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07-26-2008, 04:48 AM | #11 | |||
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My life seems to be about music, so there are too many to mention, but two come to mind:
"Glow Worm" - don't know who performed it, but when I was a kid my grandfather liked that song and always requested it when I was playing the piano or my clarinet. I hardly ever hear it, but when I do, it sends chills up my spine. And the other: Whenever "He'll Have to Go" came on the radio, my mother would stop what she was doing and sing harmony with Jim Reeves. I can still picture her, holding her dish towel, leaning against the big old white kitchen sink, head back and eyes closed, "and you can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go...." If I hear that song without advance warning (and sometimes with) I'll just start sobbing. It was so Mom.
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07-26-2008, 08:22 AM | #12 | |||
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'You Are My Sunshine' . I used to sing it to my boys when they were little and still thought I was the greatest mom in the world, LOL.
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07-26-2008, 09:32 AM | #13 | |||
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Great memories! B2Y, I can just see your mom! Cindy, you reminded me of when my dad would pick his guitar and sing to us. Thanks for that. Joelle, I taught my lab to sing You Are My Sunshine in doggie talk. lol
Another song that takes me back is by Tom T Hall, "I Love." I remember my older cousin sitting at our kitchen table, coffee cup in one hand, cig in the other singing like she was Tom T Hall. I Love little baby ducks Old pickup trucks Slow movin' trains and rain I Love little country streams Sleep without dreams Sunday school in May and hay And I love you too. I Love - leaves in the wind Pictures of my friends Birds of the world - and squirrels I Love - coffee in a cup Little fuzzy pups Bourbon in a glass - and grass And I love you too. I Love honest open smiles Kisses from a child Tomatoes on the vine and onions I Love winner's when they cry Loser's when they try Music when it's good and life And I love you too
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07-26-2008, 09:42 AM | #14 | ||
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Too many to count, but I enjoyed reading all of yours
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07-26-2008, 09:43 AM | #15 | ||
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WOW Joelle...ME TOO!
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07-26-2008, 10:09 AM | #16 | |||
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I'm Henry the 8th.
Can't remeber who did that - Herman's Hermits? Silly song, but when I hear it or think of it, I remember being 5 or 6, it's summer in NJ, and I'm going to Uncle Buddy's with Mom and Bobby, Carol and Mike to swim. The radio is playing, my aunts and cousins are all there. Uncle Buddy will be in the carport, making drinks for the grown-ups, hot dogs for us kids, and minding the music. He likes the Doors, and he'll play some Patsy Cline for Mom and Aunt Margie. All of us kids from the pool will be singing Second verse, same as the first! Sometimes when I'm in my pool I think back to that and smile. I told my DGD about that last time we were swimming together. Hope she has those kind of memories about our summers some day.
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07-26-2008, 06:31 PM | #17 | |||
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They're Coming To Take Me Away...hee hee ha ha ho ho!!!!!
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07-26-2008, 07:08 PM | #18 | |||
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lol, Janie !
you're playin' my SONG !!! To the funny farm.... where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!! Quote:
@ BGB: yep, it was Herman's Hermits... I'm Henery the Eighth I am! Henery the Eighth I am, I am! I got married to the widow next door, She's been married seven times before. Every one was a Henery; She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam. I'm her eighth old man named Henery, I'm Henery the Eighth I am!
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07-26-2008, 08:03 PM | #19 | |||
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I was at the pool this afternoon and they were playing "Piano Man." It took me back to grad school when we would go to Happy Hour every Friday and play it on the juke box. Soon, everyone at the Loft (great pizza and cheap beer) would be singing it. It is now the 30th anniversary of the release of Billy Joel's album, "The Stranger."
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07-26-2008, 09:23 PM | #20 | |||
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this is the song that never fails to get me...
I remember playing it over and over and over, when I was 13... trying to get the lyrics written down... it's such an evocative song... it stirs something deep in my soul.... Judy Collins' voice is so haunting, and the melody is one of the most beautiful I've ever heard. ALBATROSS by Judy Collins The lady comes to the gate, dressed in lavender and leather Looking north to the sea, she finds the weather fine She hears the steeple bells ringing through the orchard All the way from town She watches seagulls fly Silver on the ocean stitching through the waves The edges of the sky Many people wander up the hills from all around you Making up your memories and thinking they have found you They cover you with veils of wonder as if you were a bride Young men holding violets are curious to know if you have cried And tell you why And ask you why Any way you answer Lace around the collars of the blouses of the ladies Flowers from a Spanish friend of the family The embroid'ry of your life holds you in And keeps you out but you survive Imprisoned in your bones Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain Down the hills through the long grass to the sea And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain Come away alone Even now by the gate with your long hair blowing And the colors of the day that lie along your arms You must barter your life to make sure you are living And the crowd that has come You give them the colors, and the bells and wind and the dreams Will there never be a prince who rides along the sea and the mountains? Scattering the sand and foam into amethyst fountains Riding up the hills from the beach in the long summer grass Holding the sun in his hands and shattering the isinglass? Day and night and day again and people come and go away forever While the shining summer sea dances in the glass of your mirror While you search the waves for love and your visions for a sign The knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain Down the hills through the long grass to the sea And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain Come away alone, come away alone... with me.
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