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No Strings Attached

by Those Darn Accordions

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Hamsterman ©1996 P. Rogers/ DumDitty Music BMI I spend my days in a wire cage Spinning ‘round in a wired (bloody) rage Sticking my head in a bowl to eat Yesterday’s paper at my feet Spinning on a treadmill going nowhere People going by stopping only to stare Hamsterman, Hamsterman Everybody laughs at the Hamsterman Hamster, I,, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning, but I don’t know why Give me a dollar and I’ll pretend That I am your furry little friend Pull my tail and tug my ears I make noises no one hears Listen to my story, I must tell it Help yourself to a little green pellet Hamsterman, Hamsterman Everybody laughs at the Hamsterman Hamster, I, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning but I don’t know why (dream sequence) One of these days I’ll break away With a nip of a finger and a mighty squeal I’ll be making tiny little tracks Far from the kiddies and the spinning wheel…… Oh Hamsterman, that I am I want to go back to my Hamster clan Hamster, I, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning but I don’t know why The Hamster is free! The Hamster is free at last!!
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Mothra 03:20
MOTHRA © 1994 P. Rogers 3am and I am not sleeping counting sheep but they keep on leaping Late show is over and done Late, Late show has just begun! Just my luck, it's a Japanese thriller and I ain't talking about Godzilla This monster gets around on wings when the little girls start to sing MOTHRA!.....etc. So I'm paying a transpacific call to a couple of girls this small I heard they were running a Kareoke hoping I find them Okey Dokey From Tokyo to Okinawa Checking the files of Kurasawa (Seijizawa) Got to find those singing Pixies even if they're pushing sixty. MOTHRA!..... Ridin' the back of that big old bug Looks wings on a giant slug Born in a heavywater broth They control the Monster Moth So now my friends I gots to leave ya's I've gotta find those Dinky Divas In the land of the rising sun These gals are "Ichibon". MOTHRA!.......
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Hippie With a Banjo © Paul Rogers/ DumDitty Music Little green beanie on a long haired mop Red propeller spinning on top Rainbow colors on a tie-dyed shirt Two bare feet all covered with dirt Pickin’ and a scratchin’ out a devil of a tune Higher than a kite in the afternoon He’s headin’ this way and he’s wantin’ to jam I got to disappear from the place I am Oh, have mercy on me I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo It’s like torture to me Kinda like a skeeter in your ear when you camp, oh He’s so simple and free He’s gonna play the damn thing anywhere he can, so Please have mercy on me I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo Now I’ve been to a dentist with a very dull drill He hammered on my gums, (or, hammered on my thumb) I remember it still I took a long drive in a very small car With my Uncle Eddie puffin’ on a big cigar I spent a whole summer with my Mother in-law all these things still stick in my craw But nothing compares to the pain I feel When I hear the twang of those strings of steel Chorus Just when I thought this is the worst that I’ve seen Here comes his girlfriend with a tambourine Oh have mercy on me I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo Life’s been brutal to me Don’t make it worse with a hippie with a banjo Give him a job at sea How about the fella on a mast yellin’ “Land Ho” In to a new country Never let ‘em know you’ve got a Hippie with a banjo Oh yeah..a Hippie with a banjo A Hippie with a banjo
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BEHIND THE BELLOWS ©1995 P. Rogers All you kids on air guitar I was once the way you are, Uh Huh strictly just a Metal Man Running where the others ran uh huh But I never got nowhere 'til I started pumping air Now my future has no doubt Since I got in to the in and out 'Cause I'm ............ BEHIND THE BELLOWS (Get thee behind the bellows) I'm............................... BEHIND THE BELLOWS (and I intend to keep on pumping) C'mon all you mosh pit dancers Slackers, Trackers, Necromancers I bet you didn't thought you couldn't move to someone squeezing out a groove Well, We intend to come to town Pump it up and lay it down C'mon all you Disco bumpers Make room for us Paper Pumpers 'Cause I'm ............ BEHIND THE BELLOWS (Get thee behind the bellows) I'm............................... BEHIND THE BELLOWS (and I intend to keep on pumping) Now the money's in the vault All my blues below the salt Hanky-Panky every night Frankie Yanki' done me right 'Cause I'm ............ BEHIND THE BELLOWS (Get thee behind the bellows) I'm............................... BEHIND THE BELLOWS (and I intend to keep on pumping)
