English & The Biello
Welcome and make yourself comfortable. The second act starts now, I hope you enjoy the contents. And remember: The more you learn, the more you learn! Best regards.
03 September, 2009
Full Moon Names and Their Meanings and a few Songs!
What is a Blue Moon?
Billie Holiday, Blue Moon
The Waterboys, The Whole of the Moon
The Waterboys, The Fisherman´s Blues
MY MONSTER AND I
17 June, 2009
Truisms: JENNY HOLTZER´s TRUISMS ABC
04 June, 2009
Summertime
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)
His most ambitious composition was Porgy and Bess (1935). Gershwin called it a "folk opera," and it is now widely regarded as the most important American opera of the twentieth century.
"Summertime" is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin. The song soon became a popular Jazz standard. Gershwin began composing the song in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. It is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess, first by Clara in Act I as a lullaby.
Summertime
26 May, 2009
If
If I were a train, I'd be late.
And if I were a good man, I'd talk with you more often than I do.
If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain.
If I were a book, I would bend.
If I were a good man, I'd understand the spaces between friends.
And if I were with you, I'd be home and dry.
And if I go insane, will you still let me join in with the game?
If I were a train, I'd be late again.
If I were a good man, I'd talk to you more often than I do.
GOING OUT
by David Garcés Gracia and Laura Piedrafita
On a wonderful spring morning, we went to Guara on a school trip.
At first, it was cloudy but sunny. We were lucky: it didn´t rain at all!
In fact, it was hot!
As soon as we arrived, we had lunch in the park and went to the toilet.
Next, we saw a film about the Sierra, and listened to explanations about the Nature, the special flowers, the animals…but also about the geology in that area.
We also took notes because we have to do a Science Memorandum.
Afterwards, we travelled to Alquezar by bus and then we started the excursion. It was getting hotter, we sat under a tree (Olea europea), and saw some insects, flowers, vultures and small birds, too (swifts and swallows).
Then, we went down the ravine and saw the beautiful crystal clear river, running between two enormous colourful walls showing the geological strata (lime-stone and conglomerate rocks).
We even got into the amazing pale green water: it was warm.
Last of all, we climbed back the steep way with the special flowers in bloom (Ramonda myconi) to the beautiful quiet village where we had lunch again in the square, near the fountain.
Finally, we all got on the bus and returned home, happy, tired and always noisy!!!
24 May, 2009
Kevin Ayers, May I?
Summer is about to arrive in Great Missenden.
“In May the hawthorn blossoms make the hedges look as though they are covered in snow and the buttercups are beginning to appear in the fields… Swallows and house martins are building their crazy mud nests all over the place… We have a pair of swallows that have built their nest in exactly the same place on a wooden beam in the tool shed for the past six years, and it is amazing to me how they fly off thousands of miles to North Africa in the autumn with their young and then six months later they find their way back to the same tool shed at Gipsy House, Great Missenden… It’s a miracle and the brainiest ornithologists in the world still cannot explain how they do it.”
Seems our feathered-friends are smarter than you thought.
10 April, 2009
Going Out
JOHN MUIR
Second Nature
When I was seventeen in 1959, the lake was as wild a place as I knew. My friend Jeremy Hooker and I would arrive there at around four a.m. in early summer, ditch our bikes in the tangle of rhododendrons, and pick out the narrow path by torchlight as we tiptoed, in existentialist duffel coats, through the brush. Still a long way from the water, we moved like burglars, since we attributed to the carp extraordinary sagacity and guile, along with an extreme aversion to human trespassers on its habitat. Crouched on our knees, speaking in whispers, we assembled our split-cane rods. In the windless dark, the lake’s dim ebony sheen was at once sinister and promising. Somewhere out there, deep down, lay Leviathan, or at least his shy but powerful cyprinid cousin.
Jonathan Raban
Ghost Species
The spectres of the Norfolk Fens
On a cold morning last January, I travelled out to the Norfolk Fens to see a ghost. First, I caught a train twenty miles north from Cambridge to Littleport, a market town on the Cambridge–Norfolk border. At Littleport I was met by a friend called Justin Partyka, and Justin drove me in his little white baker’s van up into the Fens proper.
Robert Macfarlane
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Video-Ghost-Species
Encounter
We face south-west towards the Isles of Scilly. To our left is a coastal hill, Carn Gloose. On our right is Cape Cornwall and beyond, exactly a mile offshore, I’m told, is a series of rocky outcrops known as the Brisons. In Priest’s Cove we hop from boulder to boulder towards a series of larger, weed-mottled granite monoliths. They stand closer to the tide edge and offer us a perfect view of the incoming tide.
