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Goodnight, dear Try. Yes, I have heard it said that divorce is really independence day. <smile> Thanks for the original. I guess when we think about it, we are all original and yet so much alike.

P. T. Barnum
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

He was born in Bethel, Connecticut, the son of an inn and store-keeper. Barnum first started as a store-keeper, and was also involved with the lottery mania then prevailing in the United States. After failing in business, he started in 1829 a weekly paper, The Herald of Freedom, in Danbury, Connecticut; after several libel suits and a prosecution which resulted in imprisonment, he moved to New York City in 1834, and in 1835 began his career as a showman, with his purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed African-American slave woman, Joice Heth, claimed by Barnum to have been the nurse of George Washington, and to be over a hundred and sixty years old.

With this woman and a small company he made well-advertised and successful tours in America until 1839, though Joice Heth died in 1836, when her age was proved to be not more than seventy. After a period of failure he purchased Scudder's American Museum, New York, in 1841; to this he added considerably and it became one of the most popular shows in the United States. He made a special hit in 1842 with the exhibition of Charles Stratton, the celebrated midget "General Tom Thumb", as well as the Fiji Mermaid which he exhibited in collaboration with his Boston counterpart Moses Kimball. His collection also included the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. In 1843 Barnum hired the traditional Native American dancer Do-Hum-Me. During 1844-45 Barnum toured with Charles Stratton in Europe and met with Queen Victoria. A remarkable instance of his enterprise was the engagement of Jenny Lind to sing in America at $1,000 a night for one hundred and fifty nights, all expenses being paid by the entrepreneur. The tour began in 1850, and was a great success for both Lind and Barnum.

Barnum retired from the show business in 1855, but had to settle with his creditors in 1857, and began his old career again as showman and museum proprietor. In Brooklyn, New York in 1871, he established "P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus", a travelling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks", which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth". It went through a number of variants on these names: "P.T. Barnum's Traveling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth", and after an 1881 merger with James Bailey and James L. Hutchinson, "P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United", soon shortened to "Barnum & London Circus". He and Bailey split up again in 1885, but came back together in 1888 with the "Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth", later "Barnum & Bailey Circus", which toured around the world. The show's primary attraction was Jumbo, an African elephant he purchased in 1882 from the London Zoo.

Barnum died on April 7, 1891 and is buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut. His circus was eventually sold to Ringling Brothers on July 8, 1907 for a price of US$400,000.

Barnum wrote several books, including The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and The Art of Money-Getting(1880).

Barnum self-published many different editions of his autobiography (first in 1854, and later editions including 1869). Some were limited publications of elaborate manufacture. Besides trying to sell these for a profit, he gave personally inscribed copies to friends and dignitaries. These limited editions are now valued by book collectors. Others were mass produced in large volume so they could be used as a promotional enticement to potential purchasers of tickets for circus performances. With each new edition, Barnum added new chapters covering the time since the previous edition. He also would revise the previous chapters. His autobiography was unusually frank for its time and thus considered scandalous by some. Historians have found few factual errors, though they do criticize his intentional omission of events, lack of sufficient details regarding some events, proselytizing and editorializing.

Mass publication of his autobiography was one of Barnum's more successful methods of self-promotion. The autobiography was so popular that some people made a point of acquiring and reading each edition. Some collectors were known to boast they had a copy of every edition in their library. Barnum eventually gave up his claim of copyright to allow other printers to publish and sell inexpensive editions. The autobiography was so popular that by the end of the 19th century the number of copies printed was second only to the number of copies of the New Testament printed in North America. (It was the number two best seller of the 19th century in North America.)

Barnum was significantly involved in the politics surrounding race, slavery, and sectionalism in the period leading up the American Civil War. As mentioned above, he had some of his first success as an impresario through his slave Joice Heth. Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white.

Barnum was involved (both as performer and promoter) in blackface minstrelsy. According to Eric Lott, Barnum's minstrel shows were often more double-edged in their humor than most at this period. While still replete with racist stereotypes, Barnum's shows also satirized white racial attitudes, as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist (like all performers in the show, actually a white man in blackface) made a dialect speech paralleling and parodying lectures given at the time to "prove" the superiority of the white race: "You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color." (Lott, 1993, 78)

Promotion of minstrel shows led indirectly to his sponsorship in 1853 of H.J. Conway's politically watered-down stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; the play, at Barnum's American Museum, gave the story a happy ending, with Tom and various other slaves freed. The success of this Uncle Tom led, in turn, to his promotion of a production of a play based on Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. By 1860, Barnum had become a Republican.

