Gracias, Señor Stabler (y señor Skonk) -
I greatly appreciate your encouragement and moral support, and to show my gratitude I
hereby grant you permission to perform the above copyrighted work royalty-free when-
ever you have the opportunity (and courage). Here are a couple more rough versions of
verses, not necessarily in the order into which they should be added to the original
:
"In sixty-eight there was a Mad Dash
"With no Foamers at the Whip Lash
"But there WAS One at Monero*
"And the photos that he took there are Primero !"
*****
"Everything is looking nifty
"Painted up like Nineteen-Fifty
"Then a Phrauder** shouts, "we're screwed!"
"As the vinyl tender letters come unglued!!"
"The sound recorders are all whirring
"The whistle echoes truly stirring
"When a railfan screams, "God Bless Us -
"There's a Wild-Eyed Foamer trying to sing 'Festus'!!"
"Take me home, oh Papacito!
"Take me home, from Antonito ... "
Good Luck, Ed - ignore the comments of that curmudgeon Roosso, and please feel free to add verses of
your own, or to modify the earlier ones as necessary to achieve a proper "railroady" rhythm and feel.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All With A Cell-Phone Can Twitter
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think ... "
* And at Los Piños - see [
www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com], [
www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com] and
[
www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com]
** Phraud-O-Grapher - a photographer whose modern digital photos of trains and their surroundings
are very difficult to distinguish from film-based photos taken several years previously.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/20/2014 01:54PM by Johnson Barr.