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Dead Horse Bay Lyrics by The Deedle Deedle Dees

Words and music by Lloyd Miller

(c)(p) 2010

Broken baby dolls and animal bones
that’s what I found at Dead Horse Bay
Pets used to come here
and leave as glue
So if you hear a bark or neigh…

Put your Leopard-skin pocketbook on your shoulder… now sashay
Fill up your wooden pipe even though it’s far decayed
Shake your silver rattle, don’t listen to the sound
Pour your tea before the spout falls to the ground

Dead Horse Bay
Can Sitar Boy sing without a head?
Dead Horse Bay
Can a heel from a shoe walk without a leg?

These are the things we found while walking one day
along the beach at Dead Horse Bay
I’d like to come here,
leave as glue
hold together the next thing you make

About the Musicians

The Deedle Deedle Dees are an educational rock band based in Brooklyn, NY. Since October 2003, the band has been entertaining family audiences with songs inspired by history and science–”Underground Railroad,” “Nellie Bly,” “Rancher Ants”–as well as simple movement-based tunes like “Play Your Hand” and “Vegetarian T-Rex.” The Dees current line-up features Ulysses S. Dee (aka Lloyd Miller, teacher) on upright bass, rhythm guitar and vocals; Innocent Dee (aka Anand Mukherjee, teacher) on lead guitar and vocals; Booker Dee (aka Chris Johnson, teacher, choir director) on keyboards, banjo, ukulele and accordion; and Otto Von Dee (aka Ely Levin, writer) on drums. You can find them online at www.thedeedledeedledees.com.

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Monday, October 25th, 2010 Baby doll heads, Dead Horse Bay, Horse bones, Musicians, Pipe, Shoes, Silver Rattle, Sitar Boy, Tea Pot, The Deedle Deedle Dees No Comments

Adrian Kinloch at Dead Horse Bay

UNY designer and photographer extraordinaire Adrian Kinloch had a field day photographing the flotsam and jetsam washed up at Dead Horse Bay. Take a look at his gallery below, and read more about the UNY excursion and the history of Dead Horse Bay here.

About the Artist

Adrian Kinloch, UNY’s designer, has been taking photographs since age seven, when his grandfather gave him a 1930s folding-bellows Kodak camera. He grew up in Suffolk, England, and has degrees in visual art and third-world development from Staffordshire University. Adrian currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a graphic designer and photographer. His pictures run regularly in The Brooklyn Paper and have also appeared in New York Magazine, O Magazine, and on BBC.com. He also maintains the photo blog Brit in Brooklyn.

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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Adrian Kinloch, Artists, Baby doll heads, Battleship toy, Body of Water, Clara Bell clown, Dead Horse Bay, Eyeglasses, Green boat, Horse bones, Kangamouse, Mermaid, Objects, Shoes No Comments

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