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| Pete Atkin sings
The Wristwatch For A Drummer by Clive James and Pete Atkin, [Much more at www.peteatkin.com] |
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The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 Is the only wristwatch for a drummer It tells true and it ain't no bummer The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 Can stand for more than mere immersion It thrives on whiplash, lurch and shock Trad, mainstream, bop and rock Baby Dodds had an early version The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 Man, what a creation! It's a mine of information A vernier scale, the date in braille Sidereal time, the rate of crime And the growth of population It's got more jewels than Princess Grace Buckminster Fuller designed the case Leonardo engraved the face And did the calibration And those knobs and screws and toggles The imagination boggles The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 Without this timepiece there'd have been No modern jazz to begin with Bird and Diz were tricky men for a drummer to sit in with Max Roach still wears the watch he wore when bop was new Elvin Jones has two and Buddy Rich wears three One on the right wrist, one on the left And the third one around his knee The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 Has a warning-bell for free-form playing That tells you when you're overstaying Your tentative welcome with the paying Customers in the deep decaying Cellar club with the stained and fraying Velvet drapes and the stooped and greying Owner It'll count the bars and tell you when The basset-horn's coming in again It'll see you right while you're trading twelves With a synthesizer played by elves Wear this watch and you'll keep in step With Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp Why be a loner? Get the Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 It's the only wristwatch for a drummer It tells true and it ain't no bummer So any time the brushes shimmer On skins and brass while the solo tenor Slowly blows the lazy phrases You'll catch the golden glimmer Of the wristwatch in the gloom So softly now let's sing its praises For the music in the room Both beautiful and true On plushly hushed extended wings Is flown to me and you By the Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72 The only wristwatch for a drummer It tells true and it ain't no bummer | |||||
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