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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Challenge: This challenge was really a proxy challenge/thread bleed from the Thought for the Day - Feb. 8 thread. You'll have to read it to understand what I'm talking about. Basically, it involves the film, The Wizard of Oz . . . It was a 3-part challenge to write (or finish) the following songs: (1) Munchkins Hangin' In Dem Trees (a/k/a Strange little Fruit); or (2) The Storkin' Blues; or (3) Elementary Feminism (a/k/a Glenda The Good Witch Gets Guilded)
I've Got Those Scarecrow Blues by Mbo
Mbo's Comments: There's some Texas Blues fer you!
I been standing in this cornfield
For so long the Lord only knows
Just stuck here on an oak pole
All I do is scare the crows
I got those Scarecrow blues
I been blue for so long
And if I could get down from this pole
I'd do a dance and sing a song
All I known all my life
Is toil and pain
They never take me in
Even when it starts to rain
I got those Scarecrow blues
Just scaring crows all day
Ain't got myself a noodle
All I gots this wad of hay
Got a burlap face
And my clothes are worn thin
There goes some more of me
Just pick it up and shove it back it
I got those Scarecrow blues
Lord, now it's startin' to hail
Please someone come and save me
You just gotta bend down the nail
Da da da
Da da da
Da da da
Da da da daaaaaaaaaaaa.........oh yeah.
Matthew Richards (2000)