Milburn Stone
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Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 - June 12, 1980) was an American television actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Doctor Galen Adams) on the western television series Gunsmoke.

Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas and died of a heart attack in La Jolla, California.

For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1981, he was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Warren Oates
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Warren Oates (July 5, 1928 - April 3, 1982) was an American character actor.

Born and raised in Depoy, Kentucky near Greenville in Muhlenberg County, he enlisted in the Marines in the 1950s; after this he was famous as a character actor in Westerns especially those for Sam Peckinpah Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), and The Wild Bunch (1969). In 1962, he appeared as "Ves Painter" in the short-lived TV Series "Stoney Burke".

Other popular films he appeared in were In the Heat of the Night (1967) , Dillinger (1973) about the life of John Dillinger, Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Stripes (1981). He is now mostly known for his roles in several movies which have acquired cult status, including The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), The Hired Hand (1971), and three Monte Hellman films: The Shooting (film in 1965, released in 1968), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), and Cockfighter (1974).

He died of a sudden heart attack in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1982. His last two films, Blue Thunder and Tough Enough, were both (1983) dedicated to him. Oates was 53 years old.

Huey Lewis
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Huey Lewis, (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III, July 5, 1950 in New York City) is a musician and singer. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis & The News, a rock group based in San Francisco, California that was particularly popular during the 1980s. He also played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.


Biography

Huey grew up in Marin County, California, and graduated from Monte Vista High in 1967 with very high SAT scores. Huey applied and was accepted by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, In an interview with David Letterman he talked about hitchhiking cross the USA to New York and how he learned to play the harmonica whilst waiting for rides. He talks about hanging out at the terminal for 3 days until he stowed away on a plane to Europe. In Europe Huey became an accomplished blues player and he hitchhiked around and supportd himself by busking with his harmonica. He gave his first concerts in Europe earning enouogh to buy a plane ticket back to the USA. On his return, Huey entered Cornell, joining the engineering program. While there, he made friends with Lance and Larry Hoppen, who later played with Orleans and King Harvest. Huey soon lost interest in college though. He signed up with a band called Slippery Elm, and in December 1969 during his junior yaer he dropped out of Cornell, moving back to the San Francisco area - his aim was to continue playing music, but along the way he also tried other fields of work including landscaping, carpentry and natural foods.

In 1971, Huey joined the Bay Area band Clover. Around this time he took the name Huey Lewis. The Lewis is for his mother Magda Cregg's boyfriend, Beat Generation poet Lew(is) Welch, who he considered his stepfather. Sean Hopper joined the band in 1972 - other members of the band were John McFee, Alex Call, John Ciambotti, Mitch Howie, Mickey Shine and Marcus David. Huey played harmonica with the band and only sang lead vocals on a few tunes. Clover's main rival band (which developed into a friendly rivalry) were Soundhole (Johnny Colla, Mario Cipollina and Bill Gibson were band members).

In 1976, after playing in the Bay Area with limited success, Clover went to Los Angeles - they had their 'big break' in a club there when their act was caught by Nick Lowe - he convinced Clover to travel to Britain with him. But Clover was not successful in Britain, the band arrived just as their folk-rock sound (known as pub rock in Britain) was being replaced by punk rock. They recorded two albums for the British Phonogram label, both albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, but they both bombed.

While Huey went on vacation, the rest of Clover backed Elvis Costello on his debut album My Aim is True. The band returned to California, McFee joined the Doobie Brothers, and Clover broke up.

In 1978 Huey was playing at Uncle Charlie's, a club in Corte Madera, California, doing the 'Monday Night Live' spot, along with future members of the News. After recording the song 'Exo-Disco' (a disco version of the theme from the film Exodus), Huey got a 'singles contract' from Phonogram Records, and Bob Brown became his manager. Huey Lewis and the American Express formed in 1979, with the same line-up as the News - the band played a few gigs (including an opening for Van Morrison), but on Brown's advice, they changed their name again - and Huey Lewis and the News was born.

After a failed self titled debut in 1980, the band finally broke through to Top 40 success, with the gold album Picture This (1982) riding to #13 on the Albums chart thanks to the Mutt Lange-penned "Do You Believe In Love" #7 becoming the band's first hit.

The band's third LP, the #1Sports (1983), was one of the best-selling pop releases of all time selling 10 million copies in the states alone according to the bands own VH1 special. It was followed up by another big seller, Fore! (1986) another #1 Multi-platinum smash.

