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Dad's Terrible Wine-Salesman Folk Songs and the 47-Year-Old Guitarist's Kid Collab

from #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show · #179

3 min

Tim describes his father performing simplistic guitar songs about selling wine and naming his dogs after Maya Angelou, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Frederick Douglass, followed by a 47-year-old man performing a song he co-wrote with an 11-year-old about colors.

In this bit6 moments
  • An acoustic guitar makes any mediocre performance sound like art, and the room eats it up.
  • A 47-year-old guitarist arrives and plays a song he wrote with an 11-year-old kid.
  • The song consists entirely of color names: 'rainbow shine blue, green green green, yellow, you're so mellow.'
  • Tim's response: children are stupid and their thoughts are worthless, so he won't listen to songs they write.
  • Tim's father's wine-salesman folk songs weren't much better—lyrics like 'blue what are you gonna do' and 'red what do you say when it's red.'
  • Tim pretends to enjoy the performance while internally checking out, deciding this is the last Christmas he'll endure these family sing-alongs.

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