Today's slow drag is with "Luxembourg," from "Trust" released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag References: "Luxembourg" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7XqnHMIwQ "Seven O'clock" demo: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Seven_O%27Clock Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Luxembourg YouTube version w/ lyrics: https://youtu.be/heeY3UzX9GU  Serve two masters idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/serve+two+masters Dog's dinner idiom: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dog%27s+dinner It's a dog's life idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it%27s+a+dog%27s+life Butter wouldn't melt idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/butter+wouldn%27t+melt+(in+(one%27s)+mouth) Luxembourg info: https://www.britannica.com/place/Luxembourg/Demographic-trends  Look daggers at idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/look+daggers+at Send to Coventry slang: https://www.historyrevealed.com/eras/stuarts/why-do-we-say-send-someone-to-coventry/ Mark Twain Didn't Say It: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/350238/ EC's long hair in "The Other Side of Summer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0hN-puTdA   "Luxembourg" Lyrics Dressed up like a dog's dinner Butter wouldn't melt on your paws If this is a dog's life Then you're the cat's clothes They hire out your sons And hire out your daughters The man from abroad says he's already bought her And now you look like a lover but you're only a tourist Chorus: You're either talking or yawning You didn't listen to a thing you heard Don't start your morning moaning or you might wake up in Luxembourg You get up, you get over You're worried about her body She's worryin' about her bodily odour You pull off The pull over You say that you love her when you really loathe her Serves you right, now she wants you to feed her and clothe her (Chorus) They're smiling sweetly while they're looking daggers Kick you where it really matters Send all your friends to Coventry And look for your name in last night's obituaries If you've got the Deutschmarks If you've got the Yen, then You get the shirt off her back and the clock off Big Ben Somebody's soft touch Struck all these bargains In the drinking clubs with the council men Making plans to put lead back in their pencils again

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