The Last Gasps of Indian Summer by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

In a taxi cab, Holden asks the driver whether the ducks in the Central Park lagoon migrate during winter, a subject he brings up often, but the man barely responds. Holden checks into the Edmont Hotel and spends an evening dancing with three tourists at the hotel lounge. Holden eventually gets bored of them.

Following an unpromising visit to a nightclub, Holden becomes preoccupied with his internal angst and agrees to have a prostitute named Sunny visit his room. His attitude toward the girl changes when she enters the room and takes off her clothes.

Holden, who is a virgin, says he only wants to talk, which annoys her and causes her to leave. Even though he maintains that he paid her the right amount for her time, she returns with her pimp Maurice and demands more money. Holden insults Maurice,

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Sunny takes money from Holden's wallet, and Maurice snaps his fingers on Holden's groin and punches him in the stomach.

Afterward, Holden imagines that he has been shot by Maurice and pictures murdering him with an automatic pistol.

The next morning, Holden, becoming increasingly depressed and needing personal connection, calls Sally Hayes, a familiar date.

Although Holden claims that she is "the queen of all phonies,"

they agree to meet that afternoon to attend a play at the Biltmore Theater. Holden shops for a special record, "Little Shirley Beans," for his 10 year old sister Phoebe. He spots a boy singing a song which lifts his mood. After the play, Holden and Sally go ice skating at Rockefeller Center, where Holden begins ranting against society and frightens Sally. He invites Sally to run away with him that night to live in the wilderness of New England, but she declines. The conversation turns sour, and the two angrily part ways.

Holden decides to meet his old classmate, Carl Luce, for drinks at the Wicker Bar. Holden annoys Carl, whom Holden suspects of being gay, by insistently questioning him about his sex life.

Luce says Holden should go see a psychiatrist, to understand himself better. After Luce leaves, Holden gets drunk, awkwardly flirts with several adults, and calls an icy Sally. Exhausted and out of money, Holden wanders over to Central Park to

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investigate the ducks, accidentally breaking Phoebe's record on the way. Nostalgic, he heads home to see Phoebe. He sneaks into his parents' apartment while they are out and wakes her up.

Despite being happy to see Holden, Phoebe quickly infers that he has been expelled and chastises him for his aimlessness and his apparent disdain for everything. When asked if he cares about anything, Holden shares a selfless fantasy he has been thinking about, based on a mishearing of Robert Burns's “Comin' Through the Rye,” in which he imagines himself as making a job of saving children running through a field of rye by catching them before they fell off a nearby cliff. Phoebe points out that the actual poem says, "when a body meet a body, comin’ through the rye."

Holden breaks down in tears, and his sister tries to console him.

When his parents return home, Holden slips out and visits his former and much admired English teacher, Mr. Antolini, who expresses concern that Holden is headed for "a terrible fall."

Mr. Antolini advises him to begin applying himself and provides Holden with a place to sleep. Holden is upset when he wakes up to find Mr. Antolini patting his head, which he interprets as a sexual advance. He leaves and spends the rest of the night in a waiting room at Grand Central Terminal, sinking further into

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despair and expressing regret over leaving Mr. Antolini. He spends most of the morning wandering Fifth Avenue.

Losing hope of finding belonging or companionship in the city, Holden decides to head out West and live a reclusive lifestyle as a deaf-mute gas station attendant living in a log cabin. He decides to see Phoebe at lunchtime to explain his plan and say goodbye. While visiting her school, Holden sees graffiti containing a curse word and becomes distressed by the thought of children learning the word's meaning and tarnishing their innocence. When he meets Phoebe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she arrives with a suitcase and asks to go with him, even though she was looking forward to acting as Benedict Arnold in a play that Friday. Holden refuses to let her come with him, which upsets Phoebe. He tries to cheer her up by allowing her to skip school and taking her to the Central Park Zoo, but she remains angry. They eventually reach the zoo's carousel, where Phoebe reconciles with Holden after he buys her a ticket. Holden is filled with happiness and joy at the sight of Phoebe riding the carousel.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Roxy Music

They ask me how I knew

My true love was true

I, of course, replied

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"Something here inside cannot be denied"

They said, "Someday you'll find,

all who love are blind

When your heart's on fire

You must realize, smoke gets in your eyes"

So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed

To think they could doubt my love

Yet, today my love has flown away

I am without my love

Now, laughing friends deride tears I cannot hide So I smile and say, "When a lovely flame dies Smoke gets in your eyes"

Written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

Holden alludes to encountering his parents that night and

"getting sick," mentioning that he will be attending another school in September. Holden then does not want to tell anything more because talking about them has made him miss his former classmates.

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010 - Yellow Submarine – Jupiter, Florida Yellow Submarine

Pepperland is a cheerful, music loving paradise under the sea, home to Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The titular Yellow Submarine rests on an Aztec-like pyramid on a hill. At the edge of the land is a range of high blue mountains.

Yellow Submarine

The Beatles

In the town where I was born

Lived a man who sailed to sea

And he told us of his life

In the land of submarines

So we sailed onto the sun

'Til we found the sea of green

And we lived beneath the waves

In our yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

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And our friends are all aboard

Many more of them live next door

And the band begins to play

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

Full speed ahead Mr. Boatswain,

full speed ahead!

Full speed ahead it is, Sgt.

Cut the cable! Drop the cable!

Aye, Sir, aye!

Captain, captain!

As we live a life of ease

A life of ease

Every one of us has all we need

Every one of us has all we need

Sky of blue and sea of green

Sky of blue, sea of green)

In our yellow submarine

In our yellow submarine

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We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

A yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon .

The land falls under a surprise attack from the music hating Blue Meanies, who live beyond the mountains. The attack starts with a music proof glass globe that imprisons the band. The Blue Meanies fire projectiles and drop apples, a reference to the Beatles' then new company Apple Corps, that render Pepperland's residents immobile as statues, and drain the entire countryside of color.

In the last minutes before his capture, Pepperland's elderly Lord High Mayor sends Old Fred to get help. The Apple Bonkers

"bonk" the Mayor with several large apples as Fred takes off in the Yellow Submarine. He travels to Liverpool, where he follows a depressed Ringo to "The Pier," a building on the top of a hill, and persuades him to return to Pepperland with him. Ringo

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collects his mates John, George, and Paul. The four decide to help Old Fred, and journey with him back to Pepperland in the submarine. In the Sea of Nothing, they meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D., a short and studious creature. As they prepare to leave, Ringo feels sorry for the lonely Boob, and invites him to join them aboard the submarine. They arrive at the Foothills of the Headlands, where they are accidentally separated from the submarine and Old Fred. They then find themselves in the Sea of Holes, where Ringo picks up a hole and puts it in his pocket.

Jeremy is kidnapped by a Blue Meanie, and the group finds their way to Pepperland.

Reuniting with Old Fred and reviving the apple bonked Lord Mayor, they look upon Pepperland's now miserable, grey landscape. The Beatles dress up as Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and steal some instruments. The four rally the land to rebellion. The Chief Blue Meanie retaliates by sending out the Dreadful Flying Glove, which John defeats. Pepperland is restored to color as its residents revive and flowers re-bloom.

Ringo uses the hole in his pocket to release the Lonely Hearts Club Band, and they join the Beatles in combating the Meanies'

multi-headed dog ("Hey Bulldog"). Ringo then rescues Jeremy, who performs some "transformation magic" on the Chief Blue Meanie, causing the Meanie to bloom roses and sadly concede defeat. John

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extends an offer of friendship, and the Chief Blue Meanie has a change of heart and accepts.

The real Beatles then appear, and playfully show off souvenirs.

George has the submarine's motor, Paul has "a little 'love',"

and Ringo has "half a hole" in his pocket, having apparently given the other half to Jeremy. Ringo points out John looking through a telescope, which prompts Paul to ask what he sees.

John replies that "newer and bluer Meanies have been sighted within the vicinity of this theatre" and claims "there is only one way to go out .... Singing!" There is a short reprise of

"All Together Now," which ends with translations of the song's title in various languages appearing in sequence on the screen.

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011 - Alice in Acidland – Oxford, England, UK

Alice in Acidland

The reason why a socially awkward, conservative Anglican Deacon and Oxford mathematician became a leading pop cultural icon in the swinging sixties is one of the most curious stories surrounding “Alice in Wonderland.” Lewis Carroll may have had little in common with the radical “turn on, tune in, drop out, make your own religion” battle cry of former Harvard professor Timothy Leary; the self-professed sixties guru who advocated the use of LSD as a means for self-development, yet the two are

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inextricably linked by their connection to the drug. There has been much speculation surrounding Carroll’s personal use of hallucinogens while writing his wild stories. Expanding the consciousness through mind-altering substances wasn’t out of keeping with Carroll’s generation: think Thomas de Quincey’s

“Confessions of an English Opium Eater” (1821) or Jean Lorrain’s

“Nightmares of an Ether Drinker” (1895). But, despite much searching and digging through Carroll scholarship, no definitive proof has ever been found. All that is left is just that: speculation.

Foreign Window

Van Morrison

I saw you from a foreign window

Bearing down the sufferin' road

You were carryin' your burden

To the palace of the lord

To the palace of the lord

I spied you from a foreign window

When the lilacs were in bloom

And the sun shone through your window pane To the place you kept your books

You were reading on your sofa

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You were singin' every prayer

That the masters had instilled in you

Since lord byron loved despair

In the palace of the lord

And if you get it right this time

You don't have to come back again

And if you get it right this time

There's no need to explain

This time

I saw you from a foreign window

Bearing down the sufferin' road

You were carryin' your burden

You were singing about Rimbaud

I was going down to Geneva

When the kingdom had been found

I was giving you protection

From the loneliness of the crowd

In the palace of the lord

They were giving you religion

Breaking bread and drinking wine

And you laid out on the green hills

Just like when you were a child

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I saw you from a foreign window

You were trying to find your way back home You were carrying your defects

Sleeping on a pallet on the floor

In the palace of the lord

In the palace of the lord

In the palace of the lord

Written by Van Morrison.

The reason for the hippies’ obsession with Carroll can be more easily linked to the popularity of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.” which inspired much pop culture in that period. As Scott F Parker states; “Many of us also associate drugs, especially hallucinogenic drugs, with Alice. Indeed, Alice’s journey can be read as an allegory for an intense drug experience. Rephrasing the plot only slightly, Alice gets lost and tries to find her way back to normal reality. Within the story are specific allusions; the caterpillar smokes a hookah, Alice drinks mysterious liquids and eats mushrooms, Alice’s interpretations of time and space are altered, and the impossible is everyday. The association with Alice is so established that Alice is now a slang term for LSD.

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Regardless of whether or not Carroll would have advocated the use of drugs, the impact of “Alice in Wonderland” on sixties’

culture is undeniable. From Jonathan Miller’s trippy hippie 1966

television adaptation for the BBC to the influence of the book on John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s lyrics for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” the initials LSD being a less than veiled reference to the drug itself, alongside inspired artwork from the likes of John Wesley’s Falling Alice (1963), the gouache paintings Salvador Dali did for a book published by Maecenas Press–Random House in 1969 and Ralph Steadman’s 1972 drawings, Alice was reinvented as a sixties and early seventies pop cultural icon.

But where the story becomes curiouser and curiouser is its connection to two anti-drug films; “Alice in Acidland” - John Donne, 1969 and “Curious Alice” - 1971. The underlying narrative in both films becomes the perfect metaphor for the dangers of experimentation with sex and drugs. This said, “Alice in Acidland’s” status as an anti-drug film is a dubious one. If you take into account the director Donn Greer’s, credited as John Donne, other films – with titles like “The Bride and the Beasts”

- 1969 and “Bad, Bad, Gang!” – 1972, it becomes clear, even before viewing, that the film falls into the category of late sixties sexploitation and exploitation films which traded in

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sensational themes and used a moralizing voiceover to justify what is essentially an hour of softcore sex. In “Alice in Acidland,” Greer narrates the nightmare of his own Alice as she falls into a rabbit hole of pool parties; smoking weed, dropping acid and engaging in lesbian sex before losing her mind forever.

Alice, played by Sheri Jackson, sets out on her journey of sexual liberation, disregarding the danger signs and talk of a former friend’s suicide while on LSD.

