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Steve Reeves
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Stephen L. Reeves (January 21, 1926 - May 1, 2000), was an American bodybuilder, actor, and author.





Childhood

Born in Glasgow, Montana, Steve Reeves moved to California at the age of 10 with his mother Goldie, after his father Lester Dell Reeves died in a farming accident. Reeves developed an interest in bodybuilding while in high school and trained at Ed Yarick's gym in Oakland. By the time he was 17 he had developed a Herculean build, long before the rise in general interest in bodybuilding. After he was graduated from high school, he entered the Army during the latter part of World War II and served in the Pacific.


Bodybuilding

Reeves won the following bodybuilding titles:

1946 - Mr. Pacific Coast
1947 - Mr. Western America
1947 - Mr. America
1948 - Mr. World
1950 - Mr. Universe
By his own account, his best cold (unpumped) measurements at the peak of his bodybuilding activity were:

Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight: 216
Neck: 18 1/2"
Chest: 52"
Waist: 29"
Biceps: 18 1/4"
Thighs: 26"
Calves: 18 1/4"
Reeves was known for his "V-taper" and for the great width of his shoulders, which Armand Tanny once measured at 23 1/2" using outside calipers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding states:

By [the 1940s] the distinction between lifting weights purely for strength and training with weights to shape and proportion the body had been clearly made. ... However, bodybuilding still remained an obscure sport. No champion was known to the general public--that is, until Steve Reeves came along. Reeves was the right man in the right place at the right time. He was handsome, personable, and had a magnificent physique. Survivors from the Muscle Beach era recall how crowds used to follow Reeves when he walked along the beach, and how people who knew nothing about him would simply stop and stare, awestruck.



Acting

After his WWII military service, Reeves decided to try his hand at acting, having been told endlessly that he had the rugged good looks of a Hollywood star. After some intensive actor training, he came to the attention of film director Cecil B. De Mille, who considered him for the part of Samson in Samson and Delilah (1949). After a dispute over his physique in which De Mille and the studio wanted Reeves to lose 15 pounds of muscle, the part finally went to Victor Mature.


In 1954 he had a co-starring role in his first major motion picture, the musical Athena playing Debbie Reynolds' boyfriend. The same year Reeves had a small role as a cop in the Ed Wood film Jail Bait. This is one of the few opportunities to hear Reeves' voice as most of his later films were dubbed. Reeves' appearance in Athena prompted Italian director Pietro Francisci's daughter to suggest him for the role of Hercules in her father's upcoming movie. In 1957, Reeves went to Italy and played the title character in Francisci's Hercules, which was released in Italy in February of 1958 and in the U.S. in July of 1959. Following the U.S. release, the film was an enormous hit and created a new sub-genre of the sword and sandal film (also known as the peplum film): the 'Hercules' or 'strong man' movie. The film is now in public domain and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

From 1959 through 1964, Reeves went on to appear in a string of sword and sandal movies, and although he is best known for his portrayal of the Greek hero Hercules, he played the character only twice - in the 1958 film Hercules and the sequel Hercules Unchained (released in the U.S. in 1960). He played a number of other characters on screen, including Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's Glaucus of Pompeii; Goliath (also called Emiliano); Tatar hero Hadji Murad; Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome (opposite Gordon Scott as his twin brother Remus); the famous Olympian and war-time messenger of the Battle of Marathon, Pheidippides (The Giant of Marathon); pirate and self-proclaimed governor of Jamaica Captain Henry Morgan; and Karim, the Thief of Bagdad. Twice he played Aeneas of Troy and twice he played Emilio Salgari's Malaysian hero, Sandokan.

Paramount considered Reeves for the title role of their film version of the Broadway musical Li'l Abner in 1958, but the part eventually went to Peter Palmer. After the box-office success of Hercules, Reeves turned down a number of parts that subsequently made the careers of other actors. He was asked to star as 'James Bond' in Dr. No (1962), which he turned down. He also declined the role that finally went to Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

During the filming of The Last Days of Pompeii, Reeves dislocated his shoulder when his chariot crashed into a tree. Reeves pulled the joint back into its socket by himself and chose to continue filming and performing his own stunts. Swimming in a subsequent underwater escape scene he reinjured his shoulder. The injury would be aggravated by his stunt work in each successive film, ultimately leading him to retire early.

