"Timothy" the Buoys
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Uploaded by ProfessorBigBrains on Apr 28, 2007
The infamous 1971 song about two trapped miners who eat a third one.
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This song is one of the all time great records of that era. Besides the wonderfully sardonic songwriting, the rhythm track is crudely recorded (but excellently played) and buried under a disturbingly sibilant orchestration of stabbing strings and bleating horns that render the perfectly-sung lyrics (he sings it like it really happened to him) all the more macabre.
As brilliant as Ode to Billy Joe
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My Grandma rest her soul gave this record to me. I was a little boy, all Grandma knew was the song was TIMOTHY. As soon as Grandma learned what the lyrics said, Grandma felt terrible. But she couldn't take the record back. I never knew what the words said until I was older. Ha ha ha...
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How did Timothy benefit he got fuckin' eaten ! ! Mother fuckers !
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yep,i was fourteen when this song came out and I'm still here.....my name is timothy....
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My cousin had a dog named Timothy..hmm..where on earth did you go???
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I have always loved this song...
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I was 9 when this came out. I loved the song (still do) but the story went right over my head. Never knew Rupert Holmes wrote it. No pina coladas in this song.
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@dbcoll1957 I was in High School at the time this came out in the Pacific Northwest.
Radio play was pretty limited there in my town, mostly classic country, and I never heard this song until recently when I was asked if there were any song that featured my name. I hadnt heard of any, so I searched that subject and found this Gem. I had to laugh about it, and even forwarded the video to several people I know.
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was this frank caleho playing guitar ?Spelling is wronge
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I think the mule at the canary while the duck watched!
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pegbarr 4 months ago 9
@at39degrees If you were around then.. and I was, it was the record execs who tried to pass it off as a record about a donkey when radio stations wanted to ban it, but Rupert Holmes wouldn't go along with it. He did make some word changes to the radio version though. He wanted to write a song about mining, and took his inspiration from Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer" which has instances of cannibalism. In short, anyone who thinks Timothy was a donkey is a jackass
dbcoll1957 3 weeks ago 2