While the overall success of the film is debatable, Greer did manage to ride the coat tails of a number of subgenres popular in low budget cinema at the time, namely hippie films like Roger Corman’s “The Trip” - 1967 and exploitation films masquerading as anti-drug statements such as “Hallucination Generation” -

Edward Mann, 1966. In this way, it shares an affiliation with other unashamedly gleeful shlock like “The Acid Eaters” - Byron Mabe, 1968, and José Mojica Marins’s “Awakening of the Beast” -

1970. “Alice in Acidland” is no less lurid, given that ninety-nine per cent of the running time is made up of naked couples making out and plenty of close-ups of women’s breasts. The psychedelic element doesn’t really kick in until the last seven minutes, where Greer doles out a trippy montage of naked women dancing around under various lighting effects, before ending on

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a close-up of Alice in a straightjacket and the declaration that this is “no fairytale, she has become a mental vegetable.”

Of far less seedy origins is “Curious Alice” - 1971, a film made by the National Institute of Mental Health to apparently warn eight to ten year olds about the perils of drugs. The film was distributed to school children across America with a useful coloring book and comprehension test that gave kids the opportunity to answer multiple choice questions like, “The Cheshire Cat was (a) scary, (b) Alice’s friend, (c) took drugs too, (d) gave Alice bad advice”. Also included were a crossword, which offered children further opportunity to test their newly acquired knowledge of heroin, LSD and speed, and class games to show off their skills. Regardless of the intent, the alluring cut and paste montage animation; which wouldn’t look out of place in an early Walerian Borowczyk film, is likely to have proven exciting to children at the time. In fact, many people who grew up remembering the film have since gone on to form a cult following around the curious picture.

According to “The National Archives Unwritten Record Blog:” “In the 1972 publication, Drug Abuse Films, the National Coordinating Council on Drug Education (NCCDE) criticized

‘Curious Alice’ for being confusing and potentially counterproductive to drug abuse education. The review panel

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classified ‘Curious Alice as’ ‘restricted,’ writing that young viewers ‘may be intrigued by the fantasy world of drugs’ and that it should only be presented with a ‘very skilled facilitator’ in order to ‘probe for the drug attitudes’ of an elementary school class.”

In the brief running time, Alice’s resolve is tested first by her parent’s booze and drug cabinets as she falls down the proverbial rabbit hole, and then later by her encounters with a strung out bunch of drug addled Wonderland creatures. The film has the March Hare pumped full of amphetamines, the Mad Hatter quaffing sugar cubes laced with acid, the Doormouse comatose on barbiturates and the Caterpillar puffing down on a weed filled pipe.

In retrospect, it is easy to see why Carroll’s original text became so relevant to sixties’ drug culture, especially when Alice is so exquisitely rendered as “Curious Alice,” or as sexually liberated as Acidland’s leading lady. Alice was changed forever and her psychedelic alter ego was born. But, as she said in the book, “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” If she wasn’t before, then the sixties certainly saw to it that she was.

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012 - Charlotte’s Web – Skowhegan, Maine Charlotte’s Web

During springtime on a farm in Somerset County, Maine, young Fern Arable discovers her father John about to kill the runt of a litter of newborn pigs. She successfully begs her father to spare the piglet's life. Fern names him Wilbur and nurtures him lovingly. The next morning, Fern sneaks Wilbur into her school desk and when the teacher overhears Wilbur, she asks Fern what is in her desk. Fern lies to her that nothing is in her desk and the teacher angrily forces her to open it revealing Wilbur in the desk, who then causes commotion by loudly squealing. The teacher then sends them both to the principal's office.

Puff, the Magic Dragon

Peter, Paul and Mary

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist

in a land called Honah Lee

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff And brought him strings, and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff

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Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

Together they would travel

on a boat with billowed sail

Jackie kept a lookout perched

on Puff's gigantic tail

Noble kings and princes would bow

whenever they came

Pirate ships would lower their flags

when Puff roared out his name

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

A dragon lives forever,

but not so little boys

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Painted wings and giant's rings

make way for other toys

One gray night it happened,

Jackie Paper came no more

And Puff, that mighty dragon,

he ceased his fearless roar

His head was bent in sorrow,

green scales fell like rain

Puff no longer went to play

along the cherry lane

Without his lifelong friend,

Puff could not be brave

So Puff, that mighty dragon,

sadly slipped into his cave

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist,

in a land called Honah Lee

Written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow.

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When Wilbur has matured, Fern is regretfully forced to take him to her uncle Homer Zuckerman's barnyard. Mrs. Arable feels slightly concerned for Fern's behavior and one night, prevails upon Fern to stay home, do her homework and go straight to bed without visiting Wilbur. During this time, Wilbur feels abandoned and is left yearning for companionship, but is refused by the other barn animals; a comedic, mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood, and "potentially dangerous" rat named Templeton; a serious and steadfast sheep named Samuel; a fun loving and kindly goose couple named Gussy and Golly; two beautiful and laid back cow sisters named Bitsy and Betsy; and a cowardly and humorous horse named Ike, until he is befriended by Charlotte A.

Cavatica, a beautiful barn spider who lives in the space above Wilbur's sty in the Zuckermans' barn.

When the other animals reveal to Wilbur that he will be prepared for dinner by Christmas, Charlotte promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to save Wilbur's life. With the help of Templeton, Charlotte convinces the Zuckerman family that Wilbur is actually quite special by spelling out descriptions of him in her web such as "Some pig," "Terrific," "Radiant," and "Humble" in the opening to the barn for the Zuckermans to see. These descriptions are even posted in newspapers that the whole town read, and they came out to see Wilbur.

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Eventually, the Arables, Zuckermans, Wilbur, Charlotte and Templeton go to a fair where Wilbur is entered in a contest.

While there, Charlotte produces an egg sac containing her unborn offspring while Wilbur, despite winning no prizes, is later celebrated by the fair's staff and visitors, making him too prestigious to justify killing him. Exhausted from laying eggs, Charlotte cannot return home because she is dying. Wilbur sadly bids farewell to her as she remains at the fair and dies shortly after his departure, but he manages to take her egg sac home with the help of Templeton.

Wilbur then lives to witness his first Christmas and by the next spring, hundreds of Charlotte's offspring emerge; most of the young spiders soon leave, but three named Joy, Aranea and Nellie stay and become Wilbur's friends.

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013 - Daisies – Prague, Czechoslovakia

Daisies

The title sequence intersperses shots of a spinning flywheel with shots of airplanes strafing and bombing the ground.

The first scene shows Marie I and Marie II sitting in bathing suits. Creaking sounds accompany their movements and their conversation is robotic. They decide that, since the whole world is spoiled, they will be spoiled as well.

The Maries dance in front of a tree that has many different types of fruit on it. Marie II eats a peach from the tree and the Maries appear in their apartment.

Journey to the Center of the Mind

The Amboy Dukes

Leave your cares behind

Come with us and find

The pleasures of a journey

To the center of the mind

Come along if you care

Come along if you dare

Take a ride

To the land inside of your mind

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Beyond the seas of thought

Beyond the realm of what

Across the streams of hopes and dreams

Where things are really not

Come along if you care

Come along if you dare

Take a ride

To the land inside of your mind

But please realize

You'll probably be surprised

For it's the land unknown to man

Where fantasy is fact

So if you can, please understand

You might not come back

Come along if you care

Come along if you dare

Take a ride to the land

Inside and you'll see

How happy life could be

If all of mankind

Would take the time

To journey to the center of the mind

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Would take the time

To journey to the center of the mind

Center of the mind

Written by Ted Nugent and Steven O Farmer.

Marie I goes on a date with an older man. Marie II shows up, saying she is Marie I's sister, and eats a lot of food while mocking the date and interfering with his amorous intentions.

She asks when the man's train is leaving, and the trio go to the train station. Marie I gets on the train with the man before sneaking off and going home with Marie II.

The Maries go to a Prague nightclub where they upstage a 1920s-style dancing couple's floor show and annoy the patrons with their drunken antics.

Marie II attempts suicide by filling their apartment with gas, but fails because she left the window open. Marie I chastises her for wasting gas.

The Maries flirt with another man to get him to pay for their meal before seeing him off on his train. They cry when he leaves, but then break into laughter.

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Marie II goes to the apartment of a man who collects butterflies. He repeatedly declares his love to her, but she just asks if there is any food around. The Maries rob a friendly female bathroom attendant.

Back at their apartment, they cut up various phallic foods while the butterfly collector declares his love for Marie II over the telephone.

When the Maries try to send off a much older man on a train, he gets off, so they board the moving train and end up leaving him at the station.

The Maries look at all of the names and phone numbers written on the walls of their apartment and try to pick a man to call. A man knocks on the door for Marie II, but Marie I teases her and she does not let him in. At a pool, each Marie tells the other that she does not like her anymore.

At their apartment, the Maries soak in a bathtub full of milk with an egg, and philosophize about life and death, existence and non-existence.

In the country, a farmer fails to notice the Maries. When a group of workers riding by on bicycles ignore them, Marie II begins to wonder if they have disappeared. They decide they must exist when they pass a mess they made with stolen ears of corn.

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Back in their apartment, they cut each other apart with scissors.

The Maries sneak into the basement of a building. They take a mechanical dumbwaiter up several floors and find a feast that is all laid out, though no one is around. They eat the food, make a mess, and destroy the room. They swing from a chandelier, which falls from the ceiling, and are dropped into open water. They call out to a nearby boat for help, and unseen sailors reach out large logs for the Maries to grab onto. They are repeatedly lifted and dunked back in the water before they lose their grip.

They say they do not want to be spoiled anymore.

The final scene shows the Maries returning to the dining room.

They sweep off the soiled tablecloth, set the table with shards of plates and broken glasses, and pour the food back onto platters, while whispering about being good and hardworking so everything will be wonderful and they will be happy. When they finish, they lie on the table and say they are happy. Marie II asks Marie I to repeat this, and Marie I asks if they are pretending. Marie II says they are not. The chandelier falls on them and the film cuts to war footage, over which appears a statement dedicating the film "to those who get upset only over a stomped upon bed of lettuce."

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014 - Heaven’s Gate - Newport, Rhode Island Heaven’s Gate

In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, the class orator, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held, after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend.

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in

Your Hair)

Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

In the streets of San Francisco

Gentle people with flowers in their hair

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All across the nation, such a strange vibration People in motion

There's a whole generation with a new explanation People in motion, people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in their hair If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a loving day

Written by Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann, and Bronislaw Kaper.

Twenty years later, Averill is passing through the booming town of Casper, Wyoming, on his way north to Johnson County, where he is now a marshal. Poor European immigrants new to the region are in conflict with wealthy, established cattle barons organized as the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; the newcomers sometimes steal their cattle for food. Nate Champion; a friend of Averill and an enforcer for the stockmen, kills a settler for suspected rustling and dissuades another from stealing a cow.

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At a board meeting, the head of the Association, Frank Canton, tells members, including a drunk Irvine, of plans to kill 125

named settlers, as thieves and anarchists, with the help of the cruel Major Wolcott. Irvine leaves the meeting, encounters Averill, and tells him of the Association's plans. As Averill leaves, he exchanges bitter words with Canton. Canton and Averill quarrel and Canton is knocked to the floor. That night, Canton recruits men to kill the named settlers.

Ella Watson, a Johnson County bordello madam from Quebec, who accepts stolen cattle as payment for use of her prostitutes, is infatuated with both Averill and Champion. Averill and Watson skate in a crowd, then dance alone, in an enormous roller skating rink called "Heaven's Gate," which has been built by local entrepreneur John L. Bridges. Averill receives a copy of the Association's death list from Minardi, a baseball playing US

Army captain, and later reads the names aloud to the settlers, who are thrown into terrified turmoil. Cully, a station master and friend of Averill's, sees the train with Canton's posse heading north and rides off to warn the settlers but is murdered en route. Later, a group of men come to Watson's bordello and rape her. Averill shoots and kills all but one of them.

Champion, realizing that his landowner bosses seek to eliminate

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Watson, goes to Canton's camp and shoots Morrison, the remaining rapist, then refuses to participate in the slaughter.

Canton, Wolcott and their men encounter one of Champion's friends leaving a cabin with Champion and his friend Nick Ray inside, and a gunfight ensues. Attempting to save Champion, Watson arrives in her wagon and shoots one of the hired guns before escaping on horseback. Nick is killed before Canton's men push a burning cart towards the cabin, setting it on fire.