In 1968 Reeves appeared in his final film, a spaghetti western which he also co-wrote, titled A Long Ride From Hell, fulfilling his wish to make a Western before he retired. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe. His last screen appearance was in 2000 when he appeared as himself in the made-for-television A&E Biography: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Flex Appeal.

Mac Davis
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Background information
Birth name Scott Davis
Born January 21, 1942
Origin Lubbock, Texas
Genre(s) Country Music/Pop Music
Occupation(s) singer/songwriter/actor
Years active 1972-Present
Label(s) MCA Records
Associated
acts Kenny Rogers, Elvis Presley, Crystal Gayle

Mac Davis (born Scott Davis, January 21, 1942, in Lubbock, Texas) is a country music singer and songwriter, who has enjoyed much pop music crossover success. He became one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s and 80s and also was an actor.




Career as a songwriter

Mac Davis initially rose to fame as a working songwriter. He seemed to be quite gifted in songwriting, writing the 1969 hit song for Elvis Presley called "In the Ghetto". He later proved to the public that he was more than just a songwriter, but also a Country singer. Especially in the 1970s, many of his songs found success on the country and pop charts alike, including the number-one smash "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me," "One Hell of a Woman," and "Stop and Smell the Roses". In the 1970s, he also was active as an actor, hosting his own variety show during this time and also appearing in several movies.

Mac Davis was born in 1942 in Lubbock, Texas. In his early years, he lived for a time in Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, he played Rock'n Roll music. He also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to R&B stars such as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later also served as a regional manager for Liberty Records. In the meantime, Davis was also writing songs. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation," was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous hit for Presley many years later). Shortly after, Elvis recorded Davis' song "In the Ghetto" in his sessions in Memphis. The song became a hit for Elvis and he continued to record more of Mac's material, like "Memories" and "Don't Cry Daddy". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Mac's songs, like "Watching Scotty Grow," which became a number one Adult Contemporary hit for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists that recorded his material included O.C. Smith and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe In Music," often considered to be Davis' signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love and Davis himself) before it finally became a hit in 1972 for the group Gallery.


Success as a singer

Mac soon decided to pursue a career in Country music. He was soon signed to Columbia Records in 1970. His big success came two years later in 1972 when he topped the Country and Pop charts with the hit song "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me".

Mac's work in music seemed sometimes to be overtly sexual. For example, "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" (in which he pleads with a woman not to get too attached to him because he doesn't want to commit to a full-time relationship with her) was one of them, as well as other hit songs like "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love On Me". He wasn't alone in this; many country songs popular in the 1970s and 1980s featured sexual overtones.

In 1974, Mac was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. Some of Davis' other hits included "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary hit in 1974), "One Hell of a Woman," and "Burnin' Thing". At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, known primarily for its success with disco diva Donna Summer. Here, he achieved other hit songs like "Texas In My Rear View Mirror" and "Hooked On Music". In 1985, he recorded his very last Top Ten country hit with the song "I Never Made Love (Till I Made Love With You)".


Television career

From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) and as a result, was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. This proved that Mac could have success in not just singing and songwriting, but also as an actor. He soon became well known for all three of these careers.


Mac Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies. Mac Davis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. For his contribution to the recording industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. At this point there seemed that there was nothing that Mac Davis couldn't do.

In 1980, Davis hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. [1]


Decline and comeback

By the mid 1980s, his career in music was declining. His chart success was falling rapidly; Davis was one of many Country singers who had Pop music crossover success in the 70s and 80s whose careers slowed down to make way for artists like Garth Brooks and Clint Black. After Casablanca Records closed down, Davis recorded for a short period of time with MCA Records in the mid 1980s. In 1990, he gained attention when he helped write the hit song for Dolly Parton called "White Limozeen". That same year, he also was on Broadway, performing in the show The Will Rogers Follies. Mac Davis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 15, 2006, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.


Some famous quotes

"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways."
"Don't Cry Daddy" is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it ws just real quiet when Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God he did. He lived up to his word."

Robby Benson
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Jeremy (1973)Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal on 21 January 1956) is an American actor.




