There is humor sprinkled throughought my lyrics and music, both
black and just plain playful. The alternative would have been to have
had a very
long
list with a lot of songs duplicated in other listings. Whatever. And
recently I remembered three more parodies that I wrote while I was a
graduate student in philosophy of education at Indiana University during
the late
'60s.
These songs clearly qualify in this category. Enjoy.
And Yet We Are Philosophers spoofs the passivity
of analytic philosophy applied to education. Analytic philosophy was
all the rage during the 1960's.
The Realist spoofs another dominant philosophical
approach during my graduate study, pragmatism.
It Takes a Long, Long Time is a more specific spoof
of Dewey's value theory.
I always thought that had I manage to record and get airplay for the
Microcomputer Blues in the middle 1980's when it was written,
it would have been an instant success. I know that wherever I have
performed it the audience stomps and shouts, and once they have heard
it, people request it again.
Spooks is a clever bit of spoofery on two imagined
rural wannabee baby boomers who get scared right back to the city.