ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF)

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Betty Davis
"They Say I'm Different"

They say I'm different 'cause I'm a piece of sugar cane
Sweet to the core that's why I got rhythm
My Great Grandma didn't like the foxtrot
Now instead she spitted snuff and boogied to Elmore James
Spit on

They say I'm different 'cause I eat chitlins
I can't help it, I was born and raised on 'em
That's right, oh, every mornin' I had to slop the hogs
And they be gettin' off humpin' to John Lee Hooker
Gettin' off

They say I'm different 'cause I'm a piece of sugar cane
And when I kick my legs I got rhythm
My Great Grandpa was a blues lover
He be rockin' his moonshine to B.B. King and Jimmy Reed
Rock on pappy

That's why they say I'm different
And that's why they say I'm strange

I'm talkin' 'bout Big Mama Thornton (talk about it, talk about it)
Talkin' 'bout Lightning Hopkins (talk about it, talk about it)
Talkin' 'bout Howlin Wolf (talk about it, talk about it)
I'm talkin' 'bout Albert King (alright, alright)
Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry
When I was sweet sixteen

And that's why they say I'm different
And that's why you think I'm strange

I'm talkin' 'bout T. Bone Walker (talk about it, talk about it)
I'm talkin' 'bout Muddy Waters (talk about it, talk about it)
I'm talkin' 'bout Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Son House, and Freddie King (alright, alright)
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith, oh, oh hey
Oh, Bo Diddley have you heard it?

they say I'm different
And that's why they say I'm strange
And that's why they say I'm funky

A Little Richard, Wild Lou, sunshine you sure can sing (alright, alright)
Robert Johnson, Robert Johnson, Robert Johnson
You play the blues for me

And that's why, and that's why, and that's why they say I'm different
And that's why, and that's why, and that's why they say I'm strange
That's why, why, why, why
And that's why, why, why, why

They say I'm funky, funky, uh-uh, funky, funky
And that's why, why, why, why

And that's why they say I'm different

That's why, why, why, why

Lyrics and music by Betty Davis

© Higher Music Publishing Inc., Betty Mabry Music Co.

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.