@edgarblythe,
edgar, I only heard Morning Side of the Mountain by Marie and Donny. Tommy's was better. Thanks for the info concerning your brother and The Prisoner, too.
Lord have mercy, I love those quotes by Sam Clemens/Mark. He and Will Rogers are so much alike in their thinking. Dawes wrote the melody, buddy, but someone else wrote the lyrics.
DAWES, Charles Gates, (1865 - 1951)
DAWES, Charles Gates, (son of Rufus Dawes and brother of Beman Gates Dawes), a Vice President of the United States; born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, August 27, 1865; attended the common schools; graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886; admitted to the bar in 1886 and practiced in Lincoln, Nebr., 1887-1894;
Speaking of classics, folks. Thinking of Chaucer today. (April, you know)
SAINT THOMAS BECKET BISHOP, MARTYR"1118-1170
Here begins the Book of the Tales of Canterbury
When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
Into the Ram one half his course has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.
And specially from every shire's end
Of England they to Canterbury wend,
Chaucer.
In undergrad college we had to memorize the middle English part How silly.
A tour, and we'll dedicate this to our British friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya5I3cnOfWA&feature=related
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