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"Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
Music and lyric by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

East is east and west is west
And the wrong one I have chose
Let's go where I'll keep on wearin'
Those frills and flowers and buttons and bows
Rings and things and buttons and bows
Don't bury me in this prairie
Take me where the cement grows
Let's move down to some big town
Where they love a gal by the cut o' her clothes
And I'll stand out
In buttons and bows
I'll love you in buckskin
Or skirts that I've homespun
But I'll love ya' longer, stronger where
Yer friends don't tote a gun
My bones denounce the buckboard bounce
And the cactus hurts my toes
Let's vamoose where gals keep usin'
Those silks and satins and linen that shows
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows
Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
In high silk hose and peek-a-boo clothes
And French perfume that rocks the room
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.


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edgar, I found a bowl weevil song from Brook.

Diane, howdy back, gal. I sang that song when I was a wee thing, honey. My big sis taught it to me.

First, the weevil, folks.

Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil
Now, some of you may not know, but a boll weevil is an insect. And he's found
mostly where cotton grows. Now, where he comes from, hm, nobody really knows.
But this is the way the story goes.

The farmer said to the boll weevil "I see you're on the square" Boll weevil said to the
farmer "Say yep! My whole darn family's here" <We>

The farmer said to the boll weevil "Say, why do you pick my farm?" The weevil just
laughed at the farmer 'n' said "We ain't gonna do ya much harm" <We're looking for a
ho-o-o-o-o,-o-o-o, -o-o-o, o-o-ome"

And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug. He said "Hey, I'd like to make a trade with
you. But, ya see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search the whole night through"
Searchin' for a home, I'd have me plenty of home"

And the boll weevil called the farmer, 'n' he said "Ya better sell your old machines,
'cause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you can't even buy gasoline." I'm gonna
stake me a home, gotta have a home

And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said " Farmer, I'd like to wish you well."
Farmer said to the boll weevil, "Yeah, an' I wish that you were in ****" Lookin' for a
home, lookin' for a home (Ahh, you have a home all right, you have a home A real hot
home, ahhh)

FADE

Now my daughter's goodnight song and it's time for Letty to sleep as well.

The flowers nod the shadows creep
A star peeps over the hill
The youngest lamb has gone to sleep
The smallest bird is still

The world is full of drowsy things
And sweet by candle light,
When all the earth has gone to sleep
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.

From Letty with love

All the Pretty Little Horses
Joan Baez

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses

Way down yonder in the meadow
Lies a poor little lambie
Bees and butterflies, picking out its eyes
Poor little thing's crying, "Mami"

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby.

TRIBUTE TO OUR AMERICAN HEROES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHdiH4Ai8nU

MARIAH CAREY lyrics - "Hero"

There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
It's a long road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time
You'll find the way
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First allow me to thank edgar for all the "pretty little horses". What a tender lullabye, Texas.

TTH, a perfect song to begin Memorial Day, and here is one from Glen Campbell that reflects WWI through the eyes of one soldier.

Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
I still see her dark eyes glowin'
She was 21 when I left Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun and dream of Galveston

I still see her standing by the water
Standing there lookin' out to sea
And is she waiting there for me?
On the beach where we used to run

Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston.

The sun is out
The sky is blue
There's not a cloud
To spoil the view
But it's raining
Raining in my heart

The weather man
Says clear today
He doesn't know
You've gone away
And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Oh mysery mysery
What's gonna become
Of me

I tell my blues
They musn't show
But soon these tears
Are bound to flow
And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Raining in my heart

And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Buddy Holly

Hey, edgar. You're really decking the halls with Buddy Holly. <smile>

Thanks, Texas.

In keeping with Memorial Day, here is a poem of WWII, folks.

YES, WE REMEMBER

On Normandy's green fields
where the hedgerows still run
and the sands on the beaches
lie quiet as air;
on the bluffs stand the cross
and the star white and pure;
the flag of our fathers
flies high in the wind.


The battlefields calling,
are seen by a few
who have traveled so far,
to set down their memories
for buddies they've loved.