Biography

Early life

Benson was born in Dallas, Texas to Gerald Charles Segal and Freda Ann Benson. His sister is Shelli Segal, designer for the Laundry clothing line known as Laundry by Shelli Segal. Benson's family is Jewish.[1]


Career

Benson had an early role on the daytime soap Search for Tomorrow (1971-72). As a film star, Benson was popular for roles of teens in coming-of-age films, such as in 1972's Jory (his screen debut), and as Billy Joe McAllister in Ode to Billy Joe (1976). He was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28. [1976]. Robby Benson received critical acclaim for his role as the ice skating coach, Nick Peterson, in Ice Castles (1978).


Ice Castles (1978)Other notable performances include Death Be Not Proud and Lucky Lady, both in 1975, and One on One in 1977. Also in 1977 came the TV movie The Death of Richie, co-starring actor Ben Gazzara.

In Disney's animated feature film Beauty and the Beast, Benson demonstrated his vocal abilities by providing the voice of Beast which was completely unrecognizable as Benson's. He would later reprise the role in the Kingdom Hearts role-playing game series. This role led to other voice work for animated features, including the widely popular Prince Valiant cartoon series. Benson also lends his voice to some computer and video game work, such as the voice of Prince Alexander in the computer game King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

Benson directed over 100 episodes of sitcoms including Friends, Sabrina, and an entire season of Ellen. The Ellen sitcom paid homage to Benson's final Ice Castles line ("We forgot about the flowers.") in one episode.


Personal life

Benson is currently a visiting professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, having previously taught at Appalachian State University and the University of South Carolina.[2] Benson has been married to Karla DeVito since 1982. They have two children, a daughter named Lyric and a son named Zephyr (his daughter, Lyric Benson, is not the young woman of the same name who was murdered in New York City by her boyfriend in 2003, although she did have a boyfriend-induced nervous breakdown at the end of 2002, causing her to leave New York University). Benson had heart valve surgery in October 1984.

Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern
Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the
road.

As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the
Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a word or two of thanks, she
got in the car.

After resuming the journey and a bit of small talk, the Navajo woman
noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally. "What's in the bag?"
asked the woman.

Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, "It's a bottle of wine. I
got it for my husband."

The Navajo woman was silent for a moment, and then speaking with the
quiet wisdom of an elder woman said, "Good trade."

Ah, Bob, Amerind women have great insight, Boston. Thanks for the early morning smile, and incidentally, welcome back.

Great bio's today, hawkman, and we probably know most of them, but until our Raggedy arrives, here is one song by Mac Davis:

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me lyrics

Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes
and it's starting to worry me
See, I ain't ready for no family ties
no woman's gonna hurry me

Just keep it friendly girl
'cause I don't wanna leave
If you start clinging to me
you know that I can't breathe

Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me
Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me
'Cause I'll just use you and I'll set you free
Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me

You've been my hot lovin' woman
And it's hot where you've been touching me
And I can tell by your trembling lips
You've been seeing just a little too much of me

Now don't let your life get all tangled up in mine,
'Cause I'll just use you, I can't take no clinging vine

Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me
Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me
'Cause I'll just use you and I'll set you free
Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me

Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me
no, no, no, Baby, Baby, don't get hooked on me, no
'Cause I'll just use you and I'll set you free, set you free
Baby, baby don't get hooked on me

Everyday People
Sly & The Family Stone

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker
The drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah

There is a blue one
Who can't accept the green one
For living with the fat one
Trying to be the skinny one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oooooh sha sha
We got to live together

I am no better and neither are you
We are the same whatever we do
You love me
you hate me
You know me and then
You can't figure out the bag l'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah

There is a long hair
that doesn't like the short hair
For bein' such a rich one
that will not help the poor one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oooooh sha sha
We got to live together
There is a yellow one
That won't accept the black one
That won't accept the red one
That won't accept the white one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oooooh sha, sha
I-I-I am everyday people

Great, edgar. I think most of us here are "everyday people". Didn't Sly and the Family Stone do "We are Family"?

Here's quite a surprise to me, listeners.

Telly Savalas
If

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know.
And if a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you;
You're all that's 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
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.

Lovely song

Lyrics are a bit steamy, but I find them compelling.


