Singing the newspaper blues with an upbeat "snailpaper" ditty - Gnarls Barkley reworked to cover state of news industry

You've all heard the arguments about the death of snailpapers and the inexorable rise of the internet. Well, global activist Dan Bloom has a new format for the debate: a song. Set to the tune of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, and performed by J. Gale Kilgore in Big Spring, Texas home recording studio for just US$19 cash, the song is about the woes of print media, with a fighting message:

O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can't live without my daily snailpaper
"Crash blossoms" here ...atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2712867/novelty_song_about_newspaper_business.html


Song is called "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)

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O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can't live without my daily snailpaper
"Crash blossoms" here ...atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

Maybe you know him, my DC pal Bradlee
Ben's the one sidelined Tricky Dick-ee
O Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate fame
There's nothing better than the newspaper game!

I think you know Bill Keller too
He runs the Times and knows old from new -- (media that is)
Maureen Dowd to the left of him, Dave Brooks to the right
If it's fit to print, it's in the New York Times tonight!

O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can't live without my daily snailpaper
"Crash blossoms" here and small typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

Now there's Alex Beam at the Boston Globe
He doesn't pull punches and he's really quite bold
The son of a diplomat, he's travelled -- literally -- the Globe!
The Globe is a snailpaper that'll never grow old

O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can't live without my daily snailpaper
"Crash blossoms" here atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

In Chicago, there's Steinberg, Neil with a hat
He's a serious writer who never falls flat
Snailpapers help the Windy City unwind
My kind of town, what a newpaper mine!

O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can't live without my daily snailpaper
"Crash blossoms" here atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

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