Sailing for a Song

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}The folks at TBWA\Chiat\Day and Nissan shouldn’t take some of the lyrics on Tom Patty’s forthcoming CD too literally.

“Got up in the morning for another day of work/ Didn’t want to think about facing that jerk/ … Boss was screaming over something I’d done/ I just wasn’t having any fun,” Patty croons on the alternately bouncy and languorous (and appealingly titled) “I Want to Live the Life on my Hawaiian Shirt.”

But Patty, 55, former worldwide account director on Nissan at TBWA\C\D, says the tune is just a playful update on Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It,” and not a reflection on his 20 years at the agency.



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