Week Forty-Two: XTC - "Mayor of Simpleton" - Oranges & Lemons

I never noticed the snow globe at beginning of this video until just recently... I don't think I have even mentioned this in any of my other posts, but I have a snow globe collection. I love snow globes... they make me happy! And I'm super-simple to shop for because when all other ideas fail, people can always resort to a snow globe as a gift... or an iTunes card.

I have quite a few Betty Boop snow globes in my collection... which leads to my next tale. I had an ex-boyfriend call me once from a gas station to ask me if I had, by any chance, left Texas and opened a service station in the middle of nowhere out in Kansas. He said that they were selling the largest collection of Betty Boop snow globes that he had ever seen, and since I was the only other person he knew who possessed so many Betty Boop snow globes, he thought that maybe I was somehow involved in the operation.

I told him that I was still safely tucked away in Texas and that I was still in possession of said snow globes. People tend to remember me for the oddest things... but I kind of like it!!!

And since I haven't shared any pics in awhile, I'll include a pic of my favorite Betty Boop snow globe... it also plays "There's No Business Like Show Business":

I'm including another favorite by XTC below the lyrics called "Generals and Majors"...

Never been near a university, 

Never took a paper or a learned degree, 

And some of your friends think that's stupid of me, 

But it's nothing that I care about. 

Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, 

And of mathematics well I want none, 

And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, 

But I know one thing, 

And that's I love you. 

When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, 

You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. 

I can't have been there when brains were handed round 

(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), 

Or get past the cover of your books profound, 

(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), 

And some of your friends thinks it's really unsound, 

That you're ever seen talking to me. 

Well I don't know how to write a big hit song, 

And all crossword puzzles well I just shun, 

And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, 

But I know one thing, 

And that's I love you. 

I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much, 

Just feel I should say, 

what you get is all real, 

I can't put on an act, 

It takes brains to do that anyway. (And anyway...) 

And I can't unravel riddles, problems and puns, 

How the home computer has me on the run, 

And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, 

But I know one thing, 

And that's I love you (I love you). 

If depth of feeling is a currency, 

(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), 

Then I'm the man who grew the money tree, 

(no Chain of Office and no hope of getting one). 

Some of your friends are too brainy to see, 

That they're paupers and that's how they'll stay. 

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, 

Of all the Nobel prizes that I've never won, 

And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, 

But I know one thing, 

And that's I love you. 

When all logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, 

You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. 

You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. 

You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor. 

(Please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton.)