The band spent the remainder of the 80's and early 90's racking up an impressive string of 14 Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits and releasing two more hit albums Small World (1988) #11 and Hard At Play (1991) #27, by the time the band released their critically acclaimed covers album Four Chords & Several Years Ago (1994) #55, their chosen lower profile and lack of promotion from new label Elektra, saw their Top 40 appeal dip for good, yet they have endured as one of America's top drawing live acts and have continued to have the occasional hit on adult contemporary radio.

As well as singing lead vocals and playing harmonica with the band, Huey also writes or co-writes many of their songs. Outside the band, his interests include golf, baseball, fishing and owning a racing car.

Huey has made appearances in several movies. The first was a cameo in Back to the Future (1985) as a judge in a Hill Valley High School band audition. The band also recorded two songs for the soundtrack, including the hit "The Power of Love." Huey's second movie appearance was in Short Cuts (1993). Huey had a much more significant role and a very memorable scene in it. In addition, Huey appeared in the first few minutes of the movie Sphere (1998) as the helicopter pilot. After that role, he had a large part in Shadow of a Doubt (1998) which appeared on Showtime. He had an uncredited role in Dead Husbands (1998) as the husband killed during the opening credits.

Duets (2000) was probably his largest role in a fairly high-profile movie. In it, he played Gwyneth Paltrow's father, Ricky Dean, a Karaoke-hustler. Duets led to the smash-hit duet "Cruisin'" (a cover of the Smokey Robinson classic) with Paltrow. Unreleased as a single, the song nevertheless reached the top spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart. Next, he appeared in a film titled ".com for Murder", starring Nastassja Kinski.

He is married and lives in Ross, California and has two children - Kelly (born 1983) and Austin (born 1985).

His mother, Magda Cregg, was the partner of poet Lew Welch.

Today's useless fact - What is the origin of the name for each of the 50 states?



-Alabama, Means "tribal town" in the Creek Indian language.

-Alaska, after the Aleut word "alaxsxaq" meaning "the mainland".

-Arizona, based on Pima Indian word "arizonac" for "little spring place."

-Arkansas, a French interpretation of the word "acansa," in Sioux meaning "downstream place."

-California, comes from "Califia" a mythical paradise in old spanish romance word.

-Colorado, means "Reddish" or "Color Red".

-Connecticut, Based on Mohican and Algonquin Indian words for a "place beside a long river".

-Delaware, for the early Virginia governor, Lord De La Warr.

-Florida was a Spanish territory, and the name is in Spanish too. Florida means "Flowered".

-Georgia, Named for King George II of England

-Hawaii, which of course is in native Hawaian could be based on their word for homeland, "Owhyhee".

-Idaho, is just an invented word.

-Illinois, word in Algonquin Indian for "warriors".

-Indiana, from "Land of the Indians".

-Iowa, indian word for "a beautiful land".

-Kansas, From the Sioux Indian for "south wind people".

-Kentucky, Based on the Iroquois Indian word "Ken-tah-ten," meaning "land of tomorrow"

-Lousiana, Named in honor of France's King Louis XIV, this territory had Frech influence.

-Maine, Assumed to be a reference to the state region being a mainland, different from its many surrounding islands

-Maryland, named to honor Henrietta Maria, wife of England's King Charles I.

-Massachusets, Named after local Indian tribe whose name means "a large hill place".

-Michigan, for the Chippewa Indian word "meicigama" meaning "great water" (for the big lakes).

-Minnesota, based on the Dakota Sioux Indian word for "sky-tinted water", referring to the Minnesota River or the state's many lakes.

-Mississippi, probably based on the Indian "mici zibi," loosely meaning great river.

-Missouri, named after the Missouri Indian tribe.

-Montana, based on the Spanish word "Montaña" that means Mountain.

-Nebraska, Name based on an Oto Indian word that means "flat water," referring to the Platte River.

-Nevada, comes from a spanish word that means "snowy" or "snow- clad".

-New Hampshire, named after the area of Hampshire in England.

-New Jersey, named after the area of Jersey in England.

-New Mexico, from the country of Mexico.

-New York, named after the city of York in England.

-North Carolina, named in honor of England's King Charles I.

-North Dakota, for the Sioux or Dacotah Indians.

-Ohio, comes from the Iroquois Indian word for "good river".

-Oklahoma, a Choctaw Indian word for "red man".

-Oregon, may have been derived from that of the Wisconsin River shown on a 1715 French map as "Ouaricon-sint."

-Pennsylvania, for the Admiral William Penn, father of the state's founder, William Penn.

-Rhode Island, after "Roode Eylandt" by Adriaen Block, Dutch explorer, because of its red clay.

-South Carolina (see North Carolina).

-South Dakota (see North Dakota).

