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That's my Bichon Fries, Maddy. I haven't taken a picture of Dolly yet. She's 1/2 Shih Tsu and 1/2 Japanese Chin.

BBB

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I was kind of bored today so I parked my car on a busy street corner, put on my sun glasses, and pointed my hair drier out the window toward on-coming traffic to see if they would slow down.

BBB

Hey, BBB. Nothing worse than a skeleton with a mop unless it's a witch with a broom. Thank goodness the snow has melted enough so that at least you can drive.
Raggedy, looking at your celebs, I see that Jerry Lewis was born on this day.

You know folks, when Jerry was being serious, he could really sing. I remember his version of "What Kind of Fool am I." Really very good. Frankly, I like his role in The Nutty Professor better than Eddie Murphy's.

Well, tomorrow is the wearing of the green day. Perhaps we can have a peek in the pub starting tonight.

For some reason, listeners. I just thought of an old tune that my mother used to play.

Oh don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt
Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile
And trembled with fear at your frown.
2. In the old church yard in the valley, Ben Bolt
In a corner obscure and alone
They have fitted a slab of granite so gray
And sweet Alice lies under the stone.

3. Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt
Which stood at the end of the hill
Together we've lain in the noonday shade
And listened to Appleton's mill.
4. The mill wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt
The rafters have tumbled in
And a quiet that crawls 'round the walls as you gaze
Has followed the olden din.
5. And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt
With the master so cruel and grim
And the shaded nook by the running brook
Where the children went to swim.

6. Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt
The spring of the brook is dry
And of all the boys who were schoolmates then
There are only you and I.

I used to think the name of that song was Alice Ben Bolt.

Hmmm. Kate Nelligan. I know that I've seen her in a movie or two, just can't recall at the moment.

I did too, Letty. But, I thought it was Alice Ben Bow. That's what it sounded like when our grade school music teacher taught it to us. I couldn't understand why her middle name was "Ben".

I first saw, and liked, Kate Nelligan in "Eye of the Needle", 1981. She's been in oodles of supporting roles over the years - and good in every one.

Ah, yes, Raggedy. I remember her now in some movie in which her child was abducted, and in another where she was quite sinister. I think Telly Savalas was the male star.

Alice Ben Bow? Love it!

Well, here's a news item for our listeners:

Scott Peterson has been sentenced to death.

Here's a quick anecdote:

I watched a small drama in my back yard not five minutes ago. A white crane leisurely poked at, and eventually swallowed, a rather large snake. In the background, a tiny alligator watched with that half-eyed disinterest. Wow! Spring is truly here. No, I promise I won't sing See Ya Later Alligator.

Back later, listeners, with other upcoming news and music.

DOWN WENT MCGINTY
(Joseph Flynn)

Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dressed so fine
Stood looking at a very high stone wall,
When his friend, young Pat McCann, says, "I'll bet five dollars, Dan
I could carry you to the top without a fall."
So on his shoulders he took Dan, to climb the ladder he began,
And soon commenced to reach up near the top;
When McGinty, cute old rogue, to win the five he did let go
Never thinking just how far he'd have to drop.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall
And tho' he won the five, he was more dead than alive
Sure his ribs and nose and back were broke from getting such a fall
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.

From the hospital Mac went home, when they fixed his broken bones,
To find he was the father of a child;
So to celebrate it right, his friends he went to invite,
An@ soon he was drinking whiskey fast and wild;
Then he waddled down the street in his Sunday suit so neat
Holdlng up his head as proud as John the Great;
But in the sidewalk was a hole, to receive a ton of coal,
That McGinty never saw till just too late.

Down went McGinty to the bottom of the hole,
Then the driver of the cart gave the load of coal a start
And it took us half an hour to dig McGinty from the coal,
Dress'd in his best suit of clothes.

Now McG@nty raved and swore, about his clothes he felt so sore
And an oath he took he'd kill the man or die;
So he tightly grabbed his stick and hit the driver a lick,
Then he raised a little shanty on his eye.
But two policemen saw the muss and they soon joined in the fuss
Then they ran McGinty in for being drunk;
And the Judge says with a smile, we will keep you for a while
In a cell to sleep upon a prison bunk.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the jail,
Where his board would cost him nix, and he stay'd exactly six;
They were big long months he stopp'd for no one went his bail
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.

