Part 3 of 3 blabbert on Lyrics -
5 new Clue's/Q's will follow after this post !BTW - in this
song about Robin Hood and colleagues in his
arboreal mansions of green, and his suit the hue of Kentucky Blue
Grass Sheeny Green (j/k) -
An interesting two lines of verse at the end instantly brought
the famous protest song to mind - in the tune and roughly similar
verse, unreliable at the moment as I have not researched it, and
have no reason too: - I can't remember the title, and
dang it all if a corfidite didn't tell me exactly
the name of the song when I asked in a thread...I had it in the
70's when it was one of the"yeah man, power for the
people ! Yes ! Down with (A-Z FILLIN THE BLANK") - except you'll
never guess what I WAS AN ACTIVE ACTIVIST FOR:
I arranged, while a Physics major way back in late 70's, a large
debate in the largest PLenary -session room in
Colo.StateUniversity's Student Union *I forget the name of it now
!*-
the bldg that is, but I put the University's top
egghead Proff in Nuclear Engineering, who was actually in the
M.E. Dep't, up against the head anti-nuke "Roy Young" - as I
recall, who was the head of the (of course) Boulder,Colo. based
"Rocky Flats Truth (Task ?) Force - who at the moment, I also
forget HIS name lol...making anythin I say in THIS thread "by my
memory - worthless tonight..lol...hey its been 30 years ago now !
Anyway -we packed the auditorium, and I had the two paralleled-
off in side-by-side Pres. Debate face-the-nation (versus each
other) diaz/podium config.,
and man-o-man the
students almost brought the building down,
I got REAL nervous 'cause I was getting the Hairy
Eyeball *(footnote below) - from Dr. Hadley (not H.A.D.R.O.N.-
lol) who ws the Head of the Physics Dep't, and is now
something like 113 yr old Prof Emeritus of the Dep't; they just
kind of prop him in the corner and he waves his arms with chalk
in one hand...lol...and NEVER got mad
...but he was
MAD at me... lol..Well, no self-respecting Physics
Student could be
anti-nuke at the
time..so,
Yes, its true,
I was a Pro-
Nuclear POWER (NOT ARMS - POWER) - which 85% of the Eastern
seaboard is still, little known sshhhh fact
....Anyway at one point, the anti-nukes in the "audience"
- more like the Detroit Riots... a large group were doing the
love-in version of the "Wave" and chanting these lyrics from Joan
Baez' great cover of the
Public Domain (I
believe) protest song - lyrics paraphrased were/are:
"Ain't nobody gonna turn me around, turn me around, turn
me around,
Gonna keep on a smokin, keep on a jokin,
Gonna build a brand-new world...."
Powerful song...and then with what, knowing Lightfoot's
professionalism, had to be complete coincidence of similar-
sounding two lines of verse is all in:
'Keepin' On Yearnin': (The
intended song for Q175 superceded by Linda's Anything for Love
winning ambig)
Keepin' on smokin', gotta keep on joking
Gotta keep moving around
'Keepin' On Yearnin'
~gl lyrics per
Wayne Francis web-site- Lightfoot!
- wow, of course coincidence, there are only SO many
permutations, well, (n! / ...); OK I'll stop - of the common-
usage Collegiate Webster's Paperback 1" thick
80,000-odd word English Language - though
I hear we are up to 3,000,000 words per
Microsoft I believe in the complete unabridged
English Language INCUDING idioms, phrases, SLANG, and tech field
vernacular - my God that one could take 2.5 million of the 3
alone lol.... AND - It is, I understand, common practice
and considered in the profession of songwriting , common usage
passages from Public Domain songs within a copywrited song to be
completely acceptable and allowed by both letter and intent of
law, and in -profession norms and stds, isit not ?...
songwriters?
This not a controversy at all, and
especially
, because I am going SOLELY my memory on the Joan
Baez song COVER of the
Protest Song of (to me) unknown origin. And tonight, my memory
has proven to be a thing far from science ...lol...even so, lol
*Dawn Minstrel Footnote per above, re: "Hairy Eyeball" Physics
vernacular lol
(accepted tech term in physics, right Dawn Minstrel ? lol.. but
he, our writer/singer of the beautiful video/song of his
"Laurianni" sp? - in the Thread on Dylans cover of INSTC , well
he PM'd me and pensively , humbly mentioned - he's a-
PhD in
Physics. strong medicine to keep under your hat - admirable -
but was it Particle Phyics or PLASMA Dawn Minstrel ? - I'll PM
him... he is very humble in this, but he's involved in some major
Plasma flow Physics pure Research and is on to something
there...)
So, this non-linear relationship of subjects, with in great part
intentions of "talking shop" wiht Linda, also contained enough
general lyrics thoughts, and some personal "lyrics-related
history all the way back to the 70's, and sundery things are hope
were of suffient interest to post for this thread's readership.
Hoever, there was another major motivation = the original
compound post I'd written was over 17000 characters, a new record
even for me in corfid anyway,
, and even cutting it in
half would not permit sending THIS 'part 2', arguably suitable
for a PM perhaps more than a post, would have hit a further
maddening wall I've not the energy for: PM's must be 5,000
character max... so this '2nd part' would have been further cut
and dited coherently into 2 PM's to Linda, and really, the only
"Linda-pertinent' shop-talk per se was less than 1/2 of this
post. So, I hope it wasof some interest to some ppl, and of some
use to you, Linda, on lyrics thoughts in general. Thanks for
indulging my un-magnificent outpouring of stuff, and in a fashion
that would drive me crazy tonight between PM's and posts, also
seperating all the marginally at times, but still related
material. A new set of 5-10 song clues will be posted ASAP a bit
later today on Friday, as its 5:45 AM here and I can't keep going
on this more now. What magnificent lyrics of Gordon's, allways
interesting to me to talk in almost an fashion respectfully of
his work.
pheww ! "I am talked-out, back to BIZ" - Next post !
Next: 5 new Q's/Clue's in next post !