ATF: More Mondays

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Mamas & The Papas]

Monday Monday

The Mamas & The Papas

Monday Monday

So good to me

Monday morning

It was all I hoped it would be

Oh Monday morning

Monday morning couldn't guarantee

That Monday evening you would still be here with me

Monday Monday

Can't trust that day

Monday Monday

Sometimes it just turns out that way

Oh Monday morning

You gave me no warning of what was to be

Oh Monday Monday

How could you leave and not take me

Every other day

Every other day

Every other day

Every other day of the week is fine

Yeah

But whenever Monday comes

But whenever Monday comes

But whenever Monday comes

You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday Monday

So good to me

Monday morning

It was all I hoped it would be

But Monday morning

Monday morning couldn't guarantee

That Monday evening you would still be here with me

Every other day

Every other day

Every other day,

Every other day of the week is fine

Yeah

But whenever Monday comes

But whenever Monday comes

But whenever Monday comes

You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday Monday

Can't trust that day

Monday Monday

It just turns out that way

Whoa Monday Monday

Don't go away

Monday Monday…

[The Bangles]

Manic Monday

The Bangles

Six o’clock already

I was just in the middle of a dream

I was kissin’ Valentino

By a crystal blue Italian stream

But I can’t be late

‘Cause then I guess I just won’t get paid

These are the days when you wish

Your bed was already made

It’ just another manic Monday

I wish it was Sunday

‘Cause that’s my fun day

My I don’t have to run day

It’s just another manic Monday

Have to catch an early train

Got to be to work by nine

And if I had an air-o-plane

I still couldn’t make it on time

‘Cause it takes me so long

Just to figure out what I’m gonna wear

Blame it on the train

But the boss is already there

It’ just another manic Monday

I wish it was Sunday

‘Cause that’s my fun day

My I don’t have to run day

It’s just another manic Monday

All of the nights

Why did my lover have to pick last night

To get down

Doesn’t it matter

That I have to feed the both of us

Employment’s down

He tells me in his bedroom voice

Come on honey

Let’s go make some noise

Time it goes so fast

When you’re having fun

It’ just another manic Monday

I wish it was Sunday

‘Cause that’s my fun day

My I don’t have to run day

It’s just another manic Monday

I wish it was Sunday

‘Cause that’s my fun day

It’s just another manic Monday

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 Link: [Black Box]

 Link: [Bookmarks]

 Link: [Bouquet of Books]

 Link: [Brighid]

 Link: [Chaotically Yours]

 Link: [Cleveland Frowns]

 Link: [Come Sit by My Fire]

 Link: [Vintage Jane]

 Link: [Wayside Treasures]

Link: [Wildwood Watercolors]

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Sites To See #460

The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another.  Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included sites that I found rather disturbing.  The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable.  Please, go see for yourself.  Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.

 Link: [Vagueando]

 Link: [Vancouver Street Blog]

 Link: [VersaillesDailyPhoto Blog]

 Link: [Viking Handcraft]

 Link: [Vreni's Vienna Daily Photo]

 Link: [Wellington Daily Photo]

 Link: [Wild Harvests]

Link: [Wilde About Birds]

***NOTE***

Alas, the time has come to end this series as is.  I plan on resurrecting it in a different form later on, but it all depends upon what happens with the new site in development.  In the meantime, the A Sunday Drive series will continue in its current form.

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ATF: Backroads

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [John Denver]

Country Roads

John Denver

Almost heaven

West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains

Shenandoah River

Life is old there

Older than the trees

Younger than the mountains

Blowing like a breeze

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belong

West Virginia

Mountain mama

Take me home

Country roads

All my memories

Gather round her

Miner's lady

Stranger to blue water

Dark and dusty

Painted on the sky

Misty taste of moonshine

Teardrop in my eye

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belong

West Virginia

Mountain mama

Take me home

Country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour as she calls me

The radio reminds me of my home far away

Driving down the road I get a feeling

That I should have been home yesterday

Yesterday

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belong

West Virginia

Mountain mama

Take me home

Country roads

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belong

West Virginia

Mountain mama

Take me home

Country roads

Take me home

Down country roads

Take me home

Down country roads

Link: [James Taylor]

