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Well, my goodness, Bob. Thanks for that resolution of the etymology of May Day. Amazing, and saves me the trouble of searching it out.

A maypole song:

AWAKE, AWAKE, MY PRETTY PRITHY MAID,
COME OUT YOUR DROWSY DREAM,
AND STEP INTO YOUR DAIRY HOLD,
AND FETCH ME A BOWL OF CREAM.
IF NOT A BOWL OF CREAM, MY DEAR,
A CUP OF MEADE TO CHEER,
FOR THE lord KNOWS WE SHALL MEET AGAIN,
TO GO maying ANOTHER YEAR.
A BRANCH OF may I BROUGHT YOU HERE,
WHILE AT YOUR KEEP I STAND,
'TIS BUT A SPROUT ALL BUDDED OUT,
BY THE POWER OF OUR lord's HAND
. MY SONG IS DONE AND I MUST BE GONE,
NO LONGER MAY I STAY,
GOD BLESS YOU ALL, THE GREAT AND SMALL,
AND SEND YOU A JOYOUS MAY.

That song was Christianized a bit.

G'day all. Down on the beach today I saw…

A Flock Of Seagulls ~ Lyrics

It's not the way you look,
It's not the way that you smile.
Although there's something to them.
It's not the way you have your hair,
It's not that certain style;
It could be that with you.

If I had a photograph of you,
It's something to remind me.
I wouldn't spend my life just wishing.

It's not the make-up
And it's not the way that you dance,
It's not the evening sky.
It's more the way your eyes
are laughing as they glance
Across the great divide.

If I had a photograph of you,
It's something to remind me.
I wouldn't spend my life just wishing.

It's not the things you say
It's not the things you do
It must be something more
And if I feel this way for so long
Tell me is it all for nothing
Just don't walk out the door.

If I had a photograph of you,
It's something to remind me.
I wouldn't spend my life just wishing

Damn, folks. This has been either startling coincidence or synchronicity day. I just put an opinion on the "French Women Don't Get Fat" thread, and here is our Try with one lovely song about visages and seagulls. <smile>

Thanks, buddy. Your timing was perfect.

How about a little Etta James, listeners, since she closed out the Jazz fest in New Orleans today.



Trust In Me
Etta James
- written by Ned Wever, Milton Ager and Jean Schwartz



Trust in me in all you do
Have the faith I have in you
Love will see us through
If only you trust in me
Why don't you, you trust me

Come to me when things go wrong
Cling to me Daddy, oh yeah, and I'll be strong
We can get along, we can get along
Oh, if only you trust in me

While there's a moon, a moon on high
While there are birds, birds to fly
While there is you, you and I
I can be sure that I love you

Oh, stand beside me, stand beside me all the while
Come on Daddy, face the future, why don't you smile
Trust in me and I'll be worthy of you

Oh yeah, yeah, why don't you, you trust in me in all you do
And have the faith I, I have in you
Oh, and love will see us through
If only you trust in me
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Why don't you, you come to me when things go wrong
Cling to me and, whoa, and I'll be strong
We can get along, we can get along
Oh, if only you trust in me
Yeah, yeah

She's a legend, listeners, but I have never heard the lady sing.

"French Women Don't Get Fat"

I think it was Francis who said…

Fat Bottomed Girls
Words and music by Brian May

Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Nanny
She was such a naughty Nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes


But, don't quote me

Oh, my Gawd, Try. I love it. Hey, folks. We miss our European friends, fat bottoms and all.

Here's an oldie, and I have no idea from whence it came.


Blues Lyrics - Omar ; The Howlers
Black Bottom

by
Kent "Omar" Dykes
recording of 1995

In the shadow of the city where the sun don't shine
Where it's a constant struggle just to stay alive
You hear a shot ring out,
somebody else has died
Ain't no good in Black Bottom,
it's an evil place
Where a man can vanish,
without a single trace
Talk about the blues,
people down there got ´em
'Cause you ain't gotta chance,
if you're down in Black Bottom
If you live in Black Bottom,
you don't walk at night
'Cause some cat might cut you,
just to spark a fight
Talk about the blues,
people down there got ´em
'Cause you ain't gotta chance,
if you're down in Black Bottom

in response to try's photograph song

Pictures of You
The Cure

i've been looking so long at these pictures of you
that i almost believe that they're real
i've been living so long with my pictures of you
that i almost believe that the pictures are
all i can feel

