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Title: The Take-It-Easy Trailer Park
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Parks, Van Dyke
Genre: Country
Subject: Retirement/Vegetating/Pop Culture
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33893
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: An L.A. Coke-dealer, a Georgia faith-healer
First line (English):A
Language: English
Title: Somethin's Wrong With The Beaver
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Rock
Subject: Death/50's Culture/Beaver Cleaver(?)
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33889
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Instrumentals and Vocals Texas Jewboys
First line: She climbed the stairs that mornin'
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: People Who Read People Magazine
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Folk/Country
Subject: Common folk/Fallen Dreams
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33888
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Wel, I'm here to say I got turned away from Studio 54
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: Asshole From El Paso
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"
Author: Chavin, Chinga (Prob. Pseudonym).
Genre: Country
Subject: Satire/El Paso/Status Quo/Prejudice/Virgins/Mexicans/Morals
Origin: Ephemera 1103/Ephemera 1491
Additional song notes: Sometimes listed as "Arsehole."
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33887
Vocals Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: We don't have no love-ins in El Paso
Language: English
Style: Live Concet
Title: Waitret, Please, Waitret
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Boles, "BB" Buster (Major)
Author: West, Roscoe
Genre: Country/Americana/Pop
Subject: Humor/Sexual Innuendo/Accent/Speech defect
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33885
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Instrumentals and Vocals Texas Jewboys
First line: Well, I pulled into Dallat on a cold December day
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: The Ballad Of Charles Whitman
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Country
Subject: Satire/Shooting Rampage/Tower/Historical
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33884
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up instrumentals and vocals Texas Jewboys
First line: He was sitting up there for more than an hour
Track comment: In the style of Johnny Cash
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: Homo Erectus
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Finley, Danny
Author: Red, Panama (Prob. Pseudonym)
Genre: Country
Subject: Humor/Wordplay/College/Student-Professor Love
Origin: Ephemera 1491
Additional song notes: Melody similar to a college "fight" song
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33891
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
Accordion Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"
First line: Left barber college, searching for knowledge
Language: English
Style: Live Concert
Title: Ride 'Em Jewboy
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Country
Subject: Jews/Holocaust/Diaspora/Identity/Memory
Origin: Ephemera 1491
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33892
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Ride, ride 'em Jewboy, right 'em all aound the old corral
Language: Language
Title: We ReserveThe Right To Refuse Service
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Goldberg, Rick
Author: Maizel, J.
Genre: Country
Subject: Satire/Discrimination/Anti-Semitism/Classism/Pacifism/Heaven
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33890
Vocals Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: While traveling through the Lone Star State
First line (English):W
Language: English
Style: Live Concert
Title: They Ain't Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Novelty/Country Rock/Satire
Subject: Bigotry/Racism/Violence/Surprise/Jews/Jesus/Stereotype
Origin: Ephemera 797/Ephemera 1491
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33896
Vocal/Guitar Friedman, Kinky
Vocal Lebedeff, Aaron -- לעבעדאָװ, אהרן
First line: Well a redneck nerd in a bowling shirt was guzzlin' Lone Star Beer
Track comment: Solo
Language: English
Style: Live Concert
Title: Old Ben Lucas
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Children /Country/Gross
Subject: Humor/Mucus / Nose/Booger
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33895
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Ol Ben Lucas had a lot of mucus
Track comment: Kids song with children's voices on track.
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: Before All Hell Breaks Loose
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Country/Dixieland
Subject: Humor/Judgement Day/Armaggedon
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33883
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Time to resign from the human race
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: Sold American
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Country
Subject: Has-been/Cowboy Singer/American Dream/Loss/Poverty/Pawn Shop
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33882
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Faded jaded falling cowboy star
Language: English
Style: Live Concert
Title: Rock N' Roll Across The USA
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Author: Red, Panama (Prob. Pseudonym)
Genre: Rock
Subject: Historical Humor/Golden Rule/Pilate/Indian Chiefs/Progress
Origin: Ephemera 1491
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33894
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals Texas Jewboys
First line: Jesus said to Pilate, remember the Golden Rule
Language: English
Style: Studio
Title: Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Composer: Friedman, Kinky
Genre: Country
Subject: Humor/Women's Liberation/Male Chauvinism
On album: K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)
Track ID: 33886
Vocal Friedman, Kinky
Back-up Instrumentals and Vocals Texas Jewboys
Violin Culpepper,Thomas "Wichita"
Kazoo Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"
First line: You uppity women I don't understand…
Language: English
Style: Live concert
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