[Dixielandjazz] Crimehouse Blues

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

REQUIEM FOR A SHARP MINER 


A printer called Lhal he lived in a hole 
and wanted much music under control 
of his banker no less, who had him compose 
body and soul over Johnny Green's nose 
and weave from synthetics a mink ersatz stole 
singing: honest musicians have died on the dole 

Lhal lived in a hole, you'd call it a vault 
and you'd better take with 2 buckets of salt 
Lhal's name on a page of musical script 
off which the credit's been readjusted 
a pity such corporations don't get busted 
and it's off so much off gets ripped. 

What else bears the name, maybe Boom Bang-a-Bang, 
a song of scant worth which some infants once sang?  
I'd prefer Johnny Armstrong, where the border rebel 
sings his last goodnight on the way down to Hell:
it surely must swing for he first of all has to hang.....
 (Spoken interlude in the baest Gneshville, 
beginning in tones of adwhorationplucking floated toward an audience on banjo)
Lhal  -- Lhaaal -- who of course hadn't read this even after he wrote it!I'm sure he'd be absolutely delighted to have provided a musical setting.Poor fellow, he needs somebody to do that for him  -- 
have you people no compassion? More likely the setting already existsvandalised in a corner with somebody else's name written on it ...
and when this number is over I want you all to stand to attentionand sing 

here's to our glorious Lhalhis best almost only pal 
glad to have, without a fuss,composed all we have, for us --our gall Lhal!  

(signed) Honored Lhal 




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