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Cobra Gold wrote and performed this song for the October 2011 Bushwick Book Club performance inspired by Jim Ottaviani's "Feynman." Cobra Gold is Josh Bisker, Cecil Scheib and John Waters. For more Cobra Gold, please visit facebook.com/cobragoldmusic.

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He Was a Scientist
(By Cecil Scheib and Josh Bisker)

His first wife had a really sad incurable disease
He knew it but he didn’t run he stayed by her bedside
That’s not an engineer, my friends,
That’s pure as science: love
And when she died her hair smelled just the same.
He was a scientist.
He kept her memories.
And when he fell in love
He knew his heart like a computer run

On beach sand with him you will get some new and bright ideas
Find a bride, pay a bribe and you will stay together years
Tickle her dragon’s tail, my friend
She’ll love you for your quirks
Remember it’s the way that nature works
He was a scientist
Made her his live-in maid
And when he fell in love
He broke the law so that his wife could come

The key to any code is disregard and curiosity
They’ll lock you up but a mind alive will learn to wander free
He’ll open all that’s locked, my friends,
Your safes, your minds, your hearts
That madman, he’s a danger to us all
He was a scientist
Domestic terrorist?
And when he fell in love,
He saw how life and light themselves begun
A legend in his life,
Gave up the northern lights,
Had Sex with Sally Ride,
Feynman

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from Bushwick Book Club presents "Feynman" by Jim Ottaviani, released October 7, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday on October 7th, 2011. Photo by Herb Scher (herbscher.com)

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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