Reno Nevada by Ian Mathews
It's a long way down to Reno Nevada
It's a long way to your home
And the change in your pocket it's beginnig to grumble
And you reap just about what you sow
You can walk down the street
Pass your face in a window
you can go fooling around
you can work night and day take a chance on promotion
you can fall through a hole in the ground
Now there ain't no game like the game that you're playing
When you've got a little something to lose
And there ain't no time like the time that you're wasting
And you waste just about what you choose
There's a man at the table and you know he's been able
To return all the odds that you lay
But you can't feed your hunger
And you ain't getting younger
And your tounge it's got nothing to say
It's a long way down to Reno Nevada
It's a long way to your home
And the ground underneath you it's beginning to tremble
And the sky up above you has grown
There's a time to be moving a time to be groving
And a time just to climb up the wall
But the odds they've doubled
And it ain't worth the trouble
and you're never going nowhere at all
It's a long way down to Reno Nevada
It's a long way to your home
And the ground underneath you it's beginning to tremble
And the sky up above you has grown
There's a man at the table and you know he's been able
To return all the odds that you lay
But you can't feed your hunger
And you ain't getting younger
And your tounge it's got nothing to say
edgar, that was lovely. The very words that will lull me to sleep. Listeners, if you are ready to kick back and listen, please do.
Letty tunes out with a poem.
When all are curled up in a trundle,
When avians tuck under their wings,
When darkening comes to the twilight,
Please listen and you might hear things.
A purr from a cat in the corner,
A snore from Paco and such,
A chirp from a cricket; a mourner,
A resonance of crystal in hutch.
Don't touch; don't touch; don't touch.
Goodnight from Letty with love.
Reno Blues, or, Philadelphia Lawyer
Way out in Reno, Nevada,
Where romance blooms and fades,
A great Philadelphia lawyer
Was in love with a Hollywood maid.
"Come, love, and we'll go ramblin'
Down where the lights are so bright.
I'll win you a divorce from your husband,
And we can get married tonight."
Wild Bill was a gun-totin' cowboy,
Ten notches were carved in his gun.
And all the boys around Reno
Left Wild Bill's maiden alone.
One night when Bill was returning
From ridin' the range in the cold,
He dreamed of his Hollywood sweetheart,
Her love was as lasting as gold.
As he drew near her window,
Two shadows he saw on the shade;
'Twas the great Philadelphia lawyer
Makin' love to Bill's Hollywood maid.
The night was as still as the desert,
The moon hangin' high overhead.
Bill listened awhile through the window,
He could hear ev'ry word that he said:
"Your hands are so pretty and lovely,
Your form's so rare and divine.
Come go with me to the city
And leave this wild cowboy behind."
Now tonight back in old Pennsylvania,
Among those beautiful pines,
There's one less Philadelphia lawyer
In old Philadelphia tonight.
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
© 1949 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications , Inc.
Yes, I agree with you on that, Johnboy.
(I have a dejavu sense that I'd explained all that about my interests before that last post. Apologies to folks if I repeated myself.)
they call the wind maria...Jim Ed Brown
A way out here they've got a name for wind and rain and fire
The rain is Jack the fire is Joe and they call the wind Maria
Maria flows the stars around since the clouds're flying
Maria makes the mountains sound like cold wind out there dying
Maria Maria they call the wind Maria
Before I knew Maria's name heard her wails and whining
I had a girl and she had me and the sun was always shining
And then one day I left my girl left her far behind me
Maria blowed her love to me I need her here beside me
Maria Maria they call the wind Maria
Out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire only
But when you're lost and all alone there ain't no name for lonely
Now I'm a lost and lonely man without the stars to guide me
Maria blowed her love to me I need her here beside me
Maria Maria they call the wind Maria
I always liked that song...
Letty wrote:and there's that delightful colorbook. We've missed your poetry, honey. How about a verse or two for old times sake....
How about a little jingle:
What a nice way, to start your day
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That should reel them in...
That $39.99 for the first lesson was all I need to know. LOL
The crucible of the pop psych. I think our resident psychologist just made a statement with background music provided by dys and edgar and a catchy little jingle thrown in by the book of color.
Good morning, WA2K listeners.
We are missing our celebrity informant, Raggedy, but I'm certain she will be here presently with news and pictures.
In the meantime, we'll await the return of the Virginia gentleman.
Your Celebrity Birthday reporter apologizes for her absence from WA2K due to a short holiday vacation and sincerely hopes all the crew and listeners at the station had a wonderful holiday.
Let's extend a belated December 27 birthday remembrance to:
Marlene Dietrich, born in Berlin, Germany in 1901; died 1992
Miss Dietrich became a U.S. citizen in March, 1937 and received the U.S. War Department's 'Medal of Freedom', in 1947, for entertaining American troops for several years in Europe and Africa in WWII ,and her strong stand against Naziism.
And Happy December 28 birthday to:
Denzel Washington born 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY
Ah, Thanks, Raggedy. What an unusual voice Marlene had. Quite a chanteuse, she was.
And we all love DenZEL, I'm sure. Just watched him in the movie "Man on Fire" and he was excellent.
Hope you had a nice holiday, Raggedy.
If there is anyone in our studio who can interpret this news item, I do hope you will, as it is waaaaayyyy outta my league:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041228/wl_asia_afp/asiaquakeusmapshift_041228013319
Excellent site, BBB. Actually, although I haven't read all the information, I was hoping for a brief explanation of how the earthquake affected the earth's rotation, and what that could mean to us.
Medical report for today. Sent to me by a retired life science professor.
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I would have loved to have had the following for a test question
requesting evaluation for one of the statistics courses I taught in my
other life.
---- Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.
Now Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. Yes, that is 80
million.
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is
1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
Statistics courtesy of F.B.I.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous
than gun owners.
Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR!
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat immediately. We must
ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
Letty: I, too, heard the notion about the earth's rotation being altered and I wondered what they were talking about.
I reckon the best analogy I can come up with goes like this-I'm sure someone else can do better:
You are driving down the road with a nearly full cup of coffee between your legs. You have to brake suddenly, very suddenly. The liquid sloshes forward and the cup tips forward also. The tsunami moved an incredible amount of liquid (weight) from one area to another very quickly. I can see how that could cause earth to wobble a bit.
C.I. Guns don't kill people, doctors do? Love it! and you justified that soooooo numerically.
Real John,
That is an explanation that even Letty can grasp. Hmmm. Sure you weren't a geophysics major? Believe that I would rather own a bunch of art supply stores.
Worm anyone? Sent by a doctor in Tanzania.
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