I'll tell you a half-dozen things that happened to me in Indiana when I went that far west to teach. You tell me if it was worth it. I lived in the country with my dog— part of the bargain of coming. And there was a pond with fish from, I think, China. I felt them sometimes against my feet. Also, they crept out of the pond, along its edges, to eat the grass. I'm not lying. And I saw coyotes, two of them, at dawn, running over the seemingly unenclosed fields. And once a deer, but a buck, thick-necked, leaped into the road just-oh, I mean just, in front of my car— and we both made it home safe. And once the blacksmith came to care for the four horses, or the three horses that belonged to the owner of the house, and I bargained with him, if I could catch the fourth, he, too, would have hooves trimmed for the Indiana winter, and apples did it, and a rope over the neck did it, so I won something wonderful; and there was, one morning, an owl flying, oh pale angel, into the hay loft o...
Oh Lord, thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou have takin' me down memory lane....not that I am old enough...just sayin'
Groovy...does recognizing a lot of the visuals count? Thanks for the fun!
ReplyDeleteI don't remember that song, but then I MAY have inhaled (passively, of course) once or twice.
ReplyDeleteI remember many of the songs within the song...I could never do it without taking a breath!
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant!.. I can't believe someone managed to decipher all that.. well.. most of it anyway!.. I love a nice piece of cheese, cheers!
ReplyDeleteWow! Too cool. In the words of the immortal Bob Hope, "Thanks for the memories..."
ReplyDeleteNow I can't get this song out of my head! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I love your site. I just started blogging last month; Cheaper than therapy...I just wanted you to know I borrowed some ideas, not words, i.e. the h.i.p.p.a. statement. Ha! Gotta love it. I would love to know how you got the whole page on your blog and not just the center portion. Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteLike Southern Drawl... thanks for the memories.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say I barely remember this song, but that would be a flat-out lie. There used to be a radio program here on Friday nights--the programming was a variation of the "B" side idea. They played the songs on the albums that came right after the popular radio-played song of Led Zeppelin, Carly Simon, Eagles,etc.
ReplyDeleteSongs you haven't thought of forever and wind up singing all the words.
*Bette's Bags--you're welcome. I promise not to post the truly insidious ones like Steve Martin's "King Tut." Well, that one I might...:>)
*Southern Drawl--welcome and thank you. Don't know if this helps, but if you click on CUSTOMIZE on your blogsite, and then on the far right tab, PICK NEW TEMPLATE, on the second row there is a template called MINIMA LEFT STRETCH and it has a couple of different options. As far as borrowing, I believe in the nursing biz we call that reallocation of resources:>) Borrow away, and enjoy!
Ahh! The end of Life On Mars.
ReplyDeleteBummer huh?
And Grrrrrr - The Man and I had this song in our heads for 2 days after watching this vid.
ReplyDeleteI woke up singing the damn thing!!