Mark Cocker
Butterflies on a Wheel
Migrants meet in western Wyoming
B etween 1995 and 2005, because of graduate school, jobs, wanderlust and love, I moved across America sixteen times. Always by car, always in spring or fall. The drive I made most often was a 2,000-mile stretch between Idaho and Ohio, in either direction, sometimes alone, sometimes with my dog, once with a goldfish named Fran riding shotgun in a one-gallon water jug. Eastward, westward, I travelled the great unspooling latticework of American interstates – sun-baked juniper flats of southern Idaho, incandescent canyons of Utah, rambling prairies of Nebraska, the deep, heavy damp of Iowa in August.
Anthony Doerr
Granta 102 Essays
12 March, 2009
The Sierra
Mountain Thoughts, John Muir.
Only the unimaginative can fail to feel the enchantment of these mountains.
WORK
We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work, yeah!
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
Five days to go: working for the next day;
Four days to go: working for the next day;
Say we got: three days to go now:
working for the next day;
Two days to go (ooh): working
for the next day, yeah.
Say we got: one day to go: working for the -
Every day is work - work - work - work!
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
[Short guitar break]
We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work.
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
We got: five days to go work, oh! -
working for the next day, eh!
Four days to go: working for the -
Three days to go now: working
for the next day, yeah!
Two days to go: working for the next day
Say we got: one day to go now: working for -
Every day is work, wotcha-wa!
(Work!) I work in the mid-day sun;
(Work!) I work till the evening come!
(Work!) If ya ain't got nothing to do!
(Work!) Ooh-ooh-ooh-oo-oo-ooh!
(Work!)
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22 February, 2009
The terrible lesson of the bee orchid
We must fight to protect not only biodiversity, but bioluxuriance
At a stroke, the bee orchids have gone from our lane. Two summers of tropical grass growth have brought the verge-cutters out early, before the orchids flower and seed, and we won't any longer be able to see those fabulous, chimerical blooms, with their velvet bodies and sculpted pink wings, just an amble from the front door. It's a man-made demise, but not the end of the world. There are bee orchids a mile away in the opposite direction, round a patch of dry wasteground used for bike scrambles. They teem in countless millions around the
Yet the neighbourliness of our local patch is something that can't be replaced. For me, settling down in a new habitat in Norfolk, they completed a circle opened up one June day half a lifetime ago, when I saw my first on a picnic in the Chilterns, and knew that I had gone through some subtle graduation in the rites of botany. And, in a less dramatic way, their passing seems like a stitch dropped, part of a great unravelling.
It is these subtle processes of attrition, cultural and ecological, that are highlighted in the new British Red Data Book of plants. In May this revealed the shocking statistic that 340-odd species - 20% of our flora - are in danger of becoming nationally extinct. Note the qualification. These are not species about to vanish from the face of the earth. Many vulnerable plants of open habitats are at the edges of their range in our inclement island climate, and are abundant on the continent. The arable weeds, such as corn buttercup, that figure prominently in the list aren't even true natives but ancient, accidental introductions from southern Europe that are doing very well in their home countries. The species chosen as the symbol of the report - the beautiful blue field gentian - is prolific in
Yet if we're beginning to acknowledge and document this creeping erosion of the living systems we inhabit, why aren't we more bothered? Why isn't local extinction - the first, inexorable step towards a more comprehensive termination, after all - a source of horror, of self-interested panic, of public response? Perhaps, ironically, the acceptance of the process of evolution has credited it with almost supernatural regenerative power: the great engine of life will cope, somehow. Or perhaps we believe we will eventually be able to do the job ourselves, putting back into the wild species we've nurtured in captivity, even recreating vanished plants from strips of DNA.
Extinction is a fact of life, and doesn't have the power to shock any more. Stephen Jay Gould's extraordinary book, Wonderful Life, put paid to any lingering beliefs in the sanctity of species, or the inexorable "upward" progress of evolution. Five hundred million years ago there was an explosion of biological creativity that generated a variety of life far surpassing that existing on the earth today. All of it has vanished, been discarded, without a single human lifting a destructive finger.
In the 1930s Walter Benjamin described the changed status that technological intervention gave to works of art. His celebrated essay could well be retitled Nature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." Authenticity in the natural world isn't only about humans' aesthetic experiences; it is about the actual existence of living organisms.
