hartzofspace
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Posts: 7,138
Location: On the Road Less Traveled
14 Apr 2007, 2:24 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
We've talked about the rest, now for the BEST
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but know you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
now tell me that wasn't fun! Tell me you didn't hear the piano and the harmonica in your head, tell me you didn't experience where you heard it and what it means to you. . .
Merle
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but know you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
now tell me that wasn't fun! Tell me you didn't hear the piano and the harmonica in your head, tell me you didn't experience where you heard it and what it means to you. . .
Merle
Wow, that was awesome. I can clearly see myself, at age 17, listening to this album on my record player that I got for my 13th birthday. The prior owners of our house had left behind a bunch of albums, and I found this one along with a pretty eclectic mix, such as Big Band music, and some other stuff that I can't now remember.
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SeriousGirl
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Gender: Female
Posts: 1,067
Location: the Witness Protection Program
14 Apr 2007, 2:41 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
and then there's always . . .
I guess Im just like a turtle
Thats hidin underneath its horny shell.
Whoa, whoa, oh yeah, like a turtle
Hidin underneath its hard-ass shell.
But you know Im very well protected
I know this goddamn life too well.
turtle blues
I guess Im just like a turtle
Thats hidin underneath its horny shell.
Whoa, whoa, oh yeah, like a turtle
Hidin underneath its hard-ass shell.
But you know Im very well protected
I know this goddamn life too well.
turtle blues
Joplin took a lot of her material from:
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. If you like Janis, check out Big Mama on Arhoolie Records.
14 Apr 2007, 2:44 pm
sinsboldly
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Gender: Female
Posts: 13,488
Location: Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon
14 Apr 2007, 2:51 pm
14 Apr 2007, 3:03 pm
I think you're right, Merle.
14 Apr 2007, 3:08 pm
14 Apr 2007, 3:18 pm
Well, I must go for a bit. Have a Saturday meeting I must attend. I'll be back later to check on everyone. Enjoy the music, the shows, the butter beans, the fractals, etc....
14 Apr 2007, 3:30 pm
14 Apr 2007, 6:15 pm
Chuck wrote:
I have a lot of respect for the strength of women, ZanneMarie! Don't kid me! I know you've got a left hook in there that would make men wince!
My mom worked on a farm as a girl. Was strong as an ox. She stood 5'7" and weighed 120 lbs and was very pretty. Guys would 'hit on her' all the time. I saw her knock a man out that weighed close to 200lbs! She came up with an uppercut - I heard his teeth clack shut ten feet away, and he fell like a tree...
My mom worked on a farm as a girl. Was strong as an ox. She stood 5'7" and weighed 120 lbs and was very pretty. Guys would 'hit on her' all the time. I saw her knock a man out that weighed close to 200lbs! She came up with an uppercut - I heard his teeth clack shut ten feet away, and he fell like a tree...
I have five brothers, Chuck. I could fight, but they generally took care of the other kids. Let's just say I didn't know any little girls until I went to kindergarten. You get the picture.
My mother is a different story. My mother is 5'8" and my oldest brother who is well over 6' once got mad at her for making a comment about his girl friend at the time. He slapped her and my mother decked him. She knocked him from the kitchen into the family room. He was 20 at the time. The rest of us were sitting there wondering where he left his brain when he did that. No one messed with my mother.
Me? I was pretty spoiled. I could fight, but I generally wouldn't unless I had a drink in me. Then if a man messed with someone I cared about there would be trouble.
14 Apr 2007, 6:19 pm
14 Apr 2007, 6:43 pm
DirtDawg wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
DirtDawg wrote:
It helps me tremendously, to be able to get a little quick energy stim, by beating the sh** out of a sand filled bag. I'm supposed to be almost out of testosterone, and that may be so, but in the mean time, it really helps!
...Musings on a spring rain...Merle
Wow!
Yeah, I ... yeah ... uh huh ... I, uh ...
Thank you.
I love Merle's spring rain musings! And I appreciate your suggestion DirtDawg - guess I oughtta do that.
Merle, I think we are all moving into what will be the most free (at least hormone free) and interesting periods of our lives! We are becoming who we really are/were all along.
If our bodies and minds will only hold up long enough for us to make sense of it, enjoy it, and make whatever use of it that we see fit. The masks and veils are falling away...
What put you in such a pensive mood? The rain itself... something else? Whatever it is, I love your thoughts.
sinsboldly
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14 Apr 2007, 6:46 pm
14 Apr 2007, 7:09 pm
sinsboldly
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14 Apr 2007, 7:14 pm
Chuck wrote:
What put you in such a pensive mood? The rain itself... something else? Whatever it is, I love your thoughts.
I am gazing at brown cardboard boxes that I am packing my bric-a-brack and knick-knacks, books and candles and what not into as I prepare to move out of my current and recently flooded apartment. I am moving into rustic rooms behind the house in the servant area of a big old lumber baron's mansion that is being developed into the "Fairy Godmother's Tea House," a popular local cafe that is being relocated into it. I found it through a woman that befriended me when I first started my current employment as a member specialist (Government Programs) for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon.
I
have given my 30 day quit premises notice here and will be moved in to the new rooms by May Day. This will afford me the pleasure of growing roses and jasmine and wysteria in the land scaping of the Tea Shoppe and whittling down, making my possessions small and few so I can make my life big and more.
I am pensive because I have no illusions about what the energy level of moving is! whew!
But I look up to the other strong women and men on this board/ thread/ cafe to know I can focus and get 'er done.
Merle
who dreams of living in a lovely Class A with dulies and an open road. . .
Class A Motor Home with Dual Axles
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