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FOUNTAIN OF JOY
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I wrote this song while standing in line at the grocery store
Can’t tell if I will sing it half-a-million times, or never again anymore.
It goes like this:
AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM BEIN A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM BEIN A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
That’s right AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM BEIN A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
No! AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM BEIN A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
YEAH A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
I SAID A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
THAT’S RIGHT A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
AND AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM SERVIN UP A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
Said, AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM SERVIN UP A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
No AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM SERVIN UP A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
No AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM SERVIN UP A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
YEAH A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
SAID A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
THAT’S RIGHT A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
So let’s keep those fingers poppin
Keep those bangers boppin
STOP SOME FUCKIN BOMBS FROM DROPPIN
BY SERVIN UP A MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
FROM A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
GUITAR: [neener neener neener neener neener fountain of joy fountain of joy
neener neener neener neener neener fountain of joy fountain of joy]
AND AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP YOU FROM DRINKIN FROM THAT FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
AND AIN’T NOBODY CAN STOP YOU FROM SITTIN ON THAT MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUTAIN OF JOY
DRINKIN FROM THAT FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
SITTIN ON THAT MOUNTAIN OF JOY MOUNTAIN OF JOY
FLOWIN LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
FOUNTAIN OF JOY FOUNTAIN OF JOY
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Tin Can Telephone
05:03
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honey, lend me your pocket knife
—i wanna cut us a length of twine
and string it all the way
between your sweet heart and mine.
and i will get us a couple tin cans
from the shed or the bottom of the bin.
and we can make us a tin can telephone
that we can whisper all our secrets in.
yes, and if that length of twine
starts to weather and to fray,
please don’t take out your pocket knife
and cut your end away,
for on that tin can telephone
you once whispered “would you meet me in that tender place?”
—where we can talk at ease
of matters we might never mention face to face,
and somewhere on that line,
we found a way to give each other something folks call “grace,”
—or maybe just some space.
so honey, take three steps toward me
and I’ll take but two step back
and that’ll give our tin can telephone line
just a little bit of slack
honey, lend me your pocket knife
—i wanna cut us a length of twine
and string it all the way
between your sweet heart and mine.
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Persimmons [memodemo]
01:11
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i saw jenny goodwine by the persimmon tree
i said hey jenny, say, do you have any
persimmons you could lend to me?
cause i’m a-gonna bake a persimmon bread
so half a dozen? maybe two or three?
but no, said jenny, i haven’t got any
those persimmons ain’t ripe, you see.
said jenny, it’s the summertime. you gotta wait for fall
then they’ll all drop down and be scattered all around
and you can come and collect them all
but if you pick em from the branch there’s a pretty good chance
that your persimmons will be sour not sweet
so the moral of the rhyme is give it time
and in the summer bake a different treat.
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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois
For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together
into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC!
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