BS: People Get Ready

Subject: BS: People Get Ready
From: dianavan
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 12:11 PM

Listened to a the radio and heard comments about why Canada would be a country qualified to help draft the Iraqi constitution. Seems that because Canada is continually dealing with bi-lingualism and multi-culturalism, it is in a unique position of helping to sort out some of the difficulties in a country like Iraq.

All of a sudden my heart swelled with hope. I wondered if it could be possible that out of all the pain and suffering, a new age could be dawning for the people of the middle east. I decided that perhaps the time had come for everyone to put their faith in the people of Iraq and hope for the best. This song kept going through my mind:

People get ready, there's a train a comin'
picking up passengers coast to coast
All you need is faith to hear the diesels a-hummin'
[...] among the loved the most.

People get ready for that train to Jordan
picking up passengers [...]
All you need is faith to hear those diesels a-hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord

There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances get slimmer
For there's no hiding place among the Kingdom's throne

So people get ready, there's a train a-comin'
don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels a-hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 12:40 PM

Dianavan, four minutes before you started this thread, I posted some of the words of "People get ready" on the "You must leave now" thread, following your post. Did you see my post, or did the words you posted remind you of it too, or is it some sort of amazing coincidence? Just curious.

I would like to think that there is cause for hope for the people of the middle east. Maybe a new age is dawning - I really hope so. That idea about Canada has a lot of merit, I think. I have never been there, but from what I have heard, it does seem to be more enlightened in lots of ways than many other countries, my own (Australia) included.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 12:54 PM

Canada is Australia without the vicious venomous vipers and the snarling snapping crocs and Steve Irwin and... well, we've got poor Irish too. Actually, we do have a venomous viper, the rattlesnake, but it's mostly just in southern Ontario near where Little Hawk lives so it's OK.

Subject: Lyr Add: PEOPLE GET READY (Curtis Mayfield)
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 01:29 PM

PEOPLE GET READY
The Impressions
- words and music by Curtis Mayfield (1964)
- #14 hit for The Impressions in 1965 and covered by Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck in 1985?

People get ready, there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket you just thank the lord

People get ready, there's a train to Jordan
Picking up passengers coast to coast
Faith is the key, open the doors and board them
There's hope for all among those loved the most
There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner whom would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there is no hiding place against the kingdoms throne

People get ready there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket, just thank the lord.

Copyright 1964 Chi sounds (BMI)

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: dianavan
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 01:32 PM

JennyO - It was an amazing coincidence. That song has been in my head now for a few days. Its a tune that just won't go away for some reason. Maybe its a feeling that sometimes great things arise after a period of oppression. Maybe its a last gasp of hope.

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: John O'L
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 05:53 PM

For some time now I have privately entertained the apparently absurd suspicion that the Age of Aquarius is in fact dawning after all, and that what we have recently been witnessing is a sort of brilliant blood-red sunset to the Age of Pisces.

Canada has always seemed a special place to me too, and I can't say why, but the suggestion that the Canadians might take a leading roll in eatablishing peace seems to me more positive than most else I've heard lately

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM

Canada is Australia without the vicious venomous vipers

We've got some of those in humanoid form too, unfortunately, and their habitat seems to be around Canberra - think little johnnie howard, philip ruddock etc (they don't deserve capital letters). Our pollies seem to have always slavishly followed the USA - at least the noses of the pollies in Canada don't seem to be as brown.

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 08:57 PM

Yes Canada's the best country in the world I believe that. But it's pretty insensitive to post a song about Jordan and the Lord when dealing with a Muslim country. That's most of the problem!

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 09:12 PM

You know, I've never yet seen one of those rattlers. They're around here, but they're pretty rare. I did go out with a woman once, though, who was kind of similar in nature, I'd say...

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 10:09 PM

Obviously, LH, you are well advised to stay away from them women folk. Yer not cut out for 'em!!! :D



A

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: dianavan
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 12:45 AM

Get a life, Guest. Its a song that can apply to any oppressed people. I don't happen to have any Muslim tunes to refer to.

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: John O'L
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 02:26 AM

So Canada's a Moslem country?

Subject: RE: BS: People Get Ready
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:46 AM

No, a Molson country.