Today's slow drag is with "Charm School," from "Punch the Clock," released in 1983. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/   Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ----------------------   Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Charm School": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Charm_School   "Charm School": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK19qiftb0   References: "You Can't Make a Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear" origin: https://wordhistories.net/2016/12/28/silk-purse-sows-ear/ "The Mangle" Definition: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Mangle+(machine) Episode 11 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "Blow the Whistle," a slow drag with "King of Thieves":  https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11574305 Episode 38 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "His Tribute of a Rose," a slow drag with "The Greatest Thing": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13850447 Episode 53 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "Telling You What's What," a slow drag with "Mouth Almighty": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15663395 So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo   "Charm School" Lyrics:  Men made out of monkeys Men made into mice Happy days are here again And all the drinks half price A girl with a trick and a man with a calling Trying to make a living out of your downfalling Trying to make a living out of anything at all Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel In that charm school You and I as lovers Were nothing but a farce Trying to make a silk purse Out of a sow's arse Saying "Why don't you watch me" Hardly speaking sotto voce Trying to make a living out of your downfalling Trying to make a living out of anything at all Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel In that charm school I've got a notion / I've got an angle Take your dreams and promises And put them through the mangle They say it's hell to finance too And I just want to romance you In this perpetual nightclub I'll be yours eternal Though the hours are long And the noise infernal Just one shameful act or sometimes two We make believe we're making do Trying to make a living out of your downfalling Trying to make a living out of anything at all Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel In that charm school Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel In that charm school, in that charm school

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