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Local Legend
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I told Caedmon there were already too many songs about Fra. Dolcino, but he wrote this one anyway.
christian funny comedy sarcasm hipper than thou
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Hipper Than Thou is essentially School House Rock for obscure history and theology.
Hipper Than Thou is an ill fated collection of personalities with no commercial aspirations whatsoever. Our music is less bound by style than it is by talent. All songs are limited to the 9 chords our guitarist knows. Stylistically we range from Folk, to Jazz Folk, to Electric Folk, with a little Folk Rock.
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Genre
Pop • Christian Pop
Charts
Peak #321
Peak in subgenre #42
Author
Caedmon Blake
Rights
2005
Uploaded
May 10, 2005
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Caedmon wanted to do a dixieland song, so he had everyone in the band play tenor banjos while Outis played the drum machine. Clearly a bad idea.
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He said he’d heard the local legend, That grew up around the place that I call home. He asked me what I thought about the things they say I said I wasn’t here then, I couldn’t know. He said something French that I just could not understand. I looked down relieved to find his gloves still on his hands. That day had a happy ending, But I can’t say how tomorrow night will go. He asked of F R A Dolcino, The Italian heretic of whom you know. He thought he’d make a good Franciscan if he tried I said he tried too hard and crossed a grumpy Pope. Do you think the farmers and the peasant whom he led, Were guilty of the nuances of which we all have read? I don’t know, I’m not the judge I’m not the jury. And I can’t say how their afterlife will go. Saturday, it’s like a funeral here. The malls are closed there’s nothing fun to do. Any other day it’s like a tourist trap. There’s a Starbucks in the temple and the most important customer is you. He said “Do you have legal council? Cause that chord progression’s clearly not your own. I heard it way down south in Charleston long ago And when a man was asking where his girl had gone.” I asked can they sue me for a thing that’s this much fun. Does a major 7th progression quite belong to anyone? 6 foot 2, eyes of blue, you’d never know he was a Jew, Has anybody seen my God? Roman nose, Flowing clothes, everywhere he goes he glows, Has anybody seen my God?
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