From the live(r) version on
Leftover Wine, an intro to the latter:
I wrote this song in Columbus, Missouri. I was... had a day off, so I, I wanted to go to the country, and that wasn't very difficult because the country was... Columbus, Missouri is the country!
And I walked outside my door, and I saw a big cow, and I said, "Oh, moo, you know, don't you? You know that I don't eat cows?"
And the cow didn't say anything, except: "Mmmmmelanie"!
And so, and so I wrote him this song, and I wrote it really for all the cows.
― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)
MELANIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's on "Leftover Wine"? Are you sure? Funny, I don't remember it, and I feel pretty sure that I would.
I have to say that "I don't eat animals" is a nice motivator for those wavering veggies amongst us. "Meat is Murder", being the onslaught against carnivores that it is, probably antagonised more people than it converted.
Good song though. My other half got angry with me for singing it at him the other night.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)
I prefer "Ol' Morgue Mouth" by Arthur Lee:
"He said, 'Well I'd kill a man for less than that'
I said, "You're eatin' the dead
So I can believe that's where you're at'"
... I wish I had a copy of the lyrics to hand!
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)
That's "I don't eat animals/ cos I love 'em, you see/ I don't eat animals/ and they don't eat me," right?
― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)