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[bob_brinton (bob_brinton)]

Did Jesus come to straighten out the Empire? Did He come to fix the synagogues? Or did He come for lepers like you and me?

What is our focus? How can we best help lepers? And who are they? Do we help them by assaulting them, by mocking them? What is love today? What does it want? Who can we touch with His welcome, His encouragement? Who can we pray for, fast for, suffer for? Are we better than our Master? are we about the Father's business?

Not accusations. Considerations.

[calv (calv)]

If you see your brother standing by the road
With a heavy load from the seeds he sowed
And if you see your sister falling by the way
Just stop and say you're goin' the wrong way
You've got to try a little kindness yes show a little kindness
Yes shine your light for everyone to see
And if you'll try a little kindness and you'll overlook the blindness
Of the narrow minded people on the narrow minded streets

Don't walk around the down and out lend a helping hand instead of doubt
And the kindness that you show every day will help someone along their way
You've got to try a little kindness...
You've got to try a little kindness...

glen cambell

[anova (anova)]

See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
Then the first snow came
And she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart
Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin' late
'Cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'
Over some sad and silly late, late show

And honey, I miss you
And I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you
If only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin' needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early Spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away

And honey, I miss you
And I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you
If only I could

One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of Honey
And I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life's an empty stage
Where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead
And cries down on the flower bed
That Honey loved

And see the tree how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
And I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

Honey
Bobby Goldsboro

[Words and Music by Bobby Russell

[sojourner (sojourner)]

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Bridge Over Troubled Water
P. Simon, 1969
When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
When you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind



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[cordell (cordell)]

<font color="119911">"Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
Manfred Mann</font>

[calv (calv)]

I've Gotta Get a Message to You
The Bee Gees

The preacher talked to me and he smiled,
Said, "Come and walk with me, come and walk one more mile.
Now for once in your life you're alone,
but you ain't got a dime, there's no time for the phone."

I've just got to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

I told him I'm in no hurry,
but if I broke her heart, won't you tell her I'm sorry.
And for once in my life I'm alone,
and I've got to let her know just in time before I go.

I've just go to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

Well I laughed but that didn't hurt,
and it's only her love that keeps me wearing this dirt.
Now I'm crying but deep down inside,
well I did it to him, now it's my turn to die.

I've just got to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

[sojourner (sojourner)]

SHAME

Though I am weak
Sometimes weary
In times of trial
I hide my face
In the balance
Judge me wholly
Please don’t judge me
By my shame

In dark hours
Of confrontation
When words may fall
Too soon to unsay
Don’t mistake them
For my true meaning
They are measures
Of my shame

I have tried to
Live life humbly
Not a coward
Not in vain
When my meekness
Overcomes me
Remember me
Not my shame
Not my shame

I am small
And self-conscious
Every mirror
Reflects the grain
Judge my essence
By my kinships
Remember me
Not my shame

I am weak
Sometimes weary
Sometimes small
I hide away
When my hours
Are all accounted
Please don’t bind me
To my shame

I have tried to
Live life humbly
Not a coward
Not in vain
When my meekness
Overcomes me
Remember me
Not my shame
Not my shame
(repeat)
Fernando Ortega (you would love him calv)

[bob_brinton (bob_brinton)]

Nice choices Patricia.

Cordell, would you dig out some Lewis Carroll for us?

[sojourner (sojourner)]

Thank you Bob, why don't we do a little Alice in Wonderland at the reunion, you can be the Mad Hatter, Ralph can be the Cheshire Cat, and I well, who do you think I should be...not Alice, I used to love theater, would have pursued it if I hadn't gotten sidetracked. Oh well it may have not been what I dreamed of..
Oh, check out Fernando Ortega's wonderful website.
You can sample his music and it is a fun site in general.

www.fernandoortega.com (http://www.fernandoortega.com)

Bob you are one of the most well rounded individuals I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

Patricia

[karen (karen)]

Anovus,

I love you, but you've eaten far too heartily at the tree of cynicism.

[anova (anova)]

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[extended break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!


Anovus

[bjerwin (bjerwin)]

Do any of the girls in the dorms in So. Berwick remember "Bridge over Troubled Water"? That elder bible school teacher, who sang about once a year, can't remember her name, maybe Lana or something like that...

