Thursday, May 4, 2017

"Coming in to Los Angeles" | Arlo Guthrie | Live at Woodstock

One more time from Arlo Guthrie.




Arlo Guthrie:  wow, lotta freaks (laughs)


I don't think I ever met a hippie and I think they were mostly in communes making pot pipes and growing hair in their armpits, etc.  I did meet a lotta, lotta freaks, tho.  Freaks are a whole lot more fun and we will do things hippies would never do.

Ed:  like blowing shit up?

Well, no, as I wasn't involved with the Weathermen and I don't agree now with what they did.  The Rockhouse isn't interested in anarchy but rather rational solutions and there hasn't been one yet which came from a gun.  I wasn't involved with SDS either and for the same reason.  SDS wasn't a solution but a reaction and there's an immense amount of that kind of activity now.  There's a great deal of destructiveness and violence but there's almost nothing for forward progress.


So, I'm ...

"Coming into Los Angeles"

Coming in from London from over the pond
Flyin' in a big airliner
Chickens flyin' everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man

There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
No, he couldn't look much stranger
Walkin' in the hall with his things and all
Smilin, said he was the lone ranger

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man

Hip woman walkin' on the movin' floor
Trippin' on the escalator
There's a man in the line and she's blowin' his mind
Thinkin' that he's already made her

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man

Comin' in from London from over the poll
Flyin' in a big airliner
Chickens flyin' everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man

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