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If I Could Only Have a Rav

from A Live Concert by Andrew London Trio

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apologies to the Wizard of Oz.

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Now I know that it's important for the status one can get
to drive a motor vehicle that gives an accurate reflection of the rung that one inhabits on the ladder of success
A badge of one's accomplishment no less

And every model citizen should naturally aspire
to own the biggest SUV that one can possibly acquire
in order that one's family can ride around much higher
than the commoners and peasants on the street

I know they chew a lot of gas but apathy's the middle classes'
stock response to inconvenient facts
And even though they tend to roll there's usually a passing prole
glad to break your fall and stop the paintwork getting scratched

But I'm a man of modest means I can't afford the big machines
the ones that rove and cruise across the land, and
I could be as happy as a strawberry in a pav
If I could only have a Rav

A Rav is not so ostentatious which, although disadvantageous
when one is intent on demonstrating one's contempt
for those who obviously haven't tried as hard as p'raps they ought,
it does display one's status and importance

And if I fit a ski rack and some bull bars on the grill
pretend I'm on Safari charging out across the Veldt
amongst the hedges and the cul-de-sacs of Wadestown after dark
The Indiana Jones of Churton Park.

I doubt that I'll, it must be said, be driving up a river bed
pursuing wildebeest or wild bighorn
the closest it will ever go to crashing through the undergrowth
is when the weather's sunny and I park it on the lawn.

So though I'll soon or later need an equipment compensator
for now I think I'll stick within my rut, but
I could be as happy as a toothpick in a sav
If I could only have a Rav.
If I could only have a Rav.

credits

from A Live Concert, released September 3, 2019
Andrew London: Guitar & vox
Kirsten London: bass & vox
Nils Olsen: clarinet & vox

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Andrew London New Zealand

New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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