I must admit I was almost stumped by Jim’s Mexican-themed, Day-of-the-dead marking prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. The Eagles’ ‘Tequila Sunrise’ was what came immediately to mind, but I suspect there will be a few posts featuring that. Accordingly, I did a bit of research and was pleased to find this, which –…
This week’s prompts for Song Lyric Sunday are suitably downbeat signs of the times, relating to confinement, isolation and loneliness. Which reminded me of this ultra-heavy blues from The Beatles’ white album. Somewhat ironically, it was recorded with all four Beatles together in a very small room at Abbey Road: confinement perhaps, but certainly no…
This week, Jim’s looking for a song that gives a sense of place – more specifically a place with personal connections. I’m glad that he has broadened the original remit, which was to write about either your home town or where you live now. Pretty thin pickings there. However, my spiritual home – just across…
This week, Jim offers us a range of precious stones as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday: diamond, emerald, sapphire and so on. Unsurprisingly, my first thought was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Diamonds In The Mine’, but I’ve already used that a few years ago for a different prompt. This, however, is a more than acceptable substitute –…
Jim’s key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday are celebratory: things to lift the spirits in these difficult times, such as ‘birthday’, ‘party’, ‘gift’ and ‘cake’. Nice try Jim. But here’s The Smiths, Manchester’s mordant miserabilists: I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday Cause you’re…
“How does it feel? How does it feel?” Jim goes touch feely with his prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. I know it’s only three weeks from my previous Dylan offering, but how could you ever tire of this? And besides, it was the first song that came to mind when I saw the…
Vows, oaths, promises…all different types of attestation and the key words for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge this week. I confess I was surprised to see how many songs there are out there called simply ‘(The) Promise’. However, I know my lovely daughter in particular will enjoy this. It’s really rather good… How time will…
Well now…something of a guilty pleasure in response to Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt this week, although almost fifty years on, I guess the Statute of Limitations has kicked in by now. The early-seventies Glam Rock phenomenon presented a bit of a challenge for us long-haired hippy types. It was decidedly uncool to admit to…
Jim’s looking for a sense of direction this week, with his key words being the cardinal points of the compass, This is another example of me using the first song that came into my head, from the 1963 album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’. Yes of course I had a copy. If you’re traveling the north…
The elements of dialogue form the key words for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week: talk and hear; speak and listen. I had originally intended to use Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ for this prompt, until I remembered that I’d already deployed it for the theme of ‘Books’ about a year ago. Still, Jimi…
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