For my beautiful daughter Elise, Happy Birthday and best wishes for a great day, take care, Love, Dad

"love you all the bunches in the world"

Click below to hear them sing their song "Wagon Wheel"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E

Old Crow Medicine Show Lyrics

                                                          "Wagon Wheel"

Headed down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
Starin' up the road
And pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight

[Chorus:]
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Runnin' from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now
Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain't a turnin' back
To livin' that old life no more

[Chorus]

Walkin' due south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin' my name
And I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free

[Chorus]

Writer(s): Ketch Secor, Bob Dylan 

For Cousin Julie, "Happy Birthday" -- Play on....

Click below or copy and paste to address bar this link to hear Carrie Underwood sing "Temporary Home".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraOiHUltak

Lyrics, "Temporary Home", by Carrie Underwood

Little boy, six years old
A little too used to bein' alone
Another new mom and dad, another school
Another house that'll never be home
When people ask him how he likes this place
He looks up and says with a smile upon his face

"This is my temporary home
It's not where I belong
Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through
This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this is my
Temporary home."

Young mom on her own
She needs a little help got nowhere to go
She's lookin' for a job, lookin' for a way out
'Cause a half-way house will never be a home
At night she whispers to her baby girl
Someday we'll find a place here in this world

"This is our temporary home
It's not where we belong
Windows in rooms that we're passin' through
This is just a stop, on the way to where we're going
I'm not afraid because I know this is our
Temporary Home."

Old man, hospital bed
The room is filled with people he loves
And he whispers don't cry for me
I'll see you all someday
He looks up and says "I can see God's face"

"This is my temporary Home
It's not where I belong
Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through
This was just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this was
My temporary home."

This is our temporary home

Written by Zac Maloy, Luke Laird, Carrie Underwood • Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

To my wife Doris, my old lover Chris, my ex-wife Izzy, my cousins Julie and Susan, my brother-in-law David, my kids Ben and Elise and their spouses, and all 4 grandchildren -- Annabel, Olive, Ari, Eva (in order of birth)....with Love, Grandpa John

Click the youtube.com link below to hear Leon Russell sing his song "A Song For You"...or copy the link below and paste to your address bar...Leon passed away just recently...Take care, love, Dad

Leon Russell on Wikipedia.org, his life and legacy...click wikipedia.org below...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dw2r45Xzg

Lyrics, "A Song For You", by Leon Russell

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my life in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singin' this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be, baby
I've treated you unkindly but girl can't you see
There's no one more important to me
So darling can't you please see through me
'Cause we're alone now and I'm singin' my song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth, withholdin' nothin'
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better so if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love's in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for my life, 'cause you're a friend of mine
And when my life is over, remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singin' my song for you

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I've loved you for my life, yes, you're a friend of mine
And when my life is over, remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singin' my song for you, yes
We were alone and I was singin' this song for you, baby
We were alone and I was singin' my song,
Singin' my song, singin' my song, singin' my song
Singin' my song

Written by Leon Russell • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management US, LLC

"What the head makes cloudy,

The heart makes very clear."

Click below or copy and paste to your address bar for video clip from nytimes.com about Comey testimony...

 https://nyti.ms/2t3Bl0y

"In A New York Minute", By Don Henley

Lyrics

Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won't be down on Wall Street in the morning

He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn't matter anymore

In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute

Lying here in the darkness
I hear the sirens wail
Somebody going to emergency
Somebody's going to jail
You find somebody to love in this world
You better hang on tooth and nail
The wolf is always at the door

In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get little strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute

And in these days
When darkness falls early
And people rush home
To the ones they love
You better take a fool's advice
And take care of your own
One day they're here
Next day they're gone

I pulled my coat over my shoulders
And took a walk down through the park
The leaves were falling around me
The groaning city in the gathering dark
On some solitary rock
A desperate lover left his mark,
Baby, I've changed, please come back

What the head makes cloudy
The heart makes very clear

The days were so much brighter

In the time when she was here

I know there's somebody, somewhere

Make these dark clouds disappear

Until that day, I have to believe

I believe, I believe

In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
You can get out of the way
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute

In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get little strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change (in a New York minute)

In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
You can get out of the way
In a New York minute

Written by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, Jai L. Winding • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Cass County Music / Wisteria Music / Privet Music

Click below to hear Madonna sing her song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZF5e-BTBuQ

"This Used to be my Playground," by Madonna

This used to be my playground
This used to be my childhood dream
This used to be the place I ran to
Whenever I was in need
Of a friend
Why did it have to end
And why do they always say

Don't look back
Keep your head held high
Don't ask them why
Because life is short
And before you know
You're feeling old
And your heart is breaking
Don't hold on to the past
Well that's too much to ask

This used to be my playground (used to be)
This used to be my childhood dream
This used to be the place I ran to
Whenever I was in need
Of a friend
Why did it have to end
And why do they always say

No regrets
But I wish that you
Were here with me
Well then there's hope yet
I can see your face
In our secret place
You're not just a memory
Say goodbye to yesterday (the dream)
Those are words I'll never say (I'll never say)

This used to be my playground (used to be)
This used to be our pride and joy
This used to be the place we ran to
That no one in the world could dare destroy
This used to be our playground (used to be)
This used to be our childhood dream
This used to be the place we ran to
I wish you were standing here with me

This used to be our playground (used to be)
This used to be our childhood dream
This used to be the place we ran to
The best things in life are always free
Wishing you were here with me

Written by Shep Pettibone, Madonna Ciccone • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Downtown Music Publishing