Champion writes a last letter to Ella. Champion emerges from the burning cabin shooting at Canton's men but is killed by a hail of bullets. Watson warns the settlers of Canton's approach at another chaotic gathering at "Heaven's Gate." The coward mayor of the county, Charlie Lezak, proposes to deliver the people on the list peacefully, while the young pharmacist Mr. Eggleston claims that the only way to survive is to brace the weapons and fight the enemy army. The agitated settlers approve Eggleston's idea, and they rush to battle with Bridges and Ella leading them. With the hired invaders now surrounded, both sides suffer casualties; including a drunken, poetic Irvine, as Canton leaves to bring help. Watson and Averill return to Champion's charred and smoking cabin, and discover his corpse, along with a handwritten letter documenting his last minutes alive.

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The next day, Averill reluctantly joins the immigrant settlers, with their cobbled together siege machines and explosive charges, in an attack against Wolcott's men and their makeshift fortifications. The battle is fiercer and more desperate.

Despite the heavy losses that the immigrants suffer, including Eggleston himself, they manage to inflict a huge number of casualties on the mercenaries' army. Wolcott himself, while trying to escape, is killed by Averill, who hits him with an explosive charge. Before the settlers manage to wipe out the enemies, the US Army shows up with Canton and Minardi, thus stopping the battle. The mercenaries are put under arrest, though Averill is aware that this is just a facade to save them and make them avoid a criminal charge. Later, at Watson's cabin, Bridges, Watson, and Averill prepare to leave for good, but they are ambushed by Canton and two others. Averill and Bridges shoot and kill Canton and one of his men but both Bridges and Watson are killed. A grief stricken Averill holds Watson's body in his arms.

In 1903, about a decade later, a well-dressed, beardless, but older looking Averill walks the deck of his yacht off Newport, Rhode Island. He goes below, where an attractive middle aged woman is sleeping in a luxurious boudoir. The woman, Averill's old Harvard girlfriend, perhaps now his wife, awakens and asks

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him for a cigarette. Silently he complies, lighting the cigarette and returning to the deck.

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015 - A Hard Day’s Night – Castle Combe, England, UK

A Hard Day’s Night

The Beatles evade a horde of fans while boarding a train for London to film a televised concert. En route, they meet Paul McCartney's trouble making grandfather for the first time. The band play cards and entertain some schoolgirls before arriving at the London station, where they are quickly driven to a hotel and begin to feel confined. Their manager Norm tasks them with answering all their fan mail, but they sneak out to party, only to be caught by Norm and taken back. They then find out that Paul's grandfather went to a gambling club using an invitation sent to Ringo, and they bring him back to the hotel.

The next day, the Beatles arrive at a TV studio for a performance. After the initial rehearsal, the producer assumes bad faith in them due to something Paul's grandfather said.

After a mundane press conference, they leave through a fire escape and cavort in a field until forced off by the owner. Back in the studio, they are separated when a woman named Millie recognizes John Lennon but cannot recall who he is. George Harrison is lured into a trendmonger's office to audition for an advertisement with a popular model. The band returns to rehearse

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a second song and, after a quick trip to makeup, smoothly go through a third and earn a break.

A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles

It's been a hard day's night

And I've been working like a dog

It's been a hard day's night

I should be sleeping like a log

But when I get home to you

I find the things that you do

Will make me feel alright

You know I work all day

To get you money, to buy you things

And it's worth it just to hear you say

You're gonna give me everything

So why on earth should I moan

'Cause when I get you alone

You know I feel OK

When I'm home

Everything seems to be right

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When I'm home

Feeling you holding me tight

Tight, yeah

It's been a hard day's night

And I've been working like a dog

It's been a hard day's night

I should be sleeping like a log

But when I get home to you

I find the things that you do

Will make me feel alright, owww!

So why on earth should I moan

'Cause when I get you alone

You know I feel OK

When I'm home

Everything seems to be right

When I'm home

Feeling you holding me tight

Tight, yeah

Mmm, it's been a hard day's night

And I've been working like a dog

It's been a hard day's night

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I should be sleeping like a log

But when I get home to you

I find the things that you do

Will make me feel alright

You know I feel alright

You know I feel alright

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

An hour before the final run through, Ringo Starr is forced to chaperone Paul's grandfather and takes him to the canteen for tea while he reads a book. The grandfather manipulates Ringo into going outside to experience life rather than reading books, passing a surprised John and Paul on the way out. Ringo tries to have a quiet drink in a pub, takes pictures, walks alongside the river and rides a bicycle along a railway station platform.

After nearly injuring a parrot and accidentally causing a woman to fall into a newly dug hole, Ringo is apprehended by a policeman as a troublemaker, and shortly after he is joined by Paul's grandfather who had been attempting to sell Beatles photos with forged signatures. The grandfather runs back to the studio and tells the others about Ringo. Norm sends John, Paul and George to retrieve him. While doing so, the boys wind up in

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a Keystone Cops style foot chase before arriving back at the studio, with Ringo, with only minutes to spare before airtime.

The televised concert goes on as planned, with Paul's grandfather making an unplanned appearance during the finale, after which the Beatles are whisked away to another performance via helicopter, once again joined by Paul's grandfather, with Paul tossing his grandfather's remaining forged photographs out of the helicopter as it takes off.

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016 - Reefer Madness - Bayonne, New Jersey The teens in Bayonne had a favorite short which was regularly played along with a WWII era newsreel between the matinee A and B features at the Lyceum Theater on Thirty-third Street and Broadway. The old rediscovered film’s showing actually began as a midnight movie frequented by young adults, but few teens, as they were usually required to be in bed by that time. The Lyceum owners decided to expand the horizons of the younger set.

Reefer Madness

A very serious voice over said; “In the interest of community awareness, we, your elected government, have taken the trouble and expense to bring you this true story, as a public service.

We are certain that after viewing it, you will do the right thing.”

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Mae Coleman and Jack Perry were an unmarried couple who lived together. In the jargon of their times, the 1930’s, they lived in sin, and maybe worse, they sold marijuana. The unscrupulous Jack sells the drug to teenagers over Mae's objections. She'd rather stick to an adult clientele. Ralph Wiley, a sociopathic college dropout turned dealer, and siren Blanche helped Jack recruit new customers. Ralph and Jack lured high school student Bill Harper and college student Jimmy Lane to Mae and Jack's apartment. Jimmy took Bill to a party where Jack ran out of reefer, and Jimmy, who had a car, drove him to pick up more.

When they got to Jack's boss' "headquarters," Jimmy asked for a cigarette as Jack got out and he gave him a joint. By the time Jack returned, Jimmy was unknowingly high. He drove away recklessly and hit a pedestrian, fleeing the scene. A few days later, Jack told Jimmy that the man died of his injuries and agreed to keep Jimmy's name out of the case if Jimmy will agree to "forget he was ever in Mae's apartment." As the police did not have enough specific details to track Jimmy down, he indeed escaped punishment.

Ralph was arrested for Jack's murder.

Bill, whose once pristine record at school has rapidly declined, has a fling with Blanche while high. Mary, Jimmy's sister and Bill's girlfriend, goes to Mae's apartment looking for Jimmy and

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accepts a joint from Ralph, thinking it's a regular cigarette.

When she refuses Ralph's advances, he tries to rape her. Bill comes out of the bedroom and, still high, hallucinates that Mary is willingly offering herself to Ralph and attacks the latter.

As the two are fighting, Jack knocks Bill unconscious with the butt of his gun, which inadvertently fires, killing Mary. Jack puts the gun in Bill's hand, framing him for Mary's death by claiming he blacked out. The dealers lie low for a while in Blanche's apartment while Bill's trial takes place. Over the objections of a skeptical juror, Bill is found guilty.

By now Ralph is paranoid from both marijuana and his guilty conscience. Blanche is also high. At one memorable point she plays the piano more and more rapidly as Ralph eggs her on. The boss tells Jack to shoot Ralph to prevent him from confessing, but when Jack arrives, Ralph immediately recognizes the threat and beats him to death with a stick as Blanche laughs uncontrollably in terror. The police arrest Ralph, Mae, and Blanche. Mae's confession leads to the boss and other gang members also being arrested. Blanche explains that Bill was innocent and agrees to serve as a material witness for the case against Ralph, but instead, she jumps out of a window and falls to her death, traumatized by her own adultery and its role in Mary's death. Bill's conviction is overturned, and Ralph, now

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nearly catatonic, is sent to an asylum for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life.

The film's story is told in bracketing sequences, at a lecture given at a PTA meeting by high school principal Doctor Alfred Carroll. At the film's end, he tells the parents he has been told that events similar to those he has described are likely to happen again, then points to random parents in the audience and warns that "the next tragedy may be that of your daughter ... or your son ... or yours or yours ..." before pointing straight at the camera and saying emphatically, " ... OR YOURS!" as the words "TELL YOUR CHILDREN" appear on the screen.

Incense and Peppermints

Strawberry Alarm Clock

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define

Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose

Little to win, but nothing to lose

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around

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Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah

To divide the cockeyed world in two

Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new

A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view Who cares what games we choose

Little to win, but nothing to lose

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define

Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose

Little to win, but nothing to lose

Incense, peppermints

Incense, peppermints

Written by Timothy P. Gilbert and John Daniels Carter.

Something

The Beatles

Something in the way she moves

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Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile, she knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Written by George Harrison.

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017 - Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Berea, Kentucky Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Francesco, spoiled son of wealthy textile merchant Pietro Bernardone, returns from fighting in the war between Assisi and Perugia. Illness has forced him to leave the war. Francesco is tormented by visions of his past when he was a boisterous, arrogant youth. During a long recovery, he finds God in poverty, chastity and obedience, experiencing a physical and spiritual renewal.

Francesco recovers. However, to his parents' consternation, he spends most of his time surrounded by nature, flowers, trees, animals and poetry as he becomes reluctant to resume his previous lifestyle. Pietro's obsession with gold now fills Francesco with revulsion, creating an open confrontation between them.

Sunny Skies

James Taylor

Sunny Skies sleeps in the morning

He doesn't know when to rise

He closes his weary eyes upon the day

Look at him yawning

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Throwing his morning hours away

He knows how to ease down slow

Everything is fine in the end

And you will be pleased to know

That Sunny Skies hasn't a friend

Sunny Skies weeps in the evening

It doesn't much matter why

I guess he just has to cry from time to time Everyone's leaving

Sunny Skies has to stay behind

Still he knows how to ease down slow, no Everything is fine in the end

And you will be pleased to know

That Sunny Skies hasn't a friend

Sunny Skies sleeps in the morning

He doesn't know when to rise

He closes his weary eyes upon the day

Look at him yawning

Throwing his morning hours away

Looking at the snow and trees

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that grow outside my window

Thinking 'bout the things that pass me by Wondering if where I've been

is worth the things I've been through

Ending on a friend named Sunny Skies

Written by James Taylor.

One day Francesco wanders into the basement and feels the heat and humidity of the dye vats, seeing the workers with their families laboring in the heat without rest. Rejecting his father's offer to let him take over the business, he instead pulls the laborers out of the building to enjoy the daylight.

Then he throws the textiles stored by his father out of the window to the poor gathered below. Francesco invites his father to join in. Pietro beats Francesco, drags him to the bishop's palace and humiliates his son. Lovingly, Francesco renounces all worldly possessions and his middle class family including the name "Bernardone," removes his clothing and leaves Assisi, naked and free from his past, to live in the beauties of nature as an ascetic and to enjoy a simple life as a man of God.

Francesco goes to the ruins of the chapel of San Damiano, where he hears God's voice asking him to "restore my church."

Believing that God means San Damiano, Francesco begins to beg

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for rocks to rebuild the church. Much to the dismay of his family, some of Francesco's friends join him. He gradually gains a following from the sons of the wealthy, who begin to minister among the poor.

The bishop refuses to stop Francesco, since he is rebuilding a church and performing the works of mercy Christ demands of His followers. Francesco's friend Bernardo joins him after returning from the Fourth Crusade.

Clare, a young woman also from a wealthy family, serves and cares for lepers living near the town. She joins the brothers.

Meanwhile, in Assisi, the nobility and wealthy merchants protest against Francesco and his group, worried about them corrupting the town's youth. They command Francesco's friend Paolo to stop the so called "minor brothers."

One day the rebuilt church is set on fire, and one of Francesco's followers is killed. Francesco blames himself, but cannot understand what he has done wrong. He decides to walk to Rome and to seek answers from Pope Innocent III.

In Rome, Francesco is stunned by the wealth and power of the papal court. In front of the Pope, Francesco breaks from reciting Paolo's carefully prepared script and calmly protests against pomp and worldliness, reciting some of Jesus' words from

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the Sermon on the Mount to show that Christ's teachings are totally opposite to Rome's obsession with wealth. The cardinals, bishops and abbots of the papal court feel insulted. Francesco and his friends are expelled. Accepting his admiration for Francesco, Paolo decides to join them. Francesco tries to protect Paolo, saying that he is not one of them, but his friend insists on joining the friars, convincing Francesco of the sincerity of his conversion. They are put out with the others.

