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Here's to the Heimlich Maneuver

from post​-​Polka by Headless Household

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"Here's to the Heimlich Maneuver" (Joe Woodard), from Headless Household, “post-Polka,” 2003 (Household Ink Records)

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Here's to the Heimlich Maneuver J. Woodard
(A Dance Hall Parable)

Let's hoist back a few until we are in view of forever,
Of forever
They say heaven is a place where nothing ever happens
If you're clever, if you're clever
Meanwhile, back here on earth, the hot pursuit of mirth
Is a fever
Desire is a bad and wondrous river

CHORUS
Here's to the arms that give a little squeeze
Here's to the birds that contemplate the breeze
Here's to the mind that takes its own sweet time
Here's to the Heimlich maneuver

We could be dancing along, with spirits in some other dimension
When flesh turns to butter and skeletons are turning into rubber
You're weak at the knees, your sense are seized by a vision
Or is just a mental collision?

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Here's to the arms that give a little squeeze
Here's to the birds that contemplate the breeze
Here's to the mind that takes its own sweet time
Here's to the Heimlich maneuver
Here's to the lips that say "here's to the lips"
Here's to the sight of swaying little hips
Here's to the floor that holds my love-in-store
Here's to the Heimlich maneuver

We could be lost in a song, delivered like a box of silly putty
When the feeling comes on, a tickle in the bones of everybody
The flailing of limbs can make up for your sins, it's a given
Hugging like your life depended on it

CHORUS, OUT…


copyright 2003, by Joe Woodard

credits

from post​-​Polka, released June 5, 2020
Julie Christensen, vocal
Elen Turner and Allegra Heidelinde, polkettes
Dick Dunlap, keyboards
Chris Symer, bass
Tom Lackner, drums
Joe Woodard, guitar
Nate Birkey, trumpet and vocal harmony
Sally Barr, violin
Tom Buckner, tenor sax

Engineered and mixed by Wayne Sabbak, and Bruce Winter at Riviera Studios, Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Headless Household Santa Barbara, California

New music combo Headless Household (b. 1983) slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. Discography: Balladismo (2015), Basemento (2010), Blur Joan (2005), post-Polka (2003), mockhausen (2000), Free Associations (1999), ITEMS (1995, Inside/Outside USA (1993), and Headless Household (1987)... all on the in-house Household Ink label. ... more

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