Have you ever seen the rain?

Ummm.... errrrr.... I just realized that this topic was a little, shall we say.... narrow?

To expand --

Is there any song that you're unsure of it's happy or sad content?

Or, is there a "happy" song that makes you feel sad (or vice versa)?

I remember crying for about 10 hours listening to ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" one day because it made me so sad and it is really a pretty happy song.

Wonderful World always bothered me.

I know that Satchmo ment it to be a happy song, and it is, but what bothers me is .. well...

How can a black man living through the very edge of slavery see everything so 'light ' and happy?

Not in any negative way.. but it seems odd that he would BE happy.
And not that he doesnt have a right to be happy.. it.. well..

being a black man then, I would guess that
People hated him for his skin color everywhere he went.
He could not do alot with hislife outside of his own home/ community..

Only until later on in his life ( after the 50's) was there any sort of 'freedom' developing.

I think that would have been a scary time to grow up in, and an even harder time to try to become a musician to the people who hate you.


But he did succeed. So .. I guess he does have a reason to be happy..

Ohhhh! Excellent choice.

One of my favorite versions of that is the one Joey Ramone did when he was dying of cancer.

I really like your "story" though and I have never thought of it from that perspective.

Wonderful!

Thanks for that.