Now McGinty thin and pale one fine day got out of jail,
And with joy to see his boy was nearly wild;
To his house he quickly ran to see his wife Bedaley Ann,
But she skipp'd away and took along the child.
Then he gave up in despair and he madly pulled his hair
As he stood one day upon the river shore;
Knowing well he couldn't swim, he did foolishly jump in,
Although watcr he had never took before.
Down went McGinty to t@e bottom of the say (sea)
And he must be very wet for they haven't found him yet
But they say his ghost comes round the docks before the break
of day,
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.

Bob, that is a fabulous Irish song. That repeating line, "in his best suit of clothes" just adds Celtic charm to the entire thing.

Bob, that is a fabulous Irish song. That repeating line, "in his best suit of clothes" just adds Celtic charm to the entire thing.

Speaking of repeating..........

Now old Adam was the first in history
With an apple he was tempted and deceived
Just for spite the devil made him take a bite
And that's where old Adam met his Waterloo

{Waterloo, Waterloo
Where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has its day
Everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo}

Little General, Napoleon of France
Tried to conquer the world but lost his chance
Met defeat, known as Bonaparte's retreat
And that's when Napoleon met his Waterloo

{Waterloo, Waterloo
Where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has its day
Everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo}

Now a feller whose darling proved untrue
Took her life but he lost his too
Now he swings where the little birdie sings
And that's where Tom Dooley met his Waterloo

{Waterloo, Waterloo
Where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has its day
Everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo}

Well, McTag, that song fit the occasion quite nicely. Incidentally, where did Waterloo Bridge get its name?

Hi Letty, my love.

I heard you!
I heard you!

Bob the brash

ah, Bob, dearest one.:


The Who -Bobby Can You Hear Me Song Lyrics


Bobby can you hear me?
Can you feel me near you?



Bobby can you feel me?
Can I help to cheer you.

R
E
P
E
A
T

No wonder they called themselves the WHO?

In this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refuse to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in trying
Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true
You'll be dead before your time is due
I know
Watch my daddy in bed and tired
Watch his hair been turning gray
He's been working and slaving his life away
Oh yes, I know it
He's been working so hard
I've been working too babe
Every night and day
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We gotta get out of this place
If its the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life
For me and you
Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true, yeah
You'll be dead before your time is due
I know it
Watch my daddy in bed and tired
Watch his hair been turning gray
He's been working and slaving his life away
I know
He's been working so hard
I've been working too babe
Every day baby
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We gotta get out of this place
If its the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there's a better life
For me and you
Somewhere baby
Somehow I know it baby
We gotta get out of this place
If its the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there's a better life for me and you
Believe me baby
I know it baby
You know it too

edgar, That song touched a nerve; not certain why, either.

Well, listeners, Robert Blake was acquitted.



Original Air Dates: 1975 - 1978 (ABC) Location: New York City, New York




Don't go to bed, with no price on your head - No, no, don't do it.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time - Yeah, don't do it.
And keep your eye on the sparrow.
When the going gets narrow.

Don't do it, don't do it.
Where can I go where the cold winds don't blow,
Now. Well, well, well.

and then, listeners, there is the other sparrow:

and I sing because I'm happy,
And I sing because I'm free.
And his eye is on the sparrow,
And I know he watches me.

from the "i've looked at love from both sides now" file

The Mayor Of Simpleton
XTC

Never been near a university,
Never took a paper or a learned degree,
And some of your friends think that's stupid of me,
But it's nothing that I care about.

Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun,
And of mathematics well I want none,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And that's I love you.
When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.

I can't have been there when brains were handed round
(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),
Or get past the cover of your books profound,
(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),
And some of your friends thinks it's really unsound,
That you're ever seen talking to me.

Well I don't know how to write a big hit song,
And all crossword puzzles well I just shun,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And that's I love you.

I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much,
Just feel I should say,
What you get is all real,
I can't put on an act,
It takes brains to do that anyway. (and anyway...)

And I can't unravel riddles, problems and puns,
How the home computer has me on the run,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And that's I love you (I love you).

If depth of feeling is a currency,
(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),
Then I'm the man who grew the money tree,
(no chain of office and no hope of getting one).
Some of your friends are too brainy to see,
That they're paupers and that's how they'll stay.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton,
Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And that's I love you.

When all logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor.
(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton.)


