{"id":2546,"date":"2013-10-19T05:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T05:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2013-10-19T05:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T05:42:27","slug":"baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nina Simone wrote amazing songs<\/a> and propelled forward great songs by others. An honour for Randy Newman that she would record his music. It’s also one of the most likeable things about Jim Guthrie – he knows everything she did. You can quiz him.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SH9ZzrkLTDQ<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Randy Newman<\/p>\n

Beat-up little seagull<\/strong>
\n On a marble stair<\/strong>
\n Trying to find the ocean<\/strong>
\n Looking everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hard times in the city<\/strong>
\n In a hard town by the sea<\/strong>
\n Ain’t nowhere to run to<\/strong>
\n There ain’t nothing here for free<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hooker on the corner<\/strong>
\n Waiting for a train<\/strong>
\n Drunk lying on the sidewalk<\/strong>
\n Sleeping in the rain<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the people hide their faces<\/strong>
\n And they hide their eyes<\/strong>
\n ‘Cause the city’s dying<\/strong>
\n And they don’t know why<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, Baltimore<\/strong>
\n Man, it’s hard just to live<\/strong>
\n Oh, Baltimore<\/strong>
\n Man, it’s hard just to live, just to live<\/strong><\/p>\n

Get my sister Sandy<\/strong>
\n And my little brother Ray<\/strong>
\n Buy a big old wagon<\/strong>
\n Gonna haul us all away<\/strong><\/p>\n

Living in the country<\/strong>
\n Where the mountain’s high<\/strong>
\n Never coming back here<\/strong>
\n ‘Til the day I die<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, Baltimore<\/strong>
\n Man, it’s hard just to live<\/strong>
\n Oh, Baltimore<\/strong>
\n Man, it’s hard just to live, just to live<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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