Season 631: I Mist You

[Oldscruggsfan]

Did she have one leg longer than the other one?

That’s the joke.

 

[Barbablanca]

I have piled my contribution this week with all kinds of weather references. It's about a guy who has accepted his unfaithful wife back into his life (even though she robbed him blind) - but now is not sure it was a good idea.

I hope you like it:

 

[ChaosLibrarian]

Another crazy work week, and I tried and rejected another song before I decided to dust this one off.
My first year of college I took a guitar class and Across the Universe was my final project. It was pretty awful, but I've come a long way!

 

[dr_mitch]

That’s the joke.

Thanks goodness you went for the clean option.

 

[Canada Jim]

Snowing again today, March 22. -3°C

Our poor crocuses (croci?)

 

[AlanDP]

A funny old song with some comical cover art.



P.S. For Jon: When I was a little kid, I always wanted to read the comics in the newspaper and always had to ask my grandmother or one of my parents to read them to me. Sometimes they did, sometimes they said they were too busy. I remember thinking, "I can't wait to learn how to read so I can read the funny papers for myself." My mom put me in a private kindergarten when I was four years old. The teacher was a retired elementary teacher who by the way had been my mom's first grade teacher also. She taught all her kids how to read. By the time I was 6 years old and starting 1st grade I was reading way above my age level. My dad has always been a Peanuts fan, and he had a stack of old paperback Peanuts collections. That stack of Peanuts books were the first books I ever read when I was 4 to 5 years old. "I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsey but I changed my mind" is one of the strips that really impressed me back then and I never forgot it. Another one was when Charlie Brown asked Pig-Pen why he didn't take a bath and Pig-Pen replied, "I have affixed to me the dirt of countless ages. Who am I to disturb history?”

 

[jtsteam]

So I won't be able to post any more this week (much as I've been enjoying it!) but I will catch up with the other posts in a couple of days. Still, since it's weather week, I thought I ought to share today's experience: I went to Edinburgh this afternoon to meet a collaborator to work out some stuff we've been trying to work out for a while (very precise technical details there I realise) and on my way from Waverley Station to his office, a walk of about ten minutes, I experienced all of: bright sunshine, wind, rain and hail. I always say that if you're out and about in Scotland then it's a good idea to carry a raincoat and sunglasses, but this is the first day for a while that I've wished I had a crash helmet.

Anyway. Have a nice weekend all . Looking forward to hearing what else you all come up with!

 

[Canada Jim]

Happy Trails To You - Dale Evans

Roy and Dale closed all of their shows with this cheerful little ditty.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song, and bring the sunny weather.

 

[baconsalad]

I hear the drizzle of the rain. Like a melody it falls.

Another Paul Simon great from the S&G days but not as well known as his bigger hits. Written for the girlfriend he left behind in England. Kathy's song

 

[hendulele]

Great season, Jon! Thanks for hosting! It’s so good I originally posted this on an older thread

Here‘s one I’ve done a lot, but not in the last two years! There’s a bathroom on the right . …



As for the weather, it’s late March in Central North Carolina.

 

[wee_ginga_yin]

Snowing again today, March 22. -3°C

Our poor crocuses (croci?)

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A report on the mysterious snow circles that have been appearing in Finnish lakes.

 

[wee_ginga_yin]

I recorded this on the 20th of March 2018 As a gardener you just want the snow to disappear so you can being to plant things, but it is relentless and keeps coming back. And it is no different this year.


They all talked about the beast from the east
Was he a rider on a pale horse?
No birds fly by, in the blue and empty sky
The field remain frozen with frost
Snow all around covering the ground
The frost in the forest does not relent.
Not a blossum to be seen, no a hint of green
This is the winter of our discontent
Its the silent Spring, no new songs to sing
Something has really gone wrong.
No food on the shelves, can’t feed ourselves.
Winter has stolen Spring’s song
The bud has blackened on the bough
What price salvation now?

 

[YooperGirl]

Hi Jon Hope your week has been great!
I have a Switchfoot song here..
Written by Jon Foreman, of course.
Here is an excerpt from Songfacts of what he said about it:
“ ‘Restless' was inspired over in the UK. I was listening to the rain and watching these individual drops drip down the window and thinking that every one of them is in pursuit of the ocean, that they will stop at nothing, and gravity will eventually one day lead them to the ocean. And I began to think of my own life and wondering if I had that same drive, that same pursuit for that which is right and true.”

I also wanted to share this short clip of Jon reading the poem that the song came from:

And here’s my simplified version of Restless:

 

[mountain goat]

an original song for the season

 

[mountain goat]

thank you sweet folks for another wonderful day of songs!
more originals from Berni and Rob, pop and rock classics
from Marin and Rick, tin pan era from Alan,
old time and modern folk from Jim and Michael,
and a couple of lovely videos from Rob and Tanya to give us pause for thought
as we contemplate the beautiful mystery and wonder of the world around us, eh Sally...

 

[dr_mitch]

i absolutely had to bring this song to the season. It was the first one I thought of for weather theme, and as it turns out the first one Jon mentioned (hmmm... maybe that's not a coincidence, now I think about it). It's also one that gets me quite emotional, in a confused happy/sad way. I love it. And Irving Berlin said it was his favourite of the songs he'd written.

 

[wee_ginga_yin]

thank you sweet folks for another wonderful day of songs!
more originals from Berni and Rob, pop and rock classics
from Marin and Rick, tin pan era from Alan,
old time and modern folk from Jim and Michael,
and a couple of lovely videos from Rob and Tanya to give us pause for thought
as we contemplate the beautiful mystery and wonder of the world around us, eh Sally...


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Most of the videos I have shared have been winter ones, so for contrast here is one from the summer and picking blueberries

 

[cua94]

Thanks for hosting!

Here is my contribution:

 

[good_uke_boy]

Thanks for hosting, Jon. Like one of those rare weather events, I thought I'd try singing one.

 

[UkerDrew]

This was the first song that popped into my head when Jon revealed this weeks theme. I look forward to catching up today and seeing what everyone brought!