Music Monday: Warren Zevon
My friend Mark Moffett sent me the following Music Monday suggestion with a typewriter reference, “Zevon’s Carmelita,” with the following note.
Enjoy!
… to feed your Smith-Corona jones, here is the only song I am aware of that references said object – Warren Zevon’s Carmelita. An uplifting little piece about heroin addiction. Sometimes in live versions he used Smith and Wesson instead. Bad old video:
Carmelita
I hear Mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes they glow in the dark
And I’m there with her in Ensenada
And I’m here in Echo Park
Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I’m sinking down
And I’m all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
Well, I’m sittin’ here playing solitaire
With my pearl-handled deck
The county won’t give me no more methadone
And they cut off your welfare check
Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I’m sinking down
And I’m all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
Well, I pawned my Smith Corona
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street
By the Pioneer Chicken stand
Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I’m sinking down
And I’m all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
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i only got exposed to warren zevon because he appears on the californication soundtrack. real interesting music.
thanks for sharing
Michael, you are right, Zevon is “interesting.”