-Tenessee, Named after Cherokee Indian villages called "Tanasi"

-Texas, comes from the Spanish "Tejas" when it belonged top Mexico (they exchanged the J for X as an English contribution).

-Utah, from the Ute Indians (people of the mountains).

-Vermont, from the French "verts monts," meaning green mountains.

-Virginia, named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.

-West Virginia (see Virginia).

-Washington, after the first President of the US.

-Wisconsin, from the word "Ouisconsin" believed to mean "grassy place" in the Cheppewa tongue.

-Wyoming, Indian word meaning "large prairie place".

Well, there's our hawkman. Greetings from flowered Florida, buddy.

Well, folks. I never heard of Huey Lewis, but this seems appropriate:

Huey Lewis & The News


The power of love is a curious thing
make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
more than a feeling that's the power of love

Tougher than diamonds, bricks like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
make a bad one good make a wrong one right
power of love that keeps you home at night

Chorus 1 :
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love

First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But you'll be glad baby when you've found
that's the power makes the world go'round

Chorus 2 :
And it don't take money, don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden it can be cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life


They say that all in love is fair
yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
when it gets hold of you
and with a little help from above
you feel the power of love
you feel the power of love

Can you feel it ?

Hmmm

Chorus 3 :
It don't take money and it don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
you won't feel nothin' till you feel
you feel the power, just the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
you feel the power of love
feel the power of love

So, instead of hawk, I guess we'll have to refer to biobob as dove.

I'm certain Raggedy will be along shortly to show us faces that we might have forgotten.

Good afternoon.

Do you remember Doc?

and Warren Oates

Well, there's our Raggedy. Thanks to that picture, PA, I do recall the doc, but NOT Warren Oates. Ah, well, often a picture is not worth a thousand words.<smile>

Before I play a song, I would like to recognize another person who, like edgar's brother, has achieved an award because of his art.

Diane's son has taken first place in an art contest, and unlike many starving artists, has gotten paid for it.

Congratulations to Diane's number one son. (don't mom's alway take credit for their children's success?)

Now, listeners, a song dedicated to P.T. Barnum who once proclaimed, "There's a sucker born every minute", and unwritten by mamma sow who gave birth to ten baby pigs.

From Bobbby to P.T.

Artist: Bobby Darin Lyrics
Song: It's Only A Paper Moon Lyrics

I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm
You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it

Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phoney as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

"Diane's son has taken first place in an art contest"
That is great! Do we get to see the work?

MEAT LOAF lyrics -
"For Crying Out Loud"

I was lost till you were found
But I never knew how far down
I was falling
Before I reached the bottom

I was cold and you were fire
And I never knew how the pyre
Could be burning
On the edge of the ice field

And now the chilly Californian wind
Is blowing down our bodies again
And we're sinking deeper and deeper
In the chilly Californian sand
Oh I know you belong inside my aching heart
And can't you see my faded Levis bursting apart
And don't you here me crying
'Oh Babe, don't go'
And don't you hear me screaming
'How was I to know'

I'm in the middle of nowhere
Near the end of the line
But there's a border to somewhere waiting
And there's a tankful of time
Oh give me just another moment
To see the light of the day
And take me to another land
Where I don't have to stay
And I'm gonna need somebody
To make me feel like you do
And I will receive somebody
With open arms, open eyes
Open up the sky and let the planet
That I love shine through

For crying out loud
You know I love you

I was damned and you were saved
And I never knew how enslaved
I was kneeling
In the chains of my master

I could laugh but you could cry
And I never knew just how high
I was flying
Ah with you right above me

And now the chilly Californian wind
Is blowing down our bodies again
And we're sinking deeper and deeper
In the chilly Californian sand
Oh I know you belong inside my aching heart
And can't you see my faded Levis bursting apart
And don't you here me crying
'Oh Babe, don't go'
And don't you hear me screaming
'How was I to know'

I'm in the middle of nowhere
Near the end of the line
But there's a border to somewhere waiting
And there's a tankful of time
Oh give me just another moment
To see the light of the day
And take me to another land
Where I don't have to stay
And I'm gonna need somebody
To make me feel like you do
And I will receive somebody
With open arms, open eyes
Open up the sky and let the planet
That I love shine through

For taking in the rain when I'm feeling so dry
For giving me the answers when I'm asking you why
My oh my, for that I thank you
For taking in the sun when I'm feeling so cold
For giving me a child when my body is old
Don't you know for that I need you

For coming to my room when you know I'm alone
For finding me a highway and for driving me home
For that I serve you

