If folksingers ran TV ads

[Cornflake]

Watching ads for personal-injury lawyers on TV made me wonder why musicians don't run ads like that.

When you’re attacked by ennui
Or a vague existential malaise
You need an aggressive folksinger
To put the bounce back in your days

We’re the Discount Folk Music Guys
We'll fight to make you feel whole
We’re gritty, authentic and earnest
Chiropractors for the soul

When the blues or the blahs settle in
A folk song can bring a reprieve
It’ll reorient your perceptions
And jump-start your dead joi d’vivre

We’re the Discount Folk Music Guys
We'll fight to make you feel whole
We’re gritty, authentic and earnest
Chiropractors for the soul

[Bridge] We play at convenient locations
It won’t cost you much at the door
We play the same chords as the big stars do
So why should you pay any more?

When troubles are wrapped in a song
What’s sordid morphs into sublime
You can find that elusive catharsis
In pithy reflections that rhyme

We’re the Discount Folk Music Guys
We'll fight to make you feel whole
We’re gritty, authentic and earnest
Chiropractors for the soul
Y se habla espanol

[Marshall]

Chiropraters for the soul.


I like that. Haven't read the whole thing yet. But I really like that punch line. I may actually have to work that one up for my local folkie friends.

[loopysanchez]

Cool song, Flake. I'd end it with a spoken word disclaimer, delivered as fast as humanly possible by someone else in the band serving as "voice-over guy":

"No representation is made that the quality of folk songs to be performed is greater than the quality of the folk songs performed by other artists."

[Cornflake]

I like that idea, Loopy! I'll work something up.