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Bob, you are the salvation of those of us who become too pensive and vacant at early morning hours, right listeners?

Damn, and I wanted to wax poetic.

Wax poetic Letty, and take a spin on the carousel circle game in the post above.

Ah, Raggedy. I love your Harry Chapin song, and I saved your article to my favorite archive. I'll be back later, listeners, and here's a lovely song by Ani DeFranco:







there's no place in this world where i'll belong when i'm gone.
and i won't know the right from the wrong when i'm gone.
and you won't find me singin' on this song when i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
and i won't feel the flowing of the time when i'm gone.
all the pleasures of love will not be mine when i'm gone.
my pen won't pour out a lyric line when i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
and i won't breathe the bracing air when i'm gone.
and i can't even worry 'bout my cares when i'm gone.
won't be asked to do my share when i'm gone.
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
and i won't be running from the rain when i'm gone.
and i can't even suffer from the pain when i'm gone.
can't say who's to praise and who's to blame when i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
won't see the golden of the sun when i'm gone.
and the evenings and the mornings will be one when i'm gone.
can't be singing louder than the guns when i'm gone.
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
all my days won't be dances of delight when i'm gone.
and the sands will be shifting from my sight when i'm gone.
can't add my name into the fight while i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.
and i won't be laughing at the lies when i'm gone.
and i can't question how or when or why when i'm gone.
can't live proud enough to die when i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.

Hah! Did you think you're going to get off that easy. Not a chance. Here's some more groaners for you. (How long before they cut off the power to this mike?)

ONLY IN AMERICA:
Only in America.....do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke. !

Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER ....

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? !
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

WOW!

Yes, Bob. Only in America so here's a song for our British buddies. <smile>

David Clayton Thomas of Blood, Sweat, and Tears:

And when I die, and when I'm gone,
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on,
to carry on.

Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well.
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.
Yes only my dying will tell.
Yeah, only my dying will tell.

Give me my freedom for as long as I be.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me,
And all I ask of dying is to go naturally.
Oh I want to go naturally.

Here I go,
Hey Hey!
Here comes the devil,
Right Behind.
Look out children,
Here he comes!
Here he comes! Hey...

Don't want to go by the devil.
Don't want to go by demon.
Don't want to go by Satan,
Don't want to die uneasy.
Just let me go naturally.

and when I die,
When I'm dead, dead and gone,
There'll be one child born in our world to carry on,
To carry on.
Yeah, yeah...

Listeners, I had no idea that David Clayton Thomas was born a Brit and whose mother was Canadian.

Well, folks. So far we have our reps from Germany, Manchester, Norway, (America, of course), and I do wonder where the rest of our countries are.

Francis is doing a teaser campaign on his thread. A teaser campaign is what is referred to in advertising as a promo designed to get people's attention.

Reading and scrambling to catch up, I have a song line for today:

"Born in the woods so he knew every tree...."

Ah, McTag.

Daveee, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.

Do I have to play the entire thing? I know it, ya know.

Well, listeners. McTag drops that line to see if we're still here and feelin' fine. Raggedy encouraged me to wax poetical<smile> sooooooo:

The faces of Janus,
The things that are two
The cryptic allusions
For me and for you.
The misunderstandings
The visions of night,
The reasons we talk
The reasons we fight.

All come together,
All stay apart,
All are at risk
In affairs of the heart

And I'm glad I did, Letty. That is lovely and oh so true.

Listening to all the entertaining songs, comments, poetry, etc. here at WA2K, I almost forgot to do my job. Here we go:

May 3 birthdays:

1469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer and statesman (Florence, Italy; died 1527)
1849 Jacob Riis, journalist/author and social reformer (Ribe, Denmark; died 1914)
1898 Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (Kiev, Russia; died 1978)
1913 William Inge, playwright (Independence, KS; died 1973)
1919 Betty Comden, lyricist (Brooklyn, NY)
Pete Seeger, folk singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1921 Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer (Detroit, MI; died 1989)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck, singer (Madras, India)
1937 Frankie Valli, singer and member of the Four Seasons (Newark, NJ)
1939 Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Anna and the King, Collector)
1946 Greg Gumbel, TV personality/sportscaster (New Orleans, LA)
1947 Doug Henning, magician (Fort Garry, Manitoba, Canada; died 2000)
1963 John Hornacek, basketball player (Elmhurst, IL)
1964 Wynonna Judd, country singer (Ashland, KY)
1974 Jewel (Kilcher), singer (Payson, UT)

Ah, Raggedy. Looking at all the celebs. Machiavelli and the Prince? Speaking of whom, where is our Prince. I once thought that Machiavelli has coined the expression: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. I realize that it was in the Godfather, but I don't think any of us every came to a resolution on its origin.

Is that fellow with the guitar Jewel?

Perhaps it is song dedication time, listeners. Who shall be the first.

The fellow with the guitar is Pete Seeger, Letty. (If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone." )


This is Jewel:


A Jewel song :

All through the night I'll be standing over you
All through the night I'll be watching over you
And through bad dreams I'll be right there, baby
Holding your hand, telling you everything is all right
And when you cry I'll be right there
Telling you, you were never anything less than beautiful
So don't you worry
I'm your angel standing by

My word, Raggedy. That is Pete Seeger? How wonderful it is putting name to face. I always knew that Peter, Paul, and Mary did, "If I Had a Hammer" as a matter of fact, I sang that on TV once.

