Name: Van Winkle's Tune
Duration: P00H04M48S
Description: This song explores what it might be like for famously sleepy Rip Van Winkle to wake up in today's society after a very long slumber -- would he appreciate what the world has become...?

Van Winkle's Tune

from Try This at Home! by The Tragic Clowns

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This song explores what it might be like for famously sleepy Rip Van Winkle to wake up in today's society after a very long slumber -- would he appreciate what the world has become...?

lyrics

tell me who’s that singer – i’ve never heard that song before?
tell me who’s that dancer dancing right outside my door?
tell me who’s that spider-man crawling down the wall?
tell me who’s that prophet, and tell me who will heed his call?

tell me who’s that pilot who sails amongst the clouds?
tell me who’s that gossip shouting others’ sins out loud?
and tell me who’s that widow – she no longer sees the sky?
and tell me who’s that beggar watching charity go by...?

look at all these people gathered here today
but there’s oh so many – i must have slept the day away!
then i see a lone man – the man they’ve come to see
he’s caused such excitement but doesn’t look like much to me

so i close the window and shuffle back to bed
the last chilling questions fading in my head:
tell me who’s that madman, he’s howling at the sun?
tell me who’s that bad man, and tell me what it is he’s done...?

credits

from Try This at Home!, track released December 12, 2012
Written by The Tragic Clowns

Steven Tragic: Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion
Stacy Tragic: Lead guitar, background vocals, percussion
Sasha Tragic: Bass guitar, background vocals, percussion

Special guest appearance by Mikol Tragic on drums

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The Tragic Clowns Los Angeles, California

The Tragicov siblings all emerged out of the highly influential San Francisco Bay Area Death-Folk movement. Several years after the death of Death-Folk, the trio shortened their surname to "Tragic," formed the Tragic Clowns, and have completed their debut album. Evoking modern alternative and classic guitar rock, power-pop and glam, the Tragic Clowns wish to entertain, inspire, and empower... ... more

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