What Gives - Loudon Wainwright III

Paul & George & Ringo, just a fraction of the Fab Four

Some still survive from Dave Clark’s Five

Washed up on the Mersey Shore Jerry has a pacemaker

The hermit’s name is Herman

That old man’s Manfred Mann &

The Animals merely vermin

Hank Junior sang with Senior his cheatin heart was cold

And just a few years back

Natalie and Nat King Cole duetted and went gold

There’s a way to make it pay

Though they’ve flown the coup

John Denver, Stevie Ray, Vaughan, Buddy Holly

Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding in one super group

Bring me the bones of Brian Jones

And Joplin’s tinted glasses

Hendrix’s pick, Keith Moon’s drumstick

And a caftan of Mama Cass'

Rock and roll will never die, neither can her heroes

Just pick a figure with three digits

Then tack on about six zeros

The Beatles are forever, it’s like John never got shot

Here’s what gives, Elvis lives, what is in fact is not

Here’s what gives, Elvis lives, what is in fact is not