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Splinkety Polka

from post​-​Polka by Headless Household

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"Splinkety Polka" (Joe Woodard), from Headless Household, “post-Polka,” 2003 (Household Ink Records)

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Splinkety Polka J. Woodard


Pernickety folks and splinkety polka
Live on the other side of town
Swapping their licks in lickety splitsville
Salivaton on the run

Rickety theme parks, hawking their thrills
Selling adrenaline highs
Snicker at danger, snuffing out anger
Singing major scales at night

Down in the underground, underneath the things we know
What is it, “on the town,” when no one’s really running the Show

Bridge:
You never know a tune until you steal it
And then you have to face the music police
They’re listening and on the patrol
Sniffing around the world for larcenous tunes
Alter the melody and shuffle the beat
And still you may be culpable
Until you confess your original sin, until you confess your original sin

Hocketing tunes and pocketing grooves
Sweat ‘n’ sound confectioneers
Splitting the difference of musical inference
With a mind to keep the peace

Doing our time in splinkety polka
Life in another universe
Swapping our riffs in riffety splitsville
Celebration on the run


copyright 2003, by Joe Woodard

credits

from post​-​Polka, released June 5, 2020
Julie Christensen, vocal
Ellen Turner and Shelly Rudolph, vocals, as Polkettes
Dick Dunlap, keyboards
Jim Connolly, electric bass
Tom Lackner, drums
Joe Woodard, guitar
Tom Buckner, tenor sax
Nate Birkey, trumpet

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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