ATF: Soap Operatic

This weekly 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: [Gordon Lightfoot]

If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old-time movie

About a ghost from a wishin' well

In a castle dark

Or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet

You know that ghost is me

And I will never be set free

As long as I'm a ghost

That you can see

If I could read your mind love

What a tale your thoughts could tell

Just like a paperback novel

The kind the drugstore sells

When you reach the part

Where the heartaches come

The hero would be me

Heroes often fail

And you won't read that book again

Because the ending’s

Just too hard to take

I'd walk away

Like a movie star

Who gets burned in a three-way script

Enter

Number two

A movie queen

To play the scene

Of bringin’ all the good things

Out in me

But for now love

Let's be real

I never thought I could act this way

And I've got to say

That I just don't get it

I don't know

Where we went wrong

But the feeling’s gone

And I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old-time movie

About a ghost from a wishin’ well

In a castle dark

Or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet

The story always ends

If you read between the lines

You'll know that I'm

Just tryin’ to understand

The feelin’ that you left

I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say

That I just don't get it

I don't know

Where we went wrong

But the feeling’s gone

And I just can't get it back

Link: [BJ Thomas]

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

BJ Thomas

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head

And just like the guy whose feet

Are too big for his bed

Nothin' seems to fit

Those

Raindrops are fallin' on my head

They keep fallin'

So I just did me some talkin' to the sun

And I said I didn't like the way

He got things done

Sleepin' on the job

Those

Raindrops are fallin' on my head

They keep fallin'

But there's one thing

I know

The blues they send to meet me

Won't defeat me

It won't be long

Til’ happiness

Steps up to greet me

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head

But that doesn't mean my eyes

Will soon be turnin' red

Crying's not for me

'Cause

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'

Because I'm free

Nothin's worryin' me

It won't be long

Til’ happiness

Steps up to greet me

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head

But that doesn't mean my eyes

Will soon be turnin' red

Crying's not for me

'Cause

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'

Because I'm free

Nothing's worryin'

Me

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Da Turdy Point Buck

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[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Sites To See #413

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: [Enjoy the Moment]

 Link: [Family Trees May Contain Nuts]

 Link: [Flowerpot Days]

 Link: [Fresh from the Farm]

 Link: [From City Streets to Country Roads]

 Link: [From Seed To Table]

 Link: [Frugal in Derbyshire]

 Link: [Gardener's Roost]

 Link: [Grand Central Atelier]

Link: [Halcyon Travels]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

ATF: Give and Take II

This weekly 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: [Supertramp]

Give a Little Bit

Supertramp

Ooh yeah

Alright

Here we go again

De de

Oh oh

Na na

Hey hey

Give a little bit

Give a little bit of your love to me

I'll give a little bit

I'll give a little bit of my love to you

There's so much that we need to share

So send a smile

And show you care

Alright

I'll give a little bit

I'll give a little bit of my life for you

So give a little bit

Oh give a little bit of your time to me

See the man with the lonely eyes

Oh take his hand

You'll be surprised

Oh take his hand

Oh yeah

Come along

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Aaah

Louder

Yeah

Give a little bit

Give a little bit of your love to me

I'll give a little bit

I'll give a little bit of my life for you

Now's the time that we need to share

So find yourself

We're on our way

Back home

Ohh goin' home

Don't you need

Don't you need to feel at home

Oh yeah

We gotta sing

Ooh yeah

Gotta get a feelin'

Ooh yeah

Come along too

Oh come along too

Come come come come along

Ooh yeah

Come along too

Ooh yeah

Come along

Say take a look

Come along too

Come along right

Come along way

Sing it tonight

Ooh ooh

Link: [The Eagles]

Take It to the Limit

The Eagles

All alone at the end of the evening

And the bright lights have faded to blue

I was thinkin’

