{"id":38,"date":"2016-10-05T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/i-dig-rock-n-roll-and-shakespeare\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:48:00","slug":"i-dig-rock-n-roll-and-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/i-dig-rock-n-roll-and-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dig Rock n Roll and Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nI  DIG ROCK N ROLL AND SHAKESPEARE<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1971<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig Rock n Roll and Shakespeare.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a heavy cat Mama!<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a Jew\u2019s Harp blower,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nDole receiver; not a work believer.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMy poems are my medals<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd I\u2019m shooting for peace with the pellets of love.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a piano person; guitar strummer<\/span><\/div>\n
\nPeople call me a bummer but I don\u2019t care,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI know my road and my road knows me!<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig doin\u2019 what I dare not.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a hustler by nature, Kazoo Kruncher,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nStray cat seeker, Hi Heeled Sneaker.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMy blisters are my passport,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nand I\u2019m running for election,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWanna catch it for a souvenir!<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a cream cracker character,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA bread and Jam junkie.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou only dig this cos it\u2019s funky,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut I don\u2019t care, I washed my socks this morning Pa!<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig, digging what I dig to dig<\/span><\/div>\n
\nEven if no one else digs to dig it too!<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m an indivdualistical baby.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou can\u2019t classify me cousin,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m too big for categories, too small to see.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBetter watch what you are saying brother.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThese words have ears<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd anything you may say, will be taken down<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd used to toss bombs at Terrapins.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig Chinky water music, Indian Ragas<\/span><\/div>\n
\nForsyth Sagas.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig to read the bible when I feel like!<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI don\u2019t care if you may say,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI must act in your hip, turned-on freaked out way.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI don\u2019t care if you may say,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI must act in your straight and narrow way conventional way.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI really dig to act in my intergalactic way.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a waterbearer wanderer<\/span><\/div>\n
\nPoppin\u2019 in and outta lifetimes.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI dig medieval minstrels,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou know the joculators and the jesters.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a ruthless recorder shrieker,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA chuddy gum chewer, give donations to the local brewer.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m pleasant poster pincher,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nDon\u2019t bust me cos I\u2019m contagious.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nCall me the corduroy kid<\/span><\/div>\n
\nCos it\u2019s a groovy kinda name.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI\u2019m a flame throwing fire eater,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nGo round burning castles in the air.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut it\u2019s alright if I promise to wash my Hair Ma!<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n…<\/span>
\nPartly influenced by Peter Paul and Mary’s I Dig Rock n Roll Music, Captain Beefheart lyrics.I began to write it walking down priory Street in Coventry alongside Coventry cathedral,jotting down the lines as the came.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I  DIG ROCK N ROLL AND SHAKESPEARE \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1971 I dig Rock n Roll and Shakespeare. I\u2019m a heavy cat Mama! I\u2019m a Jew\u2019s Harp blower, Dole receiver; not a work believer. My poems are my medals … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}