I'm posting a song a day from the Rise Up Singing songbook, which you may or may not know. It's a pretty invaluable resource for song leaders, and useful for anyone who likes to sing in groups. The book doesn't include the melodies to the songs, just the lyrics and some chords, so I’m trying hard to find the tunes I don’t know, learn them, and post them on YouTube for anyone to learn. That’s where these videos are hosted; the blog is just pretty packaging.
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.
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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