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CITIZEN CONTRAIRE ©1989 P. ROGERS THE OTHER NIGHT WHILE SITTING IN A SHOW I RECEIVED UPON MY HEAD A NASTY BLOW I LOOKED AROUND TO TRY AND FIND MY FOE TURNED OUT TO BE SOMEBODY WE ALL KNOW HE WAS UP THERE IN THE BALCONY WAS LAUGHING QUITE HYSTERICALLY AT ALL THE NASTY FOOD DEBRIS NOW LYING IN MY HAIR I RAN UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR AND RUNNING THROUGH THE EXIT DOOR I SAW WHO I WAS LOOKING FOR........... CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE! CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE! CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE! CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE! HE'S THE ONE WHO'S SOCIALLY UNFIT HE DRINKS TOO MUCH AND KNOWS NOT WHEN TO QUIT THOUGH HE THINKS HE IS CLEVER WIT HE NEVER SHOWS US MORE THAN HALF OF IT. A STUMBLEBUM AND NE'RDOWELL MAKING LIFE A LIVING HELL IF HE'D TAKE THE BIG FAREWELL WHO ON EARTH WOULD CARE? A PENCILHEADED PEANUT BRAIN TOO DUMB TO ACTUALLY BE INSANE BORN TO GO AGAINST THE GRAIN THE CITIZEN CONTRAIRE! CHORUS NOW THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY WE SHOULD FORGIVE THOUGH IT IS A WORTHLESS LIFE HE LIVES BUT CAN YOU REHABILITATE THE MIND OF SOMEONE OUT TO TORMENT ALL MANKIND? THERE REALLY IS NO WAY TO COPE WITH SUCH A NASTY MISANTHROPE EXCEPT PERHAPS TO TAKE A ROPE AND TIE HIM TO A CHAIR THEN TAKE HIM TO A SHOPPING MALL AND PUT HIM IN A LITTLE STALL AND CHARGE A DIME TO THROW A BALL AT CITIZEN CONTRAIRE!
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Paco's Dream 03:14
Ole!
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DEATHBED CONFESSION © 1994 Rogers. Schwartz, Wallace DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION Once I was a man of art Virtuous and pure of heart. Emulating master strokes and wary of the local blokes One day a mate did sport me to a pint another and another as we drank into the night aye the canny lad induced me to erect so lowly a design, I do now regret I am Dying, I am Dying and I must confess I put the Monster in Loch Ness, yes yes I put the Monster in Loch Ness, Oh, the people came from miles around and turned Loch Ness to a booming town and the scientists probed through the murky depths for the little Nessie sitting on my backdoor steps I am Dying, I am Dying and I must confess I put the Monster in Loch Ness, yes yes I put the Monster in Loch Ness, Many years have gone since that fateful morn. Not a word I've said for the fear of scorn As I lay me down I will now reveal Yon' Serpent that you saw was not a serpent real I carved the little fellow out of balsa and pine Put it in the water with some buddies of mine Took a phony photo that the papers all ran Made the biggest stir since the Piltdown Man! I am Dying, I am Dying and I must confess I put the Monster in Loch Ness, yes yes I put the Monster in Loch Ness, Oh Brethren will you hear me 'ere I'm laid to rest? I put the Monster in Loch Ness ,yes yes I put the Monster in Loch Ness! DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION DEATHBED........ DEATHBED CONFESSION
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Hamsterman 03:57
Hamsterman ©1997 P. Rogers/ DumDitty Music BMI I spend my days in a wire cage Spinning ‘round in a wired rage Sticking my head in a bowl to eat Yesterday’s paper at my feet Spinning on a treadmill going nowhere People going by stopping only to stare Hamsterman, Hamsterman Everybody laughs at the Hamsterman Hamster, I,, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning, but I don’t know why Give me a dollar and I’ll pretend That I am your furry little friend Pull my tail and tug my ears I make noises no one hears Listen to my story, I must tell it Help yourself to a little green pellet Hamsterman, Hamsterman Everybody laughs at the Hamsterman Hamster, I, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning but I don’t know why (dream sequence) One of these days I’ll break away With a nip of a finger and a mighty squeal I’ll be making tiny little tracks Far from the kiddies and the spinning wheel…… Oh Hamsterman, that I am I want to go back to my Hamster clan Hamster, I, I’m a jumpy little guy I keep on spinning but I don’t know why The Hamster is free! The Hamster is free at last!!
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Baba O'Riley 04:55
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Following The Puppets © P. Rogers 1995 We strapped onto these dinasours and dug our heels in deep Caused a revolution while Geppeto tried to sleep Took the sound you're Grandma found and changed it all about multiplied and amplified and turned it inside out CHORUS We've been Following the Puppets and blowing them away. Did you know that these Pinocchios' aren't going on today? Tell the clowns around us we are leaving here for good We would only stay here if our heads were made of wood. Following the Puppets No more Following the Puppets We ain't Following the Puppets.......anymore Do you think us fools, gone in search of gold Well, We have found our treasure in the young within the old Gathering the masses while we're scraping off the rust To spread the love and share the pain of blowing out the dust CHORUS Breakdown: (Spoken) The Marionette is in a sweat to get his cages latched But we can sing and play these things without the strings attached!

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TDA's second full length CD recorded in 1996.

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released October 9, 1996

Produced by Scott Mathews

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San Francisco band Those Darn Accordions make the accordion do things it's never done before and have fun doing it.

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