So many of the arguments about extinction are couched in human-centred terms. The arable weed will tomorrow be the staple crop. The wild orchid has an aura that the garden specimen lacks. Forgetting their hubris for a moment, these only work for a few species. At the end of the line, the one solid argument for the preservation of species is an a priori ethical one: they are important in their own right, simply because they exist, as part of the unfathomable intricacy of life. So, of course, are we, and if we can enjoy our common inheritance and good fortune - celebrate the inexplicable, extravagant mimicry of the self-pollinating bee orchid - then so much the better.
Richard Mabey's books include Flora Britannica and Nature Cure
WATERLOG. ROGER DEAKIN
When you swim, you feel your body for what it mostly is - water - and it begins to move with the water around it. No wonder we feel such sympathy for beached whales; we are beached at birth ourselves. To swim is to experience how it was before you were born. Once in the water, you are immersed in an intensely private world as you were in the womb. These amniotic waters are both utterly safe and yet terrifying, for at birth anything could go wrong, and you are assailed by all kinds of unknown forces over which you have no control. This may account for the anxieties every swimmer experiences from time to time in deep water. A swallow dive off the high board into the void is an image that brings together all the contradictions of birth. The swimmer experiences the terror and the bliss of being born.
Natural water has always held the magical power to cure. Somehow or other, it transmits its own self-regenerating powers to the swimmer. I can dive in with a long face and what feels like a terminal case of depression, and come out a whistling idiot. There is a feeling of absolute freedom and wildness that comes with the sheer liberation of nakedness as well as weightlessness in natural water, and it leads to a deep bond with the bathing-place.
I am no champion, just a competent swimmer with a fair amount of stamina. Part of my intention in setting out on the journey was not to perform any spectacular feats, but to try and learn something of the mystery D. H. Lawrence noticed in his poem 'The Third Thing':
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one,
But there is also a third thing, that makes it water
And nobody knows what that is.
O Altitudo!
An Interview with Robert Macfarlane
Brian Dillon
Coleridge survived, and in the account he later gave of the escapade, rehearsed some key terms from a mountainous aesthetic that has flourished for at least two centuries: the experience, he said, was one of prophecy, trance, delight, shame, pain, dreaming, madness, and laughter.
Robert Macfarlane is a fellow of
10 December, 2008
John Robert Cozens (1752 - December 14, 1797), was an English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes.
The son of the Russian-born drawing master and watercolorist, Alexander Cozens, John Robert Cozens was born in London. He studied under his father and began to exhibit some early drawings with the Society of Artists in
Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospherical effects and illusions which had some influence on Thomas Girtin and J.M.W. Turner. Indeed, his work is full of poetry. There is a solemn grandeur in his Alpine views and a sense of vastness, a tender tranquillity and a kind of mystery in most of his paintings, leaving parts in his pictures for the imagination of the spectator to dwell on and search into. John Constable called him "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape." On the other hand, Cozens never departed from his primitive, almost rudimentary, manner of painting, which causes several of his works to look very like colored engravings.
See also English school of painting
All the beautiful birds flew away
She stays and he stays and they never meet because the rule for the ones in their species
is to stay put and alone.
It´s autumn, looks like winter, miss all the colourful birds of spring
but in the pale misty days the red chest brings some hapinness,
his song big joy.
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the wind that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow´grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
05 November, 2008
Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing
HallelujahHallelujah
HallelujahHallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah,Hallelujah
11 March, 2008
Three Little Birds
Singing: dont worry about a thing, ´cause every little thing gonna be all right!
Rise up this morning,
Smiled with the rising sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Saying, (this is my message to you-ou-ou:)
Singing: dont worry bout a thing, ´cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singing: dont worry (dont worry) ´bout a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right!
Helpless
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless.
Francis Bacon
Without error or confusion,
Without substitution or imposture,
Is in itself a nobler thing
Than a whole harvest of invention.
John Donne
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a
promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.
John Lilly by Laurie Anderson
John Lilly, the guy who says he can talk to dolphins, said he was in an aquarium and he was talking to a big whale who was swimming around and around in his tank. And the whale kept asking him questions telepathically.
And one of the questions the whale kept asking was: "Do all oceans have walls?"
19 February, 2008
They Are Not Long
Horace , Odas 1.4
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter.
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson, 1896
17 February, 2008
ICE TIME
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander ...
Byron, 'Darkness'
In 1815, on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, a handsome and long quiescent mountain named Tambora exploded spectacularly, killing a hundred thousand people with its blast and associated tsunamis. No-one living now has ever seen such fury. Tambora was far bigger than anything any living human has experienced. It was the biggest volcanic explosion in ten thousand years - 150 times the size of Mount St Helens, equivalent to sixty thousand Hiroshima sized atom bombs.
