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Midsummer Song

It's a a merry sum-mer tune
And violets in full bloom
When to Summer's Circle we go 
We'll laugh and we'll sing, love
We'll dance in a ring, love
When to Midsummer Circle we go!

Parcel o' Rogues

Like many of us, I've been listening to the news.
I got creative in the middle of the night... 
probably could use
a little songwriter tweaking... 
Apologies to Robert Burns ... 
some of you probably remember this 
from Steeleye Span fame - 
but, there is a nice version here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yg0_edzgk0&feature=related 


Fareweel to a' oor business fame
Fareweel oor ancient glory
Fareweel even tae oor corporate names
Sae famed in economic story

Noo FDIC runs o'er the mortgage sands
Neighbors runs tae the ocean
Tae mark where California's province stands
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation

What force or guile could not subdue
Through many wor-like ages
Is rocked now by the coward few
For hireling traitor's wages
The wor-like steel we could disdain

Secure in valour's station
But Corporate Greed has been oor bane
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation
O would or I had seen the day
That treason thus would sell us

My old grey heid had lain in clay
Wi' Lincoln and loyal families
But pith and power till my last hour
I'll mak' this declaration
We are bought and sold for Corporate Greed
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation

(January, 2008, LK, all rights reserved)

Scarlet Petals

Published in:
Ygdrasil: A Journal of Poetic Arts, March, 2004)
http://www.synapse.net/~kgerken/Y-0403.HTM

(chords for mandolin: Dm, A, Dm, C
very slow)

There is a field, 
All covered in flowers
It’s a long way from here
Over in Flanders

We looked up one day 
And witnessed the fall of the towers
And it seemed that the falling
Lasted for hours

Too many tears
Too many years
Buried in the ground
Scarlet flowers all around

Blow on the wind
Flowers from home
Scarlet petals on the sand

There is a field 
All covered in flowers
It’s a long way from here 
Over in Flanders

(May, 2003, LK, all rights reserved)

Love Like Flower
(This song has no melody - yet)

Our love is like a flower
It will blossom in our garden
Make its seeds
And bloom each season
Rooted deep in our belief
In each other

Let it grow
Let it sing
Like a song on the wind
Let it show
Let it grow

(Yule, 2003 LK, all rights reserved)



Yet another Frog quotation:

"We call it," replied the cripple, "the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs, and it really is excellent sport if well enacted."

"We will enact it," remarked the king, drawing himself up, and lowering his eyelids.

"The beauty of the game," continued Hop-Frog, "lies in the fright it occasions among the women."

"Capital!" roared in chorus the monarch and his ministry.

"I will equip you as ourang-outangs," proceeded the dwarf; "leave all that to me. The resemblance shall be so striking, that the company of masqueraders will take you for real beasts—and of course, they will be as much terrified as astonished."

...from "Hop-Frog" by Edgar allan Poe (March 1849)

A song from "A Rose in Time"

The Song of
The Autumn Gypsyman
and Cornflower Blue

Past and present, in dreaming,
in flower’d bowers seeming;
Light thy step and O! how long in waiting!

Autumn’s Gypsyman comes grinning
And you, my Love, jeweled hand in jeweled glove, Ar’t sleeping…
(2000, LK, all rights reserved)