Urban Legends and Folk Tales
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These are songs based on urban legends and folk tales. They are stylistically very different from one another as the tales needed to be told from very different perspectives and from music genres appropriate to the telling. Urban legends should be taken very seriously and not very seriously, at the same time. That's what makes them most compelling, to me anyway.

3.   End of the Roll  - an urban legend about a carpet layer in a house full of budgies on the wing.		   Lyrics

4.   The Immaculate Conception  - another urban legend that sounds like a tabloid headline: "Bullet passes through civil war soldier's scrotum and impregnates innocent bystander".		 Lyrics

6.   No News -  an urban legend where "if things can get worse, they will", kind of cowboy poetry to music and also kind of like the Louvin Brothers meet Homer and Jethro.		 Lyrics

7.   Rosa -  another urban legend about a dog in a Hong Kong restaurant.  The story had its first appearance in a newspaper in Zurich Switzerland in 1971.		 Lyrics

8.   Mexican Pet  - an urban legend that "actually happened to a friend of my sister in Victoria".		 Lyrics

10.   Interchange Two Phases  Urban legend meets three phase electric motor theory and then mates with the "Teen Angel" genre of song popular in the early sixties. Lots of "ooh wah oohs".  More on this song at Sighting the Citing.
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12.   Llewelyn and Gelert  This is a cautionary Welsh folk tale that really illustrates that, even in the 13th century, dogs were not considered an adequate substitutes for qualified child care workers.		 Lyrics



 
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