Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
Taking a different look tonight at songs that are either about conversations or talking. Seems weird since most songs are based on conversations at some level.
Poems and things that connect with me….
Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
Taking a different look tonight at songs that are either about conversations or talking. Seems weird since most songs are based on conversations at some level.
Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
Yesterday it was taxes and the taxman, tonight Clowns. Who doesn’t love a clown? Well, as it turns out, a lot of people. So, I decided to look up songs about clowns, and there is more clown songs out there than I thought. Enough to fill a three ring circus.
Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
It’s tax time here in Canada, and time for some songs about money and taxes in my book.
Gram had an old piano
It sat in the front room
There was a scorch mark on the top
Made by a cigar from the past
It always sat there silent
I never ever saw it played
But, I heard of all the parties
And the music from gram
She told us kids “don’t touch it”
“Just leave it all alone”
So, we left it like she told us
We did as we were told
Even though we’d heard the stories
Of the music and the parties
And the fun that used to be
We watched as Gram would sit
Close her eyes, and fade out
To the parties and the music
And the good times of the past
She’d leave us to our own devices
Of which one, was not the piano
She told us it had been there
Since about nineteen sixty four
And to me, that’s a long time
Especially for a piano to not be played
It had to be out of tune by now
But, we’d neve know
She’d tell us of the parties
How the neighbors would drop by
How the music would be lively
Then, she’d fade off once again
Back to the parties and the past
There were mice living in the piano
At least if not now, there once were
You could see droppings in the corner
And the scratches by the pedals
But, we never saw the mice
I guess they knew the piano was out of bounds too
As we got older and time passed by
We wouldn’t go to Grams place as much
And she never moved the piano
We would still hear the stories
Either on the phone or during the visits
Both were more infrequent as we all aged
We knew she’d fade off
Sometimes during our chats on the phone
Sometimes during our visits
Back to the past
To the parties and the music
Gram passed last year
While she was sitting in her chair
She went to the past
And stayed there while I was making tea
I ended up with the piano
I can’t play, not that I ever would
None of the other could either
But, I was the oldest
Now, every so often, I’ll fade out
Back to the stories of the parties
That I never went to
And I think about the music
That I never heard
But, I remember how she said it was
How it must have sounded
The fun they had
The fun she was reliving
Grams piano sits in my house now
In the hall never played
It sits with its memories
Announcing what we all had missed
It sits, silent, and it’s me who shares the tales
To all who will listen when they visit
I got Grams piano and I didn’t get the mice
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Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
another Monkees classic sung by the song writer, Neil Diamond.
Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
We all know this by The Monkees, but, don’t forget…it was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Here, from Welcome to my living room is Carole King and her version of this Monkees classic
Musical Musings of a Mangled Mind
This is a rare version of the song by the Monkees with Mike Nesmith singing lead. The album version had Mickey Dolenz singing lead.
If love surrounds us
Why is it that I just see
Snow to be shoveled?
Lord hear my prayer
The words I want to hear now
Under the B…2!
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