Any song: 'Ode to Oklahoma City'

Subject: RE: Any song: 'Ode to Oklahoma City'
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:24 AM

Forgive me ,Rev.Bobert , but I *know* you have the spirit to write a Blues Sermon on the theme of " Ode to the Devil & Timothy MacVie" sort of song.

Subject: Any song: 'Ode to Oklahoma City'
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:19 AM

With all of the networking betwixt writers and performers of Folk Music here , and being aware of the folk tradition of writing about poigniant events in order to keep their history alive in the listenin' tradition, was wondering allowed if anyone had written or heard of songs written specifically about the Oklahoma City bombing such as an "Ode to the Devil & Timothy MacVie".

What inspired this was such a poigniant , and I assume a period, song performed by Jerry Rassmussen this weekend about the killers of Abe Lincoln with a chorus about "rounding up the traitors".

That Jerry Rassmussen is truly something as the refrain for another song he sang with the lines " Just cause it feels good ,that don't make it right" are still with me.

Well seems to me some folk artist *must* have been moved enough by the profound sorrow resulting from MacVie's decision to write a song about if just to keep the tragedy of such " taking the law into one's own hands" judgement alive in song if just to potentially make "other's" think twice about giving in to that kind of radical temptation that we all know is yet fomented out there .

How about it, Jerry? I have already unofficialy dubbed you the Connecticut Yankee in Shelby Foot's shoes. I believe the spirit you convey is more than up to putting what's right into word & song.

Just a thought.