From the recording Family Portraits (Volume 1)
A jangly, guitar-driven love song to my two full and one half brother; making an analogy with Alexander Dumas' famous novel "The Three Musketeers", in which the protagonists (like my brothers) couldn't be more different, yet are united as kin: "One-for-all-and-all-for-one"!
Lyrics
Three-and-a-Half- Musketeers
Athos consoles his heart in vino veritas
And Porthos is sartorial and stronger than an ox
“One for All and All for One” is their motto
They stick together through it all
Though they
Couldn’t be more different
They are still kin
Three-and-a-half, yeah, musketeers
Raise beers and voices to toast and cheer
Three-and-a-half, yeah, musketeers
Let’s hear it for the boys
Aramis believes in schemes and women and in God
D’Artagnan does all he can
To break into the squad
“One for All and All for One” is their thing
They stick together through thick and thin
Though they
Couldn’t be more opposite
They are still kin
Three-and-a-half, yeah, musketeers
Raise beers and voices to toast and cheer
Three-and-a-half, yeah, musketeers
Let’s hear it for them
If you see them drinking and laughing by the bar
You can tell them apart
Classified by height
Three are tall
And one’s a short-*rse
Three-and-a-half, yeah, musketeers
Raise beers and voices to toast and cheer
Three-and-a-half, yeah, buccaneers
Let’s hear it for the boys