Man of His Times © 2007 Words & Music : B.Ferrier
Baz says : This song began as a conscious attempt to sit down and write a definitive original ‘Slim & Baz’ song – (something that never actually existed before) and I’m happy to say I think I came pretty close with this one. It’s a little bit country, sits nicely in open D on the resonator guitar, has a bunch of (I guess what you’d call) ‘unserious’ lyrics - grooves along nicely, and we could play it straight up, with out having to think too much. Hugh Hefner got into the picture because he was about as far from old-timey, hillbilly music as you can get – which I guess is called ‘creative tension’. And once ol’ Hugh had said hello, well…it all just flowed on naturally from there until, to my delight, I found out what I was actually writing about when I got to the last verse...
Man of His Times - Slim Pickens & Dr. Baz
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Good old Hugh Hefner - He knows how to live He never toed no careful line He saw just how a simple man like me should live He is a man of his times

Lives in a mansion With a heated pool He’s got such good taste in fine wine He’s had more ladies than a man like me could dream Knows how to have a good time

Old Albert Einstein Turned Time into Space Then he turned Space back into Time He was the genius of Relativity He was a man of his times

Then there was Elvis, Elvis was the King He was a hero of mine The way his story went it was a tragedy Came to the end of the line

Somewhere in Heaven There’s a party going on And Johnny Cash is still walking the line When the Man in Black went down in a Ring of Fire He was a man of his times

We all need heroes, and a little hope And we’ll all get along just fine Just like Hugh Hefner sitting in my swimming pool I’ll be a man of my times Just like Hugh Hefner I’m gonna be so cool He was a Man of His Times.
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