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06 May 2008

If I had a hammer...
post by: bmarkey at: 12:18 | 27 comments
I'd use it on Peter Paul & Mary.

(actually when I lived in Miami, my bosses first and middle names were Pedro Pablo and his wife was named Maria. I don't know whetehr they ever left on a jet plane, however)
posted by jonmc 06 May | 12:27
Were they blowing in the wind?
posted by Melismata 06 May | 12:49
That's Bob Dylan, Melismata.
posted by jonmc 06 May | 12:53
Yeah, but PP&M had a big hit with their cover. I say that's fair game.
posted by bmarkey 06 May | 12:55
Their "If I Had a Hammer" was also a cover.
posted by Miko 06 May | 12:56
Pete Seeger? (I am not looking it up. . .). . .Malvina Reynolds also came to mind, but I think it's Seeger.
posted by danf 06 May | 13:04
And then there's American Music Club, which is a completely different song (thank god).
posted by mykescipark 06 May | 13:08
Yes, written by Pete Seeger
posted by Miko 06 May | 13:10
It's Seeger.

posted by bmarkey 06 May | 13:12
Actually, I looked it up and Lee Hayes gets a credit on it also. . .
posted by danf 06 May | 13:17
...everything would look like a nail.
posted by Daniel Charms 06 May | 13:30
Lee Hays and Seeger co-wrote it. They were both in the Weavers, Seeger's band.
posted by Miko 06 May | 13:38
I'd beat the hell out of every last asshat who makes me feel cognitive dissonance. I get all riled up and selfrighteous about drivers doing dumb shit, yet multiple times (in the same DAY, even...), I then see bicyclists pulling moronic manouevres that should by rights land them in the hospital if they're lucky, and the morgue otherwise.

Darwin for all, I say. Grah. Fuckitall.

*grabs hammer, starts pounding in nails*
posted by lonefrontranger 06 May | 13:40
If I Had A Rocket Launcher.
posted by DarkForest 06 May | 13:48
Has anyone ever done a PP&M/MC Hammer mashup?

"Stop! If I had a HAMMERTIME!!"
posted by jonmc 06 May | 13:48
... I'd hammer a nail for five watercolors I've had for a while but am too lazy to hang.
posted by LoriFLA 06 May | 13:56
If I had a hammer, I'd have one more hammer than I do now.
posted by doctor_negative 06 May | 14:00
About 8 years ago, I was dating a woman whose best friend knew Peter Yarrow--old family friends of some sort. Every time Peter, Paul, and Mary were in town, we'd get backstage passes, and I never once saw fit to use them. Even for free, even with super access, I couldn't be bothered to go see Peter, Paul, and Mary.

One day, I had a "where is she now" moment, and I found the wedding video of said friend, with Peter providing the wedding music. That was pretty cool. I suppose.
posted by mrmoonpie 06 May | 14:38
... I probably still wouldn't get anything done.
posted by rmless2 06 May | 15:34
"If I had a hammer..."

You'd what, tough guy?

I had a boss, whom a co-worker described thusly: "whenever he gets a new hammer, everything looks like a nail". That used to make me laugh...especially when the new hammer was MS Sharepoint Portal Server.
posted by richat 06 May | 16:55
oooh gads richat, sharepoint was the worst thing EVAR!!

I had to deal with an entire six months of project documentation being done via sharepoint OH THE HORROR!
posted by lonefrontranger 06 May | 17:16
(and yet we're STILL deploying it. And, AFTER the dumb guy is gone, too)
posted by richat 06 May | 20:33
Wasn't "Little Boxes" Malvina's cover of Seeger?
posted by brujita 07 May | 00:14
Nope. It was hers, although Seeger did cover it.
posted by bmarkey 07 May | 01:18
I do have a hammer.

Actually, I think I have at least two, but I'm not sharing.
posted by pompomtom 07 May | 02:09
I tried to count up the hammers I have from memory, but gave up in the vicinity of about 8 and you can't have any of mine, either ;-P
posted by dg 07 May | 02:59
Leonard Nimoy, "If I Had a Hammer" (probably best not to look at the homemade YouTube video). The spoken-word part over a choir humming "America the Beautiful" is very special.
posted by kirkaracha 07 May | 11:28
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