This Is Not...This Is (TIN/TI #29)

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THIS IS NOT 
Sympathy For The Devil

THIS IS
Sympathy For The Devil

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Please allow me to introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste 

Thus spoke the Devil,

through the voice

of Mick Jagger. 

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

was written in 1968,

or maybe it was written

in 1967.

But there is no maybe

about what Oscar Brown did

in 1961: he premiered  Mr. Kicks

on national television.

Permit me to introduce myself

My name is Mr. Kicks

I live in the dark dominion

down by the River Styx. 

In an allegedly interesting

2012 Rolling Stones documentary,*
 Mick Jagger stated that he got the idea
for Sympathy For The Devil from
the poetry of  Baudelaire.

Please permit me
(or please allow me)
to say that Jagger's statement
is a load of balderdash.

Be that as it may,
vis-a-vis the freelance activities
of Isis wannabes, both songs
could not have a greater relevance
at any time than they do today
when days without mass killings
are the exception rather
than the rule. 

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Footnote
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A Rolling Stones documentary, attempting
to give historical perspective, that does not
acknowledge BRIAN JONES is like having
a documentary about the history of the United States
that does not acknowledge Thomas Jefferson.

Two poems by Charles Baudelaire are  here.

Any reference to Oscar Brown as
"The Black Bob Dylan"
is a very flattering
statement about
Mr. Dylan.  

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