News didn't travel terribly fast in those days.
In London, The Times ran a small story - actually a letter from a merchant - seven months after the event. But by this time Tambora's effects were already being felt.
Two hundred and forty cubic kilometres of smoky ash, dust and grit had diffused through the atmosphere, obscuring the Sun's rays and causing the Earth to coo1. Sunsets were unusually but blearily colourful, an effect memorably captured by the artist J.M.W. Turner who could not have been happier, but mostly the world existed under an oppressive, dusky pall. It was this deathly dimness that inspired Byron to write the lines quoted above.
Spring never came and summer never warmed: 1816 became known as the year without summer. Crops everywhere failed to grow… Yet globally the temperature fell by less than 1 degree Celsius. The Earth´s natural thermostat is an exceedingly delicate instrument.
Bill Bryson
from A Short History of Nearly Everything
THE BIRTHPLACE OF Robinson Crusoe
It was uninhabited, well wooded and mountainous, a useful point of call for a buccaneer to fill his water casks, cut wood for the gallery fire, and refresh his crew ashore without being seen.
In 1703, one of William Dampier's ships called at the island. Her quartermaster, a twenty-eight-year old Scot named Alexander Selkirk, quarrelled with his captain and asked to be left behind when the ship sailed.
No doubt he expected another ship to call soon, but in fact it was over four years before he was rescued, by Captain WoodesRogers. Rogers found 'a man clothed in goatskins who looked wilder than their first owners. He had so much forgot his language from want of use that we could scarce understand him.'
He had built him two huts; one he used as a kitchen, in the other he read and sang psalms. He had lived mainly on goats, cray-fish and fruit. He had tamed hundreds of cats to sleep round him at night and keep the rats from gnawing his feet. Here was Defoe's Crusoe in the making.
When accounts of the voyages were published in London, the story of Selkirk made a sensation. Journalists made much of it, one of the most popular of them, Richard Steele, giving up to it a special number of his periodical the Englishman. But it was left to Daniel Defoe to give Selkirk his pseudonymous immortality.
Recibimos a Andersen y a la infancia.
Augusto Monterroso dijo que la literatura aspiraba a representar la totalidad de la vida, y puesto que la vida era triste también la literatura, la gran literatura, lo tenía que ser.
Pero hay obras que son tristes a su pesar, porque lo que cuentan lo es y no quieren renunciar a reflejado, y hay obras que lo son por vocación, ya que parecen haber surgido para enfrentarse a ese enigma, el de la tristeza.
La obra de Andersen pertenece a ese segundo grupo, y la razón de su éxito arrollador, de su indiscutible poder de seducción, me atrevo a pensar que se debe precisamente a eso. En realidad, todos los personajes de Andersen buscan denodadamente el amor y no logran encontrarlo. Ésa es la enseñanza de sus cuentos: que la vida sólo merece la pena si hay amor, y que éste no consiste en pedir sino en dar. Por eso ni a la princesa de Los cisnes salvajes ni a la protagonista de La sirenita les importa su sufrimiento. La princesa tendrá que tejer camisas de ortigas con sus propias manos para salvar a sus hermanos; y a la sirenita el simple hecho de andar le causará un dolor tan insoportable que apenas podrá mantenerse en pie. Pero esto no es bastante, ya que mientras llevan a cabo su misión, ninguna de ellas podrá hablar. Es decir, que tienen que abstenerse de pedir.
A algo así es a lo que se refiere Simone Weil cuando, al analizar el cuento de los cisnes, escribe: “Actuar nunca es difícil: siempre estamos actuando en exceso y dispersándonos incesantemente en actos desordenados. Hacer seis camisas de ortigas y estar callados: ese es nuestro único medio de adquirir un poder”
Eso es la tristeza en los cuentos de Andersen, una forma de conseguir poder.
W. Faulkner, en una de sus novelas, hizo decir a uno de sus personajes: «Entre la nada y la pena elijo la pena». Y eso hacen todos los grandes personajes de Andersen: entregarse a la pena como si fuera la más dulce y extraña de las aventuras.
Gustavo Martín Garzo
John Steinbeck, Viajes con Charley
Nadie ha conseguido nunca pintar o fotografiar con éxito una de ellas.
La sensación que producen es intransferible. Llega de ellas silencio y sobrecogimento. No es sólo su talla increíble, ni el color que parece cambiar y modificarse ante tus propios ojos, no, no son como ningún otro árbol que yo conozca, son embajadores de otra época.
Tienen el misterio de los helechos que desaparecieron hace un millón de años convirtiéndose en el carbón de la era carbonífera. Poseen una luz y una sombra propias.
