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

[Leo Tanner]

This one shows him very young before he built the square one.  It's at the end and cuts off too soon, but the whole video is neat ta watch.  As far as I know, Chuck Berry is still rockin.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQBFP2EqGzY


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

As far as I know, the"Duck Walker" is still out there "reelin' and a rockin', rollin' till the break o day".

[Leo Tanner]

Dug this one out taday an gave it a spin.
     Nothin ta do with Bo er Chuck, I was jus in the mood...

I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
                                                   
She's bin lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
                                                   
I can picture ev'ry move that a man could make;
Gettin' lost in her lovin' is your first mistake.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again.
                                                   
I can see her lookin' fast in her faded jeans;
She's a hard lovin' woman, got me feelin' mean.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
                                                   
Sundown you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again.

[Russ T Chambers]

Don't if there are many Diamond fans, but "The Jazz Singer" was on DISH today, and I think this represents what "Legal" immigration was and is all about!

AMERICA
Written by Neil Diamond
Far
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star

Free
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream

On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America

Home, don't it seem so far away
Oh, we're traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm

Home, to a new and a shiny place
Make our bed, and we'll say our grace
Freedom's light burning warm
Freedom's light burning warm

Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Every time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America

Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America

They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, today, today, today, today

My country 'tis of thee
Today
Sweet land of liberty
Today
Of thee I sing
Today
Of thee I sing
Today

[Trinity]

I love that song!  Yes, I'll admit it.  I'm a Denver fan AND a Diamond fan.

I might have to to put that soundtrack on....

[Delmonico]

Well it ain't the 22 of June yet, but ponder this one.


to Moscow
Al Stewart
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
Moving in lines through the day
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away
Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolyensk and Viyasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Closer and closer to Moscow they come - riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
Standing in the wings like an avenger
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise
You'll never know, you'll never know
Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night
You'll never know, you'll never hear us
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
The morning road leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming
Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
At home it'll almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
And all that I ever was able to see
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time
That I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
They turn and listen closer
I'll never know, I'll never know
Why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers
"Never"
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever

[Ozark Tracker]

well it may not be the 22nd  but here's one a day early for the 6th of June.

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye... 

[Trinity]

That song just seems to fit in with every mood we're in.

[Leo Tanner]

I actchaly have a copy of Year of the Cat on Vinyl   Al was good.

     Wonder if CW knew 6th a June was D-day when he wrote Convoy--wondered that fer a long time.

     Had Lil watch Jazz singer fer her first time last weekend.  She dug it.

Last few posts really seem ta have struck some chord er other with me


Leo

[litl rooster]

Sod Buster recent me a PM to tell me Ian is coming to the area, when we seen him the last  time this Guy opened the show, He is a wordsmith in his own rights (navjo rug) and others.


Panco Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen

The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams

He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream

Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings


Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide

Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides

Tonight we ride, tonight we ride


We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits

When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit

It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it

To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit


Tonight we ride, you bastards dare

We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair

Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs

Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

[solo]

When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car

Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar

You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars

I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars


Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll

We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold

And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?


Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

Tonight we fly, we're headin' west

Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest

If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed

Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

[solo]

...Tonight we ride, tonight we ride.

[Texas Lawdog]

Pour me another Tequila, Sheila.  I'm off to chase Ol' Pancho Villa!

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I love that song!  Yes, I'll admit it.  I'm a Denver fan AND a Diamond fan.

I might have to to put that soundtrack on....

While I was in Basic/AIT in the Army (Mar. or so in '78) John Denver put on a big concert in Louisville.  He was a big military supporter and donated a couple thousand tickets to Ft. Knox.  I was one who got to go. 

I am NOT a big concert goer - I hate the stoopids who show up in any BIG crowd - but this was an awesome concert! 



On a related note.  I just saw ZZ Top at Ft. Knox a couple weekends ago.  It wasn't free, but it started out mostly unadvertised so the Military could get 1st crack at the tickets, then went public closer to the concert date.  It was a hum-dinger.

I really enjoyed their "self truthfullness" when Billy Gibbons, in that gravelly voice of his said:

          "We want to thank y'all for supporting us these last 35 years. 
                                 Same three guys....... 
                                  Same three chords!"

I 'bout fell over laughing! 

As a "musician," I appreciated their candor.  But they DO rock! (Just don't look for them in the 'technically difficult' group of musical writers.)

[litl rooster]

hey Del....

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/491408?trk=ssp


when later in the same week

http://www.jerryjeff.com/tour/

[Texas Lawdog]

Ian Tyson has come a long way since Ian and Sylvania.  Jerry Jeff Walker! Viva Terlingua is one of my favorite albums, "Up Against The Wall RedNeck Muthers!"

[Trinity]

Darn!  I think I need to get in my car and head nawth!!!

[Curley Cole]

One of the few tickets I have hanging around waz from the old Golden Bear in Huntington Beach CA. Was about 1966. I flipped the ticket over and it was stamped "Ian and Sylvia"....I remember seeing them, and Sylvia was wearing a short black dress. that is about all I still remember, however they did sing my favorite: These Friends of Mine...

curley

[Texas Lawdog]

Curley, Now you're tellin' everone how old you are.  There's some of these folks that may have been in diapers back then or maybe not even born yet.  One of my favorite stories is about the Miniseries on NBC about the 60s. One of the young officers asked if I saw the show. I said, Hell, why would I watch that on TV, I was there during the 60s.

[Leo Tanner]

Curley, Now you're tellin' everone how old you are.  There's some of these folks that may have been in diapers back then or maybe not even born yet.  One of my favorite stories is about the Miniseries on NBC about the 60s. One of the young officers asked if I saw the show. I said, Hell, why would I watch that on TV, I was there during the 60s.

     Well gee whiz Tex.  Guess us guy's readin an learnin about the 60' would be about the same as you guys doin the same on the 1860's
     Scuze me while change ma Pampers
Jus funnin Pard


Leo

[Four-Eyed Buck]

There's a few of us that remember the '60's, but don't remember much of the early '70's, Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, I've already had my 40th HS reunion(3 yrs ago) and in 2 more years I'll have my 40th College reunion. I'm wondering what happened to the 70s, 80s, and the 90's. Next year I'll eligible for SS. If I'd known that I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.