You Can Ring My Bell

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:18:58 EST

I don't remember if I've mentioned the tinnitus I've had for the last couple of years. The ringing is high-pitched, and more noticeable at home where it's quieter than at work. I sleep with various noise machines going (really like the Sleep Pillow and SleePhones apps - I have the Sleep Pillow going on the iPhone and the SleePhones going to earphones from the iPad. Found out that if I have the headphones going to the phone, that even with the ringer turned off, I can hear the calls. That'll s...

Eve of Destruction

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:44 EST

Fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods ... I think serial killer Earth is at it again.

Written by P. F. Sloan in 1965, best known for Barry McGuire's version in 65.

The eastern world it is explodin', violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin'
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'

...

I Think I Love You

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:28:53 EST

From the Partridge Family, 1970

I'm sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream
Like all at once I wake up from something that keeps
Knocking at my brain
Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed screaming out the words I dread

I think I love you
(I think I love you)

This morning, I woke up with this feeling
...

Different Drum

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:52:27 EST

Written by Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees!) and recorded by Linda Ronstadt of the Stone Poneys in 1967.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum.
Oh, can't you tell by the way I run,
Every time you make eyes at me... Wo-oh.

You cry and moan, and say it will work out,
But honey child, I've got my doubts.
You can't see the forest for the trees.

Proud Mary

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:35:21 EST

Ike and Tina Turner 1970 - actually written by Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty in 1969

Y’ know, every now and then
I think you might like to hear something from us
Nice and easy
But there’s just one thing
You see we never ever do nothing
Nice and easy
We always do it nice and rough
So we’re gonna take the beginning of this song
And do it easy
Then we’re gonna do the finish rough
This is the way we do Proud Mary

Come Monday

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:08:11 EST

Jimmy Buffett, 1974

Headin’ up to San Francisco
For the Labor Day week-end show
I’ve got my hush-puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock and roll
And honey I didn’t know
That I’d be missin’ you so

Chorus:
Come Monday, it’ll be all right
Come Monday, I’ll be holdin’ you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze
And I just want you b...

Funny Signs

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:05:22 EST

Just a few funny signs I found on line

Rhythm of the Rain

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:20:43 EST

I planned to walk the pups this evening near sunset. As I was chillin', I heard piter-pater on the roof! Yeah, rain! ... Er, hold on, pups - gonna walk when it stops.

OK, back from walking the pups. Started sprinkling again about half a mile from home. Hurry, scurry! No time to stop to sniff or pee.

The Cascades, 1962

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain <...

Rumour Has It

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:20:52 EST

A modern classic from 2011 - Adele cowrote it with Ryan Tedder because she was unhappy with her friends spreading rumors about her breakup with her boyfriend.

She, she ain't real
She ain't gon' be able to love you like I will
She is a stranger
You and I have history or don't you remember?
Sure, she's got it all but baby is that really what you want?

"Don't put your faith in love, my boy," my father said to me,
"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."

Chorus:
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fru...

Margaritaville

Tue, 7 May 2013 19:49:03 EST

It's getting to be nicer weather - today my Pom had her teeth cleaned. I drove her up to drop her off this morning, then this afternoon, walked the boys to the vet to pick her up. About 2.75 miles in total. I have a shoulder bag I've been carrying Spartacus (the little weasel) in when he's too hot, too cold, too tired, or just plain scared of the big trucks. He did well today, and I ended up toting Shalako back most of the way. Poor baby was falling asleep from the anesthesia effects. Samura...

76 Trombones

Mon, 6 May 2013 23:37:36 EST

I tried looking for a song with the sixth in the title - couldn't find one. But, then I remembered 76 Trombones from The Music Man.

Seventy-Six Trombones by Harold:

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos,
The cream of ev'ry famous band.

Seventy-six trombones ca...

Cinco de Mayo

Sun, 5 May 2013 15:31:29 EST

A minor Mexican holiday to celebrate the defeat of the French army in a battle in 1892. Celebrated mostly as an occasion to drink, party, and consume Mexican foods.

May the Fourth Be With You

Sat, 4 May 2013 07:47:04 EST

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Thu, 2 May 2013 23:23:18 EST

I heard this one when I was driving in to work tonight. Stuck in my head now. Really catchy tune with the driving drum beat for such a sad song.

Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot
He changed one line in 2010 as noted.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand ton...

While Strolling Thru the Park

Thu, 2 May 2013 00:54:03 EST

A classic song for May

While strolling through the park one day
In the merry merry month of May
I was taken by surprise
By a pair of roguish eyes
In a moment my poor heart was stole away

A smile was all she gave to me
[soft-shoe break]
Of course we were as happy as can be
[soft-shoe break]
<...

