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NSAM-6 RandMan
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songwriter acoustic folk home recording topical 1960s
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Singer songwriter, mostly acoustic folk and folk rock, with some 50's and 60's style rock included.
The band is all me, Famous Patrick, with occassional help from my wife on bass and keys, or an assortment of friends, all of whom are more talented than myself.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #181
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Famous Patrick
Rights
2008 Patrick Bonier
Uploaded
December 04, 2008
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MP3 7.2 MB • 320 kbps • 3:07
Story behind the song
This is a pretty bad song, but I couldn’t afford to reject any and still make my quota for NaSoAlMo. A friend of mine, Tom, used to work in a building next to the one that I used to work in, The Rand Tower. When he called me up he would always start by saying, “I’m looking for the Rand Man.” I would usually respond to this by saying something like, “The Rand Man took a catamaran to Siam,” or some such. He called while I was writing the songs, and of course, it became grist for the mill. I decided that I needed to do a song in a minor key, and in this one I was just trying to pack as many –an rhymes as I could. As it turned out, it is like a Dr. Suess song, sung by a depressed Celt, on ‘shrooms, who just learned to play guitar and wrote a song. I ended up doing the guitar parts at 11:30 PM on 11/30, so I had to work quickly. I did one run through for the rhythm guitar, and one take on the solo. I finished mixing it at 11:58, barely completing the album in time. This is a stupid song, but I like it (my wife can’t stand it; can’t get by even one verse! Issues, I think.)
Lyrics
Rand Man by Famous Patrick 11/08/2008 The Rand Man went to Turkistan / With plans to tan his hide He spent a grand to buy a van / That ran until it died He brought a sampan from Japan / And fifty thousand kilograms Of hamster jam from Amsterdam / For contraband was in demand In Birmingham and Clyde Clammy Graham was on the lam / And planned to scram to Cuba But then he scammed the Ku Klux Klan / With pecans from Aruba His exit plan was in the can / Then he flimflammed a courtesan And took a tram to Alabam / Where he commands a new jam band With Sam the Sham on Tuba Solo Sandman had a dandy pan / For frying Spam and peaches And Randy Dan had diagrams / That spanned the sandy beaches And in Tehran the Shan began / To ban a plan by artisans To weave rattan and read Quran / While Stan the Man and Charlie Chan Wrote epigrams for speeches The Rand Man went to Turkistan / With plans to tan his hide He spent a grand to buy a van / That ran until it died He brought a sampan from Japan / And fifty thousand kilograms Of hamster jam from Amsterdam / For contraband was in demand In Birmingham and Clyde
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