------------------------ Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> In my mind's ear I'm trying to imagine Johnny Cash covering
> Zevon's "Carmelita":
>
> Camerelita, hold me tighter
> I think I'm fading fast
> And I'm all strung out on heroin
> On the outskirts of town
>
> I love that song, but as Zevon sings it, there's something
> of a detachment to it, as if Zevon is trying to tell a
> a tale in style of the those authors jks notes below--that's
> not a criticism, just a comment. But I can imagine Cash
> imbuing it with real down and out desolation:
>
> I'm sitting here
> Playing solitaire
> With my pearl handled deck
> The county won't give me no more methadone
> And they cut out my welfare check
>
> Could have done, could have done/They all sigh...
>
> Curtiss
>