Thursday, July 9, 2009

No Hole In My Head


By Malvina Reynolds
Rise Up Singing chapter: Women, p.249
A - / - - / D7 - / A - / E7 - / A (E7)
The E7 in brackets means it's optional. You can just stay on A if you like.

Here's another cover of this song I really like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWDZrW3wvhI
It's soulful, I think. He really gets into it.

Lyrics pasted from http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr119.htm
Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

They call me a dupe of this and the other,
Call me a puppet on a string, they,
They don't know my head's full of me
And that I have my own special thing,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

I have lived since early childhood
Figuring out what's going on, I,
I know what hurts, I know what's easy,
When to stand and when to run,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

So please stop shouting in my ear, there's
Something I want to listen to, there's
A kind of birdsong up somewhere, there's
Feet walking the way I mean to go,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

1 comment:

  1. well, the first two lines rhyme. but i always thought it was weird that it didn't rhyme. there's a good version of this on the youtubes from pete seeger's show.

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