The Hard Taco Project
is a Simple Concept

I will write and record one song a month,
every month, until I am dead



I have been doing this since
1993 and so far my health is good.

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The Alchemy of Blank Verse

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From "Vainglorious"

 
Love notes and English Lit exams
It's the alchemy of blank verse
A grab bag of random old iambs
It's the alchemy of blank verse
Words mix and mingle as of old
It's the alchemy of blank verse
And you're just as apt to
Blow off your face as you are to make gold
When you mess with blank verse
 
Strage fright
The struggle within is quite akin to stage fright
Our will and our pride engaged inside a cage fight
They wrestle at stage right
I blame him
The one whose eponym is
The Bard
You could waste half your life dissecting The Bard
Racking up miles upon your library card
A person could be scarred
It's all gone awry, alack, anon!
 
Love notes and English Lit exams
It's the alchemy of blank verse
A grab bag of random old iambs
It's the alchemy of blank verse
Tweed suited scholars flap their gums
On the alchemy of blank verse
So you've got to be
A rube, a boor, a bore
To bite your thumbs when we bring the blank verse
 
Alack!
Fie!
Stick it in your eye!
 
Coxcombs and cuckolds and coquettes
Spew the alchemy of blank verse
Blondeingnues in tte--ttes
It's the alchemy of blank verse
Codpieces billow in the breeze
To the alchemy of blank verse
Soon the paramours will share their venereal disease
Thank the liberal use of blank verse
 
 
(Rebecca Biber - flute
Matt Cameron - vocals
Sarah Leahy - vocals
Lauren London - vocals
Russell Schwartz - vocals
Roy Sexton - vocals
Lyn Weber - vocals
Darin Zahuranec - trumpet)

Copyright 2011 Zach London

Big-Calved Woman

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From "Vainglorious"

I'm indulging in the bulging in your new socks
It doesn't matter if they're tube or crew socks
Let he without sin begin to cast rocks
But Kitten, I'm just smitten with your gastocs

Big-calved woman
Love the way you tease
On your tippy toes
Big-calved woman
Working those capris
On your tippy toes

Your parents wouldn't let you leave the dance floor
They installed invisible fence around the dance floor
You boogied child, 'til your pants tore
But you couldn't leave
(Or zap! You're neck's sore)
So you grew up to be

Big-calved woman
Love the way you tease
On your tippy toes
Big-calved woman
Working those capris
On your tippy toes

I'm transfixed
What's behind your shins
I bet you're good with stairs
The drumsticks
Are my favorite portions
I bet you're good with stairs
I bet you're good with stairs

Big-calved woman
Love the way you tease
On your tippy toes
Big-calved woman
Working those capris
On your tippy toes

(Greg Kutcher - guitar)

Copyright 2011 Zach London

100 Dog in a Row

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From "Ground Beef"

I have fallen in the well
Send the dog for help
But at least I wore my bell
Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong

Our language is unspoken
Our language is unspoken
I think my wrist is broken
Send the dog for help
Send the dog for help
Send the
Send the

I would be surprised
To look out my window
And there before my eyes
A hundred dog in a row
A hundred dog in a row

In the event that I would
Get trapped beneath some plywood
I'd call those dogs and I would
Send them all for help
Send them all for help
Send the
Send the

Hundred dog in a row
A Hundred dog in a row
Send the
Send the
Send the dog for help
Send the dog for help
Send the
Send the


(Lauren London - backup vocals)

Copyright 2002 Zach London

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