I am sixty years older than I was when I first heard music. It has followed me ever since, a soundtrack inside me in every day of my life.
On Facebook I find a friend from college who is a music teacher in a college. His personal information page is in itself a music education in rock, alternative, classical, baroque, and lots more if a student were to look up and listen to every bit. Like a blogroll of music history, we need a blogroll/links page, lyrics/tunes chords of the music detailing political history.
This gave me the idea of a political songlist, with links where the artists who have recorded them can be found.
Got any suggestions for how to organize this?
My interior music sound track, running along with every day life comes to mind first sometimes when I am relaxed, or bored in the presence of others.
(everything from "who let the dogs out?" to "Oh What a Beaut..." to "Sing, sing a song..." to rap, to international drumming, "Well it's Saturday Night and I ain't got Nobody"...to "Norwegian Wood" to The Brandenburg concertos, to the horn triumph music on NPR to Sousa's marches, piano Jazz, saxophone, bluegrass songs)
I used to learn songs easily and I remember well those few songs I learned to play when I was younger than 25.
To learn a new song in my dotage, seems to require a lot of repetition and association. In compensation for this problem, God has given ME (personally, of course) the internet, of this I am convinced.
We only have two stations on AM radio: Clear channel ( owned by the Mayes family, of Republican supporter country) and ESPN sports. We have one each of FM stations: one country, one oldies, one or maybe two rock stations, and one station of Public radio with a variable signal, depending on the Christian radio stations that over the past ten years have slid between and over Public Radio. I now dislike digital tuning that jumps and can't find that exact clear spot.
In order to listen to my types of music I have to listen to NPR or the internet sources, or sometimes local country or oldies music. CD's which I still love and listen to because I have them.
a nominee for the list of protest songs:
This morning a song on the folk show, WPSU State College, PA
YOU WILL ANSWER - © Anne Feeney (BMI) 2006 – 2:54
Vocal: Anne Feeney; Harmony Vocals: Engineered and Recorded by East Side Flash at Flashpoint Studios, Austin, TX
and sung by Austin Lounge Lizards: Hank Card, Tom Pittman, Conrad Deisler, Boo Resnick
http://austinloungelizards.com
Anne Feeney wrote this song during a workshop at the U.S. Labor Against the War conference in Cleveland. It’s been a part of "BURIED: The Story of the Sago Mine Disaster" ever since.
Last night as I lay tossing and a-turning in my bed
I dreamed that I was in the presence of the Lord
With a dozen Sago miners who had gone to their reward
And God looked down on those miners and He said:
“Who has sent My faithful servants here unbidden to My Throne?
He will answer on the Judgment Day
Who has left their grieving families heartbroken and alone?
He will answer on the Judgment Day"
Oh he will answer (he will answer) on that Judgment Day
He will answer on that Judgment Day
Oh he will answer (he will answer) on that Judgment Day
He will answer on that Judgment Day
“I have fashioned those who labor in My image,” God did say,
“And I did not call these miners home to Me
Many years I had allotted them with friends and family
Now the heavens weep to hear their orphans pray.”
You cannot serve God and mammon – if it’s mammon that you choose
You will answer on that Judgment Day
Now, what good is all your wealth if your eternal soul you lose?
You will answer on that Judgment Day
You will answer (you will answer) on that Judgment Day
You will answer on that Judgment Day
You will answer (you will answer) on that Judgment Day
You will answer on that Judgment Day
It is easier to get a camel through a needle’s eye
Than a rich man into heaven, it’s been told
Every time a human life’s cut short by avarice for gold
There will be a day of judgment bye and bye
If you’ve garnered earthly riches and you come to heaven’s door
You will answer on that Judgment Day
To love God you must renounce your wealth and share it with the poor, or
You will answer on that Judgment Day
You will answer (you will answer) on that Judgment Day
You will answer on that Judgment Day
You will answer (you will answer) on that Judgment Day
You will answer on that Judgment Day