About a woman

Who might have loved me

And I never knew

You know I've always been a dreamer

Spent my life runnin’ around

And it's so hard to change

Can't seem to settle down

But the dreams I've seen lately

Keep on turnin’ out

And burnin’ out

And turnin’ out

The same

So put me on a highway

And show me a sign

And take it

To the limit

One more time

You can spend all your time makin’ money

You can spend all your love makin’ time

If it all fell to pieces tomorrow

Would you still be mine

And when you're lookin’ for your freedom

Nobody seems to care

And you can't find the door

Can't find it anywhere

When there's nothin’ to believe in

Still you're comin’ back

You're runnin’ back

You're comin’ back

For more

So put me on a highway

And show me a sign

And take it

To the limit

One more time

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

One more time

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

One more time

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

One more time

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

Take it

To the limit

One more time

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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[Arlynda Lea]

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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: [Dayor Writes]

 Link: [Dizzy's Wanderings & Wonderings]

 Link: [Elephant's Child]

 Link: [Final Girl]

 Link: [Go Teen Writers]

 Link: [Going Gently]

Link: [Heart Shaped]

Link: [Hecatedemeter]

Link: [Herding Grasshoppers]

Link: [House of Lime]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Sites To See #412

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: [Confessions of a Craigslist Junkie]

 Link: [Crabapple Landing]

 Link: [D-scribes]

 Link: [Day4plusday4plus]

 Link: [Days on the Claise]

 Link: [Dear Customer Relations]

 Link: [Desertsky Quilting]

 Link: [Dicky Bird's Nest]

 Link: [E. Lizard Breath Speaks]

Link: [Eden Hill's Blog]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

ATF: Dynamic Duos

This weekly 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.

Links: [Willie Nelson] & [Merle Haggard]

Pancho and Lefty

Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

Livin’ on the road my friend

Was gonna keep you free and clean

Now you wear your skin like iron

And your breath's as hard as kerosene

You weren't your mama's only boy

But her favorite one it seems

She began to cry when you said goodbye

And sank into your dreams

Pancho was a bandit boy

His horse was fast as polished steel

He wore his gun outside his pants

For all the honest world to feel

Pancho met his match you know

On the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dyin' words

Ah but that's the way it goes

All the Federales say

They could've had him any day

We only let him slip away

Out of kindness I suppose

Lefty he can't sing the blues

All night long like he used to

The dust that Pancho bit down south

Ended up in Lefty's mouth

The day they laid poor Pancho low

Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go

There ain't nobody knows

All the Federales say

They could've had him any day

We only let him slip away

Out of kindness I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell

And Lefty's livin’ in a cheap hotel

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold

And so the story ends we're told

Pancho needs your prayers it's true

But save a few for Lefty too

He only did what he had to do

And now he's growin’ old

All the Federales say

They could've had him any day

We only let him go so long

Out of kindness I suppose

A few grey Federales say

Could've had him any day

We only let him go so long

out of kindness I suppose

Links: [Stevie Nicks] & [Tom Petty]

Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around

Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty

Baby you'll come knockin’ on my front door

Same old line you used to use before

I said

Yeah

Well

What am I supposed to do

I didn't know what I was getting’ into

So you've had a little trouble in town

Now you're keepin’ some demon down

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my heart around

It's hard to think about

What you've wanted

It's hard to think about what you've lost

This doesn't have to be the big get even

This doesn't have to be anything at all

I know you really want to tell me good-bye

I know you really want to be your own girl

Baby you could never look me in the eye

Yeah you buckle with the weight of the world

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my heart around

There's people runnin’ 'round loose in the world

Ain't got nothin’ better to do

Than make a meal of some bright-eyed kid

You need someone lookin’ after you

I know you really want to tell me good-bye

I know you really want to be your own girl

Baby you could never look me in the eye

Yeah you buckle with the weight of the world

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my

Stop draggin' my heart around

Stop draggin' my heart around

Stop draggin' my heart around

Hey hey hey hey hey

Stop draggin' my heart around

Hey hey hey hey hey

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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