vrijdag 4 februari 2000

Musical Hair revisited ♫

Yesterday the movie Almost famous was on the dutch business television station RTL7. Today I looked for the musical Hair on the web and found lyrics and video fragments incomplete and distorted. I healed a few materials and put some together.

One of the lines in a song about the army says that we they are facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy. Sometimes the human mind forgets a vocal contract. In the 60s there was discussion about the up- and downsides of signed agreements. Bureaucracy has its shortcomings, but there is one area where paperwork has urgent importance: Before getting children, couples need to have a signed agreement to live together while raising kids. Much can be said about the generation that brought and is bringing the internet, free flow of information, love and peace, mixed economies. What has put the flower power generation down and now is causing depression, is not to believe in signed parenting agreements. These agreements were lacking too much in parenting and that had major consequences to the position of fathers and their children. We are now listening to new told lies and visions of lonely tunes, not that supreme. It has to be repaired in today's society.

In a world that needs flexibility and growth, an agreement sometimes has to be broken. For raising children up to the age of fifteen years, it is important to offer them stability. One should never end a relation carelessly. To prevent this, make sure you have a signed agreement beforehand, to stay together while raising children. That is the urgent moral shift, a generation of popular and music loving people now has made.

Let the sunshine in

Lyrics popularity score: 18.244

We starve-look at one another short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories

Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes

Somewhere, inside something there is a rush of
Greatness, who knows what stands in front of
Our lives, I fashion my future on films in space
Silence tells me secretly everything

Manchester, England
Across the atlantic sea
And I'm a genius, genius
I believe in God
And I believe that God believes in Claude
That's me, that's me, that's me

We starve, look at one another, short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes

Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie

Let the sunshine in

Aquarius song

Lyrics popularity score: 5.518

The next song inspired many people to take position in the peace movement. Peace groups are independent, their strength is that they operate in common time slots. One highlight is the fall of the Berlin wall.

When the moon is in the seventh house
and jupiter aligns with mars
The peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars

this is the dawning of the age of aquarius
the age of aquarius

harmony and understanding
sympathy and trust abounding
no more falsehoods or derisions
golden living dreams of visions
mystic crystals revelations
and the minds true liberation

when the moon is in the seventh house
and jupiter aligns with mars
then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the stars

this is the dawning of the age of aquarius
the age of aquarius

Donna song

Lyrics popularity score: 3.975

Once upon a looking-for-Donna-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Donna oh Donna oh 
Looking for my Donna

I just got back from looking for Donna
San Francisco
Psychedelic urchin
Oh Donna oh Donna oh
Looking for my Donna

Have you seen
My sixteen year old tattooed woman
Heard a story
She got busted for her beauty oh

Once upon a looking-for-Donna-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Donna oh Donna oh 
Looking for my Donna

I've been to India and saw the yogi light
In South America the Indian smoke glows bright
I'm reincarnated and so are we all
And in this lifetime we'll rise
Before we fall

Once upon a looking-for-Donna-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Donna oh Donna oh
Looking for my Donna

And I'm going to show her
Life on earth can be sweet
Gonna lay my mutated head (self) at her feet
And I'm gonna love her make love to her
Till the sky turns brown
I'm evolving I'm evolving
Through the drugs
That you put down

Once upon a looking-for-Donna-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Donna oh Donna oh 
Looking for my Donna

Donna!

Good morning starshine

Lyrics popularity score: 2.775

While the environmentalist people take a bike or a bus ride, the spoiling leisure class uses cabriolets, which gave them a lot of status in some eyes. Singing gliddy glub glooby and the like, these people got jobs in the judicial and lawmaking system, where they forgot to inform their generation to use signed contracts before getting kids. Recklessly driving with eyes closed, they earned their money from caused misery. The judicial and their servants branche and the youth care sector has grown significantly.

Good morning starshine, the earth says hello
you twinkle above us, we twinkle below
good morning starshine, you lead us along
my love and me
as we sing our early morning singing song

'gliddy glub gloopy nibby nabby noopy
la la la - lo lo
sabba sibbi sabba nooby aba naba
lee lee - lo lo
tooby ooby wala
nooby aba naba
early morning singing song
good morning . . . gliddy glub gloopy . . .'

