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If It Don't Work, Don't Fix It / The Almost News

from Late Octobra by John Tabacco

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If It Don't Work, Don't Fix It : Words and Music © 1991 by John Tabacco and Meryl Mathews
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC) / Zackeroo Music (ASCAP)

The Almost News © 1984 by John Tabacco

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IF IT DON'T WORK DON'T FIX IT

JS : Ah ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!

If it don't work, don't fix it
Give up
Go to another place
If it don't work, don't fix it
If it don't work, it's broken
Forget it, go back home and start a new place

(Lydian Song snippet)
ND : Heh ha ha haaa

If it don't work, don't fix it
Gotta move on to make yourself a better place heh-heh... actually another place...
If it don't work, don't fix it
Hope that tomorrow will be another franchise

Bishop Townsley Choir : Ohhhhhhhh

Everybody says you must be out of your mind to try to do music.
It's such a beautiful thing to do there's no possible way you could do it for that long and have a good time because it's not fair to everybody else who has to work a 9 to 5 grind.

Ohohohohohohohohohooooooooooooo!

Somewhere over there I contend there's a voice of a painter
with a shower cap eraser in his hand

ND : Ah, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, Ha

JT : Ah huh ha ha ha haaaa! Goes the little music box and the girl tries to sing and guy tries to get her a record deal or something on Star Search. And he's so old and he's so stupid and he still lives in 1956. And he wears a suit and he came from Julliard and he knows all about pop music today. In fact, his wife is giving a course at his house teaching little girls to sing the ballerina dancer too! Every youngster should sing it too. I've seen it. I've experienced...

Alien House : Nearbonnueitz...

ND : This is the Almost News with anchor persons Carol Becker and Don Fagen and weather guy Nick Katz.

CLICK!

credits

from Late Octobra, released October 23, 2014
JT : Improvised vocals
Meryl Mathews : Yamaha B Keyboard
Nick DiMauro : Announcer, kinky laughing
Recorded at Meryl Mathews home on Grange Street in Greenlawn, NY
Almost News : Recorded at Suburban Hermit Studios I, St. James, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

For more info : www.johntabacco.net ... more

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