At 91.9, I decided to make this my theme song…Enjoy!
PS..I know, he’s a leftist, but he’s a great folk song singer.. let’s not do the cancel thing.
My Get-up-and-go
has gone up and went!
- Bob Kurland, Ph.D.
Bob Kurland, Ph.D.
Retired, cranky, old physicist. Convert to Catholicism in 1995. Trying to show that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith. Intermittent blogs and adult education classes to achieve this end (see http://rationalcatholic.blogspot.com/ and http://home.ptd.net/~rkurland). Extraordinary Minister of Communion, volunteer to federal prison and hospital; lector, EOMC.
Sometime player of bass clarinet, alto clarinet, clarinet, bass, tenor bowed psaltery for parish instrumental group and local folk group.
Agree. Leftists got more talent than rightists. Enjoy it.
As the saying goes when referring to entertainers: “shut up and sing”‘.
Since my knees went, my motto has been “I got a hiccup in my giddy-up.”
At 71+, my get up and go is still there. I had thought otherwise when I was younger. If I’d known I’d live this long [two younger brothers have ‘gone to glory’ years ago], I’d have done a lot of things a lot less.
C&W is filled with the keys to life.
For instance Tom T. Hall’s “The Cowboy And The Poet” has the title pairing arguing over what is most important in life. Eventually, the poet grabs him by the collar and pulls him to his feet. The cowboy shoves a gun in his face.
Here goes, “Son, it’s faster horses Younger women Older whiskey More money.” Words to live by.