When Doves Cry
Prince

Dig if you will the picture
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can you, my darling
Can you picture this

Dream if you can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you

How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world that's so cold
(So cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied
(She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world so cold
(World so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied
(She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world that's so cold
(A world that's so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
(Maybe, maybe I'm like my father)
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
(Maybe you're just like my mother)
She's never satisfied
(She's never, never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
(Why do we scream, why)
This is what it sounds like

When doves cry (when doves cry)
When doves cry
(When doves cry, doves cry)
When doves cry
(When doves cry, doves cry)
(Doves cry, doves cry)

Oh, oh, oh-yeah
Oh-yeah, oh-yeah
Oh, oh, oh-yeah
Oh, oh, oh-yeah
Oh, oh, oh-yeah
Oh, oh, oh-yeah
When doves cry
When doves cry
When doves cry

----- Instrumental Interlude ----

When Doves cry
(Doves cry, doves cry, doves cry)
Don't cry
Darling, don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't, don't cry

There's a high flyin' bird, flying way up in the sky,
And I wonder if she looks down, as she goes on by?
Well, she's flying so freely in the sky.

Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here,
Got those sit-down,
can't cry Oh Lord, gonna die blues.

Now the sun it comes up and lights up the day,
And when he gets tired, Lord, he goes on down his way,
To the east and to the west,
He meets God every day.

Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here,
Got those sit-down, can't cry
Oh Lord, gonna die blues.

Now I had a woman
Lord, she lived down by the mine,
She ain't never seen the sun,
Oh Lord, never stopped crying.

Then one day my woman up and died,
Lord, she up and died now.
Oh Lord, she up and died now.
She wanted to die,
And the only way to fly is die, die, die.

There's a high flyin' bird, flying way up in the sky,
And I wonder if she looks down as she goes on by?
Well, she's flying so freely in the sky.

Lord, look at me here,
I'm rooted like a tree here,
Got those sit-down, can't cry,
Oh, Lord, gonna die blues.

ah, edgar, those lyics aren't steamy, Texas, because they can be so true. Yes, when doves and robins cry, buddy.

Well, I hate to say that our Raggedy had no luck today with her photo's, she was stuck in the middle, unfortunately, so this is for her:



Artist: Stealers Wheelers
Song: Stuck in the Middle With You Lyrics

Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....

Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see that it makes no sense at all,
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....

Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you,
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
Stuck in the middle with you.

So, here's one of Paul



Hey, cowboy. Great song, buddy. and a belated Happy Birthday to you and your walking cane. <smile>

here's a little music to relax by on a sunday evening .
hope you are all having time to relax tonight before you go out 'to hit the dirt' tomorrow !
hbg

this should help you relax >>>>


ABBA - Voulez Vous

People everywhere - A sense of expectation hanging in the air
Giving out a spark - Across the room your eyes are glowing in the dark
And here we go again, we know the start, we know the end - Masters of the scene
We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more - You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)
Now it's all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets
Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)
You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous, Voulez-vous

I know what you think - "The girl means business so I'll offer her a drink"
Looking mighty proud - I see you leave your table, pushing through the crowd
I'm really glad you came, you know the rules, you know the game, Master of the scene
We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more - You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)
Now it's all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets
Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)
You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous

And here we go again, we know the start, we know the end - Masters of the scene
We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more - You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)
Now it's all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets
Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)
You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous, Voulez-vous

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)
Now it's all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets
Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)
You know what to do (ah-ha) I can still say voulez-vous

Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha)
Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha)
Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha)
Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha)

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)
Now it's all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets
Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)
You know what to do (ah-ha) I can still say voulez-vous

Hey, hamburger. Welcome back, Canada. Will you or won't you? Great song by ABBA, hbg.

This one is a good one as well:

From ABBA

Hasta Manana
(From the album "WATERLOO")

Where is the spring and the summer
That once was yours and mine?
Where did it go?
I just don't know
But still my love for you will live forever

Hasta Manana 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta Manana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Manana, baby, Hasta Manana, until then

Where is the dream we were dreaming
And all the nights we shared
Where did they go?
I just don't know
And I can't tell you just how much I miss you

Hasta Manana 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta Manana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Manana, baby, Hasta Manana, until then

Hasta Manana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Manana, baby, Hasta Manana, until then

perhaps another "operation just cause" is needed ?
remember the invasion of panama(operation just cause) to put the drug dealers out of business ?
oh well , the world still keeps turning - the last time i checked .
hbg

and to make things a little more lively , here is :

Gringo Honeymoon (to be sung while crossing the rio grande)
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Lyrics for Album: The Party Never Ends
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We were standin' on a mountain top
Where the cactus flowers grow
I was wishin' that the world would stop
When you said we'd better go

