Punk Rock Historian and Professional Consultant
Hudley Flipside
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
For I had lost the path that does not stray.”
~ Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy.
The rhythm and blues, rock and punk rock and the continuity of a beat blows through generations. The beat, guitars and some vocals all take on a life of their own.
I first remember hearing the Rolling Stones by way of my siblings’ records or from the radio.
Something new and fresh after years becomes,
“I wonder how many times I have heard this song !?”
Yet a good song will bloom and expand out into a new generation.
Blues, rock, and punk rock…
As the musicians play the songs, beat it out, as the music goes up and down our spines it has a life of its own… it enters our DNA.
As a young girl walking home. A car drives by and that song is playing loudly. Ya that song and the beat held me for a short time as the car raced by.
Listening to it on a record or at a live show, that same song grabs you and shakes all those memories from your guts.
We mortals get old and die but the beat, the songs live on until a giant earth explosion … all gone…until,
The black-angel says to the white-devil…
“Dig that song, that beat!”
As Dante Alighieri himself is just “Walking the Dog.”
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Baby’s back, dressed in black,
Silver buttons all down her back
High, low, tipsy toe,
She broke a needle and she can’t sew
Walkin’ the dog,
Just walkin’ the dog
If you don’t know how to do it,
I’ll show you how to walk the dog
Asked a fellow for fifteen cents,
See the fellow he jumped the fence
Jumped so high he touched the sky,
Never got back till the fourth of July
Walkin’ the dog,
Just walkin’ the dog
If you don’t know how to do it,
I’ll show you how to walk the dog
Come on now, come on, come on
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Tell me, how does your garden grow?
You got silver bells and you got cockleshells
Pretty maids all in a row
Walking the dog
Just a walkin’ the dog
If you don’t know how to do it
Show you how to walk the dog
Come on now, come on, come on
Oh oh, just a, just a, just a walkin’
Just a, just a, just a walkin’
Just a, just a, just a walkin’
Oh yeah, if you don’t know how to do it
I’ll show you how to walk the dog, oh
Just a, just a, just a, just a, just a, just a walkin’
Just a, just a, just a, just a, just a, just a walkin’, oh
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