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Laughing Man

by Eric Din

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Paul Jackson wrote the original version of this some years ago with a little help from yours truly. Then in 2017 I heard a sort of reinvention of it with some different lyrics and Paul was a sport about it and let me recombobulate his lovely tune. Dave Tweedie played some fabulous drums on it in 2020 and I added P-Bass and mixed it and voila, here it is. Laughing Man revisited.

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Laughing Man

There’s a pile of tacks where the floor meets the wall
He put them there so my pictures would not fall
The laughing man got a magic 8 ball
The laughing man sees and knows all

He is the laughing man
He is the laughing man
And he’ll do what he can
To see that we don’t understand

There’s a laughter where my hand pulls at my eye
He put it there so that I wouldn’t cry

And still the laughing children
Out on a summer’s day
Save their pennies and marbles
To hear the laughing man play

He is the laughing man
He is the laughing man
And he’ll do what he can
To see that we don’t understand

It ain’t a joke but here’s a punch line
He’s laughing at the knot I tied
The laughing man, he can’t decide
The laughing man, he never dies

And still the laughing children
Even as skies turn gray
Travel with minimal cargo
To hear the laughing man play

© 2017 Paul Albert Jackson / Eric Roy Dinwiddie,
Zymurgy Music, BMI / King Roy Music, BMI

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released August 30, 2020
Recorded and mixed by Eric Din at Din's house
Drums recorded by Dave Tweedie at Dave's house
Cover art by Shannon Wheeler at Shannon's house
Now you may listen to it at your house

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Eric Din Berkeley, California

I'm a guitarist and singer-songwriter with The Uptones. These are my solo recordings, starting from 2015. I started Berkeley Cat Records in 2019. BandCamp is the first place I publish these puppies, before I send them into the streaming wilds. Wait, you ask, Berkeley Cat Records has puppies? Why yes, Matilda. Thanks for popping in, hope you enjoy the tunes! ... more

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