Oh Mommy (Brewer & Shipley)

[Gman]

I ran across this old album from 1970 by Brewer & Shipley (Think One Toke Over The Line Sweet Jesus). This one just made me smile. It seems about the way it was back then and the way it is now...


Oh, mommy, I ain't no commie
I'm just doing what I can to live the good old all American way
It says right there in the constitution
It's really A-OK to have a revolution
When the leaders that you choose
Really don't fit their shoes

Oh, mister, I ain't no sister
I believe in the Bill Of Rights,
Come on don't you start a fight please
I like to wear my hair long
How can there be anything wrong
When you already accused me twice
Of looking like Jesus Christ
Hallelujah

I'm only gettin' tired of playing Punch and Judy
I'm really half a mind to go and do my duty
Like Mr. Patrick Henry said
I got to be free or dead

Mister Nixon, I ain't a fixin'
To speak Spanish on a plane or polish off the Liberty Bell
I just want to sit here on the shelf
And watch you finish off the place by yourself
Please let me do what I wanna
I just lay around the house and smoke marijuana
Ooooo

It says right there in the constitution
It's really A-OK to have a revolution
When the leaders that you made
Just don't make the grade
Oh, mommy, I ain't no commie
But I hate to bust your bubble
Cause there's gonna be some trouble soon

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Written by Michael Brewer & Tom Shipley
1970 Talking Beaver Music/BMI

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I can't help but think that had Obama not been elected, there would've been some trouble real soon.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. I love this song and Brewer and Shipley!

I saw them a million years ago at the old Cellar Door in DC. Tarkio Road was one of my very very favorite albums and The Best of Brewer and Shipley is a great great CD!!!

No better song than Witchie Tai Tai for traveling on a summer day with the wind blowing. Great chorus - "I'm not dead!"

[Sisaruus]

2. Over the Line?

The Lawrence Welk crowd might even get all worked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg

[Gman]

4. OMG!

I've no doubt that Lawrence Welk didn't have a clue! "There you heard a 'modern spritual' by Dale and Gayle!" LOL!

[ellenfl]

3. i saw them in a small venue in nyc. i love b&s! eom