And each waning day,
as the sea mourns alone,
the soft sound of Taps
flows over the fields,
saying yes, we remember,
the brave deeds you've done,
we remember your faces eternally
young.



By: John Kent

I DREAMED I SAW ST. AUGUSTINE

Words and Music by Bob Dylan



I dreamed I saw St. Augustine,
Alive as you or me,
Tearing through these quarters
In the utmost misery,
With a blanket underneath his arm
And a coat of solid gold,
Searching for the very souls
Whom already have been sold.

"Arise, arise," he cried so loud,
In a voice without restraint,
"Come out, ye gifted kings and queens
And hear my sad complaint.
No martyr is among ye now
Whom you can call your own,
So go on your way accordingly
But know you're not alone."

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine,
Alive with fiery breath,
And I dreamed I was amongst the ones
That put him out to death.
Oh, I awoke in anger,
So alone and terrified,
I put my fingers against the glass
And bowed my head and cried.

Ah, more from the tales of the cryptic Bob Dylan. Thanks, edgar; however, I didn't dream that I saw St. Augustine.

Well, folks, things to do here, so time for a station break.

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

Letty, wouldn't it be fun to go to St. Augustine together and have lunch at the same place we met a few years ago?


Lyrics to A Dream in the Light Words and Music by Fred Small Copyright 1994 Pine Barrens Music (BMI)

Awake arise all you who slumber
Daylight is driving the stars from the sky
Every creature on earth one song is lifting
From the crab in the tide pool to the petrel in flight
The dew on the grass is a river of silver
The sun on the hills is a veil of gold
Every day is a lifetime of fresh beginnings
Twenty-four untouched hours poised to unfold

Chorus: So lay down your disappointment and yearning
Everything will be all right
You can't stop this big world from turning
But a dream need not fade in the light
Along the highway neon jewels
Lure us away from our chosen course
Always and again one moment of decision
Do I love myself or my addiction more?
Do not mistake stark fear for failure
Nor the darkness for the night
Though we search for the end of the rainbow
All we seek stands within our site

Chorus Who was it told you you didn't deserve love?
Who was it told you you were never good enough?
Voices of the dead just delay and defeat us
Turn your face to the light that is lifting you up
In our ears humanity's clamor
Some we name enemy some we call friend
In both we see our flawed reflection
Lonely and frightened we pose and pretend
May the walls of our hearts soften and open
To comfort the stranger in hunger and pain
Inside every story the seed of understanding
Every leaf is its own but the tree is the same

Good afternoon WA2K.

Wishing a Happy 76th to Carroll Baker; 63rd to Gladys Knight and 60th to Sandra Locke.

The way they were:



I liked this one by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know,
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
He kept dreamin'
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leavin
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
Go, gonna board, gonna board,
Gonna board the midnight train.
Gotta go, gonna board
Gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train
(repeat, fade)

Good afternoon to you, dear Raggedy, and thanks once again for the great photo's, PA. Like that song by The Pips, and I think we know most of your faces today. Perhaps our Bob is back from his honeymoon, and will take a little time to do his "thang."

My goodness Diane, good to see your sweet hummingbird lovelies, honey. Yes, I would love to go to the Conch Hut and have a luncheon, girl. Even take a picture from the Bridge of Lions.

Love "A Dream in the Light", and thanks for playing it.

Well, folks, Raggedy's line, "...the world he left behind him..." reminded me of this one.

Dedicated to the Irish audience.

The dames of France are fond and free,
And Flemish lips are willing;
And soft the maids of Italy,
And Spanish eyes are thrilling;
Still, though I bask beneath their smile,
Their charms fail to bind me.
And my heart goes back to Erin's Isle,
To the girl I left behind me.

For she's as fair as Shannon's side,
And purer than its water,
But she refused to be my bride
Though many years I sought her
. Yet, since to France I sailed away, Her letters oft remind me
, That I promised never to gainsay
The girl I left behind me.

She says: "My own dear love come home,
My friends are rich and many;
Or else, abroad with you I'll roam,
A soldier stout as any;
If you'll not come, nor let me go,
I'll think you have resigned me."
My heart nigh broke when I answered "No,"
To the girl I left behind me.