WOW! listeners. So many celebs have done so many of the same songs it's hard to distinguish among them.

So that is Jewel! Well, the lyrics to her song are lovely, but I have never heard them.

To whom shall we dedicate a song? How about this one for Bob:


Don't Look Back
Boston

Don't look back
A new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind where I get taken
The road is callin'
Today is the day
I can see
It took so long just to realize
I'm much too strong
Not to comprimise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around
I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind
It's a new horizon and I'm awakin' now
Oh I see myself in a brand new way
The sun is shinin'
the clouds are breakin'
'Canse I can't lose now, there's no game to play
I can tell
There's no more time left to critize
I've seen what I could not recognize
Everthing in my life was leading me on
but I can be strong
I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind

I knew I wouldn't get you on Davy Crockett.

How about

"Where the pines are so high that they kiss the sky
Above....."

(similar period, I think)

UhOh, McTag. That one will take some thinking, methinks.

Any listeners out there that can get it before I cheat?

Well, listeners, while we waitin' , here's a song to all the cheaters:


and when you're cheating on McTaggers,
Don't forget that maybe,
McTaggers May be cheatin' on you.

And when you're lookin' round old google
Don't forget that google,
May be serving someone else that's new.

When you're searching things
And having lots of fun,
Well don't forget that two can play
This game as well as one.

So when you're cheating on McTaggers,
Don't forget that maybe,
That Brit just may be cheatin' on you.

Pete Seeger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919 in New York City), almost always known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist and major contributor to folk and protest music in 1950s and 1960s. His father Charles Seeger was a musicologist and an early investigator of non-Western music. His siblings Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger also had notable musical careers. Mike Seeger went on to form the New Lost City Ramblers. Peter went to Avon Old Farms in Connecticut and then to Harvard University. In 1943 he married Toshi-Aline Ohta, whom he credits with being the support that made the rest of his life possible.


Career

He first met many important musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly during the late 1930s and early 1940s after dropping out of Harvard, where he was studying sociology.

He was a founding member of the folk groups The Almanac Singers and The Weavers. The Weavers had major hits in the early 1950s, before being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era.

Seeger started a solo career in 1958 (see 1958 in music), and is known for songs such as "If I Had a Hammer" (co-written with Lee Hays), "Turn, Turn, Turn" (adapted from Ecclesiastes), and "We Shall Overcome" (based on a spiritual).

In the 1960s, Seeger wrote the first version of his now-classic How to Play the Five-String Banjo, a book that many banjo players credit with starting them off on the instrument.

Seeger is involved in the Clearwater group, which he helped found in 1966. This organization has worked since then to highlight pollution in the Hudson River and worked to clean it. As part of that effort, the sloop Clearwater was launched in 1969 and regularly sails the river as a classroom, stage and laboratory.

As a member of the Old Left, Seeger is known for his communist political beliefs, formed before the crimes of Stalin were admitted to by the Soviet Union. Political opponents have called him by pejorative names such as "Stalin's Songbird". An example of Seeger's pro-Soviet and pro-Stalin attitude can be seen during the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the short-lived alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. His anti-war record Songs for John Doe, released in 1941, where he called President Franklin D. Roosevelt a warmonger who worked for J.P. Morgan, expressed his displeasure about FDR's increasingly confrontational attitude with Nazi Germany. Like most members of the CPUSA, Seeger was opposed to any action against Hitler from the time of the signing of the non-aggression pact until it was broken by Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, Seeger returned to his earlier stance as a strong proponent of military action against Germany; he was drafted into the Army, where he served honorably in the Pacific. Seeger left the Communist Party in 1950, five years before Nikita Khrushchev's Secret speech revealed Stalin's crimes and led to a mass exodus from the Party. He became an anti-Stalinist but retained his belief in Socialism.


Quotes


* "I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
* "My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the '50s. I apologize [in his recent book] for following the party line so slavishly, for not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader."
* "I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail."
* "Arlo, folk songs are serious."
* "Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."


Little Boxes

Pete Seeger


Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky,


little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.


There`s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one


and they`re all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same.


And the people in the houses all go to the university,


and they all get put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.


And there`s doctors and there`s lawyers and business executives,


and they`re all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.



And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry,


and they all have pretty children, and the children go to school.



And the children go to summer camp and then to the university,


and they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same.



And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family,


and they all get put in boxes, líttle boxes, all the same.


There`s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,


and they`re all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

Pete Seeger is still alive? WOW, Bob. That was really, and I mean really revealing.

Ages and stages, listeners, That's all of us in a nutshell.

Thanks for that history lesson, Bob. Quite an eye opener.

Little boxes; and in Florida, the developers have chosen all the same design. No individualism left, I'm afraid.

I dooby dooby do believe I have never googled a line without 'fessing up.

You impugn my probity, madam, and I demand satisfaction. Name your champion and your weapons, and my man will attend on him directly. :wink:

I wanna be the witness of this great probity friend McTag!