Pope Innocent, seemingly waking from a dream, orders Francesco and his friends to be brought back. The Pope addresses Francesco; "In our obsession with original sin we have forgotten original innocence." In language from one of the Psalms, Innocent prays that Francesco's order may "flourish like the palm."

Then to everyone's astonishment, Pope Innocent kneels, kisses Francesco's feet and blesses him and his companions. One of the final lines places the sincerity of the Pope's response in question when a cardinal, observing what the Pope has done, comments to a bishop; "Don't be alarmed, His Holiness knows what he is doing. This is the man who will speak to the poor, and bring them back to us."

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The film finishes with Francesco walking alone into the countryside to the sound of the title song "Brother Sun and Sister Moon."

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018 - Alice’s Restaurant – Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Alice’s Restaurant

In 1965, bohemian musician Arlo Guthrie has attempted to avoid the draft by attending college in Montana. His long hair and unorthodox approach to study gets him in trouble with local police as well as residents, so he quits school and hitchhikes back East. He first visits his ailing father Woody Guthrie in a New York City hospital, then performs music at various local venues.

Arlo ultimately returns to his friends Ray and Alice Brock at their home, a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where they welcome friends and like-minded bohemian types to "crash." Among these are Arlo's school friend Roger and artist Shelly, an ex-heroin addict who is in a motorcycle racing club. Alice is starting up a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge. Arlo composes a jingle for the business, which is then advertised on a radio station, bringing in the first wave of customers. Frustrated with Ray's lackadaisical attitude, Alice has an affair with Shelly and leaves for New York to visit Arlo and Roger, who are paying Woody another

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visit. Ray comes to take her home, saying he has invited "a few"

friends for Thanksgiving.

Alice's Restaurant Massacre

Arlo Guthrie

This song is called Alice's Restaurant

It's about Alice

And a restaurant

But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant That's just the name of the song

And that's why I call the song Alice's Restaurant

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in it's around the back

Just a half a mile from the railroad track And you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago Was on two years ago on Thanksgiving

When my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant But, Alice doesn't live in the restaurant She lives in the church nearby the restaurant in the bell tower With her husband Ray, and Fasha the dog

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And livin' in the bell tower like that they got a lot of room downstairs

Where the pews used to be, and

Havin' all that room

Seein' as how they took out all the pews They decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage For a long time

We got up there we found all the garbage in there And we decided it'd be a friendly gesture For us to take the garbage down to the city dump So we took the half a ton of garbage

Put it in the back of a red VW microbus Took shovels and rakes, and implements of destruction And headed on toward the city dump

Well we got there

And there's a big sign, and a chain across the dump Saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving"

And we had never heard of a dump

Closed on Thanksgiving before

And with tears in our eyes

We drove off into the sunset

Looking for another place to put the garbage We didn't find one

'Til we came to a side road

And off the side of the side road

Was another fifteen-foot cliff

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And at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles And rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down

That's what we did and

Drove back to the church

Had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat Went to sleep and didn't get up until the next morning When we got a phone call from officer Obie He said, "Kid

We found your name on an envelope

At the bottom of a half a ton of garbage and Just wanted to know if you had any information about it"

And I said, "Yes sir, Officer Obie I cannot tell a lie

I put that envelope under that garbage"

After speaking to Obie for about 45 minutes on the telephone We finally arrived at the truth of the matter, and said That we had to go down and pick up the garbage and Also had to go down and speak to him at the Police officer's station

So we got in the red VW microbus

With the shovels and rakes, and implements of destruction And headed on toward the police officer's station

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Now friends

There was only one or two things that Obie coulda done At the police station

And the first was that he coulda give us a medal For being so brave and honest on the telephone Which wasn't very likely, and we didn't expect it And the other thing was that he coulda bawled us out And told us never to be seen driving garbage around the vicinity again

Which is what we expected

But when we got to the police officer's station There was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon And we was both immediately arrested

Handcuffed

And I said, "Obie I don't think

I can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on"

He said, "Shut up kid

Get in the back of the patrol car"

And that's what we did

Sat in the back of the patrol car

And drove to the quote, scene of the crime, unquote

I wanna tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts Where this happened here

They got three stop signs

Two police officers and one police car

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But when we got to the scene of the crime There was five police officers and three police cars Being the biggest crime of the last fifty years And everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment That they had hanging around the police officer's station They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints Dog smellin' prints

And they took 27 eight by ten color glossy photographs With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one Explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us Took pictures of the approach, the getaway The northwest corner, the southwest corner And that's not to mention the aerial photography After the ordeal we went back to the jail Obie said he was going to put us in the cell Said, "Kid I'm going to put you in the cell I want your wallet and your belt"

And I said, "Obie

I can understand you wanting my wallet

So I don't have any money to spend in the cell But what do you want my belt for?"

And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings"

I said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"

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Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was

'Cause he took out the toilet seat

So I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown And he took out the toilet paper

So I couldn't bend the bars, roll out

The roll the toilet paper out the window Slide down the roll and have an escape

Obie was making sure

And it was about four or five hours later that Alice Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice Alice came by, and with a few nasty words To Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail

And we went back to the church

Had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat And didn't get up until the next morning When we all had to go to court

We walked in, sat down

Obie came in

With the 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one Sat down

Man came in, said, "All rise"

We all stood up

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And Obie stood up

With the 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures And the judge walked in

Sat down with a seeing eye dog

And he sat down, we sat down

Obie looked at the seeing-eye dog

And then at the 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one And looked at the seeing-eye dog

And then at 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one, and began to cry

'Cause Obie came to the realization

That it was a typical case of American blind justice And there wasn't nothing he could do about it And the judge wasn't going to look at

The 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one Explaining what each one was

To be used as evidence against us

And we was fined 50 dollars

And had to pick up the garbage in the snow

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But, that's not what I came to tell you about Came to talk about the draft

They got a buildin' down New York City

It's called Whitehall Street

Where you walk in

You get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected, and selected

I went down to get my physical examination one day And I walked, in I sat down

Got good and drunk the night before

So I looked and felt my best

When I went in that mornin'

'Cause I wanted to look like the all American kid From New York City

Man, I wanted, I wanted to feel like the allI wanted to be the all-American kid from New York And I walked in, sat down

I was hung down, brung down, hung up

And all kindsa mean, nasty, ugly things And I walked in and sat down

And they gave me a piece of paper

Said, "Kid see the psychiatrist, room 604"

And, and I went up there, I said "Shrink I wanna kill

I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill

Kill

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I wanna, I wanna see

I wanna see blood and gore and guts, and veins in my teeth Eat dead, burnt bodies

I mean kill

Kill, kill, kill!"

And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill, kill!"

And he started jumpin' up and down with me And we was both jumpin' up and down

Yelling, "Kill, kill!"

And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me Sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy"

Didn't feel too good about it

Proceeded on down the hall

Getting' more injections, inspections, detections, neglections And all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me At the thing there

And I was there for two hours, three hours, four hours I was there for a long time

Going through all kinds of mean nasty ugly things And I was just having a tough time there And they was inspecting, injecting every single part of me And they was leaving no part untouched

Proceeded through and I

When I finally came to the see the very last man

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I walked in

Walked in, sat down after a whole big thing there And I walked up, and said, "What do you want?"

He said, "Kid we only got one question Have you ever been arrested?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of Alice's Restaurant Massacre

With full orchestration and five-part harmony And stuff like that and all the phenome...

"Stop it right there"

And said "Kid, did you ever go to court?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of The 27 eight by ten color glossy pictures With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one And, "Stop it right there"

And said "Kid

I want you to go over and sit down on that bench That says 'Group W'

Now kid!"

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there And there is, there is Group W's where they

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Where they put you

If you may not be moral enough to

To join the army

After committing your special crime, and There was all kinds of mean nasty, ugly lookin' people On the bench there

Mother rapers

Father stabbers

Father rapers!

Father rapers

Sittin' right there on the bench next to me!

And, one-

They was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible Crime-type guys just sitting there on the bench And the meanest ugliest nastiest one

The meanest father raper of them all

Was coming over to me

And he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible And all kind of things

And he sat down next to me and said

"Kid, whad'ya get?"

I said, "I didn't get nothing

I had to pay 50 dollars, and pick up the garbage"

He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"

And I said, "Litterin'"

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And they all moved away from me on the bench there And the hairy eyeball, and all kinds of mean nasty things

'Til I said, "And creatin' a nuisance"

And they all came back, shook my hand

And we had a great time on the bench

Talkin' about crime, mother stabbing, father raping All kinds of groovy things that we was talking about On the bench

And everything was fine

We was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things Until the sergeant came over

Had some paper in his hand

Held it up and said, "Kids;

This piece of paper's got 47 words, 37 sentences, 58 words we wanna know details of the crime.

Time of the crime and any other kind of thing You gotta say pertaining to and about the crime.

I want to know arresting officer's name and Any other kind of thing you gotta say."

And he talked for 45 minutes

And nobody understood a word that he said But we had fun filling out the forms

And playing with the pencils on the bench there

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And I filled out the massacre

With the four part harmony

And wrote it down there just like it was And everything was fine

And I put down the pencil

And I turned over the piece of paper

And, and there

There on the other side

In the middle of the other side

Away from everything else on the other side In parentheses

Capital letters

Quotated

Read the following words:

"Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?"

I went over to the sergeant, and said

"Sergeant, you got a lot a damn gall To ask me if I've rehabilitated myself I mean I mean

I mean, I'm just, I'm sitting here on the bench I mean, I'm sitting here on the Group W bench

'Cause you wanna know if I'm moral enough To join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages After being a litterbug

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He looked at me, and said, "Kid

We don't like your kind

And we're gonna send your finger prints off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington

Enshrined in some little folder

Is a study in black and white of my finger prints And the only reason I'm singing you this song now Is 'cause you may know somebody in a similar situation Or you may be in a similar situation

And if you're in a situation like that

There's only one thing you can do

Is walk in to the shrink wherever you are Just walk in, say:

"Shrink, You can get anything you want At Alice's restaurant,"

And walk out

You know if one person, just one person does it They may think he's really sick and they won't take him And if two people, two people do it

In harmony

They may think they're both faggots

And they won't take either of them

And if three people do it

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Three, can you imagine three people walking in?

Singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out They may think it's an organization

And can you, can you imagine 50 people a day I said 50 people a day

Walking in, singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant, and walking out And friends, they may think it's a movement And that's what it is

The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement

And all you got to do to join

Is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar With feelin'

So, we'll wait 'til it comes around on the guitar here And sing it when it does

Here it comes

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in, it's around the back

Just a half a mile from the railroad track You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant That was horrible

If you want to end war and stuff you gotta sing loud I could put a lot ...

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I been singing this song now for 25 minutes I could sing it for another 25 minutes

I'm not proud

Or tired

So we'll wait 'til it comes around again and This time with four part harmony and feelin'

We're just waitin' for it to come around Is what we're doing

All right now

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Excepting Alice

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant I said walk right in it's around the back Just a half a mile from the railroad track And you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Da da da da da da da dum

At Alice's Restaurant

Written by Arlo Guthrie and Garry Sherman.

The events of the song begin after Thanksgiving dinner, when Arlo and Roger offer to take several months' worth of garbage from Alice and Ray's house to the town dump. After loading up a red VW microbus with the garbage, plus a number of tools, they

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head for the dump. Finding it closed for the holiday, they drive around and discover a pile of garbage that someone else had placed at the bottom of a short cliff. They then decide to add their trash to the accumulation.

The next morning, Arlo and Roger receive a phone call from

"Officer Obie," who asks them about the garbage. After admitting to littering, they agree to pick up the garbage and to meet him at the police station. Loading up the microbus with their tools, they head to the police station, where they are immediately arrested. Arlo and Roger are driven to the "scene of the crime,"

where the police are collecting extensive forensic evidence amid a media circus. A few hours later, Alice bails the boys out. At the trial the next day, Officer Obie anxiously waits to show the judge his many photos of the crime, but the judge happens to be blind, using a seeing eye dog, so he simply levies a $25 fine, orders the boys to pick up the garbage, and sets them free. They soon take the garbage to New York and place it on a barge. At the church, Arlo pursues a relationship with a beautiful Asian girl, Mari-chan.

