Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Trinity]

We've got a Forrest Lawn here too.

I like John Denver, but that usually gets stares when I admit it.  I guess I would get even stranger stares if I told folks that I own John Denver and the Muppets album: A Christmas Together.

[Texas Lawdog]

Trinity, Folks don't think that you're any more strange than the rest of us.

[Trinity]

 

[Lucky Irish Tom]

We'ze strange?    I thought alla them other folk was! 

[Lucky Irish Tom]

People are strange when you're a stranger,
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down.

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain.
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange,
When you're strange,
When you're strange.

All right, yeah!

People are strange when you're a stranger,
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down.

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
Alright yeah
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

[Ozark Tracker]

 

[Russ T Chambers]

For Trinity:

Grandma's Feather Bed
Recorded by John Denver
Lyrics and music by Jim Connor

When I was a little bitty boy,
just up off the floor
We used to go down to Grandma's house,
every month end or so
We had chicken pie and country ham,
and home made butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
was her great big feather bed

Chorus:
It was nine feet tall and six feet wide,
soft as a downy chick

It was made from the feathers of forty-leven geese,
took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
It'd hold eight kids and four hound dogs
and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lotta fun
on Grandma's feather bed

After supper we'd sit around the fire
the old folks'd spit and chew
Pa would talk about the farm and war
and Granny'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
till the cobwebs filled my head
Next thing I'd know, I'd wake up in the mornin'
in the middle of the old feather bed

Repeat chorus

Well, I love my Ma, I love my Pa
I love Granny and Grandpa too
I been fishin' with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
and I even kissed Aunt Lou - ooh!
But if I ever had to make a choice
I guess it oughta be said
that I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road
for Grandma's feather bed

Repeat chorus

[Leo Tanner]

I used ta sing that song in the shower when I was a kid.
     That an thank God I'm a Country Boy.  Mom got the album fer a birthday or somethin an we listened to it everyday.


Leo
     

[Ozark Tracker]

OK,  now my wife that passed away had been  a Jehovah Witness, before I met her,  she said the JW's hated John Denver and his music,   something to do with his wife being one and the things he said about them after his divorce.   she always used to say that John Denver music was to the JW's like a cross to a Vampire     

I always thought about walking out on the porch singing thank God I'm a Country Boy when some of the Jehovah Witness's showed up.   

don't mean to offend anyone, just a true story.

[Leo Tanner]

OK,  now my wife that passed away had been  a Jehovah Witness, before I met her,  she said the JW's hated John Denver and his music,   something to do with his wife being one and the things he said about them after his divorce.   she always used to say that John Denver music was to the JW's like a cross to a Vampire    

I always thought about walking out on the porch singing thank God I'm a Country Boy when some of the Jehovah Witness's showed up.  

don't mean to offend anyone, just a true story.

Thanks fer the tip!!!   Who'd a ever thought John Denver of all music...
     (also not meanin ta offend--just like ta sleep in on Sundays with no knockin at the door)


Leo

[Leo Tanner]

FREAKY!!!
     While I was posting that Lil was on the porch talkin ta someone--figgered it was the mail lady.  Guess who it was?   It's been years since a visit and just then...
     Very strange how things happen


Leo

[Lucky Irish Tom]

You involuntarily psychicly summoned them Leo! 

[Leo Tanner]

Must have   Gotta watch doin that in the future.  I'm still scratchin ma head over that one   It's true, life ain't nothin but a funny funny riddle

Well life on the farm is kinda laid back
Aint much an old country boy like me cant hack
Its early to rise, early in the sack
Thank God Im a country boy

Well a simple kinda life never did me no harm
A raisin me a family and workin on a farm
My days are all filled with an easy country charm
Thank God Im a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy

When the works all done and the suns settlin low
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow
The kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low
Thank God Im a country boy

Id play sally goodin all day if I could
But the lord and my wife wouldnt take it very good
So I fiddle when I could, work when I should
Thank God Im a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy

Well I wouldnt trade my life for diamonds and jewels
I never was one of them money hungry fools
Iid rather have my fiddle and my farmin tools
Thank God Im a country boy

Yeah, city folk drivin in a black limousine
A lotta sad people thinkin thats mighty keen
Son, let me tell ya now exactly what I mean
Thank God Im a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy

Well, my fiddle was my daddys till the day he died
And he took me by the hand and held me close to his side
Said, live a good life and play my fiddle with pride
And thank God youre a country boy

My daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
Taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle
Taught me how to love and how to give just a little
Thank God Im a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy
Thank God Im a country boy

[Texas Lawdog]

Another satisfied customer from the phyisick network!

[Ozark Tracker]

gotta admit that is a little strange, gonna havta get that music piped out on the porch. 

[Leo Tanner]

Not ta beat it inta the ground, but it was wierd. 

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains

We were just beginnin', it was such an easy way
Layin' back up in the mountains, makin' songs for summer days
She got tired of pickin' daisies, cookin' my meals for me
She can live the life she wants to, yes, it's alright with me

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains

I'd rather live on the side of a mountain
Than wander through canyons of concrete and steel
I'd rather laugh with the rain and the sunshine
Then lay down my sun down in some starry field

Oh, but i miss her in the morning, when i awake alone
The absence of her laughter, is a cold and empty sound
But her memory always makes me smile, and i want you to know
I love her yes i love her, just enough to let her go

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love lady's chains

[Delmonico]

Had a as Paul would say, a strange with those folks one time.  Was at the farm, pickin' cherries, thought I heard a car door down by the trailer.  Headed over there, saw strangers gettin' out of a car, 2 men, two wimmin, out a state plates.  Grabbed the dogs collar, (my last Lab) the hair stood up on his neck and he growled at them, unusual for him.

Oh I had on a pair of bibs, snubby 38 in the poket, bare feet and a bandanna on my head.  Two pick-ups with 3 hole gun racks full up sittin' by their car.  The trailer can hardly be seen from the road and there is no mail box.  They told me what they were and what they wanted.  Told them I was a Druid and every one around there was one also and didn't welcome outsiders.

Last I seen them they had topped the hill 3 miles away and were headed for the highway.

[Leo Tanner]

A Druid?

     Lady who showed up at our door started goin on ta Lil about a pagan woman she had run into recently an started spoutin Revelations an how the end was near.  Lil jus said, "yes it is, an much sooner than ya think"
     Damn, that woman's somethin else


Leo

[Leo Tanner]

So here's ta Lil...

You fill up my senses

Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again

Let me give my life to you
Come let me love you
Come love me again

You fill up my senses
Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

[Ozark Tracker]

A Druid?

     Lady who showed up at our door started goin on ta Lil about a pagan woman she had run into recently an started spoutin Revelations an how the end was near.  Lil jus said, "yes it is, an much sooner than ya think"
     Damn, that woman's somethin else


Leo

you think that woman had a story, just think if you'd been the one that run into Del out there with his overall's and bare feet, bandana & growling dog,   you've seen his picture,  I'd a like to have heard that story dodwn to the JW's hall. 







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