Steve ~ Thanks, will do
Jeff ~ Yea, bit of a Bosstones fan, and we're either a ska band or a rock band, probably a bit of both mashed together. We actually started out (eight or nine years back) wanting to be the Blues Brothers, but we didn't have enough talent for R&B. No problem getting your cd, I'm happy to have it in my collection.
Bob ~ Never heard of them, but thirty years ago would be six years before my time... lyrics, must remember lyrics...
Largo ~ Thanks, glad you liked it! The songs are mostly of a similar style, musically and vocally. I sing this one, although we do have two lead singers and we switch off between songs.
Lyrics for Ong's Hat -
Well Jacob Ong was a sight to see
As he walked into town that night
His silk top hat upon his head
Ready for the girls, the booze and the fights
Well Mr. Ong was a ladies’ man
He came every week into town
Mixing it up with the colliers and the smiths
Dancing to that sound
But Mr Ong was rude
To his lady he took that night
She knocked that hat right off his head
And stomped that top hat flat
The hat ended up at the top of a tree
Where for months there it sat
People would point and tell the story
So the town became Ong’s Hat.
Over the years the town began to die
Lost jobs had taken their toll
All that remained was a cluster of homes
And seven lonely souls
Then into the clearing moved a Polish couple
Chininski and his wife
They built a home with a room or two
And settled into their new life
But the misses went missing
And the mister didn’t seem to care
Fingers were pointed
And tempers flared
They found her body out in the woods
Her moldy clothes nailed to a tree
When the cops couldn’t find the murderer
The townsfolk all fled
Isn’t it funny how a town can go
From a boom to a bust?
Isn’t it funny how people’s lives
Can become just memories and dust?
Isn’t it funny how a town can go
From a boom to a bust?
Isn’t it funny how people’s lives
Can be so easily lost?
Ongs Hat today is just a clearing
On a road through the pines
No homes, no stores, no cellar holes
There’s nothing left to find
Just another forgotten town
That died before it’s time
Still swirling full of the memories
Of the girls, the booze, and the fights
Track List:
01 Ong's Hat
02 Joe Mulliner - about Joe
03 Terror at the Jersey Shore - about the Matawan Shark Attacks
04 Zip the What-Is-It - about the famed freak of that name
05 Voyage of Capn' Kidd - self-explanitory
06 Tom Quick & the Ninety-Nine Indians - also self-explanitory
07 The Imp Song - about the Jersey Devil fiasco of 1909.
08 Hindenburg - also also self-explanitory
