Back in the 70's, in the folk scene in Chicago, there was a singer, Bonnie Koloc, who came to do a show at our high school ... it wasn't much of a reach, as we were about 2 blocks from the Earl of Old Town, etc. One of the songs she did was "Jazzman", which I always assumed was hers, but, in the search of the lyrics, I discovered was actually by the late, great Steve Goodman ... and it was a lot more complicated than I remembered it.
The bit that stuck in my head was:
I'm easy to get to And I'm easy to please Easy to please I said I'm easy to please When you're a jazzman you get easy to please
However, I mentally re-wrote that, replacing "easy to please" with "deeply fatigued", and coming out with something like Momma, I'm a psycho and I'm deeply fatigued, which was a handy little ditty to sing under my breath when I was running on a couple of hours of sleep.
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Ah, I'm thusly (via "deeply fatigued") reminded ...
Back in the 70's, in the folk scene in Chicago, there was a singer, Bonnie Koloc, who came to do a show at our high school ... it wasn't much of a reach, as we were about 2 blocks from the Earl of Old Town, etc. One of the songs she did was "Jazzman", which I always assumed was hers, but, in the search of the lyrics, I discovered was actually by the late, great Steve Goodman ... and it was a lot more complicated than I remembered it.
The bit that stuck in my head was:
I'm easy to get to
And I'm easy to please
Easy to please
I said I'm easy to please
When you're a jazzman you get easy to please
However, I mentally re-wrote that, replacing "easy to please" with "deeply fatigued", and coming out with something like Momma, I'm a psycho and I'm deeply fatigued, which was a handy little ditty to sing under my breath when I was running on a couple of hours of sleep.
Figured it might be some use to you as well.
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