We remain happy. Rod / VEC

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MailArtDaDaSk.mp3MAILART DADA SKANK (R. Summers / T. Winter)
Tacky and the Original VECettes

duration 5’55”

Mailart dada skank
Dada skank mailart
Mailart dada skank
Don’t put nothing in the bank.

(for Anna Banana)
Hi there Anna
We wavin’ we banner
‘Cos we a big fan of your
Mailart dada skank

(for Paul Carter)
Main man Carter
U.K. Mailarter
He an early starter with that
Mailart dada skank.


Don’t touch Cavellini
Cos you don’t know where he’s beeny
An we tink ‘im a meany
For ‘im wastin all he greeny on dat
Mailart dada shit
We don’t see any of it
Achille won’t you send us a bit
Enough for another hit.

(first chorus)
Spend all your money at the post office
Spend all your money on glue
Spend all the money on everybody else
Never spend any money on you
It’s all gone on
Mailart dada skank.

In Italy
Vittore Baroni
Is the VEC
V.I.P.
Mailart dada skank.

Even if Ivan
Insist on arriving
Rypson and Gajewski
Will sit at their deski, makin’
Mailart dada skank.

(for Lon Spiegelman)
Hooray for Lon
Who grows a lotta grass
In Kalifornia
It’s very green there
Mailart dada skank

(for Opal Nations)
Hello Opal
We all hopel
You had a merry Cropel
And you will have a happy new year
Mailart dada skank.

(second chorus)
Somebody got to carry de bags
Full of all the crap we sendin’
When it arrives it’s thrown away
There’s no use pretendin’
There’s any point in
Mailart dada skank.


So we might as well go home and have a nice cup of tea.


Written, played, sung, arranged, engineered and mixed by Rod Summers and Tom Winter in Maastricht January 1981 for VEC Audio.