Hasta los hombres más vanos y más despreocupados e irreverentes se sienten dominados por un asombro, un respeto mágicos ante la presencia de las secoyas. Respeto ... ésa es la palabra. Siente uno la necesidad de inclinarse ante unos soberanos indiscutibles.
Conozco a estos grandes desde mi más tierna infancia, he vivido entre ellos, he acampado y dormido junto a sus cálidos y monstruosos cuerpos, y pese a la estrecha relación que he tenido con ellos no he sido capaz de llegar a menospreciarlos nunca.
Y se trata de un sentimiento que no es exclusivamente mío ni mucho menos.
14 February, 2008
Missing My Son, Tom Waits
Pegaojos , Hans Christian Andersen
Se desliza por detrás, les sopla levemente en la nuca y los hace quedar dormidos.
Pero no les duele, pues Pegaojos es amigo de los niños; sólo quiere que se estén quietecitos, y para ello lo mejor es aguardar a que estén acostados.
Deben estarse quietos y callados, para que él pueda contarles sus cuentos.
Cuando ya los niños están dormidos, Pegaojos se sienta en la cama.
Va bien vestido; lleva un traje de seda, pero es imposible decir de qué color, pues tiene destellos verdes, rojos y azules, según como se vuelva.
Y lleva dos paraguas, uno debajo de cada brazo.
Uno de estos paraguas está bordado con bellas imágenes, y lo abre sobre los niños buenos; entonces ellos durante toda la noche sueñan los cuentos más deliciosos; el otro no tiene estampas, y lo despliega sobre los niños traviesos, los cuales se duermen como marmotas y por la mañana se despiertan sin haber tenido ningún sueño.
Yosemite
I know just how I would want to do it. I would take you by night from the San Joaquin Valley up through the forested mountains and out to the Valley's rim, so that when sunrise carne you would be standing on Glacier Point. Up before dawn, you would lean against the railing, trying to see down into the shadows for the first sight of something whose descriptions you never quite believed.
Perhaps a shining morning star would be burning in steel-blue space over the notched rnystery of the horizon. Even by its light you could make out the great looming hulk of Half Dome, nearly 2.000 feet above our eyrie. I can well imagine your reactions with the coming of the first bit of sunlight. The constant thunder of the falls leads your eye to find their whiteness as the deep cut canyons are first illuminated.
Bit by bit, the obscuring darkness melts away, sculptured gray walls emerge, and the form and incredible depth of the canyons becomes apparent. You can begin to see where the heavy, scouring glaciers came grinding down the tributary canyons, to meet in a giant Y and gouge out the deep, straight-walled valley which lies more than 3,000 feet below our vantage point.
You suddenly become aware of a growing chorus of chirps and squeaks and scufflings as birds and squirrels begin to stir in the nearby trees. And soon afterward you see the first kindling of light on the summit crags of Mount Hoffinan, far to the north across the canyon. Gradually the golden light reaches farther down the slopes, moving slowly over cliff and forest, firing every rack and tree into green-golden flame.
Soon the shadows in which we stand will be swept away as the sun bursts upon us with an atomic blaze over the helmet curve of Half Dome.
Ansel Adams
From "Yosemite," Travel and Camera , October 1946
11 February, 2008
Bobby McFerrin´s Don't Worry, Be Happy
Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy......
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed Don't worry, be happy
The land lord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate Don't worry, be happy
Look at me I am happy Don't worry, be happy
Here I give you my phone number When you worry call me I make you happy
Don't worry, be happy
Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got not girl to make you smile
But don't worry be happy
Cause when you worry Your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down So don't worry, be happy (now).....
There is this little song I wrote
I hope you learn it note for note
Like good little children
Don't worry, be happy
Listen to what I say
In your life expect some trouble
But when you worry You make it double
Don't worry, be happy...... Don't worry don't do it, be happy
Put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down like this
Don't worry, it will soon past
Whatever it is Don't worry, be happy.
07 February, 2008
Ben Harper
I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I´m gonna make it a brighter place
I´m gonna make it a safer place
I´m gonna help the human race
With my own
With my own two hands
I can hold you
With my own two hands
I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands
With our own
With our own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
My Favourite Things
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with string
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudel
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things.
Girls in white dresses and blue satin sashes
Snow-flakes that stay on my nose and eye-lashes
Silver white winters that melt into spring
These are a few of my favorite things,
When the dog bites, When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.
R.E.M.
Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Everyone around love them, love them
Put it in your hands
Take it take it
There's no time to cry
Happy happy
Put it in your heart
Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine