I KEEP MY FINGERNAILS LONG (SO THEY'LL CLICK WHEN I PLAY THE PIANO)

Created on 08/03/2024
Latest update on 08/03/2024

Artist: Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir
Author: Christopher B. Cerf/Outerbridge/Michael Frith/Lawrence Butler/Jack Winter
Label: Vanitas
Year: 1961

Students at the Harvard University on album Sings At Leningrad Stadium. Yeah right. The label was named as a parody on Harvard moto Veritas. In later years main soloist and pianist Chris Cerf loaned his voice to different Muppets in original TV-series Sesame Street.

Covers:

1978:

Joe Ely [as Fingernails on album Honky Tonk Masquerade, crediting himself]

While the original lyrics continue with: And I'll keep 'em that way till the swallows return to Capistrano, in Joe Ely's version they return to Texarkana.

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