There is Four Different titles circulating for this song
- Definitively Van Gough,
- Definitely Van Gough
- Spuriously Seventeen Windows.
- Positively Van Gough
When I’d ask why the painting was deadly
Nobody could pick up my sign
‘Cept for the cook, she was always friendly
But she’d only ask, “What’s on your mind?”
She’d say that especially when it was raining
I’d say “Oh, I don’t know”
But then she’d press and I’d say, “You see that painting?
Do you think it’s been done by Van Gogh?”
The cook she said call her Maria
She’d always point for the same boy to come forth
Saying, “He trades cattle, it’s his own idea
And he also makes trips to the North
Have you ever seen his naked calf bleed?”
I’d say, “Oh no, why does it show?”
And she’d whisper in my ear that he’s a half-breed
And I’d say, “Fine, but can he paint like Van Gogh?”
I can’t remember his name he never gave it
But I always figured he could go home
Til when he’d gave me his card and said, “Save it”
I could see by his eyes he was alone
But it was sad how his four leaf clover
Drawn on his calling card showed
That it was given back to him a-many times over
And it most definitely was not done by Van Gogh
There is a further verse that is incomplete – the tape stops.
I'd like to tell you a story
D G D
of a man that you might know.
D G D
His parents all called him Vincent,
D A D
his last name was Van Gogh.
He started drinking and painting
and living a life of sin.
He fell in with evil companions,
a man named Paul Gaugin.
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They went to the city of Auvers,
pursuing their carnal delights.
They painted all during the afternoon
and they played music all night.
Now the people of that small city
thought he was a little bit queer,
to prove his love for mankind,
he chopped off his outside ear.
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So they put him in an institution
but they could not keep him there.
He picked up his paints and his easel
and he went out to take some air.
He picked up his paints and his easel
and he went out to paint some crows.
They found him face down in a cornfield,
shot right between two rows.
D A G D
Now where did Vincent van Go?
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