Jazzletter 93023
Gene Lees ' P.O. Ojai, Calif. V Jazzletter 93023 April I985 VOl. 4 NO. 9 lt’s a Fine Scheme hose playing on the roof and the garden all one night as the ashes and glowing cinders fell. The firefighters, who came here I wrote a little ditty, that I thought was very pretty, from all over the country, did a sensational job. The work of And I sent it to a New York music firm; firefighters is not always appreciated, but these firefighters were They wrote back, in manner nifty, they would publish it overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from the community.‘ for fifty, There were signs everyone saying, one way or another, Thank And they pointed out the money I could earn. you firefighters for saving our town. People opened their homes Yes, they showed me how to do it, said I‘d never, never rue it, and swimming pools to them, and nearly engulfed them in food And when I sold five hundred copies, see! i and orange juice. They said they had never seen such behavior (After all my money blowin‘, if the song showed signs of from a town. - . goin‘), I got home a few days later and drove around in these . They would push it then and pay me royalty. magnificent mountains, appalled .at the endless acres of black skeletons of trees and shrubs and the ‘gray ash on the ground, - Cnonus ' the bare mountain slopes that will come thundering down as It’s a fine scheme — for some one — mud and debris when the rains hit next winter.
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