"Olé Mulholland"

SUBJECT: "And of course, to Los Angeles, when William Mulholland brought the water, and with water still running, Mr. Bradbury hoped." - Frank in the press kit for the album.

Water is the life blood of every community. The man who did more than any other to furnish that vital element to Los Angeles is William Mulholland, who for many years was chief engineer and general manager of the city-owned Bureau of Water Works and Supply (now the Water System of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power). He died in 1935 but his work lives on. Every time a faucet is turned the water it releases is a reminder of the man whose life was devoted to public service.
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Under his leadership, an army of 5,000 men labored for five years. He successfully completed, within the original time and cost estimates, the most difficult engineering project undertaken by any American up to that time. The first aqueduct water was presented to the people of Los Angeles on November 5, 1913. In a spectacular civic ceremony at the north end of the San Fernando Valley where the aqueduct terminates, William Mulholland said with characteristic brevity and lack of ostentatiousness: "There it is: take it." And that is exactly what Los Angeles citizens have done. [source]

LYRICS:
Hey, sleepy monster in the sand / Time to get up and have a drink / Pacific Rim has a tank that thinks / That she is really something grand / Let me tell you about / When I was hanging out / Just in my dhoti / Running in the dawn / Right across my lawn / I saw a coyote / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / See the water fall / And hooray, hooray the sky is falling / Down on Bradbury's mall / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / All waxed in pride / I've got a comfortable ride / And man, she could take us / Out across the salts / Right out of these faults / And on into Vegas / So slept a monster in the dune / Woke him up and then he drank / Pacific Rim has a think tank / But does she have IQ for the moon? / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / See the water falling / And hooray, hooray the ants are crawling / Down in the Bradbury's mall / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / Yeah it's quite a spraw / And hooray, hooray the sky is falling / Down in the Bradbury's mall / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland

SPOKEN PART:
The concrete of the aquaduct will last as long as the pyramid of Egypt or the Parthenon of Athens; long after Job Harriman is elected major of Los Angeles.

REFERENCES:
Ray Bradbury is a legendary science fiction novelist, who also has a love for designing shopping malls.

Job Harriman was a socialist politition who, after an unsuccessful run for Vice-President of the United States, ran for mayor of Los Angeles and nearly won. He later organized a utopian experiment in Antelope Valley, California in 1914 founded on the general principles of "equal ownership, equal wage and equal social opportunities." Llano del Rio, as it was called, was forced to move 3 years later (due to a lack of sufficient water resources) to an isolated area in western Louisiana.

LIVE: yeah, occasionally in 94/95.

ACOUSTIC: don't think so.