Laid
James

This bed is on fire
With passionate love
The neighbors complain about the noises above
But she only comes when she's on top

My therapist said not to see you no more
She said you're like a disease without any cure
She said I'm so obsessed that I'm becoming a bore, oh no
Ah, you think you're so pretty

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in women's clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Dye my eyes and call me pretty

Moved out of the house, so you moved next door
I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall
I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone
You're driving me crazy, when are you coming home


I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
Tom Waits

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display
Your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you
Calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

Well the room is crowded, people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown,
Take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away,
I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom-cat feelings you don't understand,
Well I turn around to look at you,
You light a cigarette,
I wish I had the guts to bum one,
But we've never met,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
And it being late, you'd like some some company,
Well I turn around to look at you,
And you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split,
The chair next to you's free,
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Well I turn around to look at you,
You're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face,
Guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you.


Lazarus In Brooklyn
Reid Paley

Well, I'm still here in Brooklyn
East River keep on callin' to me
'cause everything been said
You'll love me when I'm dead
You'll say that I'm too blind to see


You never see the one that gets you
You never get the one that you see
How many times I'm broke
You know it won't be low
You know that that'd be fine with me

All my life, she's calling out to me i know
i'll never know if it's true
If I had another chance, I'd do it just the same
Just wouldn't do it with you

Well i must've left my heart in Pittsburg
You tell me baby, how could it be
You know I never win, just take it on the chin
Why settle for a fantasy

Well, I'm still here in Brooklyn
East River keep on callin' to me
'cause everything been said
You'll love me when I'm dead
You'll say that I'm too blind to see

You'll say that I'm too blind to see


Ontario, Quebec And Me
Billy Bragg

You don't need my Christmas cards
You already have my heart
This has been a holiday romance
Right from the very start

For we know how to spend the time
Who cares about the weather
We'll dance in the town till the sun goes down
And push our beds together

From the Land of the Midnight Sunglasses
To the Mountains of the Moon
You could never stay a day too long
Nor never come back too soon

And you know what a fool I am
With my short attention span
Flying in the rainy season too,
Nothing can keep me away from you


Walk Away Renee (Version)
Billy Bragg

She said it was just a figment of speech
And I said, "You mean figure?"
And she said, "No, figment"
Because she could never imagine it happening
But it did.

When we first met I played the shy boy
And when she spoke to me for the first time
My nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest

The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect our fares
Well, I knew then this was something special
I couldn't stop thinking about her
And every time I switched on the radio
There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us

It was just like being on a fast ride at the funfair
The sort you wanna get off because it's scary
And then as soon as you're off
You wanna get straight back on again

But our love is strange
And you have to take the crunchy with the smooth I s'pose
She began going out with Mr Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park
With his coat around her shoulders that I realised
I went home and thought about the two of them together
Until the bath water went cold around me

I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts
And about the point where their bodies met
I confronted her about it.
I said, "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town."
And she said, "Yea, that's why I can never understand
Any of those silly letters you send me."

And then one day it happened
She cut 'er hair and I stopped lovin' 'er


Ballad Of Tom Jones
Catatonia

What did I do wrong?
Oh you nearly drove me cuckoo
Am I really all that bad?
You're worse than Hannibal Lechter, Charlie Manson, Freddie Krueger
Why are we still together?
Oh I can't leave until you're dead
You mean 'til death do us part?
I mean like cyanide, strangulation or an axe to your head
It was lucky for us I turned the radio on
They say that music soothes the savage beast
There was something in that voice that stopped us seeing red
The two of us would surely have ended up dead

[Chorus]

You stopped us from killing each other
Tom Jones, Tom Jones
You'll never know but you saved our lives
Tom Jones, Tom Jones
I could never throw my knickers at you
And I don't come from Wales

So haven't solved our problems
You mean we hate each others guts
I still wanna poison your pizza
And I still wanna cut off your nuts
I phoned the marriage guidance
I tied the phone line round your neck
I'm sick of all this hatred
Well that will be the arsenic making you sick
You were about to drive me over the edge of a cliff
As I tried to jump out I knocked the stereo on
You changed your mind and then slammed on the brakes
It was lucky for us we bought his greatest hits

[Repeat Chorus]

And now the war is over
I've lost the urge to break your neck
I owe my life to What's New Pussycat
Delilah stopped me hating you and wishing you dead
Oh I used to call you satan
And you were Cruella De'Ville
And now you call me your Delilah
And I am not your lucifer
And I am just your pussycat
But just a word of warning now
Just in case we ever get tured of his voice
I know the Mafia, Godzilla, King Kong
And I know an atom that's bomb going for a song

[Repeat Chorus Twice]

ah, dj. So varied; so delightful as all of your songs are. Right listeners?