remembering
you standing quiet in the rain
as i ran to your heart to be near
and we kissed as the sky fell in
holding you close
how i always held close in your fear
remembering
you running soft through the night
you were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow
and screamed at the make-believe
screamed at the sky
and you finally found all your courage
to let it all go

remembering
you fallen into my arms
crying for the death of your heart
you were stone white
so delicate
lost in the cold
you were always so lost in the dark
remembering
you how you used to be
slow drowned
you were angels
so much more than everything
hold for the last time then slip away quietly
open my eyes
but i never see anything

if only i'd thought of the right words
i could have held on to your heart
if only i'd thought of the right words
i wouldn't be breaking apart
all my pictures of you

looking so long at these pictures of you
but i never hold on to your heart
looking so long for the words to be true
but always just breaking apart
my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world
that i ever wanted more
than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world
that i ever wanted more
than to never feel the breaking apart
all my pictures of you

Wow! dj, that is awesome, Canada. Gave me a little shiver, honey. Well, if it's picture time then lets continue:



Just As Though You Were Here lyrics

I'll wake each morning and I'll promise to laugh
I'll say ";Good morning"; to your old photograph
Then I'll speak to you, dear, just as though you were here
When purple shadows start to welcome the dark
I'll take the same old stroll we took through the park
And I'll cling to you, dear, just as though you were here
But I know so well that distance and time will finally tear us apart
The farther you go, the longer you stay, the deeper the doubts in my heart
Each night before I wander off into sleep
I'll bring to light the tears I've buried so deep
Then I'll kiss you, my dear, just as though you were here
And when I hear a lonesome train, I'm afraid
I'll think of all those trips we never quite made
Fragile dreams that we planned
Then I'll reach for your hand
Just as though, just as though you were here

I Love You

I will hold on to love
Forever...
And I won't ever be cold enough
To never try again

I will sing this song
To simple to say
With a world moving so fast
To make a moment last
On through time till it rings
Ever true

I love you

I have a belief
That love will bring rewards
The chords to a melody
I harmony with life

So I'll be your desire
In every way so they'll
Show and shine
On through time
Till it rings ever true...

I love you


RexRed

Ah, listeners, another Rex original. One cannot improve on those three words, right?

Artists have tried
Poets have lied
Demons have spied,
The Jaded decried,

but in any language, those three words say volumes without banality.

Thank you, Maine. That was lovely.

I guess it's that time of night again, folks. We bubble up from the lava and look at the midnight sun.

Song: Midnight Sun Lyrics

What went down on the side of the road?
What I saw at the edge of the sea
Only those elements time cannot wear
And they follow
What seeped out through the cracks of time?
What sucks out the color in me?
What awaits beyond infinity?

Beyond and to all time I stand
Beyond and to all time I stand

What blew in with the great gale?
What weighed down the falling leaves?
What came forth from the remains?
What has always lived and gone unseen?
What has caused the night to fall?
Who speaks of eternity?
Who awakes to night eternally?

Beyond and to all time I stand
Beyond and to all time I stand

Beyond and to all time I stand
Beyond and to all time I stand
I stand, I stand
To all time, I stand
And to all time

Go!

(O my soul love, I pray thee pity me
From out this dark gulf where this poor heart lies
A barren world hemmed in by leaden skies
Where horror flies at night, and blasphemy

For half the year the sickly sun is seen
The other half thick night lies on the land
A country bleaker than the polar strand
No beasts, no brooks, nor any shred of green

There never was a horror which surpassed
This icy sun's cold cruelty)

Beyond and to all time I stand
Beyond and to all time I stand

Beyond and to all time I stand
Beyond and to all time I stand
I stand, I stand

I stand!

(O my soul love, I pray thee pity me
From out this dark gulf where my poor heart lies,
A barren world hemmed in by leaden skies)

Thirteen
Garbage

Won't you let me walk you home from school
Won't you let me meet you at the pool
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I'll take you

Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back"
Tell him what we said about "Paint It black"
Rock 'n Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you.

Won't you tell me what you're thinking of.
And would you be an outlaw for my love
If it's so, then, let me know
If it's "no," well, I can go.
I won't make you.

Perfect, dj, exactly what we need; a change of pace.

