Atheists & Agnostics

thucythucy

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11. Randy Newman is amazing.

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 07:48 PM

Mar 2020

Most people know him I guess because of "Short People" and the Toy Story soundtracks, but he's written some amazing lyrics.

Among my favorites:

"It's Money That I Love" (a GOP anthem)
"Old Man on the Farm"
"Jolly Coppers on Parade"

and of course, "Louisiana 1927" which enjoyed some fame after Katrina:

"The river rose all day
the river rose all night
some people got lost in the flood
some people got away all right
the river has busted through clear down to Plaquemine
six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline....

President Coolidge come down in a railroad train
with a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
President say 'Little fat man isn't a shame
what the river has done to this poor cracker's land?'"

Best wishes.

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so what do you think? [View all] Brainstormy Mar 2020 OP

Usually, epiphenomena like this create more believers, afaik. Laelth Mar 2020 #1

I don't care one way or the other. LakeArenal Mar 2020 #2

OK. I get that you don't care Brainstormy Mar 2020 #4

I don't care if religion is under siege. LakeArenal Mar 2020 #6

I hope...but don't expect...people would question a God who dabbles in earthly affairs. We have Karadeniz Mar 2020 #3

as an atheist, I don't relate/ Brainstormy Mar 2020 #8

There is no evidence for souls uriel1972 Mar 2020 #14

Based on the Arkansas Ass of Gawd thing. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #5

me too, and Brainstormy Mar 2020 #7

God's song, by Randy Newman: thucythucy Mar 2020 #9

wonderful! Brainstormy Mar 2020 #10

Randy Newman is amazing. thucythucy Mar 2020 #11

There will be fewer believers in President Putin's Piggy Warpy Mar 2020 #12

You offered some good points Brainstormy Mar 2020 #13