Anyway she practiced for like a week "Bridge Over Troubled Water". She must have sang it 1000 times that week. Whenever I hear that song I think of her. She almost destroyed it for me. LOLOL

(Message edited by bjerwin on July 03, 2005)

[sojourner (sojourner)]

1000 times and she still had a voice?
I'm glad I mostly hear Simon and Garfunkel when I think of it. It is a beautiful song still.

[offshore (offshore)]

Has this thread become the war of the songs?

I think I'll torture Anovus for " eating too heartily at the tree of cynicism ", by posting the lyrics from "The Candy Man".


Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two?
The candy man
The candy man can
The candy man can, cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun and make a strawberry-lemon pie?
The candy man
The candy man can
The candy man can, cause me mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good

The candy man makes everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious
Talk about your childhood wishes!
You can even eat the dishes!

Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream?
The candy man
The candy man can
The candy man can, 'cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good

And the world tastes good
Because the candy man thinks it should!





(Message edited by offshore on July 04, 2005)

[sojourner (sojourner)]

Offshore,
I hope I never do anything that makes you want to punish me....lol
Patricia
If that song plays in my head today...well it better not!

[sojourner (sojourner)]

PS Offshore,
Your punishment of Offshore is like the teacher who makes the whole class miss recess because of what one student did! Must we all suffer for Anova's crime?????
Fellow students it is time for an uprising!
Happy Fourth everyone.

[jeannie (jeannie)]

Happy 4th Everyone!

Battle Hymn of the Republic; last two verses:



In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.


He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

[itsahokes (itsahokes)]

Calv, that's my all time favorite book!! (but you've got to have the pictures to go with it) http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/happy.gif)

[david_munson (david_munson)]

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offshore,
Now this is really getting weird.
I just watched the movie </font>"the candy Man" last night.

Oy Vay!}

Dave

[offshore (offshore)]

I know Dave...you're just an Umpa Lumpa at heart.

[david_munson (david_munson)]

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That would be Willy Wonkas chocolate factory,LOL.


Dave</font>}

[karen (karen)]

Offshore, your intention may have been to punish Anovus, but I am suffering. Have mercy...

[anova (anova)]

YOU HAVEN'T SUFFERED ENOUGH!


Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying how much you love me
Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying what you're thinkin' of me
I can see it, your face is glowing
I can see it in your eyes
I'm happy in knowin'
That you're having my baby

You're the woman I love
And I love what it's doin' to you
Having my baby
You're a woman in love
And I love what's goin' thru you
The need inside you
I see it showin'
Oh, the seed inside you baby
Do you feel it growin'
Are you happy knowin'
That you're having my baby

Girl: ("I'm a woman in love and I love what it's doin' to me")
Having my baby
Girl: ("I'm a woman in love and I love what's goin' thru me")
Didn't have to keep it
Couldn't put you thru it
You could have swept it from your life
But you wouldn't do it
No you wouldn't do it
And you're having my baby
Girl: ("I'm a woman in love and I love what it's doin' to me")
Having my baby
Girl: ("I'm a woman in love and I love what's goin' thru me")
Having my baby

(As recorded by Paul Anka)
PAUL ANKA

[sojourner (sojourner)]

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!enough already, must we get involved in these domestic disputes?????
If you guys keep this up we will get even in August.
BJ, Jeannie, Roberta, Lee, back me up please.
Candy man??
Your having my baby??
Gag!

[offshore (offshore)]

The Song Nazi doesn't like complaining.

[calv (calv)]

Do That To Me One More Time Lyrics

Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, kiss me like you just did
Oh, baby, do that to me once again
Pass that by me one more time
Once is never enough for my heart to hear
Whoa-oh-oh, tell it to me one more time
I can never hear enough while I got'ya near
Whoa-oh-oh, say those words again that you just did
Oh, baby tell it to me once again
Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, kiss me like you just did
Oh, baby do that to me once again
Whoa-oh-oh, baby, do that to me once again
Whoa-oh-ho-oh-oh-oh, baby, do that to me one more time
Do it again
One more time
Do it again
One more time
Do it again
One more time
Do it again
One more time

[sojourner (sojourner)]

Calv,
Pleeeeze don't encourage them!!!!!!!!

