THE TALKING STICK: lullabys, legends, and lies
Gather round fellows I`ll tell you some tales about murder and blueberry pies
And heroes and hells and bottomless wells and lullabys legends and lies
And gather round ladies come sit at my feet I`ll sing about warm sunny skies
There`s mermaids and beans and lovin` machines in my lullabys legends and lies
Lullabys legends and lies and lies lullabys legends and lies
I`ll sing you a song then I`ll shuffle along with my lullabys legends and lies
I may make you wonder I may make you smile I may bring the tears to your eyes
But when I disappear Lord you`ll wish I was here with more lullabys legends and lies
So open the bottle and pass a guitar and look in my warm lovin` eyes
I`ll take you to places you ain`t been before with my lullabys legends and lies.-Shel Silverstein
OVER RAINBOWS AND RANIER
The angel moroni asleep in the carport F
With the newspaper under his arm
It seems i was late to deliver his car keys
So it looks like we are staying behind
Was lucifer bashful
In hiding his face from the lord
Dear jesus, forgive me
I'm only doing as i was told
For as it is written
I will soon one day face my own fire
This world will go with me
If i can just get them all on my side
Carry me over rainbows and rainier
I was late to the parlor
When the wind it blew forward
And demanded we get out of town
So me and moroni
Took the keys to the steeple
And awaited armageddon to go down
Place your queens on the table
Who are weeping for your daughters
Who are waiting for their sunday to return
Every heart will be broken
Prophetic poems spoken
From the mouths of every baby to be born
Carry me over rainbows and rainier
let your cries be enjoyed
Let it always and forever fill the void
allow my heart some room
May it be so that you'll one day need me soon
My wheels that are turning
And my back to the window
I collected every wave from the shore
I forgot i was human
And i laid up my emotions
And i knocked them like dishes to the floor
Carry me over rainbows and rainier-Damien Jurado
[video: https://vimeo.com/258808567]AWE AND SURRENDER
I once spoke to my friend, an old squirrel, about the Sacraments—
he got so excitedand ran into a hollow in his tree and came
back holding some acorns, an owl feather,
and a ribbon he had found.And I just smiled and said, “Yes, dear,
you understand:everything imparts
His grace.”I've loved strangers
Dodged deals and dangers
Searching for my own little pieceFrom the countryside to the slick city streets
I've missed my hometown
Been high and low down
Learned every which way of the game
How some things do and some don't change
And it's safe to say I'm still crazy over you
You're love gets me through when I'm stuck in life's crazy glueAnd ain't it funny how a little thunder
Make a man start to wonder
Should he swim or just go under?
And ain't it funny how you learn to pray
When you're blue skies turn gray
When there's nothing left to say
Shine on rainy dayFriend once told me
Said, "boy you sound so lonely
All those cheatin', leavin' done me wrongs
Have you ever heard of a happy song?"
Well offended I sat down my glass
Smiled and let the moment pass
Said, "tabs on me if you think I'm lying
But laughin' ain't a pleasure 'til you know about cryin'"Ain't it funny how a little thunder
Make a man start to wonder
Should he swim or just go under?
And ain't it funny how you learn to pray
When you're blue skies turn gray
When there's nothing left to say
Shine on rainy dayShine on rainy day
Ain't it funny how a little thunder
Make a man start to wonder
Should he swim or just go under?
And ain't it funny how you learn to pray
When you're blue skies turn gray
When there's nothing left to say
Shine on rainy day-Brent Cobb
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1790: The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy
1863: American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1866: US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1909: For the first time fingerprint evidence is used to solve a murder case. The worlds first official Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard in 1901. It should also be noted that the World's first Fingerprint Bureau opened in Calcutta, India in 1897.
[video:https://youtu.be/6zR9jqQikfA]
1912: 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.
1914: 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)1915: Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1930: 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931: John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1935: Hitler demanded that Germany have equal military power with other European nations. He wanted this on a gun-for-gun basis. (However, it was also recorded that he wanted superiority over the Russian army.)