Some days later, Arlo is called up for a physical examination related to Vietnam War draft in a surreal depiction of the bureaucracy at the New York City military induction center on Whitehall Street. He attempts to make himself unfit for military

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induction by acting like a homicidal maniac in front of a psychiatrist, but this gets him praise. Because of Guthrie's criminal record for littering, he is sent to wait with other convicts on the Group W bench. He is then pronounced unfit for military service when he comments on the dubiousness of considering littering to be a problem when selecting candidates for armed conflict, making the officials suspicious of "his kind" and prompting them to send his personal records to Washington, DC.

Returning to the church, Arlo finds Ray and members of the motorcycle club showing home movies of a recent race. A high Shelly enters, and Ray beats him until he reveals his stash of heroin, concealed in a mobile he has made from spare car parts.

Shelly roars off into the night on his motorcycle to his death.

Joni Mitchell's "Songs to Aging Children Come" is sung at the funeral.

Songs to Aging Children Come

Joni Mitchell

Through the windless wells of wonder

By the throbbing light machine

In a tea leaf trance or under

Orders from the King and Queen

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Songs to aging children come

Aging children, I am one

People hurry by so quickly

Don't they hear the melodies

In the chiming and the clicking

And the laughing harmonies?

Songs to aging children come

Aging children, I am one

Some come dark and strange like dying

Crows and ravens whistling

Lines of weeping, strings of crying

So much said in listening

Songs to aging children come

Aging children, I am one

Does the moon play only silver

When it strums the galaxy?

Dying roses, will they will their

Perfumed rhapsodies to me?

Songs to aging children come

This is one

Written by Joni Mitchell.

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The next day, Woody dies, and Arlo laments not visiting his father one last time. Ray and Alice have a hippie style wedding and celebration in the church, and a drunken Ray proposes to sell the church and start a country commune instead while blaming himself for Shelly's death. Alice and Ray see off Arlo and Mari-chan in Arlo's microbus. Ray returns inside, while Alice silently stands on the steps and looks off into the distance.

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019 - The Dreamers – Paris, France

The Dreamers

Matthew is an American exchange student who has come to Paris to study French. While at the Cinémathèque Française protesting the firing of Henri Langlois, he meets the free spirited twins Théo and Isabelle. The three bond over a shared love of film. After dinner with their parents, Théo and Isabelle offer Matthew the chance to stay with them while their parents are on a trip.

Matthew accepts, considering them his first French friends.

Matthew becomes suspicious of their relationship after seeing them sleeping nude together; he soon discovers that they accept nudity and sexuality liberally. After Théo loses at a trivia game, Isabelle sentences him to masturbate to a Marlene Dietrich poster in front of them. After Matthew loses at another game, he is dared by Théo to take Isabelle's virginity in front of him.

Matthew and Isabelle then become lovers.

Summertime

Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company

Summertime, time, time

Child, the living's easy

Fish are jumping out

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And the cotton, lord

Cotton's high, lord so high

Your daddy's rich

And your ma is so good-looking, baby

She's a-looking good now

Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Don't you cry

One of these mornings

You're gonna rise, rise up singing

You're gonna spread your wings, child

And take, take to the sky

Lord, the sky

Until that morning

Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm ya

No, no, no no, no no, no...

Don't you cry, don't you cry, cry

Don't you cry, don't you cry, cry

Written by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson.

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Matthew begins to accept Théo and Isabelle's sexuality and his time living with them soon becomes idyllic. The three re-enact a memorable scene from Bande à Part by "breaking the world record for running through the Louvre," and Matthew and Théo engage in playful arguments about Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, as well as the subject of Maoism, which Théo fervently believes in.

During this time, Matthew begins to pursue a relationship with Isabelle, separate from Théo. Matthew and Isabelle leave the house and go on a regular date, which she has not experienced before. Théo retaliates by inviting a companion up to his room, upsetting Isabelle. She distances herself from both Théo and Matthew, only to find them next to each other on Théo's bed when an argument between the two turns erotic. She then surprises them with a makeshift bedsheet fort and the three fall asleep in each others' arms.

The next morning, Théo and Isabelle's parents arrive home and find the sleeping trio naked in bed together. They are startled by what they find, but let them be, departing after leaving a cheque. Isabelle wakes up and discovers the cheque, realising that their parents have found them out. Wordlessly, she attaches a hose to the gas outlet and lies back down with the still-asleep Théo and Matthew, attempting to commit murder-suicide.

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After a few moments, however, they are awakened by a brick being hurled through the window; they discover hundreds of students rioting in the streets.

All three of them are overjoyed and proceed to join the protesters. Théo then joins a small team of protesters preparing Molotov cocktails. Matthew tries to stop Théo by kissing him and his sister, arguing against violence, but he is shunned by both Théo and Isabelle.

As Matthew walks away through the chaos, Théo takes Isabelle's hand and hurls a Molotov cocktail at a line of police. The police charge the crowd.

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020 - The Strawberry Statement - Blairsville, Georgia The Strawberry Statement

The film follows the radicalization of Simon, an ordinary student at a fictional urban university in San Francisco, California, which the actors refer to as "Western." Initially, Simon is indifferent to student protests going on around him.

Strawberry Fields Forever

The Beatles

Let me take you down

'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed

Misunderstanding all you see

It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me

Let me take you down

'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

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And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever

No one I think is in my tree

I mean, it must be high or low

That is, you can't, you know, tune in but it's all right That is, I think it's not too bad

Let me take you down

'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever

Always, no, sometimes think it's me

But you know I know when it's a dream

I think I know, I mean a ... yes

But it's all wrong

That is, I think I disagree

Let me take you down

'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever

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Strawberry Fields forever

Strawberry Fields forever

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Accidentally walking in while his roommate is having casual sex with another student, Simon protests to the roommate their time should be devoted to study so they can get good jobs and earn money. Coming back clothed, the female student refuses setting another date with the roommate because she'll be busy protesting. She explains the university plans to construct a gymnasium in an African-American neighborhood, causing conflict with the local African-American population. She describes how students plan to occupy a university building in protest.

Simon later sees fellow student Linda and experiences love at first sight. He takes advantage of his position as photographer for the college newspaper to photograph her. Following Linda into the university building as the students are taking over, he joins the protest. Linda approaches Simon as he fools around in the bathroom, then asks him to help her rob a grocery store so the strikers can eat.

In a later student protest, Simon is arrested. He confesses to Linda he is not a radical like her, and does not want to "blow

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up the college building" after going all out in high school to be admitted to the college in the first place. Linda later avers she can't date someone not equally dedicated to the movement.

Nevertheless, she announces temporarily leaving college to decide for sure.

In the shower, a right wing jock; George, beats up Simon, who decides to take advantage of the situation and use his injuries from the incident to falsely claim police brutality. Gaining attention, a friend tells him "a white version of page 43" of Simon's National Geographic is in the next room. This turns out to be an attractive young woman. Seeing his injured lip, she puts his hands on her right breast and asks if it feels better now. She then takes off her sweater, telling Simon "Did you know Lenin loved women with big breasts?" After quick flashes of her breasts, Simon confirms liking them, but asks her if she saw

“The Graduate.” Replying no, she takes him between some filing cabinets and takes off his belt. To her surprise, Simon does not want people to see whatever it was she planned to do with him.

Asking her if she would at least lock the door, she unconvincingly confirms she has and immediately opens some filing cabinets to conceal them from the crowd. Simon is worried, but she promises him no one will know. She then says she will give him something a "hero" like him deserves, ducks

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down and gives him an off screen blowjob, zooming up on Che Guevara's famous poster staring in the air in its implacable expression.

After Linda returns, she announces her decision to be with Simon. They spend the rest of that day together – and, implicitly, the night. The following day, they make out in a park when a group of African-Americans approaches them. The supposedly anti-racist white rebels fear for their lives. One African-American drops Simon's camera to the ground and stomps it, but the group then leaves. A furious Simon meets the strikers, saying those they help are no different than the cops and the establishment, questioning why they should help those who disrespect and threaten him.

Simon re-thinks his comparison, after visiting George the jock, now a leftist, in the hospital, where he is in traction with his leg in a cast after right wing jocks beat him up while cops watched. Simon goes to warn the dean's secretary to call off construction of the gymnasium or risk violence. A group of African American students then show up, proving Simon's previous generalization was wrong.

Eventually, the city police and the National Guard with bayoneted rifles arrive and crush the university building

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takeover using tear gas. With the strikers choking, the police and guardsmen pull haul the demonstrators from the building, beating them with batons.

With Linda being carried away kicking and screaming, Simon takes on a group of police all by himself and segments of his happier times in college flash before the viewers' eyes.

Stoney End

Laura Nyro

I was born from love

and my poor mother worked the mines

I was raised on the good book Jesus

Till I read between the lines

Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning

Going down the stoney end

I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over

Cradle me, mama, cradle me again

I can still remember him

with love light in his eyes

But the light flickered out and parted

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As the sun began to rise

Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning

Going down the stoney end

I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over

Cradle me, mama, cradle me again

Never mind the forecast

'Cause the sky has lost control

'Cause the fury and broken thunder's

Come to match my raging soul

Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning.

Going down the stoney end

I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over

Cradle me, mama, cradle me

Going down the stoney end

I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over

Cradle me, mama, cradle me again

Written by Laura Nyro.

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021 - Woodstock - Bethel, New York

Saturday, August 16, 1969

White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane

One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits

And you know you're going to fall

Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call

Call Alice

When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard

Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice

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I think she'll know

When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead

And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's off with her head

Remember what the door mouse said

Feed your head

Feed your head

Written by Grace Wing Slick.

Country Joe and the Fish

Fish Cheer

Gimme an F ...

Gimme a U ...

Gimme a C ...

Gimme a K ...

What's that spell?

What's that spell?

What's that spell?

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What's that spell?

What's that spell?

Yeah, c'mon on all you big strong men

Uncle Sam needs your help again

He's got himself in a terrible jam

Way down yonder in Vietnam

So put down your books and pick up a gun We're gonna have a whole lot of fun

And it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn

Next stop is Vietnam

And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! We're all gonna die

Well c'mon generals, let's move fast

Your big chance has come at last

Gotta go out and get those Reds

The only good Commie is one who's dead

And you know that peace can only be won When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come

And it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?

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Don't ask me, I don't give a damn

Next stop is Vietnam

And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! We're all gonna die

Well c'mon on Wall Street

Don't be slow

Why this is war a-go-go

There's plenty good money to be made

By supplyin' the Army with the tools of the trade Just hope and pray that if we drop the bomb They drop it on-the Vietcong

And it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn

Next stop is Vietnam

And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! We're all gonna die

Well c'mon mothers throughout this land Pack your boys off to Vietnam

C'mon pops, don't hesitate

Send 'em off before it's too late

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Be the first one on your block

to have your boy come home in a box

And it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn

Next stop is Vietnam

And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! We're all gonna die

Written by Country Joe McDonald.

Theme For An Imaginary Western

Mountain

When the wagons leave the city

For the forest and further on

Painted wagons of the morning

Dusty roads where they have gone

Sometimes travelin' through the darkness At the summer comin' home

Foreign faces by the wayside

Looked as if they hadn't known

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Oh, the sand was in their eye

And the desert that's dry

In the country town

Where the map was found

Oh, the dancing and the singing

Oh, the music when they play

Oh, the fire that they saw there

On the grave of no return

Sometimes they found it

Sometimes they kept it

Often lost it on the way

Pawnee shadow to possess him

Sometimes ride inside of day

Oh, the sand was in their eye

And the desert that's dry

In the country town

Where the map was found

Oh, the sand was in their eye

And the desert that's dry

In the country town

Where the life was found

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Written by Jack Bruce and Peter Constantine Brown.

For Yasgur's Farm

Mountain

Who am I but you and the sun

A sad reflection in everyone

Was it me who let you walk away?

Were you the one

Or is it we're the same

What are we in time going by

The simple story of a younger life

Happy dreams and somehow through the day We haven't come so far to lose our way

Look at me, I believe it's true

You're a part of me, I'm a part of you

Love is only what we come to knew

The waking, breathing and all with you

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A crystal passing reflected in our eyes Eclipsing all the jealousy and lies

Look at me, can't you see it's true

You're a part of me, I'm a part of you

Quiet as the voices in a dream

Without two shadows the things I've seen Remember the evening I let you walk away Were you the one

Or is it we're the same

Look at me, I believe it's true

You're a part of me, I'm a part of you

Written by Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins, Gary Ship, David Rea, George Gardos, and Laurence Laing.

Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.

The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh. Seven editors are credited, including Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh. Woodstock was a great commercial and critical success.

It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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Schoonmaker was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, a rare distinction for a documentary. Dan Wallin and L.

A. Johnson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.

The film was screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

The 1970 theatrical release of the film ran 185 minutes. A director's cut spanning 224 minutes was released in 1994. Both cuts take liberties with the timeline of the festival. However, the opening and closing acts are the same in the film as they appeared on stage; Richie Havens opens the show and Jimi Hendrix closes it.

In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

An expanded 40th Anniversary Edition of Woodstock, released on June 9, 2009, in Blu-ray and DVD formats, features additional performances not before seen in the film, and it includes lengthened versions of existing performances, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Artists

Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Long Time Gone"

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Canned Heat - "Going Up the Country"

Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Wooden Ships"

Richie Havens - "Handsome Johnny," "Freedom" / "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"

Canned Heat - "A Change Is Gonna Come"

Joan Baez - "Joe Hill," "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"

The Who - "We're Not Gonna Take It," "See Me, Feel Me,"

“Summertime Blues"

Joe Cocker and the Grease Band - "With a Little Help from My Friends"

Audience - "Crowd Rain Chant"

Country Joe and the Fish - "Rock and Soul Music"

Arlo Guthrie - "Coming Into Los Angeles"

Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"

Ten Years After - "I'm Going Home"

Jefferson Airplane - "Saturday Afternoon," "Won't You Try,"

"Uncle Sam's Blues"

John Sebastian - "Younger Generation"

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Country Joe McDonald - "FISH Cheer,” “Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-to-Die-Rag"

Santana - "Soul Sacrifice"

Janis Joplin - "Work Me, Lord"

Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Purple Haze," "Woodstock Improvisation,"

"Villanova Junction"

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - "Woodstock," "Find the Cost of Freedom"

Artists omitted

Sweetwater, Incredible String Band, Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Quill, Keef Hartley, Mountain, Grateful Dead.

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022 - Camelot – Camelot, England, UK

Camelot

As King Arthur prepares for battle against his former friend, Sir Lancelot, he reflects on the sad circumstances which have led him to this situation.

Camelot

Richard Burton

It's true!

It's true!

The Crown has made it clear

The climate must be perfect all the year A law was made a distant moon ago here

July and August cannot be too hot

And there's a legal limit to the snow here In Camelot

The winter is forbidden till December

And exits March the second on the dot

By order, summer lingers through September In Camelot

Camelot

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Camelot

I know it sounds a bit bizarre,

But in Camelot,

Camelot

That's how conditions are

The rain may never fall till after sundown By eight, the morning fog must disappear In short there's simply not

A more congenial spot

For happily-ever-aftering

Than here in Camelot

Camelot

Camelot

I know it gives a person pause

But in Camelot

Camelot

Those are the legal laws

The snow may never slush upon the hillside By nine PM the moonlight must appear

In short, there's simply not

A more congenial spot

For happily-ever-aftering than here

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In Camelot

Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

He recalls the night of his marriage to Guenevere. It is an arranged marriage, and he is afraid of what lies ahead ("I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight"). Guenevere herself is worried about marrying a man she has never met and longs for the romantic life of a fought over maiden ("The Simple Joys of Maidenhood"). They converse, and as she does not know his true identity, she fantasizes about escaping with him. Arthur tells her what a wonderful place his kingdom is ("Camelot"). She finds herself drawn to him, but they are interrupted by his men and her entourage. Arthur's identity is revealed, and Guenevere gladly goes with him to be married.

Four years later, Arthur explores with Guenevere his idea for a Round Table that would seat all the noble knights of the realm, reflecting not only a type of democratic ideal, but also the political unification of England. Inspired by Arthur's ideas, the French Knight Lancelot makes his way to England with his squire Dap, boasting of his superior virtues ("C'est Moi").

Lancelot's prowess impresses Arthur, and they become friends; however, many of the knights instantly despise Lancelot for his self-righteousness and boastfulness. Back in Camelot, Guinevere

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and the women frolic and gather flowers to celebrate the coming of spring ("The Lusty Month of May").

Guenevere, who initially dislikes Lancelot, incites three of the best knights to challenge him to a joust ("Then You May Take Me To The Fair"). Arthur ponders how distant Guenevere has become ("How to Handle a Woman"). Guenevere's plan goes awry as Lancelot easily defeats all three, critically wounding Sir Dinadan. A horrified Lancelot pleads for Sir Dinadan to live, and as he lays hands on him, Dinadan miraculously recovers.

Guenevere is so overwhelmed and humbled that her feelings for Lancelot begin to change. Despite his vows of celibacy, Lancelot falls in love with Guenevere.

Guinevere and Lancelot meet in secret to discuss their future.

Lancelot vows that he should leave and never come back, but finds it impossible to consider leaving Guenevere ("If Ever I Would Leave You"). Arthur decides to rise above the scandal.

Mordred, Arthur's illegitimate son, arrives at Camelot determined to bring down the fellowship of the Round Table by stirring up trouble. All this takes its toll on Arthur's disposition, and Guenevere tries to cheer him up ("What Do the Simple Folk Do?") despite her conflicted emotions.

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Mordred persuades Arthur to stay out hunting all night as a test, knowing that Lancelot will visit Guenevere in her bedchamber. Lancelot and Guenevere sing of their forbidden love and how wrong it has all gone ("I Loved You Once In Silence").

Mordred and several knights catch the lovers together. Lancelot escapes, but Guenevere is arrested. Thanks to Arthur's new civil court and trial by jury, she is sentenced to die by burning at the stake. Bound by his own law, Arthur cannot spare her.

Preparations are made for Guenevere's burning ("Guenevere"), but Lancelot rescues her at the last minute, much to Arthur's relief.

Guenevere

Richard Burton

Guenevere, Guenevere

Who will save Guenevere?

Oh, they found Guenevere

With her bold cavalier

And as swords rang through the hall

Lance escaped them, one and all

On a day dark and drear

Came to trial Guenevere

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Ruled the jury for her shame

She be sentenced to the flame

Early dawn was the time

She would pay for her crime

Or would Lancelot reappear

Come and rescue Guenevere?

I'll wager the king himself

is hoping he will return

Why would he have chosen five AM

for the queen to burn?

When the world is black and gray,

what time would be more ideal

For Lancelot to steal Guenevere?

As the dawn filled the sky

On the day she would die

There was wonder far and near

Would the king burn Guenevere?

Then suddenly earth and sky

were dazed by a pounding roar

And suddenly through the dawn

an army began to pour

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And lo, ahead the army,

holding aloft his spear

Came Lancelot to save his dear Guenevere

By the score fell the dead

As the sky turned to red

Countless numbers felt his spear

As he rescued Guenevere

In that dawn, in that gloom

More than love met its doom

In the dying candle's gleam

Came the sundown of a dream

Guenevere, Guenevere

In that dim, mournful year

Saw the men she held most dear

Go to war for Guenevere

Guenevere, Guenevere

Guenevere, Guenevere

Saw the men she held most dear

Go to war for Guenevere

Guenevere, Guenevere, Guenevere

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Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

On the battlefield, Arthur receives a surprise visit from Lancelot and Guenevere, at the edge of the woods, where she has taken residence at a convent. The three share an emotional farewell.

Prior to the battle, Arthur stumbles across a young boy named Tom, who espouses his commitment to Arthur's original ideal of

"Not might 'makes' right, but might 'for' right." Arthur realizes that, although most of his plans have fallen through, the ideals of Camelot live on in this simple boy. He knights Tom and gives him his orders. Run behind the lines and survive the battle, so that he can tell future generations about the legend of Camelot. Watching Tom leave, Arthur regains his hope for the future ("Camelot (reprise)").

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023 - Psych-Out – San Francisco, California Psych-Out

Jenny is a deaf runaway who arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district searching for her brother Steve. She encounters Stoney and his hippie band Mumblin' Jim in a coffee shop. The boys hide her from the police and help her look for her brother.

The band is approached by a promoter who arranges for them to perform at a venue called the Ballroom.

Sunshine of Your Love

Cream

It's getting near dawn

When lights close their tired eyes

I'll soon be with you, my love

Give you my dawn surprise

I'll be with you, darling, soon

I'll be with you when the stars start falling I've been waiting so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you, my love

The light's shining through on you

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Yes, I'm with you, my love

It's the morning and just we two

I'll stay with you, darling, now

I'll stay with you 'til my seas are dried up

I've been waiting so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you, my love

The light's shining through on you

Yes, I'm with you, my love

It's the morning and just we two

I'll stay with you, darling, now

I'll stay with you 'til my seas are dried up

I've been waiting so long

I've been waiting so long

I've been waiting so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

Written by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Asher Symon, and Peter Brown.

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Artist Warren, who designs the psychedelic posters advertising the band, freaks out badly in his gallery. While helping him, Jenny notices a large sculpture resembling abstract flames in a corner and recognizes it as her brother's work. The gallery owner says the artist is known as "The Seeker," an itinerant preacher. Ex-band member Dave may know The Seeker's current whereabouts. Dave's information leads the gang to a junkyard, where Jenny recognizes her brother's car. A group of thugs who frequent the junkyard accost the group and threaten to rape Jenny. Violence ensues, and the group barely escape with their lives.

In Stoney's crowded home, everyday hippie life is less than ideal. The residents are all involved in contemplation, sex, sleeping, dancing or decorating, but with little cleaning or maintenance. Jenny tries to wash the mountain of dishes in the kitchen and finds that the plumbing is broken. Frustrated, she goes for a walk. Stoney goes to find her and ends up at the art gallery, where he hears breaking glass and slips inside. Steve, A/K/A - The Seeker, has returned to the art gallery to pick up his sculpture.

Summertime Blues

Blue Cheer

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Lord, I got to raise a fuss,

Lord, I got to raise a holler

About workin' all summer

just to try and earn a dollar

Well, Lord, I tried to call my baby,

I tried to get a date

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do

Lord, there ain't no cure

for the summertime blues

Well, my mom and papa told me,

"Son, you gotta make some money"

"Well, if you wanna use the car

to go riding next Sunday"

Oh, Lord, I didn't go to work,

I told the boss I was sick,

He said doot doo, dooda doot doo

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do

Lord, there ain't no cure for the summertime blues

I've got to take three weeks,

I've got to have a fun vacation

I've got to take my problem

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to the United Nations

I done told my congressman and he said quote,

"Dig this, boy. I’d like to help you son, but you’re too young to vote."

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do

Lord, there ain't no cure

for the summertime blues

I've got to take three weeks,

I've got to have a fun vacation

I've got to take my problem

to the United Nations

I done told my congressman and he said quote,

"Dig this, boy. I’d like to help you son, but you’re too young to vote."

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do

Lord, there ain't no cure

for the summertime blues

Whoa. No.

There ain't no cure

Written by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capeheart.

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Steve is glad that Jenny is looking for him, but says he is on drugs and wants to be sober when they meet. He tells Stoney that Jenny's deafness is the result of trauma caused by their abusive mother.

The performance at the Ballroom is a success. The Seeker shows up, hoping to see Jenny, but the junkyard thugs chase him back to his home. At an after show party, Dave offers Jenny a glass of orange juice spiked with STP. Stoney charges in and angrily shouts at Jenny. Heartbroken, Jenny accepts Dave's glass of fruit juice and drinks nearly all of it. Jenny again explains her search for Steve, and Dave pulls a note from his pocket containing an address and the words "God is in the flame." Jenny runs out and takes a streetcar to the address, with Stoney and Dave, now tripping, close behind.

Pursued by the junkyard thugs back to his home, Steve lights a fire inside his shrine. Jenny arrives just in time to see him standing in the middle of the flames, absorbed in prayer; he sees her, but merely smiles and waves. In her grief and confusion, she runs up to the roof, hallucinating wildly, ending up at the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge with cars coming at her from both directions. She holds her hands over her ears, and Dave and Stoney find her. Dave shoves her out of the way of an oncoming car and is struck and killed. As he dies, he murmurs

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that he hopes this, too, will be a good trip. Sickened and angry, Jenny tries to leave, but Stoney embraces her. The film ends with the two holding each other and crying.

