<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">REQUIEM FOR A SHARP MINER <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">A printer called Lhal he lived in a hole <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and wanted much music under control <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">of his banker no less, who had him compose <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">body and soul over Johnny Green's nose <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and weave from synthetics a mink ersatz stole <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">singing: honest musicians have died on the dole <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Lhal lived in a hole, you'd call it a vault <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and you'd better take with 2 buckets of salt <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Lhal's name on a page of musical script <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">off which the credit's been readjusted <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">a pity such corporations don't get busted <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and it's off so much off gets ripped. <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">What else bears the name, maybe Boom Bang-a-Bang, <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">a song of scant worth which some infants once sang? <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">I'd prefer Johnny Armstrong, where the border rebel <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">sings his last goodnight on the way down to Hell:<br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">it surely must swing for he first of all has to hang.....<b><i><br></i></b></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><b><i> </i></b></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><b><i>(Spoken interlude in the baest Gneshville, <br></i></b></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><b><i>beginning in tones of adwhoration</i></b></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><b><i>plucking floated toward an audience on banjo)</i></b><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Lhal -- Lhaaal -- who of course hadn't read this even after he wrote it!</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">I'm sure he'd be absolutely delighted to have provided a musical setting.</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Poor fellow, he needs somebody to do that for him -- <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">have you people no compassion? More likely the setting already exists</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">vandalised in a corner with somebody else's name written on it ...<br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and when this number is over I want you all to stand to attention</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and sing <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">here's to our glorious Lhal</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">his best almost only pal <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">glad to have, without a fuss,</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">composed all we have, for us --</div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">our gall Lhal! <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">(signed) Honored Lhal <br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp6769847fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div></body></html>