For pulling me away when I'm starting to fall
For revving me up when I'm starting to stall
And all in all for that I want you

For taking and for giving and for playing the game
For praying for my future in the days that remain
Oh Lord for that I hold you

Ah but most of all
For crying out loud
For that I love you
When you're crying out loud
You know I love you

Welcome back, Try. I'm not certain that Diane can retrieve the picture of his painting, but until we hear, HERE'S an answer to your song:

Melissa Manchester
Song: Don't Cry Out Loud Lyrics

Baby cried the day the circus came to town
'cause she didn't want parades just passin' by her
So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown
While she danced without a net upon the wire
I know a lot about 'er 'cause, you see
Baby is an awful lot like me

Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all

Baby saw that when they pulled that big top down
They left behind her dreams among the litter
The different kind of love she thought she'd found
There was nothin' left but sawdust and some glitter
But baby can't be broken 'cause you see
She had the finest teacher-that was me-I told 'er

Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all

Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall, remember you almost made it

Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside and learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all

Congratulations Diane and son.

Well, for once, listeners. I was put on hold on the telephone and heard a great version of this song, which must be by a modern swinger singer.



Artist: Count Basie Lyrics
Song: With Plenty of Money and You Lyrics

Well, baby, what I couldn't do
With plenty of money and you.
In spite of the worry that money brings.
Just a little filthy lucre buys a lot of things.
And I could take you to places that you would like to go.
But outside of that, I've no use for dough.
It's the root of all evil,
Of strife and upheaval.
But I'm certain, honey, that life would be sunny
With plenty of money and you.

It's the root of all evil,
Of strife and upheaval.
But I'm certain, honey, that life would be sunny
With plenty of money and you.

Venus and Mars

Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine,
A good friend of mine, follows the stars,
Venus and mars
Are alright tonight.

Paul McCartney

Wow, Rex. That must be the shortest Beatle song in history.

Guess we could follow with an oldie, and dedicate it to the astronauts:

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you



Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love ... you

Space Oddity

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

Spoken:
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Lift-off

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!)
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear....

" am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.?

David Bowie

State of Independence

State of life-may I live-may I love
Coming out the sky, I name me a name

Coming out-silver word-what it is
It is the very nature of the sound the game
Siamese, indionese. to tibet treat the life
As a game, if you please

(hey)

Coming up-carabi-this sense of freedom
Derives from a medative state

Movin on, believe thats it, call it magic
Third world, it is, I only guessed it

Shablam idi shablam ida
Shablam idi shablam ida
Shablam idi shablam ida

Shot to the soul-the flame of oroladin
The essence of the word
The state of independence

[interlude]

Sounds like a signal from you
Bring me to meet your sound
And I will bring you to my heart

Love like a signal you call
Touching my body my soul
Bring to me, you to meet me here

Home be the temple of your heart
Home be the body of your love
Just like holy water to my lips

(hey, hey)

Yes I do know how I survive
(yes I do know) know why Im alive
To love and be with you
Day by day by day by day

(hey, hey)
Say-aye yaya oh
(yayah yaya oh)
be the sound of higher love today

(yayah)

(hey, hey)
Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be

Ah, David Bowie. I always liked that guy. I remember watching Labyrinth and enjoying the entire score, listeners:


Artist: David Bowie
Album: Labyrinth soundtrack


No one can blame you for walking away
But too much rejection, uh huh...
No love injection

Life can be easy
It's not always swell
Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl
'cause it hurts like hell.


But down in the underground
You'll find someone true
Down in the Underground
A land serene, a crystal moon

A-ha

It's only forever
Not long at all
Lost and Lonely
That's underground, underground

Daddy, daddy, get me out of here
Heard about a place today
Nothing ever hurts again

repeat

Sister, sister, please take me down,
gotta get underground

'evening , all !
won't you join me in a trip to south-america ?
i'm sure you'll enjoy the music , the food , the friendly people !
hbg


DAN MCCAFFERTY

Headin' For South America
(From the album "INTO THE RING")

Let's make sail the wind is right
Weigh the anchor fast
Say farewell to kids and wife
We're taking off at last
We're heading for South America
Seeking for an island
Where no one else has been before
Where no one else has stepped ashore

Shift the helm to South of West
Let's sail into the night
We're gliding through the ocean fast
Although the devil smiles
For somewhere in South America
Waits an island in the sun
Where noone else has been before
Where no man at arms has stepped ashore

Let's make sail the wind is right
Weigh the anchor fast
Say farewell to kids and wife
We're taking off at last
We're heading for South America
Seeking for an island
Where no one and nothing has been before
We'll even sail a year or more