103 :: Imitation Lashes :: A Slow Drag with "You Little Fool"
03/05/23 • 12 min
Today’s slow drag is with “You Little Fool” from “Imperial Bedroom,” released in 1982. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: [email protected]
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “You Little Fool” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Little_Fool
“You Little Fool” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmVfF3WX_Q
“You Little Fool” Demo version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEo40X9_HUs
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday”
Daddy's best girl in the world is not supposed to have a boyfriend
But she's never wanted at home
Other girls are allowed to wear their makeup
She sneaks out her lipstick, powder and comb
She surrounds his name with hearts and flowers
Talks on the telephone for hours and hours
But with a bird in his hand
And two on a string
The words of love have an imitation ring
Chorus:
You little fool, you little fool
I suppose that you're going to stay all night
You little fool
Don't look at me that way, you know it isn't right
You little fool
They say no news is good news
The little girl wants information
Mother just gives her some pills to choose
And says go and use your imagination
Daddy's best girl in the world says just look what I got
As she sits beside him on the high stool
With his arm around her neck, snowball in one hand
And the other full of imitation jewels
She fingers a string of pearls
An imitation but he'll never know it
Imitation lashes flutter above
Looking for an imitation of love
(Chorus)
Alternative second verse intro lyrics:
And you’re so surprised she’s up to hijinks out on the high stools
Sitting with a snowball in one hand, the other full of imitation jewels
Today’s slow drag is with “You Little Fool” from “Imperial Bedroom,” released in 1982. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
.
.
.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: [email protected]
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “You Little Fool” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Little_Fool
“You Little Fool” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmVfF3WX_Q
“You Little Fool” Demo version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEo40X9_HUs
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday”
Daddy's best girl in the world is not supposed to have a boyfriend
But she's never wanted at home
Other girls are allowed to wear their makeup
She sneaks out her lipstick, powder and comb
She surrounds his name with hearts and flowers
Talks on the telephone for hours and hours
But with a bird in his hand
And two on a string
The words of love have an imitation ring
Chorus:
You little fool, you little fool
I suppose that you're going to stay all night
You little fool
Don't look at me that way, you know it isn't right
You little fool
They say no news is good news
The little girl wants information
Mother just gives her some pills to choose
And says go and use your imagination
Daddy's best girl in the world says just look what I got
As she sits beside him on the high stool
With his arm around her neck, snowball in one hand
And the other full of imitation jewels
She fingers a string of pearls
An imitation but he'll never know it
Imitation lashes flutter above
Looking for an imitation of love
(Chorus)
Alternative second verse intro lyrics:
And you’re so surprised she’s up to hijinks out on the high stools
Sitting with a snowball in one hand, the other full of imitation jewels
Previous Episode
102 :: Start Out As Lovers :: A Slow Drag with "Sour Milk Cow Blues"
Today’s slow drag is with “Sour Milk Cow Blues” from “Goodbye Cruel World,” released in 1984. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: [email protected]
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Sour Milk Cow Blues” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sour_Milk-Cow_Blues
“Sour Milk Cow Blues” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yk1GoVMMY
“Milk Cow Blues Boogie,” 1954 Elvis Presley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruWHWXRkHHk
“Milk Cow Blues,” 1934 Kokomo Arnold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B944jMtu6Qc
Willie Nelson – Milk Cow Blues, 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnEpw-A0to
“Parade of Pleasure,” Geoffrey Wagner: https://www.amazon.com/Parade-pleasure-popular-iconography-U-S/dp/B00IY0JJNM
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday”
"Sour Milk Cow Blues" Lyrics:
You like coffee and you like tea
Much more than you like me
And everybody says watch out, yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
You like your coffee just a little too sweet
Without your sugar, life is incomplete
And everybody says watch out, yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
I think about you everyday
Something about you is not the same
Something about the things you say
Sounds like a different woman with a different name
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
You wear a different size and style of shoe
I think that someone must be poisoning you
To replace you with a living double
Get out of my life right now and save them all of the trouble
They changed your complexion and your personality
Somebody's putting ideas in your head
They took the girl of my dreams and left you here instead
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
You take your place in this parade of pleas
You dial a number and they offer relief
All alone with just your own device
They give you something and it isn't advice
To break the hearts of a million listeners
Start out as lovers and you end up as prisoners
Somebody's suffering from the things that you do
Somebody's suffering but you're glad it isn't you
Put your fingertips up to the screen
Repeat after me, wake at the count of three
Now I don't know which is worse
What they're doing to you or what you're doing to me
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Next Episode
104 :: With Glitter and With Dirt :: A Slow Drag with "Spooky Girlfriend"
Today’s slow drag is with “Spooky Girlfriend” from “When I Was Cruel,” released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: [email protected]
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Spooky Girlfriend” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Spooky_Girlfriend
“Spooky Girlfriend” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBmd6m7h-c
“Spooky Girlfriend” Cruel Smile, Live on KFOG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsRa4XojFs
“London’s Brilliant Parade” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmNE964rmk
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday”
"Spooky Girlfriend" Lyrics:
I want a girl to make a mess
To do no wrong she must confess
And then perhaps hitch up her dress
'Cos when the flashbulbs explode
She's such a sensitive soul
I want a girl who is helpless and frail
Who won't pull on my ponytail
I want a girl who has no past
She's made up now
But that won't last
'Cos when she sits on my knee
And then she whispers to me
"Can't you see
could be
could be
Your spooky girlfriend...
I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend”
And the broken toys are scattered in the attic
And the Newspapers play in the words of the fanatic
And the greeting cards are your most poetic lyric
And the flat champagne is sweet sugar syrup
I want to paint you with glitter and with dirt
Picture you with innocence and hurt
The shutter closes
Exposes the shot
She says, "Are you looking up my skirt?"
When you say "No"
She says "Why not?"
I want a girl to turn my screw
To wind my watch, to buckle my shoe
And if she won't, her mother will do
'Cos when she does as she's told
We'll all turn platinum and gold
But when she sits on my knee
I hear her whispers to me
"Can't you see?"
"I could be your spooky girlfriend"
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