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From: gmcgath@ultranet.com (Gary McGath)
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In article , Martin Gordon-Kerr
 wrote:

>>On the other hand, if you did Tom Smith's "Telly Taly Heart," you might get
>>some *really* strange looks, especially from the cops.
>>
>I heard that one at VIbraphone when Tom was GOH, and by now I'll give in
>- I STILL don't understand the joke. Can someone (Hi Tom!) help me out?
>(or in deeper - you never know what you are getting in to when you ask
>this sort of question!)

It helps a lot if you've read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart,"
which the song follows pretty closely. When I heard it the first time, I
recognized the lines, "Passion there was none. Object there was none" as
being right out of the story (without even having to change the scansion!)
and saw where Tom was going, and I almost broke up laughing right there.
It's one of those songs which really depends on its literary reference.

-- 
   Gary McGath     gmcgath@ultranet.com
   http://www.ultranet.com/~gmcgath

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