Song of the weekend

"Hefner And Disney" by T-Bone Burnett


Somewhere between Never Neverland and Wonderland

In a land called Never Wonderland

There lived a beautiful wealthy young divorcee

With a checkered past and a bad memory

Who should probably remain nameless



And men traveled from far and wide and try to win her hand

And she took in stragglers from all over the known world

Her newest guests were (as her mother called them)

"The latest Russians to defect"

One's name was Hefner

The other's name was Disney

Disney smoked a pipe and was very philosophical

He was constantly surrounded by go go girls

And he used to take pictures of them without any clothes on

And sell them to the neighborhood children



Hefner on the other hand was not so introspective

He loved a good story just like anybody else

In fact he loved the myths of Never Wonderland so much

That he made elaborate molded plastic sculptures

Of the characters in the myths

Then he would put them out in the garden

Until he had built a whole nother land in Never Wonderland

Which he called Hefnerland



And the neighborhood children loved them

They had lots of fun playing in Hefnerland

And looking at all Disney's go go pictures

Because they didn't know any better

And they didn't know any worse



But the beautiful young wealthy divorcee thought

That they were only after her money

Sometimes she even wished they would go back to Russia

But between you and me they were really dupes of the Wicked King

Who wanted to rob the children of their dreams