Back when Joe had hair.
Just a perfect tune for sitting on the front porch on a warm summer night, watching the fireflies dance, the hummingbirds feed and the beautiful Dahlia's bloom, dreaming of... - well you tell me what you're dreaming of since I was about to go negative (Being Honest) and there is no profit in that, though this tune does have me reflecting on those I love as well. You know who you are.
Longer version after Joe lost his hair.
PS - Bass player in the first vid Totally Nailed It.
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ReplyDeleteHERE’S ONE SMALL EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF tTHING I LIKE TO HEAR ON SOFT SUMMER EVENINGS. BRINGS M BACK TO WHEN I FIRST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL, AND ALL SEEMED SWEET, NEW, WONDERFUL AND FULL OF INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.
Soon it’s Gonna Rain from The Fantasticks
https://youtu.be/WjybvLi6RtA
Hear how the wind begins to whisper.
See how the leaves go streaming by.
Smell how the velvet rain is falling,
Out where the fields are warm and dry.
Now is the time to run inside and stay.
Now is the time to find a hideaway
Where we can stay.
Soon it's gonna rain.
I can see it.
Soon it's gonna rain.
I can tell.
Soon it's gonna rain.
What are we gonna do?
Soon it's gonna rain.
I can feel it.
Soon it's gonna rain.
I can tell.
Soon it's gonna rain.
What'll we do with you?
We'll find four limbs of a tree.
We'll build four walls and a floor.
We'll bind it over with leaves,
And run inside to stay.
Then we'll let it rain.
We'll not fell it.
Then we'll let it rain,
Rain pell-mell.
And we'll not complain
If it never stops at all.
We'll live and love
Within our own four walls.
We'll find four limbs of a tree.
We'll build four walls and a floor.
We'll bind it over with leaves,
And run inside to stay.
Soon it's gonna rain.
Come run inside to stay!
Soon it's gonna rain.
For soon it's gonna rain.
I can see it.
I can feel it.
Run inside and...
Then we'll let it rain.
We'll not feel it.
Then we'll let it rain.
Ran pell-mell.
And we'll not complain
- Happy ending...
If it never stops at all.
Then we'll let it rain.
Why complain?
We'll live and love within our walls.
Happily we'll live and love,
No cares at all.
Happily we'll live and love
Within our castle walls.
~ Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt (1960)
Franco, I've never been a Musicals movie fan, but the lyrics are pretty good.
DeleteMusic sure beats politics these days..... nice...
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Bunk. Gotta keep it eclectic for me to stay sane.
DeleteNothing new in politics much, Most of them acting like evil children trying to outdo each other in absurdity and anti-American policies.
PPS - Seriously some of the best Bass Guitar I've ever heard.
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