I simply cannot help but dedicate this to all of you here, because I just heard it sung by a woman with a lovely voice on ABC TV:

"Au delà De la Mer" Quelque part au delà de la mer m'attendant quelque part mon amoureux se tient sur les sables d'or et observe les bateaux qui vont naviguer Quelque part au delà de la mer elle y a il, observant pour moi si je pourrais voler comme des oiseaux sur la haute puis directement à elle des bras que j'irais la naviguer est lointain au delà d'un tenir le premier rôle, il est près au delà de la lune je connais au delà d'un doute mon coeur me mènera là bientôt Nous nous réunirons au delà du rivage que nous embrasserons juste comme avant qu'heureux nous soyons au delà de la mer et jamais encore j'irai naviguer la navigation [ grâce à [email protected] de corriger ces lyrique ] [ www.azlyrics.com ] "Au delà De la Mer" Quelque part au delà de la mer m'attendant quelque part mon amoureux se tient sur les sables d'or et observe les bateaux qui vont naviguer Quelque part au delà de la mer elle y a il, observant pour moi si je pourrais voler comme des oiseaux sur la haute puis directement à elle des bras que j'irais la naviguer est lointain au delà d'un tenir le premier rôle, il est près au delà de la lune je connais au delà d'un doute mon coeur me mènera là bientôt Nous nous réunirons au delà du rivage que nous embrasserons juste comme avant qu'heureux nous soyons au delà de la mer et jamais encore j'irai naviguer la navigation.
It sounded so very lovely in French. We know it in English as "Beyond the Sea."

Yesterday when I was Young en francais

Charles Aznavour


Hier Encore

Hier encore
J'avais vingt ans
Je caressais le temps
Et jouais de la vie
Comme on joue de l'amour
Et je vivais la nuit
Sans compter sur mes jours
Qui fuyaient dans le temps

J'ai fait tant de projets
Qui sont restés en l'air
J'ai fondé tant d'espoirs
Qui se sont envolés
Que je reste perdu
Ne sachant où aller
Les yeux cherchant le ciel
Mais le coeur mis en terre

Hier encore
J'avais vingt ans
Je gaspillais le temps
En croyant l'arrêter
Et pour le retenir
Même le devancer
Je n'ai fait que courir
Et me suis essoufflé

Ignorant le passé
Conjuguant au futur
Je précédais de moi
Toute conversation
Et donnais mon avis
Que je voulais le bon
Pour critiquer le monde
Avec désinvolture

Hier encore
J'avais vingt ans
Mais j'ai perdu mon temps
A faire des folies
Qui ne me laissent au fond
Rien de vraiment précis
Que quelques rides au front
Et la peur de l'ennui

Car mes amours sont mortes
Avant que d'exister
Mes amis sont partis
Et ne reviendront pas
Par ma faute j'ai fait
Le vide autour de moi
Et j'ai gâché ma vie
Et mes jeunes années

Du meilleur et du pire
En jetant le meilleur
J'ai figé mes sourires
Et j'ai glacé mes pleurs
Où sont-ils à présent
A présent mes vingt ans?

Bob, yours was so much neater and in the proper form.

We do love Roy Clark, no?

Spoken : Somehow, it seems the love I knew was always the most destructive kind

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze
May tease the candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the time ran away

Yesterday when I was young
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation that I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all somehow seemed to slip away
And only now I'm left alone to end the play, yeah

Oh, yesterday when I was young
So many, many songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my eyes refused to see
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
When I was young.

It's that time of night again, WA2K fans. <smile>

Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics

Our day will come
And we'll have everything
We'll share the joy
Falling in love can bring

No one can tell me
That I'm too young to know (young to know)
I love you so (love you so)
And you love me

Our day will come
If we just wait a while
No tears for us
Think love and wear a smile

Our dreams have magic
Because we'll always stay
In love this way
Our day will come.
(Our day will come; our day will come)

Our dreams have magic
Because we'll always stay
In love this way
Our day will come
Our day will come