Red Toupee By Al Stewart

[Syrinx]

Doesn't it sound like he says:

"We call it Henry Cisneros."

[Kenneth ken]

1. ???

I dunno, as I've never heard the song; however, it should sound like that, as that is apparently the lyric:

To Catalina on a fishing boat
We call it Henry Cisneros
We got no mony but we stay afloat
Thos jellyfishes don't scare us


I googled it

[Syrinx]

2. why is it saying henry cisneros?

[Kenneth ken]

3. as I wrote,

I've never heard the song. Apparently the boat is named Henry Cisneros. Why, I'd guess to rhyme with "scare us"


I dunno - ask Al...he wrote this tripe (if it is tripe)

[On the Road]

4. OOH, "Purple Toupee" By They Might be Giants

really does say the following:

I remember the year I went to camp
I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax
I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba
Now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else
Way down inside me I can feel it coming back

Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around

Chinese people were fighting in the park
We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that
Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
Ten years later they were sharing the same cell
I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"
Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fat
Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man
And the only thing that's different is underneath my hat

(Chorus)

Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away
The purple brigade is marching from the grave

We're on some kind of mission
We have an obligation
We have to wear toupees