Public Domain
Van Dyke Parks * Track #7 On Song Cycle
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Album Song Cycle
- #1Vine Street
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- #2Palm Desert
Van Dyke Parks
- #3Widow’s Walk
Van Dyke Parks
- #4Up Laurel Canyon
Van Dyke Parks
- #5The All Golden
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- #6Van Dyke Parks
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- #7Public Domain
Van Dyke Parks
- #8Donovan’s Colours
Van Dyke Parks
- #9The Attic
Van Dyke Parks
- #10Down Laurel Canyon
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- #11By The People
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- #12Pot Pourri
Van Dyke Parks
Public Domain by Van Dyke Parks
Performed by
Van Dyke ParksProduced by
Lenny WaronkerWrited by
Van Dyke ParksAbout
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...
Public Domain Lyrics
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 Q&A
Who wrote Public Domain's ?
Public Domain was written by Van Dyke Parks.
Who produced Public Domain's ?
Public Domain was produced by Lenny Waronker.