Fish on the Roof of the Court House

from A Bunch of Animals by Kid Kazooey & the BallRoom Roustabouts

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True Story(s) of Bloomington, IN!

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I put my shoes on first this morning
Then changed out of my pajamas
‘Cuz of something that I learned last week in school.
While the teacher was teaching the lesson
I was gazing out the window
And suddenly remembered something cool,
I was barely six years old
When I was swinging form that swing
And my eyeballs flew right outta’ my head
And the flew right past
The fish on the roof of the courthouse
And I’ll never forget what my mouth,
Which I left back at the swing said, IT SAID:

I live in a town with a fish on the roof of the courthouse
And I ain’t ever gonna’ leave for good!
I live in town with a fish on the roof of the courthouse
And should I go a wanderin’, I’ll come back like they said I would!


They say that fish has been up there since
A master craftsman by the name of Austin Seward
Made it, & gave it, & placed it up there in 1826.
And it has seen the court house change from
Log Cabin to Brick to Limestone,
And surely its fair share of politics.
But to hear our own Mark Twain,
Scott Russell Sanders explain,
It swam up there from the Primordial Sea
Which covered all of Bloomington
And the rest of the Midwest
Hundreds of millions of years ago, and still I see…

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Well, from where I stand, the fish looks small,
But stand it on it’s tail, it’s nearly 6 feet tall,
Just think of all the tall tales that tail could tell!
It’s seen Hoagy, Mellencamp, Breaking Away,
The Taliaferos, and the many hats of
Charlotte Zeitlow, yes, we are all of us under its spell.
Without inflection it points in the
direction of any way the
wind blows, snow or rain or hail.
It spins around that dome
In this place that I call Home
As if its guiding by its gilded copper scales.

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from A Bunch of Animals, releases December 12, 2024

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Kid Kazooey Bloomington, Indiana

A talented musician and a long haired male librarian student, Kevin MacDowell soon discovered upon graduation from IU's School of Library & Information Sciences that the best way to get hired by a library was at 45 minutes at a time, as a children's performer extraordinaire; as Kid Kazooey, the Singin' & Swingin' Librarian! That was 16 years ago (seems like 116!), and the rest is history! ... more

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