Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
The title of “Public Domain” makes for a sort of chiasmus referring back to the previous song on the album’s track listing, the self-titled “Van Dyke Parks”. That song, a rendition of the traditional ballad “Nearer My God to Thee,” is credited to the public domain; this song, entitled “Public Domain...
Our lowly liquor lobby
Longs to back a road to old time songs
Bible belts worn from here
And after all were born in the know
So rally round awhile Jim Crow
For I thought I'd like to show
They can recall the Alamo
Way down in old Mexico
I left Academia amid sixty-two
Was it sixty-one scholar was cooled from the U
Doubtless more on sore wing than prayer
I up and just withdrew to the wander round there
Public Domain was written by Van Dyke Parks.
Public Domain was produced by Lenny Waronker.