RFI: Lyrics to Alex Chilton's "Tennis Bum"

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yeah, one of the few things that poor dude was ever right about.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

funny, I recently went thru a major Chilton reappraisal. the demos he did, which this song is included in, are some of the best things he ever recorded. I found that Tommy Hoehn doing "She Might Look My Way" was far inferior to Chilton just apparently tossing it off. And came to the conclusion that most of his post-'84 shit was pretty much not there, maybe a dozen really great or half-great songs. But I do love "Tennis Bum."

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

does "post-1984" include Feudalist Tarts/No Sex??? He wasn't recording at all in 1984, was he?

christ, a dozen great songs post-1984 is more than most who've been recording since 1967 can offer.

but yeah, 1985-to-present, Chilton has like two albums' worth of A material spread across a million releases.

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

oh tennis bum,
i get some,
oh baby baby in my ??
tennis socks
oh tennis bum

the last thing i can remember
i was down, break point
my backhand was really a mess

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

?? = jock

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqA4LLJ04A&feature=related

― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Friday, 19 March 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

This song is a love song to Chris Bell.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:50 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

Alex Chilton "96 Tears" recently unearthed late '70s home video footage, Memphis. pic.twitter.com/VnpJywjVAp
— Nikki Kreuzer (@NikkiKreuzer) May 26, 2020

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link

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