The Too-Long Song 
                PETRONELLA

the too-long song

early one evening we set out to play at one of
our neighborhood bars they put our name
down at the end of the list after 29 boys with
guitars little did we know that all of the boys
before us would play too long each ten
minute set they shamelessly stretched
it was 5 a.m. before we got on at
chorus: the night of the too-long song, my
friends night of the too-long song
each boy got on stage and closed tight his
eyes and crooned yet another refrain just
when you thought that he'd get to the end --
he'd start it all over again at
chorus
how can there be so many sad, sad boys with
so many long, long songs? you'd hardly guess
they were ruling the world from their epics
of how they'd been wronged oh
chorus
heed our sad tale of the folk club scene the
moral of which is quite clear come early to
play be first on the list or bring lots of
money for beer to
chorus

Lucia: vocals, kazoo
Sandy: vocals, guitar
Mark Ettinger: acoustic bass, "Phil"
Al Houghton: emcee

(c) 1994 Lucia Russett, Sandy Opatow, Foufounette Music (BMI). All rights reserved.
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