ATF: Black and Blue

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: [Ram Jam]

Black Betty

Ram Jam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Black Betty had a child

Bambalam

The damn thing gone wild

Bambalam

She said

It weren't none of mine

Bambalam

The damn thing gone blind

Bambalam

I said

Oh black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

She really gets me high

Bambalam

You know that's no lie

Bambalam

She's so rock steady

Bambalam

She's always ready

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Get it

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

She's from Birmingham

Bambalam

Way down in Alabam

Bambalam

Well' she’s shakin' that thing

Bambalam

Boy she makes me sing

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Whoa black Betty

Bambalam

Link: [Kenny Wayne Shepherd]

Blue On Black

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Night

Falls

And I’m alone

Skin

Yeah chilled

Me to the bone

You

Turned

And

You ran

Oh yeah

Oh slipped

Right from my hand

Hey

Blue on black

Tears on a river

Push on a shove

It don’t mean much

Joker on jack

Match on a fire

Cold on ice

A dead man’s touch

Whisper on a screen

Doesn’t change a thing

Don’t bring you back

Blue on black

Oh yeah

Blue on black

Blind

Oh

Now I see

Truth

Lies

And in between

A wrong

Can’t be undone

Oh slipped

From the tip of your tongue

Hey

Blue on black

Tears on a river

Push on a shove

It don’t mean much

Joker on jack

Match on a fire

Cold on ice

A dead man’s touch

Whisper on a screen

Doesn’t change a thing

Doesn’t bring you back

Yeah yeah

Blue on black

Blue on black

Tears on a river

Push on a shove

It don’t mean much

Joker on jack

Match on a fire

Cold on ice

A dead man’s touch

Whisper on a screen

Doesn’t change a thing

Doesn’t bring you back

Blue on black

Oh

Oh

Blue on black

Oh

Blue on black

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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Good, Bad and Ugly Ads

Since I have not been given much of a life, I watch an awful lot of television, which includes an awful lot of commercials.  Now, a “GOOD” ad is one that holds my attention and makes me want to at least learn more about the product or service it is for.  A “BAD” ad is one that quickly becomes nothing more than background noise when it cannot be skipped over.  “UGLY” ads are much worse.  For not only do they make we want to never see them again, they make me want to never have anything to do with the company that paid for them to be produced.  Of course, you may feel differently, but I sure wouldn’t say much about it around anyone with a lick of sense.  For I am, after all, an expert on such things—albeit only in my own mind!

GOOD

BAD

UGLY

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TFT: War

Link: [War]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world.  For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair while others will be quite obviously fervent rants of rebellion.  Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

The Cisco Kid

War

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

He drink whiskey

Poncho drink the wine

He drink whiskey

Poncho drink the wine

We met down on

The fort of Rio Grande

We met down on

The fort of Rio Grande

Eat the salted peanuts

Out of can

Eat the salted peanuts

Out the can

The outlaws had us pinned down

At the fort

The outlaws had us pinned down

At the fort

Cisco came in blastin'

Drinkin' port

Cisco came in blastin'

Drinkin' port

They rode the sunset

Horse was made of steel

They rode the sunset

Horse was made of steel

Chased a gringo

Last night through a field

Chased a gringo

Last night through a field

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

He was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

He was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

Was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

He was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

He was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid

He was a friend of mine

Why Can’t We Be Friends

War

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

I ain’t seen you around

For a long long time

Yeah

I remembered you

When you’d drink my wine

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

I've seen you walking

Down in Chinatown

I called you

but you could not look around

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

I pay my money

To the welfare line

I’ve see you standing

In it every time

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

The color of your skin

Don't matter to me

Wow

As long as we

Can live in harmony

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

I'd kinda like to be

The President

Yeah

So I can show you

How your money's spent

Oh

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Sometimes I don't

Speak bright

All right

But yet I know

What I'm talking about

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

I know you're working

For the C.I.A.

