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    Brilliant Songs #21:
    Gene McDaniels’s “Compared to What”

    Consider these lines from the early 1960s pop classic, “A Hundred Pounds of Clay”: He took a hundred pounds of clay And then He said “Hey, listen I’m gonna fix this-a world today Because I know what’s missin’ Then He rolled his big sleeves up And a brand-new world began He created a woman and-a Lots of lovin’ for a man Whoa-oh-oh, yes he did And now these, five years later, from another hit, “Compared to What”: Slaughterhouse is killin’ hogs Twisted children killin’ frogs Poor dumb rednecks rollin’ logs Tired old lady kissin’ dogs Hate the human, love that stinkin’ mutt (I…