It started with the scritch-scratch of mice running inside the bedroom walls of my childhood farmhouse. Mice in the house. Mice in the barn. Mice in the hay and straw bales. Mice in the granary. Even with a passel of roaming cats. In college, I opened a silverware drawer to see a m...
Hark What News the Angels Bring Lyrics byJoseph Stephenson Hark, hark what news the angels bring, Glad tidings of a new-born King: Born of a maid, a virgin pure, Born without sin, from guilt secure. Hail, mighty prince, eternal King, Let heav’n and earth rejoice and sing: Angels a...
feel him near me as I see a butterfly or dragonfly, see a rainbow, the stars I wish upon at night, a penny from Heaven, a feather, a song on the radio with messages in the lyrics, numbers, dreaming of him while I sleep and connections with him with the help of a psychic medium...
A few years ago, John Travis, another New Orleans friend, asked me if he could include a few of my lyrics inMaple Leaf Rag: A New Orleans Poetry Anthology, a periodic book he publishes. I was honored and immediately said, “Yes!” Now, two of my song lyrics will be included in the...
Sometimes,Ennis didn't take his titles from Pogues songs, but simply deployed a snatch of MacGowan's lyrics at key points in the narrative. This happened with bothBoys From the County HellinHellblazer#80 (".And burn this bloody city down in the summer of the year") andTransmetropolitanin...
As we were writing for the upcoming week, we wanted to include the final cut and at that point, the lyrics had kind of faded out at 8. So, we thought we'd complete the last 4. Thus in order from 12 to 1, we have the complete song as Christie said, bring it home, and home ...
Gas – when something was really good or great fun it was described as being ‘a gas’ . It was still around in the 1960s – check out the lyrics of Jumpin’ Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones. Daddy-O – a term of address from one person to another. Credited to beatnik slang. ...
and would have been very happy to be at Holy Name Cathedral. It had been raining cats and dogs both before and after the service, but during the service, the sun shone through the stained glass windows so brightly as to elicit audible gasps from the mourners. Rev. Michael Pfleger, Govern...
Back in February I worked a little ditty aboutRon DeSantis to the Mighty Mouse theme song. Well, that theme song popped into my head again but with the thought of a revisit and instead this time of an Orange Devil. So, I reworked the lyrics. ...
The life lesson: the wise life lesson we can learn from this moment Your path: how to apply this lesson to your own life through a series of exercises, meditations and techniques. Most ofBowie’s pathtalks about moments in his life through his interviews, his songs, lyrics and his Buddhis...