| lyrics or other text: | This is the "Ketchup Advisory Board" that they play often on A Prairie Home Companion. They use new lyrics each time, so the Parsons Code for the song changes slightly for each show. You can hear it on almost any show from A Prairie Home Companion's archives at http://www.prairiehome.org . Here is a very incomplete listing:
[June 6, 1998]
These are the good years, in the golden sun,
A new day is dawning, a new life has begun,
The river flowing like ketchup on a bun.
[June 13, 1998]
These are the good years, in the golden sun,
A new day is dawning, a new life has begun,
The river flowing like ketchup on a bun.
[December 5, 1998]
These are the good years in the morning sun,
A new day is dawning, a new life has begun.
The river flowing, like ketchup on a bun.
[May 1, 1999]
Ballet and painting and the operas of Rossini
Flowers and red wine and pesto and linguini
Good things are flowing like ketchup on a weenie
[May 8, 1999]
These are the good years, in the morning sun,
A new day is dawning, a new life has begun,
The river flowing like ketchup on a bun.
[May 15, 1999]
The sounds of morning, the ocean at sunrise,
The seagulls circling in the pink-blue skies
The tide is flowing like ketchup on french fries.
[November 25, 2000]
These are the good years, watching the sun rise,
Watching the wild geese in the clear blue skies,
The river flowing like ketchup on french fries.
[January 13, 2001]
These are the good years, in the golden sun,
A new day is dawning, a new life has begun,
The river flowing like ketchup on a bun.
[January 20, 2001]
A new day is dawning, the colors of sunrise,
All is possibility, for us to realize,
Rich and mellow, like ketchup on french fries.
[January 27, 2001]
A new day is dawning, it's April almost
The seagulls are flying, up and down the coast
Life is flowing, like ketchup on your toast.
[February 17, 2001]
Life is for living, sunrise to sundown,
Life on the backroads, through the little towns,
Warm and mellow like ketchup on hash browns.
[June 23, 2001]
[Beginning of script:]
When you need to patch up
Interpersonal relations
There's nothing like ketchup
And its natural
Mellowing agents.
[End of script:]
When life's little irritations seem to get under your skin
And your life is full of anger and anguish and chagrin
Maybe you're not getting enough ketchup.
[October 20, 2001]
Dancing in moonlight, singing at sunrise,
Here on the fruited plains beneath the spacious skies,
Life is flowing like ketchup on french fries.
[October 27, 2001]
Rocky mountain sunset, valleys filled with fog,
Campfire blazing, sparks fly from a log,
Red clouds at evening, like ketchup on a dog.
[December 15, 2001]
These are the good times, living in Ann Arbor,
The nation leans to port and Ann Arbor leans to starboard.
Ketchup is flowing, like hair down at the barber.
[December 29, 2001]
These are the good times, living here in Madison,
Lots of places make me happy but this is the one I'm gladdest in.
Joy is flowing, like if your daughter-in-law went to the hospital and had a son.
[January 5, 2002]
A day in the tropics, going scarfless and capless.
You and your true love and some friends from Minneapolis.
Good things are flowing like ketchup on pineapples.
[February 9, 2002]
These are the good years, beneath the clear blue skies,
Sunlight reflected on the lenses of our eyes,
Life is flowing like ketchup on the fries.
[February 16, 2002]
These are the good years, music in your soul,
Everything is flowing, natural and whole,
Flowing like ketchup on your Shrimp Creole.
[March 9, 2002]
These are the good times, on the redwood decks,
Blue skies and treetops the hot tub reflects
Life is flowing like ketchup on your scrambling eggs.
[March 16, 2002]
These are the good years, hold the rudder steady,
Turn the ship upwind, the mainstill is ready,
Life is flowing, like ketchup on spaghetti.
[March 30, 2002]
These are the good times, of wonder and sunrise.
A walk by the ocean, the reflection of blue skies.
Life is flowing, like ketchup on your fries.
[June 1, 2002]
These are the good times, living on the coast,
Our lives kept in balance, our troubles diagnosed.
Life is flowing, like ketchup on french toast.
[June 8, 2002]
These are the good times, the pictures in our eyes
Time's magic moments, our memories realized
Life is flowing, like ketchup on french fries.
[June 15, 2002]
These are the good times, waiting for our ships,
Hearts full of laughter, a song upon our lips.
Life is flowing, like ketchup on pork ribs.
[June 22, 2002]
These are the good years, the world is bright and green,
Our life is in the balance, our hands are fairly clean
Life is flowing, like ketchup on baked beans
[June 29, 2002]
The smell of the wet grass, the flash of monarch wings,
The sound of the silence and then the blackbird sings,
The taste of ketchup on your onion rings.
[July 6, 2002]
These are the good years, the surf against the coast,
The sunbathers shining, the seagull on the post,
Life is flowing, like ketchup on french toast.
[October 26, 2002]
These are the good years of earth and sea and sun,
A circle is growing where everything is one
Life is flowing like ketchup on a bun.
[November 9, 2002]
Sun in the morning, shining through the trees,
The cosmic vibrations of natural harmonies
Flowing like ketchup on the cottage cheese.
[November 23, 2002]
These are the good years so let us all give thanks.
We have a roof above our head, even though it is the bank's.
Life is flowing like ketchup on your franks.
[November 30, 2002]
These are the good years, say Kierkegaard and Hegel.
Life filled with goodness, all the goods we can finagle.
Life is flowing, like ketchup on a bagel.
[March 1, 2003]
Florida sunset, in the palm tree grove,
The colors of plaid pants, yellow, orange and mauve,
Red clouds at evening, like ketchup on meat loaf.
[November 22, 2003]
Life is laughter and beautiful ideas.
A smile on the faces of friends happy to see us,
Flowing like ketchup on your quesadillas.
[January 31, 2004]
If like seems grim like a page from Jeremiah
You don't need hot sauce,you need to go and buy a
Bottle of ketchup for your jambalaya
[September 25, 2004]
These are the good years,
we're winning on all fronts
The economy is booming, just as it was once.
Spring is coming in a couple months.
[February 19, 2005]
These are the good times, the snow so gently falls
The house is full of catalogues like tiny shopping malls
Life is flowing, like ketchup on meatballs.
[February 26, 2005]
These are the good years, the mornings soft and dewy
Flowers on the table, a gift from Uncle Louie
Life is flowing, like ketchup on chop suey.
[June 4, 2005]
These are the good times, the fruit is getting ripe
Time to take it easy, sit and smoke your pipe,
Life is flowing, like ketchup on your tripe.
[June 25, 2005]
These are the good years
As good as life permits.
A home in Atlanta
Another in St. Kitts.
Life is flowing like ketchup on your grits.
[November 5, 2005]
These are the good years, our Renaissance
Though we are aging, like your old aunts
Life is flowing like ketchup on croissants.
[November 19, 2005]
These are the good times,
with better times ahead,
All of the blue states are going to turn red,
Just like ketchup on a slice of bread. |
