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Thursday, July 14, 2016

MUSIC AS SHE GOES

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith for the Years of Winter©

One of the oldest jokes in the book: The musicians are jamming loudly in their apartment. A man comes to the door and says, “Do you know there’s a little old lady sick upstairs?” “No, but if you hum a few bars, we can fake it.” So…

MUSIC AS SHE GOES

There’s a little old lady sick upstairs
That’s what her children said
They just want to keep her calm
Keep noise from out her head
So keep those guitars strumming low
Keep those horns on muted blow
But they don’t know…

The little old lady sick upstairs
Wants some music as she goes

Traveling on, with a song
That is the lady’s dream
She longs to hear those notes drift up
Around the ceiling beam
She wants to dance in her memory
To Benny Goodman and Count Basie

They don’t know the old lady wants
Some music as she goes

She used to dance the rumba
She used to trot the fox
She used to swing on the old gym floor
In saddle shoes and bobby sox
She’s not been forever old
She still knows words to the songs of gold

They don’t know the old lady wants
Some music as she goes

Traveling on, with a song
That is the old lady’s dream
She yearns to hear those notes drift up
Around the ceiling beam
She wants to dance in her memory
To Benny Goodman and Count Basie

They don’t know the old lady wants
Some music as she goes

We turn the sound down as we play
But we point the notes the ceiling way
We let them curl up like a dream
Those notes that follow the ceiling beam
The songs that flow through her memory
The songs that soften her reverie
The songs of Goodman and Count Basie
So she’ll have music as she goes.

Traveling on, with a song
That is the old lady’s dream
She wants to hear those notes drift up
Around the ceiling beam
She wants to dance in her memory
To Benny Goodman and Count Basie

They don’t know the old lady wants
Some music as she goes

[If you don’t know the tune, fake it…]

JRMcF
johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com



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