austinkleon:

David Bowie, “Oh! You Pretty Things” (Live HQ TV Performance On “Old Grey Whistle Test,” 1972

This is a fun one to sing to the kids:

Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I’ve made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky
and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they’re
here to stay…

Don’t you know you’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
Oh you pretty things!

Hunky Dory also contains one of my favorite newborn songs, “Kooks.”

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