Name: The Perestroika-Bowlerama Waltz
Duration: P00H02M56S
Description: A country song about bowling. And Perestroika. Like all of them. Unfortunately, our narrator's sense of geography is a bit off.

The Perestroika-Bowlerama Waltz

from Things I Thought I Knew by Michael Bass

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A country song about bowling. And Perestroika. Like all of them. Unfortunately, our narrator's sense of geography is a bit off.

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I met her when I was bowlin'
She was rollin' a high game
With her shoes red and green
And a blouse that said "Jean"
She was heftin' a Brunswick
Wearin' shiny red lipstick
Though her form was a dream
She was not what she seemed

Natasha Nijinsky Anastasia Stravinsky
My Latvian lover
My Muscovite miss

We fell in love in an alley
By the Red River Valley
And she bowled my heart over
With one borscht-soaked kiss

She'd slipped through the curtain
And her heart it was hurtin'
For her sweet Georgia home
Where the musk-oxen roam
She'd left in a hurry
A political flurry
Ensued from her yen
To be bowlin' Ten Pin

Natasha Nijinsky Anastasia Stravinsky
My stout Kremlin cutie
My sweet Georgia girl

To the lanes she brought latkas
We drank Lone Stars and vodkas
I took to courtin'
My Caspian pearl

Bridge-

Perestroika struck
And I was out of luck
Natasha grew restless
For he communist clan
She returned with a mission
To improve their condition
Built a new Bowl-A-Rama
On an old five-year plan

So dasvidaniya my little doggie,
Dream of home fries and hoagies
And remember me when
You strike out again
I dream of my romance
With my angel from Murmansk
Though her accent was thick
She was great with Bisquick

Natasha Nijinsky Anastasia Stravinsky
My Latvian lover
My Muscovite miss
We fell in love in an alley
By the Red River Valley
But all I've left is the memory
Of her borscht-soaked kiss.

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from Things I Thought I Knew, released July 7, 2020

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Like Waldo, PD Pop has been hiding in plain sight for the last 45 years. With the help of Michael Bass, he comes out of the basement and on to Bandcamp, skipping several generations of recording technology in the process.

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