“I was hungry and it was your world” Jim’s key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday reflect the closeness of Thanksgiving Day in the USA, so it seems appropriate that this song was apparently (as in ‘according to Wikipedia’) written by Bob Dylan on Thanksgiving Day in 1965. Nobody feels any pain Tonight as…
And now for something completely different. Lonnie Donegan was at the head of the skiffle craze in the UK in the late fifties and developed a successful side-line in humorous little ditties such as this (another was ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’). Although it was written in the USA as long ago as 1924, in…
Laura is marking Veterans’ Day in the USA in her Weekly Song Challenge today with three patriotic themes. Post a song that is about your country Post a song that is patriotic Post a song that has the colour red, white or blue in either the title or lyrics Weekly Song Challenge Round 37
Jim’s cue words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are full of possibilities: ‘could’, might’, ‘would’ and ‘should’, This early sixties (1962 to be exact) classic doesn’t need any introduction. It was Carole King’s first hit as a singer rather than a songwriter. What shall I write? What can I say? How can I tell…
‘Around’, ‘Down’, ‘Sideways’ and ‘Up’ are Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This Yardbirds song that I remember very well from 1966 has two of them. I was no doubt attracted by the guitar sounds, with their occasional hints of sitar, but the lyrics, on a closer reading, are appealingly hedonistic The…
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