Singing a song, humming a song
loving a song, laughing a song

Hair song

Lyrics popularity score: 1.712

She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy.
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright.
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know.
It's not for lack of bread, like the Greadful Death.

Darling, give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy.

Hair, flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair.

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees,
give a home to the fleas in my hair.
A home for fleas (yeah) a hive for bees (yeah),
a nest for birds, there ain't no words for the beauty,
the splendor, the wonder of my:

Hair, flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair

I want long, straigth, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty,
oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen,
knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided,
powered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spahettied.

Hair, flow it, show it,
long as God can grow it, my hair

They'll be ga-ga at the go-go when they see me in my toga,
my toga made of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair.
My hair like Jesus wore it, Halleluja I adore it,
Halleluja Mary loved her son, why don't my mother love me?

Hair, folow it, show it
long as God can grow it, my hair

HAIR

Manchester England

Lyrics popularity score: 1.417

A song about the middle class is not much understood. Indeed, middle class people live not only in Manchester England. Several versions of the lyrics on the internet falsly claim that some folks of the flower power generation think they are a God. Listen for yourself to the song. Another issue of these kind: Man that say to be a (good) father, are not nescessary religious, but nothing more or less than a (good) father.

Manchester England
Across the atlantic sea
And he is a genius genius
He believes in God
And we believe that God
Believes in Claude
That's him

Claude Hooper Bukowski
Finds that it's groovy
To hide in a movie
Pretends he's Fellini
And Antonioni
And also his countryman Roman Polanski
All rolled into one
One Claud Hooper Bukowski

Now that I've dropped out
Why is life dreary dreary
Answer my weary query
Timothy Leary dearie

Air song

Lyrics popularity score: 1.183

Clean air was a prominent environmental issue in the musical. On youtube is no Air song, possibly the song dissappeared in the 1979 movie version of the musical. It may have to do with the cabriolet class. Thanks to youtube user Deimosbg from Bulgaria, we have the Air song back on the web. Well done for europe!

Welcome sulphur dioxide,
Hello carbon monoxide
The air, the air is everywhere
Breathe deep, while you sleep, breathe deep

Bless you alcohol bloodstream,
Save me nicotine lungsteen
Incense, incense is in the air
Breathe deep, while you sleep, breathe deep

Cataclysmic, cataplasm
Fall out atomic orgasm
Vapor and fume at the stone of my tomb
Breathe like a solemn perfume
Eating at the stone of my tomb

Welcome sulphur dioxide,
Hello carbon monoxide
The air, the air is everywhere
Breathe deep, while you sleep, breathe deep 

Frank Mills

Lyrics popularity score: 600

I met a boy called Frank Mills
On September twelfth right here
In front of the Waverly
But unfortunately
I lost his address

He was last seen with his friend,
A drummer, he resembles George Harrison of the Beatles
But he wears his hair
Tied in a small bow at the back

I love him but it embarrasses me
To walk down the street with him
He lives in Brooklyn somewhere
And wears this white crash helmet

He has gold chains on his leather jacket
And on the back is written the names
Mary
And Mom
And Hell's Angels

I would gratefully
Appreciate it if you see him tell him
I'm in the park with my girlfriend
And please

Tell him Angela and I
Don't want the two dollars back
Just him! 

Easy to be hard

 

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

I got life

In the original script of the I got life song, a man walkes on a table and breakes the crockery set. This caused some debate, it is argued that a man by taking risks, is familiar with what is in reach for a man and what is not. And in that way broadens the path to a brighter future, an appropriate function in modern society where growth and change are of utterly importance.

I got life, mother
I got laughs, sister
I got freedom, brother
I got good times, man

I got crazy ways, daughter
I got million-dollar charm, cousin
I got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too
Like you

I got my hair, head, brains, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, chin, neck,
tits, heart, soul, back, ass, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, liver, blood

I got my guts (I got my guts)
I got my muscles (muscles)
I got life (life)

Dutch performance

In 1997 the musical was produced in the netherlands. Inappositely the presentator takes distance from flower power. The show is less suited for export because of the expressed groaning and shouting of women. The show of Oren Schrijver is nice and the tranlation Laat de liefde toe, has better wording than in the 60s was permitted (Let the sunshine in).

 

Labels: International, Muziek