Lyrics to Damn Yankees Song Here I Come Again
Banquet
Come to the dinner gong
The table is laden loftier
Fatty bellies and hungry niggling ones
Tuck your napkins in
And have your share
Some become the gravy
And some become the gristle
Some become the marrow os
And some get nothing
Though in that location's plenty to spare
I took my share downwards past the sea
Newspaper plates and Javex * bottles on the tide
Seagulls come down and they squawk at me
Down where the h2o skiers glide
Some turn to Jesus
And some turn to heroin
Some plow to rambling round
Looking for a clean sky
And a drinking stream
Some watch the paint peel off
Some watch their kids grow up
Some spotter their stocks and bonds
Waiting for that big deal American Dream
I took my dream down by the sea
Yankee yachts * and lobster pots and sunshine
And logs and sails
And Shell Oil pails
Dogs and tugs and summer
Back in the banquet line
Angry young people crying
Who let the greedy in
And who left the needy out
Who made this salty soup
Tell him we're very hungry now
For a sweeter fare
In the cookie I read
"Some get the gravy
And some become the gristle
Some get the marrow os
And some go nothing
Though there's plenty to spare"
© Oct 30, 1972; Joni Mitchell Pub Corp
Footnotes to Banquet
Rick In Belcarra adds: Lest you think that we Canadians are in the habit of gratuitously throwing our bleach bottles into the body of water: These large empty plastic bottles and others of like shape and size are normally attached, with long lengths of nylon rope, to crab and shrimp traps so that they can exist constitute hands for retrieval. They occasionally pause loose and can stop up on beaches such as the ones near Joni'southward hide-away on the Sunshine Declension of B.C.
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Wally (from Argentine republic): i'll be using "Banquet" for language analysis with my friday classes. what are "yankee yachts" as mentioned in the song?
Kakki (USA): What a great song to selection! I e'er thought that "yankee yachts" in Joni's context might have meant American leisure-form boaters (tourists) who wandered into British Columbian waters on weekends. The term "yankee" has long been a catch-all term used by people from other countries for whatsoever American regardless of regional origin. Don't the British telephone call us "Yanks"? In Mexico they have been known to phone call us "Yanquis" Perchance this ties into the song - here are these flush yachters floating by and no doubt polluting the beautiful shoreline with their discarded newspaper plates and Javex bottles. And then we have the Shell Oil pails. Fat bellies and hungry petty ones. "Waiting for that big bargain - American dream" - hmmm, she probably is thinking of "Damn Yankees" here. ;-)
Wally: so they're boats with americans on them!!!!! i thought she was talking virtually a special kind of boat. yous're right: joni may mean americans from the west coast sailing into canadian waters.
Helen (Australia): Aren't "yankees" the "northern" americans, ie. the ones who were on Lincoln'southward side in the Civil War (excuse my profound ignorance of American history here)! That existence the case, I've e'er assumed the "yankee yachts" were yachts from the US, owned by rich N-based Americans taking a little jaunt up the coast, to bank check out their "poor Canadian cousins" - no offence intended to my Canadian friends here, I recall Joni was very natural language-in-cheek when she wrote this line.
Catherine (Canada): This is very Canadian of Joni. We tend to lump all Americans (even southerners) together nether the generic term "Yankees." Kind of like Americans calling united states of america Canucks. I rarely hear a Canadian utilise that term unless they're talking about that hockey squad out west somewhere.
Scott (USA): While the lyric (IMO) covers a broad spectrum of U.S. watercraft, there was a sailboat manufacturing company, Yankee Yachts, based in Southern California, which took a classic plan by the renowned Sparkman & Stephens designers and turned information technology into a fine yacht with a near cult-like post-obit. The Yankee 30 sailboat was an outstanding endeavour to residuum the needs of sailors: speed/ease of sailing and durability/safety/comfort. The company besides made other, larger boats only the Yankee 30 was the flagship. On whatever given trip to this area's waters (Washington Country/British Columbia) you may come across examples of this pop boat. Yankee went out of business concern in the 1970s only the blueprint was picked up past other gunkhole builders, especially in the Northwest, and may yet be produced today.
Pianoforte Transcriptions of Banquet
- by Michael Dunn
Banquet has been recorded by 3 other artists
- Hall, Lani (from "(45 Single)" - 1973)
- Manfred Isle of man's Earth Band (from "Criminal Tango" - 1986)
- Robin, Julia (from "Joni Map" - 2019)
- [more information on recordings by other artists]
This song appears on:
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View album The Studio Albums 1968-1979 Released November 2012
Source: https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=151
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