Why I love Shuffle...
I'm finishing up my serious essay about the ways Emily Dickinson makes her readers see the word from different angles in order to lead them to truth in the computer lab at school, and I have my ipod on shuffle. The 7 'songs' that have come up so far are:
Hand Me Downs ~Indigo Girls
Honestly OK ~Dido
Drop Dead ~X Minus One (aka science fiction radio from the 40s)
The Defenders ~X Minus One (again)
No Life Without Wife ~Bride and Prejudice
Every Move I Make ~Fusebox (which I haven't heard in about a year in a half)
Four Nights Drunk ~Sandy and Denny
^Which is probably my favorite folk song ever. The first verse goes:
Now as I come home so drunk I couldn't see-oh
There I sawed a horse, no horse should be there
I says unto me with wife, tell this to me-oh
'How come the horse there? No horse should be there'
[she responds]'You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see-oh
Nothing but the milk cow me mother sent to me-oh'
Smiles like a traveled a thousand miles and more, oh
Saddle on the milk cow I never seen before oh.
Then in each verse he sees a different thing that substitutes for the horse/milk cow/saddle. They are:
boots/flower pot/laces
hat/chamber pot/sweatband
man/a baby/whiskers
That song always makes me smile.
Hand Me Downs ~Indigo Girls
Honestly OK ~Dido
Drop Dead ~X Minus One (aka science fiction radio from the 40s)
The Defenders ~X Minus One (again)
No Life Without Wife ~Bride and Prejudice
Every Move I Make ~Fusebox (which I haven't heard in about a year in a half)
Four Nights Drunk ~Sandy and Denny
^Which is probably my favorite folk song ever. The first verse goes:
Now as I come home so drunk I couldn't see-oh
There I sawed a horse, no horse should be there
I says unto me with wife, tell this to me-oh
'How come the horse there? No horse should be there'
[she responds]'You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see-oh
Nothing but the milk cow me mother sent to me-oh'
Smiles like a traveled a thousand miles and more, oh
Saddle on the milk cow I never seen before oh.
Then in each verse he sees a different thing that substitutes for the horse/milk cow/saddle. They are:
boots/flower pot/laces
hat/chamber pot/sweatband
man/a baby/whiskers
That song always makes me smile.