They wouldn't have you

In the mafia

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Why can't we be friends

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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Come Monday...WhiteHeart Songs and Lyrics

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about,  websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time.  Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.”  This is subject to change, however.  In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while.  For rants promote change, and change can be good—right?  Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

My love affair with the music of [WhiteHeart] ignited the first time I heard [THE FLAME PASSES ON] coming through the speakers in my pick-up truck as I was headed north on MO 37 between Purdy and Monett in [Barry County, Missouri] while listening to [KADI] in 1993.  Since then, their music has helped me to [FIND A WAY] to keep going when quitting seemed to make much more sense, and I hope their music proves to be as much of a help to you.

That is the opening paragraph to the introduction of a new site, by the name of [WhiteHeart Songs andLyrics], that we launched over the course of a couple of days last week. It includes 118 of their songs, which I think is just about all of their officially recorded ones.

Be assured that I am not trying to profit off of their success, nor would I want to without being made sure of it being okay with the band and the various labels they have recorded under over the years.  In fact, I will not even include Google Adsense on the site.

After being unable to find the lyrics to many of their songs over the years, it became a dream of mine to make as many of them available online as I would be allowed and enabled to, and what started out as around 60 of their songs grew to the 118 I now have in my personal collection.  Of course, without being familiar with the song, the lyrics to it are often found lacking.  So, I [B-Tubed] them all in order to have an embeddable MP3 player for each one on the site, and I will be replacing the videos that are already in place on the various WhiteHeart Wednesdays that have been posted here in the past and on The Trib for the last several months.

One of the main reasons for that is on account of [EMI] wanting YouTube to block the playing of WhiteHeart songs from the [Emergency Broadcast album] for some reason.  One would think that the owner of the rights to a 16 year-old album would want all of the exposure to it as they could get in order to keep that cash register ringing, but who am I to question the wisdom of record label executives?

Anyway, the only thing I want is for as many as possible to be able enjoy as much of WhiteHeart’s music as possible.  Now, I love some of their songs much more than others, but I would not consider any of them as being not very good.  With their style ranging from a rather soft and more traditional form of contemporary Christian music to down’n’dirty blues and heavy metal anthems, I am quite sure that there is at least one song that you will have to listen to over and over again.

As I said (so to speak) earlier, WhiteHeart’s music has helped me to find a way to keep going when quitting seemed to make much more sense, and I sure needed some help with that before the new site was completed.  For after I had published what I had on a little less than half of the 118 songs, the Google/Blogger spam filter started wondering if I was a robot because of publishing too much too soon.  Yep, you got it, I had to successfully decipher a word verification puzzle for each and every post from then on.

Yeah, I have no doubt that some soulless minion in his cubical deep down in the catacombs under the Google campus is still laughing his tookis off over doing that to me after I have made such a fuss over their wonderful word verification spam prevention option.  In any event, I hope to see you over on the new site.

I’LL MEET YOU THERE

WhiteHeart

I feel the chill of autumn’s wind

Seasons changin’ once again

And every moment’s best

Still one moment less

We spend

Together my friend

I can't hold back these tears in my eyes

This time I won't even try

For time has come and gone

Now we must move on

I'll admit I don't know why

Now we must say good-bye

To find our road ahead

Destiny leads us on

To another place

But I'll meet you there someday

Oh oh

Whoa oh

We chase the future into past

Only to find that it never lasts

By the time it's gone

The pain is so strong

And yet

Oh listen my friend

Though we've lost what was before

Forever will bring us the chance once more

In that time we'll see

What was meant to be

A special moment

To cherish

For all of our lives

And we'll know in time

Why we must say good-bye

To find our road ahead

Destiny leads us on

To another place

Oh but I'll meet you there

From the lives we all leave behind

We find there's much more ahead

The Father will lead us on

To a better place

And I'll meet you there someday

I'll meet you there someday

I'll meet you there someday

Oh oh

Whoa

Oh oh

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A Sunday Drive

Back during my 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, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly 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: [Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool]

 Link: [Conservative Tendency]

 Link: [Easily Amused, Hard To Offend]

 Link: [Elegant Blessings]

 Link: [Empty Nest Evolution]

 Link: [Food Network Musings]

Link: [Fragrant Liar]

 Link: [Here There and Everywhere]

 Link: [R.J.'s Place]

Link: [Wild Moon Cottage]

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ESPN Additions

Ironically, some of the best television commercials are for ESPN, and only air on ESPN.  Now, I do not know if these ads really are meant to add all the more to the viewing experience, but it works for me.

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