Thursday, March 07, 2013
Bud The Spud Is Dead
In the coming weeks and months,
you will be witnessing a progressive invasion
of the lugubrious and the morbid
all throughout the TLB Prime Network
- for, even though we do have just such a blog
that caters exclusively to that sort of thing,
fact is, folks - the darkness is spreading all over the place
and so we should tackle it everywhere, too!
We might as well start it here, too...
Hence, today, we celebrate a recently departed
true original; one who stayed true to his old
stomping grounds indeed
never leaving them
for as long as he lived
and, now, he will be buried in that ground...
And his song will live on.
Aye, Bud The Spud is dead -
Sing it to the tune of ''Bela Lugosi's Dead''
Sing it to the tune of ''Bela Lugosi's Dead''
- or, no, better yet, much better yet,
by the original artist and recently departed
Unless you are more partial to the man's famed and fabled
Hockey Song instead...!
Stompin' Tom was exceptionally proud to be Canadian
and concentrated all of his life and musical career
within Canadian boundaries indeed:
his penning a hockey song
implicitly implied that Canada owned that sport
and all rights to it -
for that, we can forgive him, sure...
After all, such patriotism (against all odds)
such good-natured creativity
and such well-mannered joie de vivre
tell a lot about the quality of the man;
his brand of rebelliousness
should have spread throughout
''God's Country''
- much more than it actually did.
He leaves us hundreds upon hundreds of songs
and his infectious love of life
even as his ended, peacefully, among family.
Rest In Peace, Stompin' Tom
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