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Water, Water, Everywhere…
Reading Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ I’ve come to the famous lines: Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.…
California Dreaming
I’ve been singing the old Mamas and Papa’s song ‘California Dreaming’ all week. I’d read about John and Michelle Philips writing it… living in New York… the cold winter… wishing they were back home in California… releasing the song in 1965… I remember it from my teenage years…. Then yesterday I heard the Petersens version:…
Listen With Your Eyes…
At yesterday’s ‘Singing for Health’ group we sung the 1969 Peggy Lee song: Red and yellow and pink and greenPurple and orange and blue,I can sing a rainbow,Sing a rainbow,Sing a rainbow too. Listen with your ears,Listen with your eyes,And sing everything you see!I can sing a rainbow,Sing a rainbow,Sing along with me… This joyful,…
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