"Now I've tried drinking rye and gamblin' Dancing with damnation is a ball But of all the little ways I've found to hurt myself Well you might be my favorite one of all"
--Gillian Welch, Tennessee
Second place is just about any lyric Leonard Cohen ever wrote.
This song "Oh Happy Days" at Belmont with Secretariat running away from the pack and hitting it's extraordinary stride to win always sends chills and a joyful tear..What a truly amazing and beautiful animal.
Regards, Will G.
Posts: 9660 | Location: 140 mi to Margaritaville, FL | Registered: January 02, 2008
@clubleaf206 Thank you for that one. Her voice is angelic and the lyrics fill my heart.
I have so many I could share, but I'll keep it to one...for now.
I'm posting this version as you can better understand the lyrics, but I just feel it's overproduced and over polished. I prefer the version at the second link.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
Posts: 18023 | Location: Sonoma County, CA | Registered: April 09, 2004
American songwriter Peter Jones discovered a collection of letters in his parents’ attic written by his great-great-great grandfather, Byran Hunt, to his son, John Hunt, who had emigrated from Kilkelly in Ireland to the United States in 1855. The Great Famine in Ireland had forced large numbers of people to emigrate in search of a better life. The five-stanza ballad he wrote based on these letters cover the time period from 1860 to 1892.
Posts: 11159 | Location: Big Sky Country | Registered: November 20, 2004
