Colder than the Coldest Winter was Cold

By the end of the Great War the Dandy Warhols had progressed

Far beyond the traditional jug band sound, Zia had all but hung up

The washtub bass in favor of her new invention

Which she called the 'Synthesizer'



The Banjo was still there but now it was electrified

Through a flat microphone which Pete had wound tightly

With copper wire and called his 'Pickup'

And in turn, made it louder by what Fat Head jokingly called 'Pete's Amp'



Well, the name stuck and by the time such luminaries

As Gene Vincent, Elvis Presley and B. B. King

Had heard this new Warhols sound

They were calling it 'Rock and Roll'



Dandy front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Would be quoted as saying

"I know it's only 'Rock and Roll', but I think I like it"

I'm Bill Curtis and you're listening to a piece of history