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Dem Frank Hayes Blues

from Ends 'n' Odds by Tom Smith

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Frank Hayes, former IT columnist for Computerworld Magazine, is one of the gods of filk. His songs "Never Set the Cat on Fire" and "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter" have gone beyond classic to mythic status, and his most recent opus, "When I Was a Boy", is one of the funniest songs ever. However, the poor slob has become legendary for another reason as well:

He forgets his own lyrics.

Constantly.

Sometimes even if he's looking right at 'em.

Once, while recording a parody of Clif Flynt's "Unreality Warp", Bill Roper blanked on his own words, and said, by way of apology, "Hayes Disease". The name stuck, and this song documents a strain of that dread virus. And one of the biggest laughs I ever got was, after spending a minute or so setting it up, completely and legitimately blanking on the song, and just going on to the next.

By the way, the bit about Frank going West is not a metaphor. He didn't kack out or anything -- he just moved from Chicago, IL to Portland, OR.

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from Ends 'n' Odds, released April 27, 2010

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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