Life in song.
(You cannot argue with a song.1
I don’t and I won’t!)—
“I don’t doubt for a minute
Someday we’ll all learn to start livin’ together
We’ll fix all our mistakes …
Someday we will
But I wonder if the world can wait that long.”2
“I got a feelin’ called the blues, oh Lord,”
“I’m so lonesome I could cry.”
“I’m going back some day come what may to Blue Bayou
Where you sleep all day and the catfish play on Blue Bayou …
How happy I’d be.”
“Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now.”
“I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long? How?”
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.”
“Ain’t but three things in this world that’s worth a solitary dime
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine.”
“He smiled and all his teeth
Were covered with tobacco stains
He said, ‘It don’t do men no good
To pray for peace and rain.
Peace and rain is just
A way to say prosperity
And buffalo chips is all
That means to me.’”
“There he sits all alone on the sidewalk
Hoping that you won’t pass him by
Should you stop?, better not, much too busy
You’re in a hurry, my how time does fly.”
“Have you ever noticed when you’re feeling really good
There’s always a pidgeon that’ll come shit on your hood?
Or you’re feeling your freedom and the world’s off your back
Some cowboy from Texas starts his own war in Iraq …
Some humans ain’t human, some people ain’t kind.”
“I don’t doubt for a minute
Someday we’ll all learn to start livin’ together
We’ll fix all our mistakes …
Someday we will
But I wonder if the world can wait that long.”
“I got a feelin’ called the blues, oh Lord,”
“I’m so lonesome I could cry”
Life in song.
(You cannot argue with a song.1
I don’t and I won’t!).
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( 7 S’s / VV->^^ )
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1 From David Fleming’s Surviving the Future (2016).
2 The song lines were written—in chronological order after these first ones—by: Adam Wright, Friend & Mills, Hank Williams, Roy Orbinson & Joe Melson, Chet Powers, Neal Young (2), Tom T. Hall (2), Willie Nelson, and John Prine.
3 (989) Wonder If The World Can Wait That Long by Adam Wright (lyric video). – YouTube
