The Neverending "Conversation About Everything" Chain

Fascinating isn't it, how we can change from one subject to another? I find that when I see a word, I usually associate it with a song.

Done, said Letty to Raggedy:

If they ask me I could write a book,
About the way you talk and listen and look.
I could write a sonnet on how we met,
That the world would never forget.

And the simple secret of the plot,
Is just to tell them that I love you a lot.
And the world discovers as my book ends.

How to make two lovers of friends.

Songs are notorious for running through your head with unnecessary insistence. Sometimes it takes days to get rid of one.

One Day at A Time sang Joan Baez. Yesterday's dead and tomorrow is blind, I live one day at a time.

Ti-i-i-i-ime is on your side. Yes it is.

Is you is or is you ain't my baby? Hey, that was a great jitterbug number.

Number me amongst your fans, Raggs! I like so many of your posts.

Posts that are kindly acknowledged make one feel so happy, don't they? Thank you Clary and let me add that the feeling is mutual.

Mutual admiration societies are very cosy, aren't they?

They said someday you'll find all who love are blind. I and Letty, and the musical mutual admiration society, of course chaffed and gaily laughed at smoke getting in our eyes.

Letty is a free spirit, an elemental force who scorns such trivia as rules.

Anyway, she was reminding me of the words of a song which I had misquoted, a song which it is fun and not too difficult to sing in 2-part harmony. Or 3 if you've a mind to try.

Eyes Left! Barked the sergeant-major, and was immediately covered in embarrassment, as the mayor and the general, taking the salute, were standing on a dais on the other side. Jeepers creepers, he thought, how d'you get those eyes right?

Now what. Do I go with eyes or mutual funds?

(McTag, later, on the Jeepers Creepers, and my little bumbling trio sang that, Now is the Hour. We thought it soooooo accomplished)

(We're supposed to go right, Letty - and only two sentences at a time. It's easy. Let me show you.


Right now, Jeepers Creepers and Now is the Hour are getting all jumbled up in my head and they don't sound good together. And I'm wondering if Letty sang Now is the Hour in U.S. lingo or as the Maoris did, inasmuch as it is a Maori folk tune.

The Prince of Wales visited NZ in 1920. To farewell him, Maewa Kaihau (of Waiuku, near Manukau) devised a new version of the song in which the first five words of Po Atarau were changed and two more verses were put in front of them (the Grace/Awatere verses?), and called it the Haere Ra Waltz Song or Maori Farewell Song.


Te i-wi te, I-wi e te i-wi e
Ta hu-ri mai ra, Te nga-ka-u e
Ki nga ku-pu, O te ro-ngo pai
He o-ra-nga O te i-wi e

Ha-e-re ra, Te ma-nu ta-ngi pai
E hae-re a-na, Koe ki pa-ma-mao.
Haere ra, Ka ho-ki mai a-no,
Ki - - te tau

I had no idea, Raggedy. My Gawd! Stunned!

We had no idea what we were singing.

Uhoh! free spirited it again. Maybe it's because it's happy hour in all of Florida. I promise. I'll get it right, Osso

Osso looked on amazed as Letty tap-danced her way past. McTag marvelled at the flounce of the lady Letty's petticoats.

Petticoats? Why I never! (Well you should!) Sorry, I'm schizophrenic tonight!

It's perfectly understandable why Bing who was the first to sing it and mention it was a Maori song, (to my knowledge) and Letty sang the song in English. Happy Hour or not - just try fitting those words with the tune.

Oh, and will someone please take it from "tune".

sorry folks. "Tonight" is the next word.

Tonight is unusual. Reagan is being mourned, and the airconditioners are running.