The Judge
RAVES!
Date: 05/02/11
The Strawbs - "How Everyone But Sam Was A Hypocrite" (1967)
If there's one trait in humans I can't abide it's hypocrisy, particularly that variety of it which looks down its nose at others whilst said nose may itself be scarcely above the waterline of moral sewage.
This is one of the best songs on the subject that I know. It was recorded by The Strawbs in Copenhagen in 1967 but not released until 1973 on the All Our Own Work LP. The album (but not noticeably on this track) featured the future legend Sandy Denny and marked the first known recording of Denny's classic Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
"And they all think they're so grand...but they're not...oh no, they're not..."
