Songs That Tell Stories

Had Custer lived, he would have been the subject of a court martial.

Chief Joseph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufvox0T9K_w

I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead.
It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Red Cloud. Cochise. Sitting Bull. Their names fill me with awe and wonder.

Lyle , what is there to say?



The Cherokee an' the Chickasaw
Creek Seminole an' the old Choctaw
"We volunteered to move!" they say
"And we'll understand, come Judgement Day".

An' so thank you ma'am, I must decline
For it's on this trail of tears I ride
An' I'm under Oklahoma skies
Sometimes at night I hear their voices
Home is where my horse is.

Now as I sit here safe at home
With a cold Coors Lite an' the TV on
All the sacrifice and the death and woe
Lord I pray that I'm worth fighting for

An' so thank you ma'am, I must decline
For it's on my RPG I ride
Till Earth an' hell are satisfied
I'm subject to the natural forces
Sometimes at night I hear their voices
Home is where my horse is.
Home is where my horse is.

Good one by Lyle, panz. I sometimes forget to listen to him, but he makes good recordings.

He's just good period. I like a lot of those Texas song writers: Lyle, the late Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely,

Forgot one . . . besides all the new people. I did find this http://singer-songwriter.com/us/texas

Thanks. I will check it out.

I always feel I don't pay Lyle enough attention too. He would have to my favourite artist who I can't name one song of, and am only moderately familar with one song of the Dead Man Walking soundtrack. Saw him on Elvis Costello on 'cable' the other night. Made me think of Leonard Cohen crossed with Chris Isaak.

Leonard Cohen crossed with Chris Isaak???!!! What a mind-blowing comparison! Cohen has a range of three notes and, I suspect Isaak a range of three octaves!

Yeah, more Cohen's soulnakedness and awkwardness with Isaak's mellifluous vocals. I can't image Lyle having a belly laugh.

Beautiful song

Wow! Loved that one by Buffy. I guess we all have a dream tree.

Whale of a Tale.



A South African couple was out sailing near the country's infamous Robben Island when a 40-ton whale breached and crash-landed on their yacht.

"We were watching the whale flipping its tail for about half an hour," said Cape Town Sailing Academy Administrator Paloma Werner, who was enjoying a Sunday sail with her boyfriend and sailing instructor, Ralph Mothes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfiQAvvmXvc

I know and love that song, letty.

Hope this works, edgar. Trench warfare was miserable. Yep, the Bloody Road to the Somme tells it like it was and may be again.



Put this on Endy's Friendly Freaks discussion, but it's better here.

Fromelles war cemetery dedicated 94 years after disastrous battle

Bodies of Australian and British soldiers reburied in first war cemetery on western front for 80 years

WWI songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH4-fYIfC-E&feature=related