Who Stole The Show?

Lyrics: Hart plus ?
Music: Hart plus ?

This is one of the new songs played on the Mickey Hart Band summer tour 2000.

There was Einstein
And Cronkite's voice
Bonnie and Clyde
And the right of choice

There were super weapons
And chemical wars
Sonny and Cher
And Tipper Gore

Haight Ashbury
The Berlin wall
Watergate
And Nixon falls

Vietnam
And LBJ
Camelot
And Doris Day

Iraq, Korea
Vietnam
Bosnia, Kosovo
And the bomb

There was Kitty Hawk
We learned to fly
The holocaus
Six million cries

Who stole the show?
And where did it go?
Who stole the show?
And where did it go?

Heroin, Valium
Coke and speed
LSD
And PCP

Beatles, Hendrix
And the Stones
Janis Joplin
And portable phones

There were CDROMs
And DVD
Macintosh
And Bruce Lee

Guided missiles and
Rock and roll
Norma Jean
And Joltin' Joe

Larry Bird
And Dr. J
Michael Jordan
And power plays

There was Lindbergh
Churchill, Dr. Seuss
Kruschev, Castro
And The Juice

Who stole the show?
And where did it go?
Who stole the show?
And where did it go?

There was Howdy Doody
And Mickey Mouse
Perfect abs
And working out

There was Martin Luther
And BB King
Malcolm X and
Big band swing

There was Groucho Marx
And Melrose Place
Loud guitars
And Steal Your Face

There were commie spies
Corned beef on rye
ATT and
Garcia's ties

Who stole the show?
And where did it go?
Who stole the show?
And where did it go?

There was Frank and Bing
And Fu Manchu
Miles and Bird
And Mr. Magoo

There was Nutrasweet
And fat free
Prohibition
And TV

There was Al Capone
And FDR
Nixon, Kennedy
And Jabar

Endangered species
And acid rain
We took Percodan
For the pain

"One of the new songs that we are performing is called Who Stole the Show? which is really starting to gel. I wrote this song on New Year's day. I couldn't help but notice the amount of charts and information coming out about invention, people, events, etc., of the 20th century. Having lived more than half of the past century many things happened in my lifetime. I was old enough to remember the stories of WW2 and the GI uniforms that became a blur in my youth. I remember my grandfather sitting down every night to watch Walter Cronkite on TV; it was like a religious experience. I thought it would be fun to create a song that spanned 100 years. I wondered, who stole the show and where did it go? Once I had the title the rest was easy, except I never did figure out exactly who stole the show. So much happened in the 20th century that was important to us in one way or another. For a while I was fixated on Hitler, but refused to give him the show. He of course was the big meanie of the century no doubt. But hate and fear got him good. I would rather focus on the marvelous and fantastic things and people that made the wheels turn to the next century. This song salutes that spirit."