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Poddy Understands Me

from A Live Concert by Andrew London Trio

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A song about the life-changing experience of procuring an iPod. Written before they became obsolete.

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Often life is easy things just fall right into place
Other times you can’t help feel you’re not up with the pace
We all have those moments, yes I’ve had them too,
But I got myself an Ipod
Now I don’t feel quite so blue - ‘cos

Poddy understands me…he knows me really well
He always aims to please, with me he never disagrees, at least as far as I can tell;
He’s just a little fellow, but his heart is really big
and when I need to interface, or find a little space, I know that Poddy still has twenty-seven gig.

Poddy understands me…he’d never do me wrong;
His little screen lights up & asks me whom I’d like to listen to and what’s my favourite song;
I take him on a picnic, and I take him on the train
and every night at 10 I tuck him into bed that’s when he likes to charge his little battery up again,

I just want to acknowledge, he’s the best bit of technology
that ever was invented in this world;
He’s like a little person, and for better or for worse-n
I will always keep his earplug cord uncurled…

Poddy understands me…he goes the extra mile;
He always looks so happy when I turn him on, last night I swear I even saw him smile;
you say he’s just an object - just a fashionable thing
but I’ve not had such compliance, from another new electrical appliance
I fear he has my heart upon a string

Poddy understands me, I guess by now you’ve heard
we sing away the days, I never cease to be amazed how he remembers all the words
He loves to go out driving, he never gets enough
I’ve a thing to put him in so he can look out of the window
at the cars and trees and animals and stuff

So that’s the way things are now, he’s a member of my whanau*
and I couldn’t do without him if I tried
and sometimes when I’m sleeping, if I hear his little beeping I get up and turn him over on his side…

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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