Country Road

James Taylor

Take to the highway won't you lend me your name

Your way and my way seem to be one and the same

Mama don't understand it

She wants to know where I've been

I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool

To want to pass that way again

But you know I could feel it

On a country road

Sail on home to Jesus won't you good girls and boys

I'm all in pieces you can have your own choice

But I can hear a heavenly band full of angels

And they're coming to set me free

I don't know nothing 'bout the why or when

But I can tell that it's bound to be

Because I could feel it child

Yeah

On a country road

I guess my feet know where they want me to go

Walking on a country road

Yeah

Take to the highway won't you lend me your name

Your way and my way seem to be one and the same child

Mama don't understand it

She wants to know where I've been

I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool

To want to pass that way again

But I could feel it Lord

On a country road

Walk on down

Walk on down

Walk on down

Walk on down

Walk on down a country road

Country road

Whoa

Yeah

Walking on a country road

Country road

Country road

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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America the Beautiful

From time to time, I will rant and rave about the problems we have been way too content to simply endure in this country for far too long.  For we could do so much better, but I want it to be widely known and clearly understood that I am still most thankful for being born an American.

No, being born an American does not make me any more special than anyone born elsewhere.  For none of us would exist if our Heavenly Father did not want us to, and we are all precious in His sight.

Yeah, just the opposite sure seems much more likely.  For life in this world is a horror—even for those who appear to have it good.   After all, only a monster does not feel for the plight of the apparently less fortunate.

Ah, but we have our Heavenly Father’s promise that the suffering in this world is as nothing in comparison to the glory that is yet to come for all who will but want to truly spend all of eternity with Him in His Kingdom of Heaven as an heir to all that is His glory.

Deep down, you know if that is indeed true of yourself.  May it be true for our Heavenly Father’s sake, and consider that this world has never been meant to last but for a little while in comparison to the whole of eternity.  So, if He was willing to provide such temporary natural beauty, just imagine how beautiful His Kingdom of Heaven will be forevermore.  Is this not something we all should be thankful for?

America the Beautiful

Oh beautiful

For spacious skies

For amber waves of grain

For purple mountain

Majesties

Above the fruited plain

America

America

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good

With brotherhood

From sea to shining sea

Oh beautiful

For pilgrim’s feet

Whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare

For freedom beat

Across the wilderness

America

America

God mend thine every flaw

Confirm thy soul

In self-control

Thy liberty in law

Oh beautiful

For heroes proved

In liberating strife

Who more than self

Their country loved

And mercy more than life

America

America

May God thy gold refine

‘Til all success

Be nobleness

And every gain divine

Oh Beautiful

For patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster

Cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears

America

America

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good

With brotherhood

From sea to shining sea

Oh beautiful

For halcyon skies

For amber waves of grain

For purple mountain majesties

Above the enameled plain

America

America

God shed his grace on thee

‘Til souls wax fair

As earth and air

And music-hearted sea

Oh beautiful

For pilgrim’s feet

Whose stem impassioned stress

A thoroughfare

For freedom beat

Across the wilderness

America

America

God shed his grace on thee

‘Til paths be wrought

Through wilds of thought

By pilgrim foot and knee

Oh beautiful

For glory-tale

Of liberating strife

When once and twice

For man's avail

Men lavished precious life

America

America

God shed his grace on thee

‘Til selfish gain

No longer stain

The banner of the free

Oh beautiful

For patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster

Cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears

America

America

God shed his grace on thee

‘Til nobler men

Keep once again

Thy whiter jubilee

Oh beautiful

For spacious skies

For amber waves of grain

For purple mountain

Majesties

Above the fruited plain

America

America

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good

With brotherhood

From sea to shining sea

  

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