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"Excuse me?" Chaise Longue was our favorite song of 2021, written by Wet Leg, a new band that emerged a few months ago from the Isle of Wight. One day Bill started playing it in the basement, and we giggled and played along. Then we decided to play it in front of an audience. We introduced it as "an ancient English folk song, the kind of tune Sting might play on a lute," despite it actually only being a few weeks old. Everyone smiled. Then we decided to roll bytes and record it. Steve learned the riff. Larry borrowed a keyboard solo from 1976. Jim sang part of the song into a phone. Jimmy answered, "What?"
We hope to release a lot of music this year, and begin with this song on January 1, 2022. Happy New Year! - Love, Saint Small
PS - If you like our version, make sure you also support Wet Leg - who have many great songs and seem like nice people.
lyrics
Mommy, daddy, look at me
I went to school and I got a degree
All my friends call it "the big D"
I went to school and I got the big D
I got the big D
I got the big D
I got the big D
I went to school and I got the big D
Is your muffin buttered?
Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?
Excuse me (what?)
Excuse me (what?)
Hey you, over there
On the chaise longue in your underwear
What are you doing sitting down?
You should be horizontal now
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
Is your mother worried?
Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?
Excuse me (what?)
Excuse me (what?)
Hey you, in the front row
Are you coming backstage after the show?
Because I've got a chaise longue in my dressing room
And a pack of warm beer that we can consume
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue
All day long, on the chaise longue
All day long, all day long, on the chaise longue
All day long, all day long, on the chaise longue
All day long, all day long, on the chaise longue
On the chaise longue, all day long, on the chaise longue
Rhain Louise Teasdale / Hester Louise Chambers
© Domino Publishing Co. Ltd
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THANK YOU FRIENDS,
track released January 1, 2022
Drums, Vox - Jimmy Olson
Guitar, Vox - Jim McGuinn Slusarek
Bass - Bill Müller
Guitar - Steve Burnett
Keys - Larry McDonough
Recorded and mixed by Jim in the Palace Basement
Cover photo by Jimmy, some park in Illinois
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