Band Intros – Tuning – Talk Songtext
von Patti Smith

This is WNEW-FM, Metro Media Stereo in New York
We′re listening to Patti Smith live from The Bottom Line

Time to meet the guys
Uh, these are my guys, Richard Soll, Ivan Crowell
J.D. Daugherty, Lenny K. (Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!)
Now, we have like the um, depth
Just think we've done a lot of stuff this year, you and me
I mean, one thing that happened
Remember there wasn′t any place to play? (Yeah)
Now there's a million, there's a whole, whole bunch of clubs playing
All over the place and, and we should keep ′em all
We should keep ′em all going (yeah, yeah, whoo!)


Oh, when we were a club band, this was one of our big numbers
Look, is there anything you wanna know?
What? Buster K?
When - (what's in it, what′s in it for you?)
(What's your favorite vanilla?)
I don′t know
What's in it for me? Everything
That seemed like a cool answer, didn′t it?

Oh, I don't know what, what to do
I could tell a joke (joke, a joke, joke)
Um, I don't know if I could (yes, you can, oh yes, you can, son)
Alright, alright, I′ll tell, uh-um, I do have a lot of jokes
But being s-, I′m just going to tell my classic
Alright, this, this joke is how, this joke
I always think of this as the thing that really got me signed
This was it, 'cause I figure, and when you can write a joke
You always got a job, you know?
We′re like Asian comedians or something

Alright, there was this traveling salesman
And he looked exactly like Magellan
And all the guys just say, "Oh, yeah, sure, Charlie, yeah"
And he goes, "I'm telling you, guys, he looks just like Magellan"
He says, "Come with me on my route"
So he takes them, and they′re standin' behind the bushes


So Charlie goes over, and he knocks on a split level
And they′re real, and the housewife, Anna Susan
And her robe is extending lusciousivessly
And uh, she looks down at his wares, and she says
"He-he-he, hey, Charlie, you wanna go around the world?"
And she d-, and, and sh-, and he did
Well, lovely, well, that's -, God, are you dead?

Come on, get with it, that joke was a killer
Oh, oh, excuse me, you didn't, you didn′t -
You weren′t good in history, right? (Yeah, yeah)
Magellan, the first guy to go around the world
Now do you get it? (Oh, yeah)
Oh, God, what a nightmare
(What'd she charge him?)