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May 22, 2007


I Hear a Beat, How Sweet!

I’m glad that Terry Gross decided to include on her 20th Anniversary show a clip from Susannah McCorkle’s first Fresh Air concert. McCorkle sings If I Only Had a Heart, which always makes this tough guy cry when I hear her sing it.

When a girl’s an empty kettle
She should be on her mettle
And yet I’m torn apart.
Just because I’m presumin’
That I could be kind of human
If I only had a heart.

I’d be tender, I’d be gentle
And awful sentimental
Regarding love and art.
I’d be friends with the sparrows
And the boy that shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart.

Picture me, a balcony
Above a voice sings low

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

I hear a beat, how sweet!

Just to register emotion
Jealousy, devotion
And really feel the part.
I would stay young and chipper
And I’d lock it with a zipper
If I only had a heart.

If I only had a heart.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 11:47 am (utc+8) and is filed under Music.

2 Responses to “I Hear a Beat, How Sweet!”

  1. bjk said:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    Terri Gross is a man, baby!

  2. C. Maoxian said:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm

    bjk: He has an awfully high voice then. ;-) (Aside: I always thought Terry was gay but no, she’s married to the jazz critic, Francis Davis.)

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