117 :: Somebody's Gonna Get it :: A Slow Drag with "Green Shirt"

Today’s slow drag is with “Green Shirt,” from “Armed Forces,” released in 1979. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Show Notes:

Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Green Shirt” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Green_Shirt

 

“Green Shirt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilN9SpD6Y_Q

 

The Somerton Man Mystery: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysterious-somerton-man-180980540/

 

Quisling Clinic Photo https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM51270

 

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Listen to the audiobook for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7n1pN8D1Y

 

"Green Shirt" Lyrics 

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen

Who comes into my house every night

And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green

And she turns them into black and white

 

But you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

 

Better cut off all identifying labels

Before they put you on the torture table

 

'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic"

There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes

She's listening in to the Venus line

She's picking out names

I hope none of them are mine

 

But you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

 

Never said I was a stool pigeon

I never said I was a diplomat

Everybody is under suspicion

But you don't wanna hear about that

 

'Cause you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

 

Better send a begging letter to the big investigation

Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?

 

You tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it