Goodbye, Larry

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I found out recently that singer/preacher/weird guy Larry Norman passed away on February 24th. Larry had a big impact on my life and I'm sorry to hear he's passed on.

Larry was a Contemporary Christian singer before there was a category for it, very interesting, had some theology that I disagreed with, but I nearly always enjoyed and found challenging listening to his songs.

Rest in Peace, Brother Larry.

Here's a sampling of his lyrics...

Watch What You're Doing

mamma killed the chicken
she thought it was a duck
she put it on the table
with its legs sticking up

papa broke his glasses
when he fell down drunk
tried to drown the kitty cat
turned out to be a skunk

you gotta watch what you're doing
didn't you know
you gotta watch what you're doing
didn't you know?

Readers Digest

Rolling Stones are millionaires, flower children pallbearers,
Beatles said All you need is love, and then they broke up.
Jimi took an overdose, Janis followed so close,
The whole music scene and all the bands are pretty comatose.
This time last year, people didn't wanna hear.
They looked at Jesus from afar, this year he's a superstar...

It's 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
Who's in power now? Think I'll turn on my TV,
The man on the news said China's gonna beat us,
We shot all our dreamers, there's no one left to lead us.
We need a solution, we need salvation,
Let's send some people to the moon and gather information.

They brought back a big bag of rocks.
Only cost thirteen billion. Must be nice rocks...

What a mess the world is in, I wonder who began it.
Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet.

Righteous Rocker #3

You can be a righteous rocker or a holy roller
You can be most anything.
You can be a child of the slum or a skid row bum,
You can be an earthly king.
Without love, you ain't nothing, without love.
Without love, you ain't nothing, without love.
Without love, you ain't nothing, without love.
Without love, you ain't nothing, without love.

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Here's a link to his website and you can hear some of his music/see a slideshow of some of his photos:

http://www.larrynorman.com/multimedia.html