For never shall my true love brave
A life of war and toiling
And never as a skulking slave
I'll tread my native soil on.
But were it free or to be free,
The battle's close would find me
To Ireland bound, nor message need
From the girl I left behind me.

a somewhat tongue in cheek take on a 50's style teen love song from frank zappa

Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Frank Zappa

A year ago today
Was when you went away
But now you come back knockin' on my door
And you say you're back to stay,
But I say...
Go cry
On somebody else's shoulder
I'm somewhat wiser now
And one whole year older
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

You cheated me baby,
And told some dirty lies about me
Fooled around with all those other guys
That's why I had to set you free
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

A year ago today
You went away
And now you come back crying
Crying, crying: please, let me in
But I don't need you
No I don't love you anymore
So go lean on...go cry on
Somebody else's door

Go cry
On somebody else's shoulder
I'm somewhat wiser now
And one whole year older
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore (Oh, my darling!)

(Spoken:)
Go ahead and cry
Go ahead and let the tears fall outa your eye
Let 'em fall on your dress
Who cares if it makes a mess?
I gave you my high school ring
At the root beer stand
We had a teen-age love baby
I thought it was sharp
It was really so grand...but

You cheated me baby
And told some dirty lies about me
Fooled around with all those other guys
That's why I had to get my khakis pressed
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

(Spoken:)
Baby, I love you so much, darling
Why don't you dig me?
I dig you
But you don't dig me
I don't understand what it is
I had my car re-upholstered
I got my hair processed
I got a nice pompadour job on it
I bought a new pair of shoes
I got some new khakis and I met you
And we went out to get a Coca-Cola...

Hey, dj. Always nice to see our top jock here. Love that song by Frank Zappa. Wonder if Frank had this song in mind

Artist: Paul Anka
Song: Teenager In Love


Each time we have a quarrel
It almost breaks my heart.
Cuz Iamb so afraid,
That we will have to part.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
One day i feel so happy,
Next day i feel so sad.
I guess I'll learn to take,
The good with the bad.
Cuz each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
I cried a tear,
For nobody but you.
I'll be a lonely one if you,
Should say we're through.
Well if you want to make me cry,
That won't be so hard to do.
If you should say goodbye,
I'll still go on lovin you.
Each night i ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
I cried a tear,
For nobody but you.
I'll be a lonely one if you,
Should say we're through.
Well if you want to make me cry,
It won't be so hard to do.
If you should say goodbye,
I'll still go on levin you.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
(Why must I be a teenager in love.)3x

Thinking of Nat Cole tonight, so this well be my goodnight song, folks.

Artist: Cole Nat King
Song: For All We Know


For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won't say "Good night" until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it
For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

From Letty with love

Sleep tight, dear Bets.

T. H. White
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 - January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time writer. He was interested in hunting, flying, hawking and fishing. He was an intensely-involved naturalist, which influenced many of the chapters in The Sword in the Stone. He learned to fly to conquer his fear of heights. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, White moved to Ireland where he lived out the duration as a conscientious objector. It was in Ireland that he wrote most of what would later become The Once and Future King, having read and loved Le Morte d'Arthur years earlier. His indirect experience of the war had a profound effect on the book, which includes commentaries on war and human nature in the form of a heroic narrative.

White is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels that retell Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, reinterpreting the legend of King Arthur. The sequence includes:

The Sword in the Stone (1938)
The Queen of Air and Darkness, originally titled The Witch in the Wood (1939)
The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
The Candle in the Wind (1958)
The Book of Merlyn (published separately and posthumously, 1977)
The Broadway musical Camelot was based on The Once and Future King, as was the animated film The Sword in the Stone.

White wrote many other books, some under a pseudonym. They include a children's book, Mistress Masham's Repose, in which a young girl discovers a group of Lilliputians (the tiny people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) living near her house. Also for children was The Master, set on Rockall. Other works include:

The Elephant and the Kangaroo, a novel about a repetition of Noah's Flood occurring in Ireland;
The Goshawk, an account of White's attempt to train a hawk in the traditional art of falconry;
The Godstone and the Blackymor, a travel book set in Ireland;
England Have My Bones, an account of a year spent in England; and
The Age of Scandal and The Scandalmonger, collections of essays on 18th-century England.
White also translated and edited The Book of Beasts, an English translation of a medieval bestiary from Latin.