We took a rowboat 'cross the Rio Grande
Captain Pablo was our giude
For two dollars in a weathered hand
He rowed us to the other side

CHORUS:
And we were dreamin' like the end was not in sight
And we dreamed all afternoon
We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate
A gringo honeymoon

We stepped out onto the golden sand
The sun was high and burning down
Rented donkeys from an old blind man
Saddled up and rode to town

Tied our donkeys to an ironwood tree
By the street where the children play
We walked in the first place we could see
Servin' cold beer in the shade

CHORUS:
We were drinkin' like the end was not in sight
And we drank all afternoon
We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate
A gringo honeymoon

Met a cowboy who said that he
Was running from the DEA
He left a home, a wife, a family
When he made his getaway

We followed him on down a street of dust
To his one room run-down shack
He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us
I ain't never goin' back

CHORUS:
We were flyin' like the end was not in sight
And we soared all afternoon
We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate
A gringo honeymoon

He said there's one last place that you should go
He took us to the town's best bar
He knew a crusty caballero
Who played an old gut string guitar

And he sang like Marty Robbins could
Played like no one I've known
For a while we knew that life was good
It was ours to take back home

CHORUS:
We were singin' like the end was not in sight
And we sang all afternoon
We asked the world to wait so we could celebrate
A gringo honeymoon

We were standin' on a mountain top
Where the cactus flowers grow
I was wishin' that the world would stop
When you said we'd better go

You're right about the world and its turning, hbg.and what a great song, buddy. A Gringo Honeymoon? Love it! James Taylor and I have always wanted to go to Mexico.

How unusual to find this song that was a real part of the depression, and sung by a woman. We, in America, may well face it again.

I am a girl of constant sorrow,
I've seen trouble all my days.
I bid farewell to old Kentucky,
The state where I was born and raised.
My mother, how I hated to leave her,
Mother dear who now is dead.
But I had to go and leave her
So my children could have bread.

Perhaps, dear friends, you are wonderin'
What the miners eat and wear.
This question I will try to answer,
For I'm sure that it is fair.

For breakfast we had bulldog gravy,
For supper we had beans and bread.
The miners don't have any dinner,
And a tick of straw they call a bed.

Well, we call this hell on earth, friends,
I must tell you all goodbye.
Oh, I know you all are hungry,
Oh, my darlin' friends, don't cry.

And I thought that George Clooney did it soooooo well in O Brother Where Art Thou. I do believe she has him beat.

Reelin' In The Years
Steely Dan

Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something
That you think is gonna last
You wouldn't know a diamond
If you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious
I can't understand

Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine

You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
The weekend at the college
Didn't turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge
I can't understand

Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine

I spend a lot of money
And I spent a lot of time
The trip we made in Hollywood
Is etched upon my mind
After all the things we've done and seen
You find another man
The things you think are useless
I can't understand

Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, thanks for the Steely Dan song, Texas, and what a surprise to find this one by those guys:

The Florida Room

Start on key plantain
Walk a tropical mile
Youll see a house
In the spanish style
Theres a room in back
With a view of the sea
Where she sits and dreams
Does she dream of me

When summers gone
I get ready
To make that carribee run
Ive got to have
Some time in the sun

Chorus:
When the cold wind comes
I go where the dahlias bloom
I keep drifting back
To your florida room

Shes dressed too warm
For this latitude
We go out to lunch
With some jamaican dude
Then the sunshower breaks
We come in out of the rain
But in her florida room
Theres a hurricane

While the city freezes over
Well be strollin down the shore
Can she bring me back
To life once more

Chorus

When summers gone
I get ready
To make that carribee run
Ive got to have
Some time in the sun

Chorus

And for today, listeners:

The Mamas And The Papas


Monday, Monday Lyrics
Monday Monday, so good to me,
Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh Monday morning, Monday morning couldn't guarantee
That Monday evening you would still be here with me.

Monday Monday, can't trust that day,
Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be
Oh Monday Monday, how yould cou leave and not take me.

Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday Monday, so good to me,
Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh Monday morning, Monday morning couldn't guarantee
That Monday evening you would still be here with me.

Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday Monday, ...

Good morning WA2K.

While the going is good, Happy 48th to Linda Blair (I refuse to post a picture from that "UGH" Exorcist movie) and 42nd to Diane Lane.



and a good day to all.