Artist: Kinky Friedman
Track: The Ballad Of Charles Whitman
Lyrics
He was sitting up there for more than an hour,
Way up there on the Texas Tower
Shooting from the twenty-seventh floor. Yahoo!
He didn't choke or slash or slit them,
Not our Charles Joseph Whitman,
He won't be an architect no more.
Got up that morning calm and cool,
He picked up his guns and walked to school.
All the while he smiled so sweetly
And it blew their minds completely,
They'd never seen an Eagle Scout so cruel.
Now won't you think for the shame and degradation
For the school's administration
He put on such a bold and brassy show.
The Chancellor cried,
Full Lyrics and Meaning
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Kinky Friedman – The Ballad of Charles Whitman
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“The Ballad of Charles Whitman” tells the story of August 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed up the University of Texas Tower and began shooting at anyone he could see below.
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WarBard
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Student of the Ryerson RTA school of media in Toronto. Hockey fanatic. Gamer.
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Kinky Friedman – Sold American
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(Kinky Friedman) / Faded jaded falling cowboy star / Pawnshops itching for your old guitar / Where you're going, God only knows / The sequins have fallen from your clothes / Once
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Kinky Friedman – Flyin' Down The Freeway
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(Kinky Friedman) / Well, it's retro rocket time inside my attic / I'm all wrapped up in the flag to keep me warm / Got my brain locked in the cruise-o-matic / Rollin' Ronnie Reagan
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Kinky Friedman – Highway Cafe
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(kinky friedman) / She was only a waitress in a highway café / Poured coffee from dusk until dawn / But she was heart broken twenty-four hours a day / For she longed for her
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Kinky Friedman – Nashville Casualty & Life
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(Kinky Friedman) / In faded gabardine he used to stand / Down by the Union Station with that ol' hat in his hand / A banjo-pickin' devil, a singin' rag-time saint / The young folks
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Kinky Friedman – Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
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(kinky friedman) / You uppity women I don't understand / Why you gotta go and try to act like a man / But before you make your weekly visit to the shrink / You'd better occupy the
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Kinky Friedman – Ride 'em Jewboy
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(Kinky Friedman) / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Ride, ride ‘em Jewboy / Ride ‘em all around the old corral / Oh, I'm, I'm with you boy / If I've got to ride
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Kinky Friedman – We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
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Kinky Friedman - We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You / While traveling through the Lone Star State / I lost my lunch before I ate / It happened in a pull-ahead café
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Kinky Friedman – High On Jesus
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Walking down Division street, I happened on to meet / A stranger with a package in his hand / He said, "Mister, if you follow me, rainbow colors you will see / I'll take your head
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Kinky Friedman – Western Union Wire
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Kinky Friedman - Western Union Wire / From a cheap hotel in Dallas / On a cold December day / A telegram was traveling on its way / LiKe a sad old song from somewhere / In the
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