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Nevada City, California

Utah Phillips
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At the onset, those of you who may have heard me should probably Turn to those who may have not and calmly reassure them that this Is in fact what happens when I sit on a stage. Not much more. This Is about it. You will notice no sudden or dramatic change in either My instrumental or vocal attack, as it were. This is nonetheless an American folk song. Did you recognize it as such? Of course you Would. You folkies. You don't hear 'em much anymore. Don't hear ' Em on your AM radio, huh? Folk singers hardly ever sing 'em. That's ' Cause they're boring. Folk music is boring. Whack fall the dido Blow ye winds, hi ho hell, that's boring. But I am a folk singer This is a folk music organization. You are ostensibly the folk N'est-ce pas? That means we own this song together, right? We have Thereby incurred certain social obligations Which we will faithfully discharge, right? We're Gonna sing this damn song together, boring or not I'm still in Nevada City, California, up there in the foothills of The Sierra. I call 'em the foothills 'cause it's spelled like that Oh, the old gold mining town, I've talked to some of you about that 2,700 People there. One of the 49ers towns. Then I also told you About the only social life in town being the, the Books of Harmony New Age Bookstore, where people go down in the evening and channel Dolphins and, uh, Martians. It's a new age chronosynclastic Infundibulum, or epicenter, as it were, Nevada City, California Well, I was gone for a bit, uh, on one of the trips since I saw you Last, and I got back, and, uh, my wife had bought the, the bookstore Um, so I am now ostensibly part, part proprietor of a New Age Bookstore in Nevada City, California. Hehehehe, can you picture that? Whee! Whee! Well, and I'm open to all those things. If you live in California, you've got to be open. If you're not, they pry you open And I read as much as I can, just got all the new men's literature In there. Uh, most of my, most of my men friends belong to Men's Robert Blythe men's drumming circles. They do that here It's healthy. They, they're out in the, in the, in the wilderness Caterwauling and flailing away at those things and dragging Their scrotums through the underbrush. It's healthy, I suppose Uh, we swing in the trees and we steal sheep. We don't have a A drumming leader, we have a grooming order. Robert Blythe came by On one of his workshop trips to teach us how to drum. We ate him Nevada City, California Nevada City, California Nevada City, California Anybody know what I'm talking about? Nevada City, California Anybody know what I'm talking about? Nevada City, California Anybody know what I'm talking about? Nevada City, California Anybody know what I'm talking about? Good Gonna get NRPS, you got NRPS around here? New Age Rural Professionals (Nevada City, California) Out cruising the back roads in their old green carry- Alls with their car stereos blaring meditation music out Into the wilderness, it's a, it's a caution. Whole place Lightning-struck by the peripatetic ruminations of the Tibetan ruling class in exile. Lot of Buddhists around there (Nevada City, California) Meanwhile, this very minute, old Jesse McVay, the well digger Nobody knows how old he is, lived in that county all his life Is sitting at the bar of the National Hotel this very minute Looking at the freaks out in the street and muttering under his Breath, "No matter how new age you get, old age gonna kick your ass." Anybody know what I'm talking about? Nevada City, California Nevada City, California Nevada City, California Nevada City, California