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024 - The Love Bug – Plymouth, New Hampshire The Love Bug

Race car driver Jim Douglas has been reduced to competing in demolition derby races against drivers half his age. Jim lives in an old fire house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend Tennessee Steinmetz, a claimant of Buddhist spiritual enlightenment. Tennessee is also an auto mechanic and sculptor who uses old car parts. At an upmarket European car showroom, Jim meets mechanic/sales assistant Carole Bennett, and the dealership's British owner, Peter Thorndyke, who abuses a white Volkswagen Beetle which had been returned to the showroom that morning. Lacking money, Jim leaves Thorndyke's showroom, but the Beetle follows him home. After a police run in on charges of grand theft, Jim agrees to lease-purchase the little car.

At first, Jim does not take kindly to the Beetle's reluctance to take the freeway and later pairing him with Carole, and suspects Thorndyke has conned him with a faulty car. However, Tennessee believes the car has a mind of its own, and befriends it, naming it "Herbie."

Dreams

Fleetwood Mac

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Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom Well, who am I to keep you down?

It's only right that you should play the way you feel it But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Like a heartbeat drives you mad

In the stillness of remembering what you had And what you lost

And what you had

And what you lost

Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say, women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know You'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions I keep my visions to myself

It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Dreams of loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad

In the stillness of remembering what you had And what you lost

And what you had

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Oh, what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining

Players only love you when they're playing Women, they will come and they will go

When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say, women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know You'll know

You will know

Oh, you'll know

Written by Stephanie Nicks.

Jim prepares Herbie for racing, and to the astonishment of Thorndyke, Herbie wins his first race. Jim and Herbie then defeat Thorndyke himself in a race at Riverside Raceway, giving Jim full ownership of Herbie, and go on a winning streak, leaving Thorndyke frustrated as to how Jim and Herbie are achieving their success. Thorndyke infiltrates Tennessee's garage the night before their next race whilst Jim and Carol are on a date, and sabotages Herbie by pouring Irish coffee into the

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gas tank, causing Herbie to fail to finish the race the following day. A disgusted Jim, with his eyes now on the upcoming El Dorado road race, decides to switch Herbie for a brand new Lamborghini 400 GT, much to Carole, who quit her job in Thorndyke's showroom in protest, and Tennessee's anger.

Jealous and upset at Jim's treatment, Herbie damages the Lamborghini and runs away. Depressed, he allows himself to be captured by Thorndyke, only to flee when the latter orders his men to tear him apart.

Finally realizing that Herbie is alive, Jim follows Herbie as he leaves a trail of damage through the city. He finds Herbie trying to throw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge. Jim risks his life to stop Herbie, and they make amends. At the police station, Tang Wu, a Chinese-American businessman whose store had been damaged by Herbie, offers to drop the damage charges in exchange for ownership of Herbie after revealing himself to be a racing fan. Jim and Tennessee accept Wu's offer, provided they drive Herbie in the El Dorado, Wu agreeing to sell Herbie back to Jim for a dollar should they win.

The El Dorado, a two day, out and back open road race, runs through the Sierra Nevada mountains from Yosemite Valley to Virginia City and back. On the first leg, Thorndyke and his co-driver Havershaw carry out a series of dirty tricks against

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Herbie. As a result of Thorndyke's shenanigans, Jim, with Carole and Tennessee as co-drivers, limps home last with Herbie missing two wheels and having to use a wagon wheel to get to the line.

During overnight repairs, Herbie refuses to restart, and Wu reveals that he also made an agreement with Thorndyke over ownership of Herbie should they lose. After Thorndyke attempts to tow Herbie away and assaults Jim, Herbie restarts, chasing a frightened Thorndyke off.

The following day, Herbie starts the second leg last, but thanks to some ingenious shortcuts, they are able to make up for lost time. Approaching the finish, Herbie succumbs to metal fatigue and breaks in two, his back half, carrying Tennessee and the engine, crossing the line just ahead of Thorndyke, while the front, carrying Jim and Carole, rolls over the line just behind, meaning Herbie takes both first and third places. As part of the agreement over Herbie, Wu takes over Thorndyke's car dealership, hires Tennessee as his assistant and demotes Thorndyke and Havershaw to the mechanics' shop. Re-welded back into shape, Herbie chauffeurs the newlywed Jim and Carole away on their honeymoon.

Luckie

Laura Nyro

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Yes, I'm ready, so come on, Luckie.

Well, there's an avenue of Devil

who believe in stone.

You can meet the captain

at the dead-end zone.

What Devil doesn't know is that Devil can't stay, doesn't know he's seen his day.

Oh, Luckie's taking over and his clover shows.

Devil can't get out of hand cause Luckie's taking over and what Luckie says goes.

Dig them potatoes if you've

never dug your girl before, poor little Devil, He's a backseat man to Luckie forever more.

Yes, I'm ready, so come on, Luckie,

Luckie inside of me, inside of my mind, inside of my mind.

Don't go falling for Naughty. Don't go falling for Naughty, he's a dragon with his double bite.

Sure can do his shortchanging out of sight.

An artist of a sort but a little bit short of luck, this lucky night.

Oh, Luckie's taking over and his clover shows.

Devil can't get out of hand cause Luckie's taking over and what Luckie says goes.

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Dig them potatoes if you've

never dug your girl before, poor little Naughty, He's a backseat man to Luckie forever,

a backseat man to Luckie forever more,

hey, hey, hey.

It's a real good day to go get Luckie,

go get Luckie.

I'm gonna go get Luckie,

I'm gonna go get Luckie.

I'm gonna go get, I'm gonna go get,

you gotta go, get on down and get away.

You gotta go, get on down and get away.

You gotta go, get on down and get away.

You gotta go, get on down and get away from you, hey hey, from you, yes,

Yes, I'm ready,

yes, I'm ready,

ready for Luckie.

Written by Laura Nyro.

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025 - Help – Saint Ives, England, UK

Help

An eastern cult, something like the Thuggee cult, is about to sacrifice a woman to their goddess, Kaili. They notice that she is not wearing the sacrificial ring. Instead, Ringo Starr, drummer of the Beatles, has the ring, sent to him by the intended victim, who is a fan of the Beatles. Determined to retrieve the ring and sacrifice the girl, the chief priest, Clang, several cult members, and high priestess Ahme leave for London. After failed attempts to steal the ring without Ringo noticing, they confront him in an Indian restaurant. Ringo learns that he will be the next sacrifice if he does not give up the ring. However, the ring is stuck on his finger and he cannot take it off.

Help!

The Beatles

Help! I need somebody

Help! Not just anybody

Help! You know I need someone

Help!

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When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed anybody's help in any way But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being 'round

Help me get my feet back on the ground

Won't you please, please help me?

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways My independence seems to vanish in the haze But every now and then I feel so insecure I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being 'round

Help me get my feet back on the ground

Won't you please, please help me?

When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed anybody's help in any way But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

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Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being 'round

Help me get my feet back on the ground

Won't you please, please help me?

Help me, help me, oh

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon .

The Beatles are chased around London by members of the cult.

After a jeweler fails to cut the ring off, the band resorts to the bumbling efforts of Professor Foot, a mad scientist and his assistant Algernon. When his equipment has no effect on the ring, the scientist decides that he must somehow acquire it.

Ahme comes to the Beatles' rescue and tries to shrink Ringo's finger to get the ring off with ease, but the cult and the scientists ambush the band's home, causing Ahme to drop the syringe in shock, shrinking Paul instead.

The band runs to the Austrian Alps and narrowly escapes a trap there, thanks to Ahme, who is secretly aiding the Beatles. To stay safe, they ask for protection from Scotland Yard. They are hidden in Buckingham Palace, narrowly avoiding capture by the scientist. Later at a pub, Clang sets a trap for Ringo involving a trap door and a tiger.

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Then they flee to the Bahamas, followed by the police officers, the scientist, and the cult members. After Ringo is nearly captured, the police have the other Beatles pose as him in order to ensnare the cult members. Despite their best efforts, however, the scientist catches Ringo and hides him aboard a boat where he intends to cut off his finger to get the ring. Ahme rescues Ringo by giving the scientist a shrinking solution in exchange. The two of them dive into the ocean to escape, but Ringo cannot swim, and they are both captured by Clang and his followers.

In the end, when Ringo is about to be sacrificed on the beach, the ring suddenly comes off. He puts the ring on Clang's finger, who is then chased by his own cult as the song "Help!" plays.

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026 - My Fair Lady – Whatley Manor, England, UK

My Fair Lady

Act I

In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. The noted phonetician Professor Henry Higgins encounters Eliza at Covent Garden and laments the vulgarity of her dialect ("Why Can't the English?"). Higgins also meets Colonel Pickering, another linguist, and invites him to stay as his houseguest. Eliza and her friends wonder what it would be like to live a comfortable life ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly?").

Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle, stops by the next morning searching for money for a drink ("With a Little Bit of Luck").

Soon after, Eliza comes to Higgins's house, seeking elocution lessons so that she can get a job as an assistant in a florist's shop. Higgins wagers Pickering that, within six months, by teaching Eliza to speak properly, he will enable her to pass for a proper lady.

Eliza becomes part of Higgins's household. Though Higgins sees himself as a kindhearted man who merely cannot get along with women ("I'm an Ordinary Man"), to others he appears self-

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absorbed. Eliza endures Higgins's tyrannical speech tutoring.

Frustrated, she dreams of different ways to kill him ("Just You Wait"). Higgins's servants lament the stressful atmosphere ("The Servants' Chorus").

Just as Higgins is about to give up on her, Eliza suddenly recites one of her diction exercises in perfect upper class style ("The Rain in Spain"). Though Mrs Pearce, the housekeeper, insists that Eliza go to bed, she declares she is too excited to sleep ("I Could Have Danced All Night").

For her first public tryout, Higgins takes Eliza to his mother's box at Ascot Racecourse ("Ascot Gavotte"). Though Eliza shocks everyone when she forgets herself while watching a race and reverts to foul language, she does capture the heart of Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Freddy calls on Eliza that evening, and he declares that he will wait for her in the street outside Higgins' house ("On the Street Where You Live").

On the Street Where You Live

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

I have often walked down this street before But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before All at once am I several stories high

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Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?

Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?

Does enchantment pour out of every door?

No, it's just on the street where you live

And oh, the towering feeling

Just to know somehow you are near

The overpowering feeling

That any second you may suddenly appear

People stop and stare, they don't bother me For there's nowhere else on earth

That I would rather be

Let the time go by, I won't care if I

Can be here on the street where you live

People stop and stare, they don't bother me For there's nowhere else on earth

That I would rather be

Let the time go by, I won't care if I

Can be here on the street where you live Can be here on the street where you live Can be here on the street where you live

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Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

Eliza's final test requires her to pass as a lady at the Embassy Ball. After more weeks of preparation, she is ready. ("Eliza's Entrance"). All the ladies and gentlemen at the ball admire her, and the Queen of Transylvania invites her to dance with the prince ("Embassy Waltz"). A Hungarian phonetician, Zoltan Karpathy, attempts to discover Eliza's origins. Higgins allows Karpathy to dance with Eliza.

Act II

The ball is a success; Karpathy has declared Eliza to be a Hungarian princess. Pickering and Higgins revel in their triumph ("You Did It"), failing to pay attention to Eliza. Eliza is insulted at receiving no credit for her success, packing up and leaving the Higgins house. As she leaves she finds Freddy, who begins to tell her how much he loves her, but she tells him that she has heard enough words; if he really loves her, he should show it ("Show Me").

Eliza and Freddy return to Covent Garden but she finds she no longer feels at home there. Her father is there as well, and he tells her that he has received a surprise bequest from an American millionaire, which has raised him to middle class

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respectability, and now must marry his lover. Doolittle and his friends have one last spree before the wedding ("Get Me to the Church on Time").

Higgins awakens the next morning. He finds himself out of sorts without Eliza. He wonders why she left after the triumph at the ball and concludes that men, especially himself, are far superior to women ("A Hymn to Him"). Pickering notices the Professor's lack of consideration, and also leaves the Higgins house.

