Song Lyric Sunday: Funeral Music – ‘Black Muddy River’

This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is – perhaps a little morbidly – something that you would like to be played at your own funeral. That isn’t to say that I haven’t thought about it occasionally (who among us has not?, as Anthony Trollope might have put it.). However, it’s a bit tricky as…

Song Lyric Sunday: River – ‘Black Muddy River’

It had to be this one. Jim at newepicauthor has set the theme of ‘River’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. So here we have the ultimate elegy for Jerry Garcia: the last song he sang with the Grateful Dead at their last show in July 1995. Three weeks later and he was gone.…