Name: Algorithm Blues - ChucK Coursera Class - Assignment 6 by johnclavin
Duration: 31 s
Description: This is the audio output from a computer program that generates drums, bass, and melody in a blues style.

L.A. INFIRMARY BLUES
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On the day that I went crazy
My baby called 911
Hello LAFD – Where you boys taking me?
– You’re going down to the LA Infirmary, old son
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She went down to the LA Infirmary
And what did she see?
Strapped into a bright yellow gurney
An old man who looked a lot like me

I said I’m so glad you come by baby
But I really don’t need a thing
I’ve got angels flying round the ceiling
And I love to listen to them sing —

Let him go, let him go, god bless him
If you love him, set him free
You can search the wide world over
You’ll never find another such as he

So she went up to see the doctor
Yeah, he’s all fucked up, he said
He’s clogged up a drain, it’s backed up to his brain
It’s making angels fly around his head

But I’ve got this brand new gizmo
I can sneak it right up his spout
Gonna roto-rooter his old pea shooter
And flush all them angels right out 

Let me go, let me go, God bless me
If you love me, set me free
You can search the wide world over
You’ll never find another man like me
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Now, when I came to in the ICU
The doc was at my bedside
Are you still seeing angels, the doctor said
Not any more, I lied

Yes, I lied to the doctor
And to my baby I lied
And I’m lying to you – or am I telling you true?
Well, that’s for you to decide

Let me go, let me go, goddammit
If you don’t love me, just let me be
You can search the wide world over
There’s a million more men like me
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Now, when the undertaker takes me under	
Here’s how I want to spread the news	
I want lightning, I want thunder	
I want my angels to sing me
The LA Infirmary Blues

L.A. Infirmary Blues

This is the audio output from a computer program that generates drums, bass, and melody in a blues style.

Algorithm Blues - ChucK Coursera Class - Assignment 6

BEETHOVEN STREET
© Lawrence Zempel

Beethoven Street
Where the hopeful and the has-been meet
Get in line
Underneath that welcome sign
Abandon all fear
All ye wannabees who enter here
You’re the elite – here on
Beethoven Street

Where the dull can shine
The cracked can ring
The mute can rhyme
And the deaf can sing

No critics allowed
You can do your dreaming right out loud
Life is sweet – here on
Beethoven Street

(instrumental break)

Where the blind have eyes
The lame take wing
Fools are wise
And the deaf can sing

Just come as you are
You might find your own sidewalk star
Beneath your feet – here on
Beethoven Street

Now here’s a secret – just between us
You don’t have to be a genius
Inside every girl and boy
You’ve got your own Ode to Joy

(instrumental break)

No critics allowed
You can do your dreaming right out loud
Life is sweet – here on
Beethoven Street

(instrumental break)

Just come as you are
You might find your own sidewalk star
Beneath your feet – here on
Beethoven Street

Algorithm Blues - ChucK Coursera Class - Assignment 6

johnclavin

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