We were laughin', jokin', smokin',
the last time I came to town.
I'd seen them every day,
each time I came around.
Sometimes Cincy can be
the armpit of the world.
but laughin', jokin', smokin'
gives a whole different whirl
to a town that thinks a rock
is a gift up to the Lord
and where Simon Leis is hunting
but he still can't find a girl.
Calhoun is where the hippies hang,
it's been that way for years
College kids came to Ohio Street,
to be the hippie volunteers.
That was where they shot him.
One round and he was dead
I don't know who did it
but we all did in the end.
Kelvin Johnson was a funny kid,
smart as you'd want to be.
Like everybody else,
he only wanted to be free.
Just let me live my life
the way I want to do
and how much I make my choices
is no business to you.
Do you ask if he's a black man
when his friend right there is white
I ask you what's the difference
as the bullet has no sight.
Black or white, he's gone now
and the pundits start to play
but just like every other time
they've not one damn thing to say.
(Cincinnati.com: Police ID man fatally shot on lawn near UC)
You may not think you know Kelvin but you do if you were at the Cincinnati show as he was one of the Dancing Marijuana Plants. I tell you he was a good kid and a funny guy.
the last time I came to town.
I'd seen them every day,
each time I came around.
Sometimes Cincy can be
the armpit of the world.
but laughin', jokin', smokin'
gives a whole different whirl
to a town that thinks a rock
is a gift up to the Lord
and where Simon Leis is hunting
but he still can't find a girl.
Calhoun is where the hippies hang,
it's been that way for years
College kids came to Ohio Street,
to be the hippie volunteers.
That was where they shot him.
One round and he was dead
I don't know who did it
but we all did in the end.
Kelvin Johnson was a funny kid,
smart as you'd want to be.
Like everybody else,
he only wanted to be free.
Just let me live my life
the way I want to do
and how much I make my choices
is no business to you.
Do you ask if he's a black man
when his friend right there is white
I ask you what's the difference
as the bullet has no sight.
Black or white, he's gone now
and the pundits start to play
but just like every other time
they've not one damn thing to say.
(Cincinnati.com: Police ID man fatally shot on lawn near UC)
You may not think you know Kelvin but you do if you were at the Cincinnati show as he was one of the Dancing Marijuana Plants. I tell you he was a good kid and a funny guy.
References:
'The rock for the Lord' is a reference to the sculpture "Law and Society" which was a travesty of pretentious modern sculpture and that law may be at the bottom of the Ohio River now as I'm quite sure the Lord wouldn't want it either.
It's not such a bad metaphor as it's a large, useless and hideous monolith that serves no purpose, is easy to avoid, yet casts a presence as if it has some value. Rather than dropping it in the river, they should have sent it to Washington. It's also emblematic of what Simon Leis brought to the city: dead weight.
'Simon Leis looking for a girl' - He was Sheriff and he never looked for a girl. All he wanted was Larry Flynt and that story was so embarrassing to the city that they made a movie out of it, quite a good one. Had that travesty of a sheriff been more concerned with peace in the city than he was with porno, perhaps Kelvin Johnson would be alive today.
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