Showing posts with label Paul Simon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Simon. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2015

A REMINDER AS WE CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY

THE NEW COLOSSUS

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"


Emma Lazarus

UPDATE: Accompaniment to the picture and poem.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

"DAZZLING BLUE" - PAUL SIMON



Another video of a song from Paul Simon's latest and lovely album titled So Beautiful or So What.
"Dazzling Blue"

Sweet July and we drive the Montauk Highway
And walked along the cliffs above the sea
And we wondered why, and imagined it was someday
And that is how the future came to be.

Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed

Thursday, May 10, 2012

PAUL SIMON - 'SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT'



So beautiful, indeed.
I’m going to make a chicken gumbo
Toss some sausage in the pot
I’m going to flavor it with okra
Cayenne pepper to make it hot
You know life is what we make of it
So beautiful or so what

....

So beautiful
So beautiful
So what
Thanks to Ann V for sending the video with the message, 'Even Paul Simon was surprised when his latest album turned out to be kinda, sorta...well, Christian.'  'So Beautiful Or So What' is an all-around fine album.  A good many of the lyrics would stand alone as poetry.