DESCRIPTION:
Jeffrey Lewis sheds additional light on Tuli's mysterious "Bum Song" from the Fugs LP, "The Belle of Avenue A" which Tuli commented on in his 2006 reading from "Snow Job", a book of early poetry published in 1959.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klx421BFdeY
Jeff Lewis, guitar & vocals, Steve Espinola, piano and vocals, Anders Griffen,drums. At the Sidewalk,NYC, second Tuli Memorial Celebration, Jully 18, 2 012.
English subtitled version on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/48780670
And DailyMotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xta25y_jeffrey-lewis-band-bum-song-english-subtitles_music
I dreamed of a bum seven foot tall
That crurshed the bourgeoisie to the cross.
He kissed me in the maple shot square
And then walked on.
Spartacus my tortured brother
If I should find you bussing crockery out of Bickford's
Or sunk beneath the 6th Ave El
Where it curves West 3rd Street into the twenties
The pillared zebra bold upon your whited chest
Give me a signal by your delusions
Hallucinate Rome! The centurions in trouble
They cast a flame in your antique face
And wrestle your eyes for tomorrow's longing
While bread and roses rot in the streets
And lovers prepare their ecstatic excuses
I shall walk to the Battery
Now not tomorrow
The waves of the present
Smash from the sea.
Let the boat of your longing into great chaos
Ark out of vision
Love in the wind