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"John Prine"
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жанры: country, rock, folk, alt-country
альбомы: Sweet Revenge
The Accident
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John Prine
жанры: country, rock, folk, alt-country
альбомы: Sweet Revenge
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Last night I saw an accident On the corner of Third and Green Two cars collided and I got excited Just being part of that sceneIt was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter Pamela, was driving the car they got hit by a man in a lite blue sedan who had obviously been to a bar.They don't know how lucky they are They could have run into that tree Got struck by a bolt of lightning And raped by a minorityIt was a four way stop dilemma We all arrived the same time I yielded to the man to the right of me And he yielded it right back to mineWell, the yield went around and around and around Till Pamela finally tried Just then the man in the light blue sedan Hit Pamela's passenger sideThey don't know how lucky they are They could have run into that tree Got struck by a bolt of lightning And raped by a minorityPamela hit her head on the mirror Mrs Walker got a bump on the knee The man hit himself in the face and said "Why does this happen to me?"Then the neighbors came out and they gathered about Saying "Hey, who hit who anyway?" And the police arrived at a quarter to five And pronounced all the victims okayBut they don't know how lucky they are They could have run into that tree Got struck by a bolt of lightning And raped by a minority
Это интересно:Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine himself started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army before beginning his musical career in Chicago.In the late 1960s, while Prine was still delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open-mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.... продолжение
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