Name: Meat On the Table
Duration: P00H08M52S
Description: The surreal story of a sea struggle.

Meat On the Table

from Thinking Hard To Overcome Nervousness by Johnny Unicorn

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The surreal story of a sea struggle.

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There's meat on the table
That's as much as I needed to know
And there's meat on the table
That's all that I need before I get up and go

Frankles had a beef with the diver
Who put his foot down
Reef ashore Venezuela
Or was it Australia?
Oh, what can I tell ya?
That beef ended up on the floor

There's death in the ocean
Like a cookie in the mind of a child
There's meat in the ocean
That's all that I need before I get up and go again
"Get up and go" he said

Frankie wrangled him up, by his ankles he dragged him
I don't know how
He must have weighed 300 pounds
But Frankie had a strong diaphrag-m
He rode the diver [down]

He rode the poor diver just like an old raft
And he tied on his saxophones and blew his way across the ocean
Using only the following sounds

Blow, Frankie, blow

A taste of kindness
That's all that I need to have meant
Meat on the table
That's all that I needed before I got up and went
Meat on the table

Franklin
Proud of his victory
Settled on distant shores
In a sunny foreign land
The meat runs deep within his blood
The meat runs

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from Thinking Hard To Overcome Nervousness, released June 21, 2011
Johnny Unicorn: vocal, alto saxophone, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar
Corey Eno Ruffin: C melody saxophone, contra-alto clarinet, baritone saxophone
Alex Hamel: drums, vibraphone

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Johnny Unicorn Seattle

Johnny Unicorn is based in Seattle, and plays progressive rock and quirky pop.

Johnny Unicorn is also the proprietor of the prolific Zorznijor project.

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