{"id":69,"date":"2002-09-29T12:38:15-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T20:38:15+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2002-09-29T12:38:15-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T20:38:15+00:00","slug":"just-a-half-a-mile-from-the-railroad-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/09\/29\/just-a-half-a-mile-from-the-railroad-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a half a mile from the railroad track"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I’d never actually listened to Alice’s Restaurant<\/a> until today, prompted by a documentary on CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition<\/a> called You Can Get Anything You Want: Arlo Guthrie’s New Religion<\/a><\/q>.<\/p>\n\n

The weird thing–and I use that word deliberately–is that my brother and I independently recognized it as the stylistic source for one of Weird Al Yankovic<\/a>‘s early original songs, Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung<\/a>. Al does a lot of these style parodies<\/q>, and I often like them better than his actual song parodies.<\/p>\n\n

(I should point out that we’re hardly the first ones<\/a> to notice the similarities.)<\/p>\n\n

This post also gives me an excuse to quote Arlo’s father, Woody:<\/p>\n

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Woody Guthrie, via Eric Costello<\/a><\/p><\/div>

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