Date: 30 Jan 1997 14:48:07 -0700



In article ,
Lori Coulson  wrote:
>I'd recommend Leslie Fish's _No High Ground_:
>"Up to the dusty attic,
> Out with the rusty gun,
> The law books and the lawyers only go so far..."
 
Urr, you're confusing two different songs.  Leslie wrote:

     Up to the dusty attic
     Out with the trusty gun.
                  *
     The law books and the lawyers only go so far.

David Hodge's filk of it (pubbed in Xeno) went

     Up to the dusty attic
     Out with the rusty gun
     The damn thing hasn't fired since the Civil War
     Sooner or later,
     It's going to blow to hell --
     Don't think that it can't happen where you are.

     No practice!  No practice1  Shoot yourself in the foot!

But I should probably not quote it all if I hope to sell any
copies of Xeno #21 with "No High Noon."

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