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There’s another Bruce Willis connection to the song as well: Willis mentions spending his suspension “Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo” in Die Hard With A Vengeance. Bruce Willis is singing along to the song, which is playing on his car radio, just before he runs over Marsellus Wallace at an intersection. This appears on the soundtrack to the movie Pulp Fiction. He’s in a pretty bad spot, counting flowers on the wall and playing solitaire with a deck that’s missing a card. I started listening to it, and i never realized what it was about. Counting flowers on the wall That dont bother me at all Playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51 Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo Now dont tell me Ive nothing to do Last night I dressed in tails pretended I was on the town As long as I can dream its hard to slow this swinger down So please dont give a thought to me Im. Written by Statler Brothers singer Lew DeWitt, this song is about a guy who has been left lonely and nearly catatonic by the one he loves. I used to love this song when i was a little kid. The Statler Brothers: Countin flowers on the wall, that dont bother me at all Playin solitaire til dawn, with a deck of fifty-one Smokin cigarettes and watchin Captain Kangaroo Now dont tell me Ive nothin to do This song was also on (diegetically) the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction. In 1966 it won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Performance-Group (Vocal or Instrumental.) Flowers On The Wall was their only top 10 Billboard 100 hit. Nine weeks later, it had peaked at #4 in the Billboard 100 and #2 in the Billboard Country Charts in 1966.Īll together the Statler Brothers had 66 songs in the top 100, 33 in the Top Ten and 4 number 1’s in the Billboard Country Charts. In December, the song appeared on Billboard’s Hot 100. G Em And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete. A D Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light.
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G Em It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright. C Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, D D7 D now don't tell me.I've nothing to do. He described it: “We took gospel harmonies and put them over in country music.” However, it did crossover to the pop charts.īuoyed by interest from the country fans, folk listeners began to demand that rock stations play Flowers On The Wall. Playing solitaire till dawn, with a deck of 51. Lew DeWitt, the original tenor for The Statler Brothers, wrote “Flowers on the Wall. I remember it early on as a kid and in more modern times when Bruce Willis was mouthing the words it in Pulp Fiction. You know when the Muppets cover you…you have a hit. I have heard this called a psychedelic Country song… CMT named it one of the 100 greatest Country songs of all-time.