ATF: Higher Aspirations

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]

If You Wanna Get To Heaven

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

I never read it in a book

I never saw it on a show

But I heard it in the alley

On a weird radio

If you want a drink of water

You got to get it from a well

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never felt it in my feet

I never felt it in my soul

But I heard it the alley

Now it’s in my rock and roll

If you want to know a secret

You got to promise not to tell

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never thought it’d be so easy

I never thought it’d be so fun

But I heard it the alley

Now I got it on the run

If you want to see an angel

You got to find it where she fell

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

Link: [Led Zeppelin]

Stairway To Heaven

Led Zeppelin

There’s a lady

Who’s sure

All that glitters is gold

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

When she gets there

She knows

If the stores are all closed

With a word she can get

What she came for

Oooh oooh

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

There’s a sign on the wall

But she wants to be sure

‘Cause you know sometimes words

Have two meanings

In a tree by the brook

There’s a songbird who sings

Sometimes all of our thoughts

Are misgiven

Oooh

It makes me wonder

Oooh

It makes me wonder

There’s a feeling I get

When I look to the west

And my spirit is cryin’

For leavin’

In my thoughts I have seen

Rings of smoke through the trees

And the voices of those

Who stand lookin’

Oooh

It makes me wonder

Oooh

It really makes me wonder

And it’s whispered that soon

If we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us

To reason

And a new day will dawn

For those who stand long

And the forests will echo

With laughter

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow

Don’t be alarmed now

It’s just a spring clean

For the May queen

Yes there are two paths you can go by

But in the long run

There’s still time to change

The road you’re on

And it makes me wonder

Aaah ah

Your head is hummin’

And it won’t go

In case you don’t know

The piper’s callin’ you to join him

Dear lady can you hear the wind blow

And did you know

Your stairway lies

On the whisperin’ wind

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last

When all are one and one is all yeah

To be a rock

And not to roll

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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