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A New Hat

from My Message by Paul Kotheimer

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Pardon me, miss. Why all the fuss? Did you happen to leave your old hat on the bus? I could buy you a new one, one that's twice the size. Oh, I know how it can go. You can form attachments to un beau chapeau, 'specially when twenty bucks has been stashed inside.

And if you only say you love me, I would buy you a diamond ring. I don't care how much it costs. You see, I've got a friend who deals in that sort of thing. Or, if you'd prefer a floor-length fur, I know this very rich guy whose wife just died. Won't you love me? I think you're about her size.

Well, stick with me, and by this time tomorrow, you will wear the finest things that money can borrow. Take on a debt for years if I can be yours. You'll have champagne for breakfast every day of your life. Hit a different restaurant every night, if it is provided that we could sit near the doors.

Now you probably surmise by this old hat of mine, I can't afford no diamond ring. But there is one thing that I have discovered: In this world, don't leave your head uncovered. To be exact, what I'm getting at, is that I've still got a twenty tucked under my hat, and I could buy you a new one that would be just the thing. You may never ever see that diamond ring (or take it on home) but you'd be amazed at the changes a new hat can bring!

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from My Message, released September 1, 2014
Words and music by Rich Krueger, written December 1988. Piano, guitar, percussion, and vocal by Paul Kotheimer; Upright bass by Chris Strand; Violin by Claire Johnson. Recorded May 2014 at home in Urbana.

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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! ... more

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