To hear Emmylou sing this song...take this link...

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

Emmylou Harris Lyrics

Play "One Of These Days" on Amazon Music

                                                  "One Of These Days"

I won't have to chop no wood
I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel
One of these days

Might be a woman that's dressed in black
Be a hobo by the railroad track
I'll be gone like the wayward wind one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back and I'll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there's peace of mind

I might someday walk across this land
Carrying the Lord's book in my hand
Goin' cross the country singin' loud as I can
One of these days

But I won't have trouble on my back
cuttin' like the devil with a choppin' axe,
Got to shake it off my back, one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back and I'll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there's peace of mind
There's gonna be peace of mind for me, one of these days

Read about and listen to Lori's new song -- "People Get Old"....link below.....

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/hear-lori-mckennas-new-song-people-get-old-w519981

Lori McKenna – People Get Old Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Someone said "Youth is wasted on the young"
I spilled every last drop of time that summer in the sun
My daddy had a Timex watch
Cigarette in his hand and a mouthful of scotch
Spinnin' me around like a tilt-a-whirl on his arm

[Chorus 1]
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
Kids, come on in before your supper gets cold
Collection plates and daddy's billfold
And that's how it goes
You live long enough, people get old

[Verse 2]
I sat up right beside him in the cabin of that truck
Goin' thirty miles-an-hour down a side road talkin' 'bout the fish we caught
And I'm older now than he was then
If I could go back in time, I would in a second
To his beat-up blue jeans and a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off

[Chorus 2]
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
Kids growin' up and seekin' out the window
Hittin' every small-town dirt road
And that's how it goes
You live long enough and people get old
Yeah, people get old

[Verse 3]
Daddy keeps busy in the aftenoons playin' cards by himself
And he shouldn't be shovelin' that first snow, but you know he won't take the help
Full of pride and love, he don't say too much but hell, he never did
And you still think he's forty-five and he still thinks that you're a kid

[Verse 4]
One day you'll find yourself sayin' the things that he said
You'll be walkin' down the hallway, turnin' off every light switch
When you twirl your kids in your arms
Before you know it, it won't take too long
They'll be runnin' off makin' a life just like you did

[Chorus 3]
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
Nothin' says "love" like a band of gold
Babies grow up and houses get sold
And that's how it goes
Time is a thief, pain is a gift
The past is the past, it is what it is
Every line on your face tells a story somebody knows
That's just how it goes
You live long enough and the people you love get old

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Terminus

BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

It is time to be old, 

To take in sail:— 

The god of bounds, 

Who sets to seas a shore, 

Came to me in his fatal rounds, 

And said: “No more! 

No farther shoot 

Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. 

Fancy departs: no more invent; 

Contract thy firmament 

To compass of a tent. 

There’s not enough for this and that, 

Make thy option which of two; 

Economize the failing river, 

Not the less revere the Giver, 

Leave the many and hold the few. 

Timely wise accept the terms, 

Soften the fall with wary foot; 

A little while 

Still plan and smile, 

And,—fault of novel germs,— 

Mature the unfallen fruit. 

Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires, 

Bad husbands of their fires, 

Who, when they gave thee breath, 

Failed to bequeath 

The needful sinew stark as once, 

The Baresark marrow to thy bones, 

But left a legacy of ebbing veins, 

Inconstant heat and nerveless reins,— 

Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, 

Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.” 

As the bird trims her to the gale, 

I trim myself to the storm of time, 

I man the rudder, reef the sail, 

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 

“Lowly faithful, banish fear, 

Right onward drive unharmed; 

The port, well worth the cruise, is near, 

And every wave is charmed.”

=========================================

 In 2004, Marc Anthony and J. Lo invited people to an “afternoon party,” which, upon arrival, the unknowing guests found the "party" to be their wedding.

 Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg loved Anna Paquin’s “True Blood” character so much that he wrote the song “Oh Sookie” as a tribute to her.

 Sharon Osbourne managed the careers of Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lita Ford, and created the Ozzfest music festival.

 Lupe Fiasco originally recorded the song "Nothing on You" but after his version was rejected, it was handed over to Atlantic hip hop artists Bruno Mars and B.o.B.

 Before making it as a wildly successful female rap artist, Nicki Minaj was fired from her job at Red Lobsters restaurant due to discourtesy in dealing with customers.

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For Chris M./Yaya - Nostrovia

Sung here by Bonnie Raitt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vb0z7mY


                                               "Angel From Montgomery"
                                                               (originally by John Prine)

I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child that's grown old

If dreams were thunder
Lightning was desire
This old house woulda burnt down
A long time ago

Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl
Well I had me a cowboy
It weren't much to look at
Just a free ramblin' man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
Those years just flow by
Like a broken down dam

Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
Go to work in the mornin'
And come home in the evenin'
And have nothin' to say

Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

nytimes.com 5/5/18 - Op-Ed re: collection of very good op-eds about various aspects of death...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/everyone-you-know-someday-will-die.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

The Flaming Lips -- "Do You Realize?"....video below, then lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vpPD4vIrBM

"Do You Realize?" by The Flaming Lips

One, two, three, four...

Do you realize
That you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize
We're floating in space?
Do you realize
That happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize
That everyone you know someday will die?

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

Do you realize? Oh, oh, oh
Do you realize
That everyone you know someday will die?

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round