TFW...

...you finally realize...

Frank Zappa's Broadway the Hard Way album was one of the first CDs I ever listened to, so it's been with me a long time.

Maybe three years ago, maybe five, I listened to the CD of the reconstructed score for Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. There's a tune which crops up now and again, which at first reminded me of a tune (an unknown tune, I've not managed to recollect it) in the Methodist Hymnal. But, probably not—the tune is “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!”

And it's only now, late by either reference point, that I realize that “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!” is the tune which Zappa tacked onto the end of “Rhymin’ Man.”

Ain’t no great revelation, but it wasn’t too long ....