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Trash A-Go-Go

Title of song: Trash A-Go-Go

Artist: Funkadelic

Title of album: Cosmic Slop

Year of first release: 1973

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Songwriter: George Clinton

Memorable Lyrics:

  • "I didn't pimp her just for money/What's wrong with making her call me daddy?"
  • "The judge and jury just frowned at me/They said, 'For exploiting your lady,/Just for a payday,/Is a sin, and you will pay.'"
  • "...gettin' high can get you dead"

Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-cslop#lyr-s-trash)

The singer is a man who is on trial for having pimped his girlfriend out as a prostitute. The judge and jury are not sympathetic, though he claims to love her deeply. He receives ten to twenty years in the prison.

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