BS: Mid-summer Snowman....

Subject: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:09 AM

Woke up this mornin'
to the swelterin' heat
Yeah, woke up this mornin'
to the swelterin' heat
What I saw out the window
Made me jump to my feet

There out behind the house
Was a snowman with eyes of coal
Yeah, a big ol' snowman
with eyes of coal
Yeah, he was glistenin' in the mornin' sun
Them eyes burnin' thru my soul

So I run to get my camera
And I run to get my wife
Yeah, I run to get my camera
Lord, I run to get my wife
Say, "Baby, strangest thing
I ever seen in my life"

By the time I got her to the window
Don'tcha know that snowman was gone
Yeah, when I got my baby to the window
That coal eyed snowman gone
Just then my eyes opened
As night gave way to dawn


Yeah, that snowman wore me out
Made me wake a' feelin' beat
Yeah, that dream wore me out
Lord, Iwas feelin' beat
Walked outside where's I'd seen him
Found couple lumps of coal at my feet...

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:19 AM

Coal, man.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:27 AM

What are you two on? (Cause I want some)

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:34 AM

I hod some, but it seams I have no mortar.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: rumanci
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:45 AM

an' thra sight that conjures up in mine imagination ?
don't call me .....I'll collier you
;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:49 AM

That's a lode.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: rumanci
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:52 AM

at least it ain't the pits .....man

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 09:05 AM

Can't accuse him of gasification.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 09:31 AM

Could it have been the work of Billy Joe Shaver? If so, better keep the watch going-- it may turn to a diamond snowman at any moment.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Metchosin
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 10:12 AM

Seams to me Bobert's thinkin more about Peabody than P-Vine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Severn
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 10:32 AM

Possible Sequels:


"Snowman's An Island"

"(Snow)Masses In De Coaled, Coaled Ground"

"Melt A Jolly Good Fellow"



Well, that's Snow Biz!,
Severn


So, who actually lasted longer-Frosty The Snowman or Pope Paul VI in his term of office?

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Severn
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 10:39 AM

You managed to find the lumps of coal, so how did you miss the scarlet ribbons? 'N ice song, though!


Severn


"You're the thirteenth man who's been here
Bringin' Frosty home......"

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 10:44 AM

Is this thread drift? Not mine, anyway. I'd really get the shaft.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Severn
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 01:50 PM

The other connection with snowmen and coal, I guess, is that Frosty only assocated with minors. Luckily for him, he didn't last long enough to get any of them over a state line, violating the "Snow Mann Act". (If he had, come to think of it, that type of thing didn't turn that cool for Chuck Berry either).



Of Thee Icing,
Severn


He only hung with little kids 'cause he couldn't have any melt of his own, I guess

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 02:15 PM

I know I am gonna get slagged, but, what have I stoked? Someone coaler that lad before he coalesces a coalition to the coal measures.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 07:14 PM

Well, well, well...

I was jus' kinda funnin' wid the crappy lyrics but, yeah, I did dream there was a snowman in the yard... and it weren't winter but hot, hot, hot....

Maybe been too hot, come to think of it, and maybe cooked up part of the Bobert thinkerator???...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Severn
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:08 PM

Cook up some more! Thinkerator fried or thinkerator raw.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:28 PM

Crappy? I think not.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:42 PM

Well, thankee, gnu'zer... But don't expect me to actually put this danged thing on the CD Iz gonna do the end of August down Mississippi way... I'd get laughed outta the studio...An' fir good reason....

Man, I'z still seein' that snowman even tonight standin' out in that heat.... Don't che jus' hate dreams that stick wid ya all day???

I sho nuff do... Messes wid what's left of my mind...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 07:32 AM

Well, okay. What about on a blues CD for kids. I mean, all that Barney shit and the like messes with their little heads... dinosaurs and weird little creatures of all colours. Giant birds who talk? Why not a snowman that walks?

How's about, "I Got the Face Down in My Cereal Bowl Blues." Better than, "The Wheels on the Bus" going round and round... all day long. What kind of life lesson is that? (Meaningful) music appreciation should begin early.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 08:22 AM

Hmmmmmm, now yer onto somethin'... If I ever get a chance to do a blues CD fir kids, I sho nuff writ up 'nuff a corny songs in my life to have them oozin' thru the plastic cd jewel case...

As fir the the early start, I couldn't agree wid ya more... The P-Vine is an Orff teacher and gets um when they is about 4 years old and I sometimes like to take 'um aside an' leant 'um up on the lap dulcimer...

B:)

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 08:25 AM

It's not unlike the Shel Silverstein philosophical approach to life's mysteries...

"I Got the Face Down in My Cereal Bowl Blues."

Ok, where is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: rumanci
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 08:31 AM

hmmmmm
hey Bobert ..... could you fit in a rye grin somewhere ?
Wheat all like that
But just keep it to a one off - I'd hate to see you as a cereal offender
rum x

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 10:19 AM

Puffy Wheat sings the blues.

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 10:51 AM

Great lyrics dude! How does the song go?

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 01:06 AM

Hey, Bobert, it's bin done!

Check these out:

Midsummer Snowballs by Andy Goldsworthy. More here.

(In the beginning of July, somewhere in the midst of our 39-day run of over 100-degree high temps and before the blessed clouds finally returned, a group of neighbors and I watched the DVD "Rivers and Tides" about Andy Goldsworthy's environmental art. It started out with him visiting Nova Scotia on a commission, working on the beach making fragile sculptures of icicles on the boulders, then visted with him in Scotland doing interesting things with colored leaves and flowers running down streams, walking around in the Scottish mists collecting materials... someone commented that it was "porn for desert-dwellers" -- all that luscious cool and moisture! It was entrancing.)

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mid-summer Snowman....
From: GUEST,Desert Dancer at work
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 11:21 AM

And the heat wasn't just our imagination, either! In today's paper.

~ Becky in Tucson