Belated update and housekeeping.

Trying to tidy site. Have been very unwell for a long time. Am better but my days are numbered, something that money, medicine, doctors, and alternative treatments will not fix: COPD

 

Talking about Petty-Bourgeois: WigWam (You guessed it!)

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Petty-Bourgeois

Look out! (Oh) Sunny disaster! (Oh) Sunny disaster! (Oh)

 Disaster can be fun if you give up lettuce

Give up smell, touch Sunday lunch

Disaster can be fun if you give up breathing

 Give up hope, T.V. and the radio

Disaster can be very nice if you simply live like a lice

Disaster can be very nice

Can anyone else better these terrible lyrics?

Talking about Rockin’ Ol’ Galway: WigWam

 

More WigWam!

Rockin’ Ol’ Galway
Lyrics & Chords: Rockin’ Ol’ Galwayby Jim Pembroke. Album: Fairyport (1971)

 Dear ol’ Granma, get that fiddle out 

 Blow a tune and make us jump and shout 

 A Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, out in rockin’ ol’ Galway

 

Dear old Granma, you got what it takes

You blow fiddle good as cherry cakes

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, out in rockin’ ol’ Galway 

 

Out in the barn we get in a line and then 

Kick off our shoes and hoe down in time

And then Granpa arrives with all of his drums 

And the full moon has just come

Bagpipes and bells and hornpipes and jigs

And then Horses and cows and chickens and pigs

And then Grannie and Uncle are bootleggin’ tea

And the moonshine’s flowin’ free

 

Dear ol’ Granma, we just got to sigh

 You blow fiddle good as rhubarb pie

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, out in rockin’ ol’ Galway (harmonica solo)

 

 Out in the barn… Bagpipes and bells…

 Dear ol’ Granma, get that fiddle out… (harmonica solo)

 

What a sovereign remedy for my depression!

Talking about Cafffkaff, The Country Psychologist

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Cafffkaff, The Country Psychologist  ( Album: Fairyport. 1971 )

So-w-hat do we find, why don’t youm learn. Nymphs of the wood, with their urban disease of suggestion!!… Limping up to the fountainhead, walking on, out-of-this-wórld, maybe you didn’t know about the ground water.Frankly, I must have expected too much.

This from a Finnish band called WigWam! There’s more, lots more……. The words are hilarious!

Poeta fit non nascitur

 Yipee! At last I have had something published in The Big Issue Street Lights pages.

 Unfortunately I sent in the draft idea instead of the completed, somewhat pretentious and over-blown version which I publish here:

 

 

From an Inglenook

 

 

Passing the window onto the eaters

And drinkers warm welcome inside.

Outside I’m goose-bumped,

Sweat cold and clammy.

 

 

The fire in the hearth is rosy cosy

Talkers all comfortable within.

Outside I’m goose-bumped,

Sweat cold, and clammy.

 

The fire of our love died, embraceable embers

Out into the cold I blundered blindly.

Outside I’m goose-bumped,

Sweat hot, disease lumped.

 

 

The fire in my blood is so very nasty

Fuel for death’s burning armies.

Outside I’m goose-bumped,

Sweat cold, and clammy.

 

 

Meanwhile through the window,

The talkers chat and chew

Their endless meal, teeth and steel.

Outside I’m goose-stepped

Off to the hospice house

Led by the rider’s pale horse,

“Old lady next…”

Outside.

 

Postscript

 

“Did anyone know him?”

“No, no relatives either.”

“Shame.”

 

 

YouTube – Elvis Presley – An American Trilogy (Live 1973)

 I have lots of favourites on my You Tube area but this, the rehearsal for ‘Aloha From Hawaii’, is the final musical nirvana for me at least. Hendrix will always be up there with Elvis but this culmination of a great voice, performer, music and musicians, rates the No1 spot. No wonder he went to pieces, after that where could he go? You can see his sheer ecstasy, lower lip quivering,  as he turns to face the band and orchestra for the run in to the final chorus. And, as I commented earlier, he then comes floating in over the whole masterpiece to deliver the killer blow! Music at it’s very, very best! Enjoy it.  (See note below clip!) 

Talking about YouTube – Elvis Presley – An American Trilogy (Live 1973)
  

The only problem on my spot is that the video seems jerky, so to see a correct playback log on toYou-Tube.

Obviously it is best to purchase a full recording ( and not mixed by the Colonel either)

YouTube – BavonWW’s Channel

For some reason, which I am sure will become clearer to me later, I have Blogged my U-Tube account.

YouTube – BavonWW’s Channel