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[The Loner]

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Archie's TV Funnies featured the only Dick Tracy cartoon that included all the characters from the newspaper comic strips of the 1970's.

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Franco Verum]

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

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[NotHardUp1]

Toy for boys. (Only $2,000 --- amazing.)

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kahaih]

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@ William Phelps Eno never learnt how to drive.

It's quite likely that neither did most of the people he witnessed happily motoring down all those streets ----- his main incentive.

 

[Franco Verum]

 

[Alistair]

 

[NotHardUp1]

All for the Best (Gospell, 1971)

When you feel sad, or under a curse
Your life is bad, your prospects are worse
Your wife is sighing, crying,
And your olive tree is dying,
Temples are graying, and teeth are decaying
And creditors weighing your purse...
Your mood and your robe
Are both a deep blue
You'd bet that Job
Had nothing on you...
Don't forget that when you get to
Heaven you'll be blessed..
Yes, it's all for the best...

Some men are born to live at ease, doing what they please,
Richer than the bees are in honey
Never growing old, never feeling cold
Pulling pots of gold from thin air
The best in every town, best at shaking down
Best at making mountains of money
They can't take it with them, but what do they care?
They get the center of the meat, cushions on the seat
Houses on the street where it's sunny..
Summers at the sea, winters warm and free
All of this and we get the rest...
But who is the land for? the sun and the sand for?
You guessed! It's all for the best...

Don't forget that when you get to Heaven you'll be blessed!
Yes, it's all for the.....(all your wrongs will be redressed..)
Yes, it's all for the.....(you must never be distressed....)
Yes, it's all for the.....(someone's got to be oppressed!)
Yes, it's all for the best!!!

 

[Araucaria]

All for the Best (Gospell, 1971)

When you feel sad, or under a curse
Your life is bad, your prospects are worse
Your wife is sighing, crying,
And your olive tree is dying,
Temples are graying, and teeth are decaying
And creditors weighing your purse...
Your mood and your robe
Are both a deep blue
You'd bet that Job
Had nothing on you...
Don't forget that when you get to
Heaven you'll be blessed..
Yes, it's all for the best...

Some men are born to live at ease, doing what they please,
Richer than the bees are in honey
Never growing old, never feeling cold
Pulling pots of gold from thin air
The best in every town, best at shaking down
Best at making mountains of money
They can't take it with them, but what do they care?
They get the center of the meat, cushions on the seat
Houses on the street where it's sunny..
Summers at the sea, winters warm and free
All of this and we get the rest...
But who is the land for? the sun and the sand for?
You guessed! It's all for the best...

Don't forget that when you get to Heaven you'll be blessed!
Yes, it's all for the.....(all your wrongs will be redressed..)
Yes, it's all for the.....(you must never be distressed....)
Yes, it's all for the.....(someone's got to be oppressed!)
Yes, it's all for the best!!!

I think if you just read the text, you'll miss the comical aspect with which Godspell treated this song.

 

[songman]

The song actually expresses two points of view. The Jesus character sings that even if you are unhappy and poor in this life, you will get your reward in heaven. The Judas character cynically but accurately points out that meanwhile, in the world we live in, the rich make sure they have the best of everything. I think the OP's point was that if this was true in America in 1971 when the song was written, it has only gotten more true over time.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think if you just read the text, you'll miss the comical aspect with which Godspell treated this song.

I performed the musical at church camp when I was about 13, or maybe 15. Can't recall.

But, the madcap, rapid-fire farcical style was the choice of the author for the time. Because the whole clown angle was edgy-slash-heretical, I think Schwartz was trying to get the social condemnation across in a new way, perhaps intentionally opposite the attributions to Jesus' famous pique at the rich and powerful.

Easier to attract flies with honey.

I confess that I've always like the style of songs from the 20's, which I take it this mimics, or even Vaudevillian.

And, apologies for misspelling Godspell in my post. Didn't notice until now.

 

[fredroy]

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