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Lamb Loin

(coming, um, sometime)

I met Brian Tanke, an aspiring filmmaker, long ago when he crashed a company party which I was attending on the Portland waterfront.  Aided in our big-shot ideas by several glasses of wine, we decided together to discuss the possibility of making a "music video". When we did, Brian was attracted, I think, to the underhandedly ribald nature of the lyrics to "Lamb Loin", which I sang to sequencer tracks when I was showing him my studio. He was kind enough to make this video for me for the astoundingly low price of one giant stack of pizzas.

This song is based on an actual barbeque experience. The lyrics are reproduced here to augment your video and musical enjoyment... but since the video isn't here, imagine the following as you listen to the audio and read along: Two girls in black dresses (like a Robert Palmer video!) swinging barbeque utensils in time to the music. A very attractive blonde in a red dress who is perhaps a little too obsessive about lamb. A handsome man who visits her in the kitchen. A young boy petting a sheep. An old man who can't seem to get his barbeque lighted. Eventually, the blonde in the red dress is chewing on the old man's ear. Fantasy or reality?!!??! You'll have to decide, although you probably won't be able to tell specifically just from the tune:

For your listening pleasure: Lamb Loin in Windows Media format

Got the lamb loin on the grill,
Girl, your choice cuts are giving me a thrill,
Got the lamb loin on the grill,
Got the lamb loin,
lamb loin,

Gonna poke it now with a fork,
Wanna flip it over next to the pork,
Gonna grill it here on the open flame,
We could do it in the kitchen,
but it wouldn't taste the same,

Ooooh, lamb loin,
lamb loin,
Ooooh, lamb loin,
lamb loin,

Gonna weigh it down with a brick
Gotta use something heavy, 'cos it's thick
Take it easy, girl, when it flips
'cos it's gonna start a fire
if it's juicy and it drips

Got the lamb loin on the grill,
Girl, your choice cuts are giving me a thrill,
Got the lamb loin on the grill,
Got the lamb loin,
lamb loin,

Why don't you dish me up one of them tasty morsels??

 

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