Hop in! Where you headed?

I aim this blog at Hitchhiking stories, obviously. However, you can take that in the 'poetic' sense, as we are 'snakes' in time and the asphalt rivers take us to many places, as well as 'places'..

scattered throughout are videos, music, and intermittent stories I have to tell.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

WILD HORSES --STONES...


WILD HORSES
what's in my stolen Heart
(finishes with Vantage WILD HORSES sculpture on hill)

Songwriters: JAGGER, MICK / RICHARDS, KEITH
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or off stage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away

I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

"I CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYIN' SOMETIMES" - RENBOURN/LEE/COOPER/JOHNSON




I can't keep from Cryin' sometimes
I just can't keep from cryin' sometimes
my heart is full of sorrow
my eyes is full o' tears
I can't keep from cryin' sometimes

I thought when first she left me I'd worry for awhile
Soon it would be all over I'd journey with a smile
But as get older I think of what I told her and 
I can't keep from cryin' sometimes
No I can't keep from cryin' sometimes
Said I can't keep from cryin' sometimes
My heart is full of sorrow 
My eyes is full o' tears
I can't deep from cryin' sometimes

Walking down those highways
Gonna travel Night and Day
With a heart all full of sorrow and 
eyes all full o' tears
Can't keep from cryin' sometimes
Can't keep from cryin' sometimes
No I can't keep from cryin' sometimes
My heart is full of sorrow 
My eyes is full o' tears
I can't keep from cryin' sometimes


............these Lyrics John Renbourn

(Blind willie johnson originally Wrote this song--the above are not his lyrics)
--i'm not sure who wrote this...some variations is lyrics between artists
including Ten Years After (Alvin Lee), Phoebe Snow, Al Cooper, Blind Willie Johnson (wrote it)
...Probably more



While perusing the net I came across this Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) version...and kick myself for not being into them a lifetime ago...guess I'm makin' up for lost time...



 AL COOPER!!! :::::



and Originally----Blind Billie Johnson



Wednesday, April 3, 2013

BUTTERFLIES--Pearls Before Swine/Tom Rapp (Album BEAUTIFUL LIES)




"Butterflies"
By Tom Rapp
Butterflies are very strong
They only cry when they're called upon
I wish I knew
The butterfly in you
The moth will play with the dirty flame
And end up burning inside
But the butterfly she is the flame
When there's so much pretty
There's so much pain
I think I see
Where all the butterflies must be
Upon a rock
A beautiful thing
Until the rocks come together
On her dusty wings
I think I know
Where all the butterflies must go
Butterflies are very strong
They only cry when they're called upon
I think I see
The butterfly in thee
Won't you spread your wings
On me

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Don't Think Twice by Peter, Paul and Mary/4BF




BOB DYLAN LYRICS


"Don't Think Twice It's All Right"

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm traveling on
Don't think twice, it's all right.

It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right.

It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
Don't think twice, it's all right.

So long honey, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Silent Observer-T.S. Eliot


The Silent Observer-T.S. Eliot


“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us,
And urge us on to futile activity,
And in the end, judge us still more severely,
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
– T. S. Eliot