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   On Friday, 23 July 2010 21:51:11 UTC-4, Joseph Lockett  wrote:   
   > I'm looking for the artist who performed a song my wife has on an old   
   > (redubbed) cassette tape.  It was evidently recorded from a late 80's   
   > episode of Garrison Keillor's *Prairie Home Companion*, and features a   
   > singer-songwriter who also performs (a cappella) "I Built a Better   
   > Model Than the One at Data General" and (with acoustic guitar) the   
   > "Sodium Chloride" romance song.   
   >   
   > The song in question, though, is about a young woman who works in a   
   > wax museum and a young man who works in a bar: the chorus changes each   
   > time (for her) to include a different group of historical figures and   
   > (for him) to include a group of mixed drinks.   
   >   
   > The song begins:   
   >   
   > "A year out of college, she finally found work   
   > At the real-as-life wax museum.   
   > She'd point to the figures of history's greats,   
   > And she'd tell all who came to see 'em,   
   > Noon to nine at the dim museum."   
   >   
   > The choruses go something like this:   
   >   
   > "Here's [someone?], here's Luther, here's Franklin and Locke   
   > Churchill, Columbus, the death mask of Bach,   
   > Here's Shakespeare who said 'The world is a stage,'   
   > Here are knights from the Gothic Age."   
   >   
   > For her and, for him:   
   >   
   > "Here's your Harvey Wallbanger, your vodka and lime   
   > You seven-and-seven for the seventeenth time,   
   > Jack Daniels, two lagers, two apricot flips;   
   > I would quit, but I get good tips."   
   >   
   > I hope this rings a bell for someone: the song is dearly loved, but   
   > the cassette tape is on its last legs.  Thanks for any help you can   
   > provide!   
   >   
   > -- Joseph Lockett, Houston, Texas   
      
   Michael Cooney sang it on he Still Cooney After All These Years. It is   
   available from various sources. Words by Kathleen Tucker who, Michael told me,   
   gave up song-writing to become a Unitarian minister.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)