He died aboard ship in Piraeus (Athens, Greece) while returning home to Alderney from his American lecture tour.

Annette Bening
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Annette Carol Bening
Born May 29, 1958 (1958-05-29) (age 48)
Topeka, Kansas
Spouse(s) Warren Beatty (1992 - present)
Notable roles Julia Lambert in Being Julia
Carolyn in American Beauty
Golden Globe Awards

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2004 Being Julia
BAFTA Awards

Best Actress in a Leading Role
1999 American Beauty
Annette Bening, (born Annette Carol Bening on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas), is a Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning American actress.




Early life

She was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Arnett Grant Bening (born 1926) and Shirley Bening (born 1930). Her sister and two brothers are Jane Bening (born 1953), Bradley Bening (born 1955) and Byron Bening (born 1957). Her father worked for an insurance company. The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood.

In 1965, Annette's father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She studied drama at Patrick Henry High School.

She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening joined the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. During this time she established herself as a formidable acting talent in roles like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.



Awards and Nominations

Academy Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, The Grifters (1990)
Nominated: Best Actress, American Beauty (1999)
Nominated: Best Actress, Being Julia (2004)

BAFTA Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, The Grifters (1992)
Won: Best Actress, American Beauty (2000)


Emmy Award

Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Mrs. Harris (2006)

Golden Globe Award

Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, Bugsy (1992)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, The American President (1996)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, American Beauty (2000)
Won: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, Being Julia (2005)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, Running with Scissors (2007)
Nominated: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Mrs. Harris (2007)

Personal life

In 1985, she and her first husband, choreographer J. Steven White, moved to Denver, Colorado, to work at the Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, Colorado. They separated the following year.

She and Warren Beatty met on the set of Bugsy (1991), in which she played Virginia Hill, and the two began a secret romance. They married in 1992. She and Beatty live in Los Angeles with their four children, Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty (born 1992), Benjamin Maclean Beatty (born 1994), Isabel Ira Ashley Beatty (born 1996) and Ella Corinne Beatty (born 2000). Bening's husband is the brother of Shirley MacLaine.


Career highlights

Bening moved to New York City, where she debuted off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in the role of 'Holly Dancer' in Tina Howe's widely acclaimed Coastal Disturbances (1987). However, despite the praise and recognition, it took some time for that success to translate to her film career.

Her television debut was with the made-for-TV movie Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986). Her first major role in a theatrical feature was in The Great Outdoors (1988) playing 'Kate Craig' opposite Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Her next role was as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont (1989) opposite Colin Firth.

Bening's next major feature, Stephen Frears's The Grifters (1990) starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack, met with critical acclaim. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters. She followed that with her appearance in Bugsy.

Bening was paid $3 million to play the role of 'Elise Kraft/Sharon Bridger' in The Siege (1998) co-starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Her next role, in the 1999 film American Beauty, would give her the highest-profile role of her career thus far.

Bening's most recent appearance is in the film adaptation of the Augusten Burroughs book, Running with Scissors (2006).

On December 9, 2006, Bening hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guests Gwen Stefani and Akon.


Other credits

She has done voice work for animation, such as that of Abigail Adams in the TV series Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (2002).
Bening is a council member for the California Arts Council.

Trivia



Bening was offered the role as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), but after she became pregnant, the role went to Michelle Pfeiffer.
Bening played a real-estate agent in three different movies: Regarding Henry, American Beauty, and What Planet Are You From?.
She has appeared in three different Mike Nichols' movies: Postcards From The Edge, Regarding Henry, and What Planet Are You From?
Bening appeared in a cameo role as herself in the 11th episode of the fifth season of the HBO series, The Sopranos.
She was originally cast as the mother in Disney's Freaky Friday, but dropped out.
Annette also replaced Julianne Moore in Running with Scissors as Deirdre Burroughs.