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This is a song about numbers and their power to predict the future. Or something. It kind of took a detour when I ended up in the unfortunate position of having two verses inspired by the Gypsy in Ultima 6, failed to write any more in that vein and ended up with more 'cubi stuff for the last two verses. I am particularly pleased with the chorus though.

Guest starring my talking clock, which goes really peculiar when the batteries run low. I have done some slight cleaning up in Audacity to remove the laughter on the original recording - easy enough since the samples are identical. However what it is saying now remains exactly what it said at the time.

I also remembered that when I was a child, learning the times table, the entire class would fall into a particular rhythm and intonation. I was also intrigued to find that my dad chanted the tables in the same exact way some 30 years earlier. So thanks to the wonders of multitracking and varispeed tape drives, I have preserved that here for posterity.

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Numerology

"It's twelve oh two A,M. PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT"

I was walking down a country lane, a gypsy called to me
She said “I’ll tell you ‘bout the future, son, for a silver coin or three”
I said “I don’t believe you have the skill to peel the future’s veil away”
She said “The truth is in the numbers, son, so hear what I have got to say”

7 deadly sins,6 geese a-laying, 5 gold rings, 4 horsemen slaying
2 crows for joy, 1 crow for sorrow, nought is the hour today becomes tomorrow
All these things I see, but I don’t believe in numerology

“You will meet a stranger tall and dark, as strange as strange can be
And he will teach you all you need to know about the mystic number three”
I said “Oh, go and pull the other one, that line’s as ancient as can be”
She said “You will not have a future, son, unless you hearken now to me”

Chorus

"Four, four, four, teen, teen, oh, oh, oh, oh, teen, teen, oh, teen, teen, twelve, "

Chorus

"Once two's two, two twos are four, three twos are six, four twos are eight, five twos are ten, six twos are twelve, seven twos are fourteen, eight twos are sixteen, nine twos are eighteen and ten twos are twenty!"

Chorus

That night I met a stranger tall and dark, exactly as she said
I think the thing that gave me pause the most were the grey wings on his head
He said “I’m glad to see you’re still alive, for there’s a bounty on your head
For you’re a member of the ‘Cubi race and many people want us dead!”


Chorus
I let the stranger take me far away, and he told me many things
I’d often wondered where my parents went and why I have these feathery wings
At first I wondered if it was a prank, but then it all made sense to me
The only thing I never understood was why I hate the number three

Chorus

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Seven deadly sins, Six geese a-laying
Five gold rings, Four horsemen slaying
Two crows for joy, One crow for sorrow
Nought is the hour today becomes tomorrow
All these things I see, but I don't believe in numerology

"It's eight oh eight P.M."

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from Dr. Gwendolini's Amazing Medicine Show, released April 22, 2018

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