If

David Gates(from musical group "Bread")

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
For you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
And now you've left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me
If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way
If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die.
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through...
Then one by one, the stars would all go out.
Then you and I, would simply fly away.

and I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.

From Letty with love

Always In My HeartGlenn Miller & His Orchestra w/ Ray Eberle

[Written by Kim Gannon and Ernesto Lecuona] 1942

You are always in my heart
Even though you're far away
I can hear the music of
The song of love
I sang with you
You are always in my heart
And when skies above are grey
I remember that you care
And then and there
The sun breaks through

Just before I go to sleep
There's a rendezvous I keep
And a dream I always meet
Helps me forget we're far apart
I don't know exactly when, dear
But I'm sure we'll meet again, dear
And my darling, till we do
You are always in my heart

Another man done gone
Another man done gone
Another man done gone
An´unaccounted for
Another man done gone
I didn't know his name
I didn't know his name
I didn't know his name
I didn't know his name
I didn't know his name
He had a long chain on
He had a long chain on
He had a long chain on
He had a long chain on
He had a long chain on
De capt´n don´t know where
De capt´n don´t know where
De capt´n don´t know where
Another man done gone

Bess ,you is my woman now
You is, you is
And you must laugh and sing and dance
For two instead of one
Want no wrinkle on your brow
No how
Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
Oh Bess, My Bess. The real happiness has just begun

Porgy I am your woman now
I is, I is!
And I ain't never going nowhere unless you shares the fun
There's no wrinkle on my brow
No how
But I ain't going! You hear me saying
If you ain't going, with you I'm staying

Porgy I'm yo' woman now
I'm yours forever
Morning time and evening time
Summer time and winter time

Morning time and evening time and
Summertime and winter time

Bess, you is my woman now and forever
This life is just begun
Bess, we two are one
Now and forever
Oh Bess , don't min' dose women
You got yo' Porgy
We'll go swinging
Trough the years a singing
Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time

Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time
Oh my Porgy my man Porgy
My Bess, My Bess

From this minute I'm telling you
I keep this vow: Porgy I'm yours now

From this minute I'm telling you
I keep this vow
Oh my Bessie, we is happy now. We are one now

NAMELY YOU - from Lil Abner


You deserve a boy who's willin', namely me.
One who'd love to raise my chillun, namely me.
Comin' home when the work is over at the close of day.
I'd be with you all the way, to love, honor, and obey.

'Cause you deserve two arms to hold you, namely mine.
There to comfort and enfold you, Rain or shine.
I deserve someone sweet and tender, bashful and shy and true.
And I know just the one who'll do, namely you.

Who's the one you're waiting for?
You're the one that I adore!
I deserve someone sweet and tender, bashful and shy and true.
And I know just the one who'll do, namely you.

http://rexred.com/eric/Music/I%20Love%20You%20-%20Eric%20Pedersen.html

This is a home made video of me singing one of my songs and playing guitar on a webcam...

You need broadband internet to watch it.

Sorry it is so blurry.

Hope the quality is at least ok and you are able to download it.

If you receive a blank screen it is still downloading. On a phone line that could take twenty minutes or much more.

It is a 6.2 megabyte file.

Enjoy

Eric (RexRed) Pedersen

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners and contributors.

A special thanks to edgar for all the wonderful music. I especially liked Bess, as that is a favorite of all jazz enthusiasts.

Rex, I hate to say it, but I do not have broadband, Maine. Would love to see your video, however.

Is it possible, folks, that this is May 1st? We have come a long way here on our little radio:

Here are three verses of a song written by Katie Moss (1881 - 1947) in 1911. She was a violinist, pianist and singer: she wrote some other songs, but The Floral Dance is the one she was best known for.

I thought I could hear the curious tone
Of the cornet, clarinet and big trombone
Fiddle, 'cello, big bass drum
Bassoon, flute and euphonium
Far away, as in a trance
I heard the sound of the Floral Dance

And soon I heard such a bustling and prancing
And then I saw the whole village was dancing
In and out of the houses they came
Old folk, young folk, all the same
In that quaint old Cornish town

Every boy took a girl 'round the waist
And hurried her off in tremendous haste
Whether they knew one another I care not
Whether they cared at all, I know not
But they kissed as they danced along.

Good Day all.

I'd like to wish Glenn Ford a Happy 90th Birthday today.



and Judy Collins, a Happy 65th.