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#99164 03/24/03 03:13 PM
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>Melanie Safka<

Better known as...Melanie....(Lay Down) Candles in the Rain.


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Melanie ... terrible singing voice, but looks to die for. Someone else, of course, not me.

Sorry, dxb, my memory for song titles is crap. Roller-skates it is.

- Pfranz

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I've Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates......."
Melanie Safka (who??)

but

"This Wheel's on Fire..."
Bob Dylan

that's why I'm Watching the Wheels

-- John Lennon


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"You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel"...


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Down at an English fair one evening I was there
When I heard a showman shouting underneath the flair

I’ve got a loverly bunch of coconuts...



P.S. What's a "flair" in this context? The boardwalk? the midway? why "underneath" ?


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I've always assumed that the flair is the flaired roof of a tent or temporary booth.

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Isn't that "flare", as in "flared out"?


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"You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel"...
that's when . . .

Something happens and I'm head over heels.

--Tears for Fears


#99172 03/26/03 02:34 AM
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Title by association (not Association), now:

Deadman's Curve
Jan and Dean


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By my spelling,yes, but it's possible the song was mis-transcribed.

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