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My.Daily.Distraction ~ Post 37: Thank You Jim Croce

26 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by duckykoren in Artists, Lyrics, Music, Poems

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Many years ago I watched an interview with Jim Croce, and the experience he shared has always stayed with me.

I remember this interview every time I find myself brainstorming for a new idea to write about.

Some of you will remember Jim Croce as the phenomenal singer songwriter who came to our attention in the early 1970’s.

I remember his songs and will never forget them.

How could one, with songs like; Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, I’ll Have To Say I Love You In Song, Operator, Lover’s Cross, and the list goes on.

The sad ending of his life and the others with him, involved a tragic plane crash in Louisiana in 1973.

In my lifetime, I will never see such a blazing rising star so quickly extinguished in such a devastating loss.

And what of the songs that might have been?

In the interview I referred to above, Jim Croce remembers visiting a bar one night.

The bartender, he noticed was a totally bald man.

Being bald then, was not as nearly popular as it is now.

As the night wore on Jim eventually felt comfortable enough to refer to his bartender’s bald head.

The bartender’s response to Jim Croce’s comment was:

“I’m not bald, I just have more face to wash.”

Jim laughed at his bartender’s self revelation, and then ended the discussion by making the following point:

“This guy doesn’t belong in the line of the song…”

“Man, HE IS A SONG.”

The lesson that I learned from this was in the observation of life, one must never overlook, diminish or negate who or what is directly in front of them.

Thank you Jim Croce for the love, the words, and the inspiration.

Be forever rest assured that your music made this world a better place.

My.Daily.Distraction ~ Post 30: The Choir

22 Saturday Nov 2014

Posted by duckykoren in Diversity, Equality, History, Human Rights, Lyrics, Music, Poetry, Verse

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Choir, Cowards, Diversity, Doris Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Equality, Heartbreak, Lyrics, MLK, Mother, Music, Poetry, Que sera sera, Songs, Tears, Verse, We Shall Overcome

When I was a young girl Mother kept saying to me
Que sera sera
What will be will be
That’s not the kind of thing that you tell a young girl
With her head in the clouds over a sinister world
What does a weak mind do with those cowardly words
Succumb to the voices, throw down their cards…

Oh….

I remember the night when they shot Dr. King
There was heartbreak and tears, still I heard the choir sing
The mourners stood tall, and they all stood as one…

Singing…

We shall overcome…
We shall overcome…

I didn’t listen to her then and I don’t listen now
My spirits unbroken
My head is unbowed
After all this time their clear voices still ring
They’ve drowned out my Mother and still louder they sing
Almost fifty years on and these words are still true
We’re still climbing that mountain Dr. King told us to…

We Are Singing…

We shall overcome…
We shall overcome…

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