The Bishop Danced

2/19/73 Max's Kansas City, NYC

This next song is a, uh, kind of a nonsense song. I'll give you the quick rundown: It's
about a bishop and his wife, and this violin player in West Virginia. It's about how
their daughter lost her mother to mathematics while on a business trip in Detroit. Uh,
it's about, uh, it has a top 40 hook part, that... that if, if we ever knew the words we
could sing, everybody could sing to it. About pancakes, and this guy named Muskrat
who lives in Richmond, Virginia, who I met when I was playing down there, he played
saxophone. Uh, um, it's about James Garner when he was very popular years ago in his
Bart-Brit-Brett-Burt Maverick TV shows and it was a well-known Hollywood secret
that he had an affair with a married woman with one eye. It's about, it's about... uh...
Oh, it's about this little boy who told his father that the Indians are still in the woods
only nobody sees them. And its about the sexual pathos of elderly choirboys in Butte,
Montana.