A Journal: March 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Pilgrimage

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

Geoffrey Chaucer

Sunday, March 30, 2008

I want to live in the world, not inside my head
I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted
With the hopeful and the willing
With the open and the strong
With the voices in the darkness
Fashioning daylight out of song
And the millions of lovers
Alive in the world

Jackson Browne

Saturday, March 29, 2008

I'm in charge

It was back in nineteen forty-two,
I was a member of a good platoon.
We were on maneuvers in-a Loozianna,
One night by the light of the moon.
The captain told us to ford a river,
That's how it all begun.
We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy,
But the big fool said to push on.

All at once, the moon clouded over,
We heard a gurgling cry.
A few seconds later, the captain's helmet
Was all that floated by.
The Sergeant said, "Turn around men!
I'm in charge from now on."

And we just made it out of the Big Muddy
With the captain dead and gone.

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Pete Seeger 1967

Grimm, brothers

Once upon a time is always
Once upon a time is now
Once upon a time is any situation
Your imagination will allow

Once upon a time's tomorrow
Or it can be yesterday
There is not a dream
That you cannot return to
Once you learn to dream the dreamer's way

Sammy Cahn

Friday, March 28, 2008

And it's only love and it's only love that can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

C                   G/E         G
Some say a heart is just like a wheel,
     Em                 Am
When you bend it, you can't mend it.
   Dm                     Am
And my love for you is like a sinking ship
   Dm               F/E             G/E C
And my heart is on that ship out in mid ocean.

Anna McGarrigle