Lots of gardening today only made palatable because I re-visited some old playlists on my mobile. Ones I had downloaded some time ago. So there were some good sounds to go with the grass cutting and weeding and general tidying up.
So how about this for a playlist
West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein's score is arguably the best musical ever written: followed by What the World Needs Now/Abraham, Martin and John by DJ Tom Clay. This is a very poignant record and is a mixture of clips, music, interviews and speeches featuring John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It sold over one million records as a single. I followed that with Where Are You Now My Son, a very strange mixture of song, poetry and live reportage by Joan Baez made during the Vietnam War. It's a powerful 20 minute piece that was put together during a US bombing raid on Hanoi in 1972.
How about this for lyrics
It's walking to the battleground that always makes me cry
I've met so few folks in my time who weren't afraid to die
But dawn bleeds with the people here and morning skies are red
As young girls load up bicycles with flowers for the dead
An ageing woman picks along the craters and the rubble
A piece of cloth, a bit of shoe, a whole lifetime of trouble
A sobbing chant comes from her throat and splits the morning air
The single son she had last night is buried under her
They say that the war is done
Where are you now, my son?
and how about
The children on the roadsides of the villages and towns
Would stand around us laughing as we stood like giant clowns
The mourning bands told whom they'd lost by last night's phantom messenger
And they spoke their only words in English, "Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger"
Then followed the following playlist:
Child in Time by Deep Purple
Fool's Overture by Supertramp
Refugees by Van Der Graaf Generator
Melinda by Curved Air
Catch the Rainbow by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Parisienne Walkways by Greg Lake
The Village Lantern by Blackmore's Night
Autumn - Heroine's Theme by The Strawbs
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Take a Pebble by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Weavers Answer by Family
Tears and Pavan by The Strawbs
Mandolin Wind by Rod Stewart
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? by Fairport Convention
I look forward to more gardening!!
So how about this for a playlist
West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein's score is arguably the best musical ever written: followed by What the World Needs Now/Abraham, Martin and John by DJ Tom Clay. This is a very poignant record and is a mixture of clips, music, interviews and speeches featuring John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It sold over one million records as a single. I followed that with Where Are You Now My Son, a very strange mixture of song, poetry and live reportage by Joan Baez made during the Vietnam War. It's a powerful 20 minute piece that was put together during a US bombing raid on Hanoi in 1972.
How about this for lyrics
It's walking to the battleground that always makes me cry
I've met so few folks in my time who weren't afraid to die
But dawn bleeds with the people here and morning skies are red
As young girls load up bicycles with flowers for the dead
An ageing woman picks along the craters and the rubble
A piece of cloth, a bit of shoe, a whole lifetime of trouble
A sobbing chant comes from her throat and splits the morning air
The single son she had last night is buried under her
They say that the war is done
Where are you now, my son?
and how about
The children on the roadsides of the villages and towns
Would stand around us laughing as we stood like giant clowns
The mourning bands told whom they'd lost by last night's phantom messenger
And they spoke their only words in English, "Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger"
Then followed the following playlist:
Child in Time by Deep Purple
Fool's Overture by Supertramp
Refugees by Van Der Graaf Generator
Melinda by Curved Air
Catch the Rainbow by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Parisienne Walkways by Greg Lake
The Village Lantern by Blackmore's Night
Autumn - Heroine's Theme by The Strawbs
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Take a Pebble by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Weavers Answer by Family
Tears and Pavan by The Strawbs
Mandolin Wind by Rod Stewart
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? by Fairport Convention
I look forward to more gardening!!
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