an unwelcome guest

 

If Obama was actually a socialist like McCain likes to keep saying, that would be appropriate. But as he's not..............

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Unwelcome Guest is the song that first turned me on to Wilco -- Jeff's backing vocals.

 

And the message. Because I AM a democratic socialist -- I like public schools, roads, libraries, mail service, workers' rights and a reasonable safety net. And eating the rich. :eat

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Seriously, what the fuck is with the whole Radiohead bit...

 

I get the joke...but as i recall Radiohead all but endorsed Obama back in May...

 

...and for those that dont get the joke, another reason to the need to keep art out of politics

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Unwelcome Guest is the song that first turned me on to Wilco -- Jeff's backing vocals.
Jeff's backing vocals on that song are sublime...

One of my favorite Jeff Tweedy things.

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There is apparently a version out there somewhere with Jeff singing the whole thing. I guess that'll turn up on that MA box set that we're all waiting for. :pirate

You're full of shit :lol

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You're full of shit :lol

:lol Yes, yes I am. Not about this, though! I mean, I've got no idea about a MA box set, but that song was actually recorded with Jeff doing the whole thing. Whether or not that recording still exists is another question, but it was recorded. I promise!

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