1939: 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1952: "Singin' in the Rain", the comedy musical starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, debuts at the movies. [video:https://youtu.be/B0asbGJbLKc]
1952: Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rKxg7B1do&feature=youtu.be]1956: US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1958: CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1979: US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars
1990: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1997: Martin Luther King's son meets James Earl Ray, his father's killer
2006: The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2018: “We Cannot Wait for Change”, Freed Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is interviewed on Democracy Now ... her first national interview since being released from federal prison.
2134: 32nd predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
[video:https://youtu.be/INcT_zmxgAA]
Nothing could be more appropriate for progressive listening. than Lullabies, Legends, and Lies. So here we go.
Returning to RCA after a stint at Mercury Records, Bobby Bare teamed up with songwriter Shel Silverstein for 1973's Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies. The idea of the record is clearly laid out in the title -- this album is a collection of American tall tales and myths, all filtered through Silverstein's signature humor (sometimes silly, sometimes clever, sometimes sentimental, sometimes slyly lewd) and delivered with Bare's signature warm, friendly manner. Although Bare had recorded a song or two of Shel's before, this was the first time that he devoted a full album to his material. But more noteworthy is that this album finds the singer developing a loose, offhand way of performance that emphasizes both his character and the freewheeling eclecticism of his music. Musically, it's not far removed from his Mercury records, where his progressive country rubbed shoulders with pop, rock, and folk, but his laid-back, open-ended performances let the music breathe, while the Silverstein songs give the album cohesion and an overt, welcome sense of humor. All this helped reignite Bare's career, giving him a new signature sound that carried him through the next few years, until he left RCA for Columbia, where he just got rowdier. It was also the biggest album of his career, spending 30 weeks on the Billboard country charts (where it peaked at number five). Bare was rarely this consistent or enjoyable.
- Lullabys Legends And Lies
- Paul
- Marie Laveau
- Daddy What If (& Bobby Bare Jr)
- The Wonderful Soup Stone
- The Winner
- In The Hills Of Shiloh
- She's My Ever Lovin' Machine
- The Mermaid
- Rest Awhile
- Bottomless Well
- True Story
- Sure Hit Songwriter's Pen
- Roasalie's Good Eats Cafe
Comments
Good morning, phillyblusfan. Thanks for the OT.
Shel Silverstein was a national treasure.
Mary Mallon's court case is an interesting and important read. There may be more than one. One, for sure, was habeus corpus. It is a largely overlooked civil liberties case which helps to set forth or delimit the permissible scope of laws and regulations.
You forgot to put the words open thread in your tags, so this isn't headlined. You can edit it to add them and then it will appear in the listing.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I like the legends and lies theme
it's the nature of folk music and tales. I'll look forward to listening today to the album. Shel wrote a boy named sue also.
Myths call us...showing us ourselves using fantasy.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Ongoing Injustice Against the Holy Land 5
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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Thank you so much for this open thread, philly blues fan.
Each of the open threads has its own personality and each is wonderful. This board is truly blessed with people who can write and think and are willing to volunteer their time and effort.
I don't know about the lullabies part, but "Legends and Lies" is certainly a fitting theme for a politics board. I don't think we can believe anything we hear or read about politics anymore--and almost everything has been politicized, from pregnancy to climate.
At one point, philosophers and others got into a loop where they couldn't figure out what was real and what was illusion. Then, Descartes came along with "I think; therefore I am," or some French equivalent. We're now in a loop where we can't tell what is fact, what is fiction and what is propaganda. I don't know what can get us out of that loop.
Descartes, sadly, missed the boat, he only thought he thought
and hence only thought that he was. That, as I recall was the almost universal yuth ful response of kids to his dictum, but they were more right than he, in terms of rigor. He saw that such a contimuation of doubting could be an issue with his cogito and immediately invoked a Deus Ex Machina to resolve it - "God would not thus trick me" (or French to that effect). That violates Occam's razor and blows up Descartes' proof.
The real resolution, is from a much later school and boils down to an issue of relevance. If therre is this underlying "reality" which cannot be sensed, detected, or interacted with, then it is irrelevant, and I need only be concerned with that reality which can be interacted with, for only it can interact with and effect me.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
La La Land
Thanks for the, (sorry I missed the reference to), what was the Tuesday open thread. May be a good Idea to preface your post with something like: Open Thread. Talking stick is a great image, newbies may not catch the open thread in that stick. Thx
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