Splinta
05-18-2006, 06:49 AM
<p>A mournful pastoral ballad (Thanks, CNN!)</p><p>Jus’ tooooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeeet<br />the news that is<br />the saucy ironics of it.<br />The ole boy was missing for so many years<br />and whammo up he pops <br />or rather under he pops----- a horse farm outside Detroit.<br />couple of hundred pounds of renegade labor Mafiosi<br />buried under and possibly turning into yessssssssssssssss<br />wait for it nowwwwwwwwwwww<br />horseshit.</p><p>(Right about here the music rises----piccolos, soft strings<br />maybe a distant bagpipe and a squeeze box accordion<br />very Renaissance- Fair-ish Nouveau- Celtic sounding.<br />A hint of a high pitched castrato tenor crooning barely audible <br />in the background.<br />Early twentieth century big city squalid tenement pictures flashing<br />------each pausing maybe a second or two for impact. <br />The vocal rises a little more becoming distinct, high pitched and clear) <br /> <br />“Jimmy Boy ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Oh Jimmy Boy where have gone<br />and why have you stayed away so long?<br />Are you pushin’ up the sweet green grasses<br />on some “hathen” Michigan farm?”</p><p> Ohhhhhhhhhh Jim Boy Ohhhhhhhh Jimmy Boy where have you gone?</p><p>“Have your “I-tie” hoodlum friends then planted you that day<br />under the sweet wavin’ alfalfa hay<br />Is that why you haven’t been comin’ round ?<br />Oh Jimmy boy, Jimmy Boy, Jimmy Boy<br />Ha they I’ truth turned you into manure neath the cold cold ground”</p><p>(reprise) – Ohhhhhhhhhh Jim Boy Ohhhhhhhh Jimmy Boy where have you gone?</p><p>“Send us home our sweet baby James bones<br />dig them up and out of those foreign Michigan plains<br />where they have lain so long<br />U.P.S shipping will be probablyyyyyyyyy be the best<br />but if they charge too much our Teamster- brothers will surely accept<br />de-liv-ery from trusty second rated Fed-Ex.”</p><p>(reprise) – Ohhhhhhhhhh Jim Boy Ohhhhhhhh Jimmy Boy where have you gone?</p><p>(right about here the instruments one by one fade out until only the piccolo<br />and the high mournful castrato male voice are left</p><p>once more (reprise) – Ohhhhhhhhhh Jim Boy Ohhhhhhhh Jimmy Boy where have you gone?</p><p>Then they too eventually fade. The flashing pictures do a slow fade into blackness<br />and a silence of ten or so seconds hangs in the air. then the sound of a horse whinnying plaintively and evocatively in the far distance.)</p><p><br />Yessssssssssssss I like it!<br /></p>