[joyce (joyce)]

<font color="ff0000">Dear Song Nazi: Trust me, we have suffered enought! (Must've been the scallops.....)</font>

[david_munson (david_munson)]

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I am gross and perverted
I am obseesed and deranged
I have exsisited for years
but very little has changed

I'm the tool of the government
and industry too
for I am destined to rule
and to regulate you

I'm the best you Can get
have you guessed me yet
I'm the slime oozing out
of your TV set

(Chorus)
I am the slime from the vidio
oozing along on your living room floor
I am the slime from the vidio
can't stop the slime people look at me go.
---------------------------------

Now look what you made me do.
And to think ,I'm no fan of Frank Zapa either.


Dave</font>}
}}}

[sojourner (sojourner)]

GOOD PEOPLE

You win it’s your show now
So what’s it going to be?
Because people will tune in
How many train wrecks do we need to see?
Before we lose touch
And we thought this was low
Well it’s bad, getting worse….
Where’d all the good people go?
I’ve been changing channels I don’t see them on the tv shows
Where’d all the good people go?
We’ve got heaps and heaps of what we sow
They got this and that with a rattle a tat
Testing, one, two, man whatcha gonna do
Bad news misused, got too much to lose
Give me some truth now, who’s side are we on
Whatever you say
Turn on the boob tube, I’m in the mood to obey
So lead me astray
And by the way now…
Where’d all the good people go?
I’ve been changing channels I don’t see them on the tv shows
Where’d all the good people go?
We’ve got heaps and heaps of what we sow
Sitting around feeling far away
So far away but I can feel the debris, can you feel it?
You interrupt me from a friendly conversation
To tell me how great it’s all going to be
You might notice some hesitation
Because it’s important to you, it’s not important to me
But way down by the edge of your reason
It’s beginning to show and all I really want to know is…
Where’d all the good people go?
I’ve been changing channels I don’t see them on the tv shows
Where’d all the good people go?
We got heaps and heaps of what we sow
They got this and that with a rattle a tat
Testing one, two man whatcha gonna do
Bad news misused give me some truth
You got too much to lose
Whose side are we on today, anyway
Okay, whatever you say
Wrong and resolute but in the mood to obey
Station to station desensitizing the nation
Going, going, gone

-Jack Johnson

[calv (calv)]

Patricia

good pick! I though the same thing when I heard it the other day.
good luck w the withdrawl symptoms!
btw
where have all the good people gone?
hope they show up now and then....
give a little report where they been.
;~)

[sojourner (sojourner)]

May I be overly syrupy and say I am proud we are in sync calv...I don't know about being good, I like 'bad' folks better I think.
Went out with this 'good' guy and felt like hitting a biker bar after for some excitement.
Take a spin on a Harley, adorn some leather with lots of decals.
Hey it was a fun fantasy while it lasted and it purged me of the boring, polite date!!!
Calv, I'll even have to quit lurking as long as you are writing!! You keep writing, I will take a break.
Smiles back at you my friend...in the north east.

[bob_brinton (bob_brinton)]

I've hardly been able to get on here at all for the last few weeks. What the heck is going on? Is everyone having trouble getting here?

[sojourner (sojourner)]

Bob,
I am posting less and consistly shorter briefs as things speak to me.
I have had to hit the button a dozen times and reenter my password.
I get the message "This page cannot be displayed"
It is aggravating and time consuming!
I find if I hold the preview/post button a little longer sometimes it "takes".
I am concerned that this is the reason there have been so few new posts.
Let's see what happens to this one.

I just clicked over seven times, still trying!
We need to contact FN. This can discourage new posters.
Please keep trying, eventually it grabs on.
We need to hear from everyone!

[sojourner (sojourner)]

About a dozen hits and it finally posted!
Royal pain>>>

[bob_brinton (bob_brinton)]

Hi Patricia, I did manage to pull aside and bookmark this:

http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/2056.html

It worked just now to get me here when my normal link wouldn't. I've lost posts completely and irretrievably a couple of times. I've come to the conclusion that I should either pretype and paste in or pull a copy off before I hit the post button. Now if I'll just remember to do that.