Higgins despondently visits his mother's house, where he finds Eliza. Eliza declares she no longer needs Higgins ("Without You"). As Higgins walks home, he realizes he's grown attached to Eliza ("I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"). At home, he sentimentally reviews the recording he made the day Eliza first came to him for lessons, hearing his own harsh words. Eliza suddenly appears in his home. In suppressed joy at their reunion, Professor Higgins scoffs and asks, "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"

Characters and original Broadway cast

The original cast of the Broadway stage production: Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller – Julie Andrews

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Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics – Rex Harrison Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's father, a dustman – Stanley Holloway

Colonel Hugh Pickering, Henry Higgins's friend and fellow phoneticist – Robert Coote

Mrs. Higgins, Henry's socialite mother – Cathleen Nesbitt Freddy Eynsford-Hill, a young socialite and Eliza's suitor –

John Michael King

Mrs. Pearce, Higgins's housekeeper – Philippa Bevans Zoltan Karpathy, Henry Higgins's former student and rival –

Christopher Hewett

Movie Cast

Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle

Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins

Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins

Jeremy Brett as Freddy Eynsford-Hill

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Theodore Bikel as Zoltan Karpathy

Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Pearce, Higgins' housekeeper Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

John Holland as the Butler

Musical numbers

Act I

"Overture" – The Orchestra

"Busker Sequence" – The Orchestra

"Why Can't the English?" – Professor Higgins

"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" – Eliza and Male Quartet

"With a Little Bit of Luck" – Alfred Doolittle, Harry, Jamie and Company

"I'm an Ordinary Man" – Professor Higgins

"With a Little Bit of Luck " – Alfred Doolittle and Ensemble

"Just You Wait" – Eliza

"The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)" – Mrs. Pearce and Servants

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"The Rain in Spain" – Professor Higgins, Eliza, and Colonel Pickering

"I Could Have Danced All Night" – Eliza, Mrs. Pearce, and Servants

"Ascot Gavotte" – Ensemble

"On the Street Where You Live" – Freddy

"Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz" – The Orchestra Act II

"You Did It" – Colonel Pickering, Professor Higgins, Mrs.

Pearce, and Servants

"Just You Wait (Reprise)" – Eliza

"On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)" – Freddy

"Show Me" – Eliza with Freddy

"The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)" – Eliza and Male Quartet

"Get Me to the Church on Time" – Alfred Doolittle and Ensemble

"A Hymn to Him" – Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering

"Without You" – Eliza and Professor Higgins

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"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" – Professor Higgins

"I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale" – The Orchestra

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027 - Seven Beauties - Naples, Italy

Seven Beauties

The picaresque story follows its protagonist, Pasqualino, a strutting, macho dandy and small time hood in Naples in Fascist and World War II era Italy.

To defend his family's honor, Pasqualino kills a pimp who had turned his sister into a prostitute. To dispose of the victim's body, he dismembers it and places the parts in suitcases. Caught by the police, he confesses to the murder, but successfully pleads insanity and is sentenced to 12 years in a psychiatric ward. Desperate to get out, he volunteers for the Italian Army.

With an Italian comrade, he eventually deserts the army, but they are captured and sent to a German concentration camp.

Pasqualino attempts to survive the camp by providing sexual favors to the female commandant. His plan succeeds, but the commandant puts Pasqualino in charge of his barracks as a kapo.

He is told he must select six men from his barracks to be killed to prevent all from being killed. Pasqualino ends up executing his former Army comrade, and is responsible for the death of another fellow prisoner, a Spanish anarchist.

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At the war's end, upon his return to Naples, Pasqualino discovers that his seven sisters, his fiancée, and even his mother have all survived by becoming prostitutes. Unfazed, he insists on marrying his fiancée as soon as possible, and he vows to make as many babies as possible.

A Horse With No Name

America

On the first part of the journey

I was looking at all the life

There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings

The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds

The heat was hot, and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound

I've been through the desert

On a horse with no name

It felt good to be out of the rain

In the desert, you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la

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La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

After two days in the desert sun

My skin began to turn red

After three days in the desert fun

I was looking at a river bed

And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead

You see I've been through the desert

On a horse with no name

It felt good to be out of the rain

In the desert, you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

After nine days, I let the horse run free

'Cause the desert had turned to sea

There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings

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The ocean is a desert with it's life underground And a perfect disguise above

Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love

You see I've been through the desert

On a horse with no name

It felt good to be out of the rain

In the desert, you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

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Written by Dewey Bunnell.

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028 - Five Easy Pieces - Amarillo, Texas Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea works in an oil field in Kern County, California. He spends most of his time with his girlfriend Rayette, a waitress who has dreams of singing country music, or with his friend, fellow oil worker Elton, with whom he bowls, gets drunk, and philanders. While Bobby acts the part of a blue collar laborer, he is secretly a former classical pianist who comes from an upper class family of musicians.

Almost Cut My Hair

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

I will now proceed to entangle the entire area.

Almost cut my hair

It happened just the other day

It was getting kind of long

I could have said it was in my way

But I didn't and I wonder why

I feel like letting my freak flag fly

And I feel like I owe it to someone

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Must be because I had the flu for Christmas And I'm not feeling up to par

It increases my paranoia

Like looking into a mirror and seeing a police car

But I'm not giving in an inch to fear

Cos I promised myself this year

I feel like I owe it to someone

When I finally get myself together

I'm gonna get down in some of that sweet summer weather I'm going to find a space inside to laugh Separate the wheat from the chaff

Cos I feel like I owe it, yeah

Said I feel like I owe it, yeah

You know I feel like I owe it yeah to someone

Written by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

When Bobby gets Rayette pregnant and Elton is arrested, Bobby quits his job and goes to Los Angeles, where his sister Partita, also a pianist, is making a recording. Partita tells him that their father, from whom Bobby is estranged, has suffered two

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strokes, and urges him to return to the family home in Washington.

Rayette threatens to kill herself if Bobby leaves her, so he reluctantly asks her along. Driving north, they pick up two stranded women headed for Alaska, Terry and Palm. The latter launches into a monologue about the evils of consumerism. The four are thrown out of a restaurant after Bobby gets into a sarcastic argument with an obstinate waitress who refuses to accommodate his request for toast.

Embarrassed by Rayette's lack of polish, Bobby registers her in a motel before driving alone to the family home on an island in Puget Sound. He finds Partita giving their father a haircut, and the old man seems completely oblivious to him. At dinner, Bobby meets Catherine Van Oost, a young pianist engaged to his amiable brother Carl, a violinist. Despite personality differences, Catherine and Bobby are immediately attracted to each other and later have sex in her room.

Bobby plays the piano for Partita, who gushes at how good he still is. Bobby is totally disgusted as the tune was an extremely easy one and he didn’t even play that all that well.

Rayette runs out of money at the motel and comes to the Dupea estate unannounced. Her presence creates an awkward situation,

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but when a pompous family friend, Samia Glavia, ridicules her, Bobby comes to her defense. Storming from the room in search of Catherine, he discovers his father's male nurse giving Partita a massage. He picks a fight with the very strong nurse, who easily subdues him.

Bobby tries to persuade Catherine to go away with him, but she declines, telling him he cannot ask for love when he does not love himself, or anything at all. After trying to talk to his unresponsive father, Bobby leaves with Rayette. Shortly into the trip they stop for gas. While Rayette's view is obstructed, Bobby abandons her, hitching a ride on a truck headed north.

As You Said

Cream

Let's go down to where it's clean

To see the time that might have been.

The tides have carried off the beach.

As you said,

The sun is out of reach.

Let's go back to where it's clean

To see what year it might have been.

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The roads have carried off the smiles.

As you said,

To judge them at the trials.

So let's go back to now that's bad

To see the time we might have had.

The rails have carried off the trains.

As you said,

I'll never come again, again, again, again.

Written by Jack Bruce and Peter Constantine Brown.

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029 - Across the Universe – Liverpool, England, UK

Across the Universe

In the 1960s, Jude Feeney, a shipyard worker in Liverpool, heads to the US to find his G.I. father who conceived him during World War II, whom he has never met. He promises his girlfriend Molly he will stay in touch while he is away.

Across the Universe

The Beatles

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly as they slip away

across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy

are drifting through my opened mind

Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva, om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance

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before me like a million eyes

They call me on and on

across the universe

Thoughts meander like a restless wind

inside a letterbox they

They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva, om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing Through my open ears inciting and inviting me Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns

It calls me on and on across the universe Jai guru deva, om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Jai guru deva

Jai guru deva

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Jai guru deva

Jai guru deva

Jai guru deva

Jai guru deva

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Lucy Carrigan worries about her boyfriend Daniel, who is headed for service in the Vietnam War.

In Dayton, Ohio, cheerleader Prudence pines for a fellow female cheerleader and then drops out of school in shame.

Jude meets his father Wes, a janitor at Princeton University, but does not particularly bond with him. While on campus, he meets and befriends slacker student Max, who brings him home for Thanksgiving. He introduces Jude to his family, including Lucy, his younger sister.

Max drops out of college. He and Jude move into a bohemian enclave in Greenwich Village run by a singer, Sadie. Jude becomes a freelance artist, and Max is a cab driver. Daniel is killed in Vietnam, and Lucy attends his funeral. In Detroit, a young African-American boy is killed in the 1967 riot. His adult brother Jo-Jo, a guitarist, moves to New York for a change of

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scenery and auditions for Sadie's band. They are soon joined by Prudence, who had hitchhiked there.

Lucy visits Max in New York before starting college, and she and Jude fall in love. Max, initially displeased upon learning they slept together, finally gives them his blessing. Later, Max is drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam, as he is no longer a college student protected from the draft. Prudence is attracted to Sadie and becomes depressed when Sadie and Jo-Jo begin a relationship.

Lucy becomes increasingly involved in the anti-war movement.

Jude remains comparatively apolitical but devoted to her. Sadie is offered a chance to go on a solo tour as a headliner, leading to a bitter breakup between her and Jo-Jo. Jude dislikes the increasing amount of time Lucy spends with the Students for a Democratic Republic, led by activist Paco, as he suspects that Paco is attempting to seduce her.

Jude storms into the SDR office, leading to an argument with Lucy and a fight with Paco, after which Jude is thrown out and she breaks up with him. Some time later, Jude follows her to an anti-war demonstration at Columbia University. When the police arrest Lucy, Paco, and the other activists, Jude's attempts to reach her lead to his arrest as well.

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With Jude facing deportation, Lucy contacts his father. Wes visits him in jail but has no legal proof that Jude is his son and thus an American citizen. As a result, Jude is sent back to England. Returning to his job at the Liverpool shipyards, he runs into his former girlfriend Molly and sees that she is heavily pregnant by her current partner. She met him around the time Jude stopped writing her, when he started seeing Lucy.

Jo-Jo continues playing solo guitar in bars, while the highly successful Sadie drowns her sorrow and loneliness in alcohol on tour. Max is wounded in Vietnam and sent home. Lucy visits him in the hospital, but he is traumatized and dependent on morphine. Meanwhile, she continues her activities with the SDR

and is involved with Paco, but is uncomfortable with him leading the movement deeper into violence.

Lucy leaves Paco and the organization when she finds him making bombs, and she is surrounded by constant reminders of Jude. One of Paco's homemade bombs explodes, killing him and his confederates. Upon reading this news, Jude fears Lucy is also dead. He learns from Max over the phone that she had left the group beforehand and is alive, and he arranges to return to NYC

legally.

Get Back

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The Beatles

Rosetta

Sweet Loretta Fart, she thought she was a cleaner But she was a frying pan

Rosetta Martin

Yeah

who's asking?

The pitcher

the picker!

Picture the fingers growing

Okay?

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner But he knew it couldn't last

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona

For some California grass

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, Jojo

Go home

Get back, get back

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Back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Back to where you once belonged

Get back, Jo

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman But she was another man

All the girls around her say

she's got it coming

But she gets it while she can

Oh, get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, Loretta

Go home

Oh, get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back

Thanks, Mo!

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I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group And ourselves and I hope we passed the audition!

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Jo-Jo and Sadie, who have reconciled, put on a rooftop concert.

Max brings Jude to the rooftop. When the police arrive to break up the concert, Jude manages to remain on the roof and begins to sing. The police allow the band to rejoin him. He notices Lucy on the opposite rooftop, standing and looking at him. Lucy and Jude gaze smilingly at each other as the performance concludes.

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030 - M*A*S*H* - Seoul, South Korea

Suicide Is Painless

Johnny Mandel

Through early morning fog I see

Visions of the things to be

The pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see

That suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

And I can take or leave it if I please

The game of life is hard to play

I'm gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I'll someday lay

So this is all I have to say

Suicide is painless

(Suicide)

It brings on many changes

(Changes)

And I can take or leave it if I please

The sword of time will pierce our skins It doesn't hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in

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The pain grows stronger watch it grin,

Suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

And I can take or leave it if I please

A brave man once requested me

To answer questions that are key

Is it to be or not to be

And I replied 'Oh, why ask me?'

Suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

And I can take or leave it if I please

And you can do the same thing if you please