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:26:45 EST

I used to have rose bushes in my yard. Over the last 20 something years, they've quietly given up the ghost. I have a brown thumb. That's why I'm really hoping I can get the petunias, lillies, heck, even the grass to live this year. Being in a drought doesn't help.

Joe South wrote & recorded it in 1969 as a country song , but Lynn Anderson made it a famous cross-over to pop hit in 1970

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along w...

Garden Party

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:54:25 EST

I got some bedding plants and repotted them into hanging baskets today. Here's hoping they do well!

Ricky Nelson, 1972

I went to a garden party, reminisced with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party they all knew my name
But no one recognized me I didn't look the same

But it's all right now
I learned my le...

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:11:32 EST

From the Movie "Cocktails" Performed by Bobby McFerrin 1988

Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy......

Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The land...

The Race is On

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:01:11 EST

Country singer great George Jones passed away today. This was one of his hits from 1965.

Songwriters: ROLLINS, DON

I feel tears welling up
Cold and deep inside
Like my heart's sprung a big break
And a stab of loneliness, sharp and painful
That I may never shake
You might say I was taking it hard
Oh, she wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow
When I may break right down and bawl

Motivation

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:36:54 EST

OK - enough depressing stuff - time for more funnies!

(This isn't one of them)

Stop All the Clocks

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:43:32 EST

A poem by W. H. Auden, 1938. I first heard it in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bow...

Live Like You Were Dying

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:20:33 EST

From 2004, Tim McGraw. Disclaimer: I really like this song, and the thought that having nothing to lose gets us thinking about what's really important. What would you do if you only had a few months to live? On the other hand, I wanted to put in the funny pictures.

He said: "I was in my early forties,
"With a lot of life before me,
"An' a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
"I spent most of the next days,
"Looking at the x-rays,
"An' talking 'bout the ...

Dust in the Wind

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:32:55 EST

From the band Kansas, 1977

Happy Earth Day!

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes with curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles...

Mercy Mercy Me

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:44:27 EST

In honor of Earth Day 4/22/13

Songwriter & Artist: Gaye, Marvin P, 1971

Woo ah, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east

Woo mercy, mercy me, mercy father
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our se...

Candle in the Wind

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:26:13 EST

Elton John, 1973. Originally written for Marilyn Monroe, he revised it in 1997 for Princess Diana. A beautiful song of loss and rememberance.

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

Rainbow Connection

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:13:02 EST

Finally back to a total rainbow song - the 17th in my rainbow colors series.
1979, the lovable Muppet Kermit contemplates rainbows.

Why are there so many songs about rainbows
and what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
and rainbows have nothing to hide.

So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
...

Red Red Wine

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:01:29 EST

Finally at the start of the rainbow again. Neil Diamond, 1968

Red, red wine
Go to my head
Make me forget that I
Still need her so

Red, red wine
It's up to you
All I can do, I've done
But memories won't go
No, memories won't go

I'd have sworn that with time
Thought...

Orange Colored Sky

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:18:39 EST

For the color orange in my "going up the rainbow" - from 1950, originally recorded by Nat King Cole. Songwriters: MILTON DELUGG, WILLIE STEIN

I was walking along, minding my business,
When out of the orange colored sky,
Flash, bam, alacazam, Wonderful you came by.

I was humming a tune, drinking in sunshine,
When out of that orange colored view
Wham, bam, alacaz...

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot Bikini

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:42:29 EST

Still going up the rainbow colors, here's a funny old classic from 1980.

She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see
One, two, three, four, tell the people what she wore

It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time ...

Green Green Grass of Home

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:38:25 EST

A real tear-jerker today for the color green. Porter Wagoner first made it popular in 1965 on the Country. Tom Jones made it a hit in 1966 on the pop charts.

The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train,
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa.
Down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Blue Skies

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:12:41 EST

For the "blue" song for the rainbow today. Written in 1926 for a Rodgers and Hart musical. Many, many artists have covered in, in various genres. (Including Willie Nelson's Country Western version) Pictures from Bing.com (I have trouble getting new pictures from Icanhascheezburger.com lately)

Blue skies, smilin’ at me
Nothin’ but blues skies do I see

Bluebirds singin’ a song
T...

Deep Purple

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:56:28 EST

Since it's hard to find aongs about indigo, here's deep purple for the rainbow. Written as piano music in 1933, words were added in 1938. Many artists covered it - this is from Donny & Marie Osmond in 1976. Pictures from bing.com

When the deep purple falls
Over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to twinkle in the sky
In the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh

Orange Blossom Special

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:49:53 EST

Today's color of the rainbow is orange. Per Wikipedia, Orange Blossom Special was written in 1938 by Ervin T Rouse. It served as a rite of passage to fiddle players for many years - if they couldn't play it, they couldn't play Bluegrass!

Look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special
Bringin' my baby back

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