Against the wind-Bob Seger

Bad moon rising-Credence Clearwater Revival

Cosmic Charlie-Greatful Dead

Dreams go by-Harry Chapin

Eleaner Rigby-Beatles

Freeway of love-Aretha Franklin

Get down on it-Kool and the Gang

Hajimari-Kitaro

Immigrant song-Led Zepplin

Jump-Van Halen

Kokomo-Beach Boys

Long tall Sally-Little Richard

My lumps-Blackeyed Peas

No place to hide-Korn

One of these days-Pink Floyd

Poor side of town-Johnny Rivers

Queen of hearts-Juice Newton

Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac

Sweet Home Alabama-Lynyrd Skynyrd

The weight-The Band

Under the double eagle-Charlie Daniels Band

Venus-Frankie Avalon

Wooly Bully-Sam the Sham and the Pharoes

X  I dont have any songs that start with X

Youve lost that loving feeling-Rightous Brothers

Zipadeedodah-Louis Armstrong

Lets face it,we all of us get tired of our favorite program getting interrupted for political updates. For this reason I propose that we set aside a night each week when there is nothing good on and start a new show:American President  This would be on the lines of American Idol and as a matter of fact I think it would be even better if  we could get Simon,Paula and Randy for comic relief and have it just like Idol. I can see Randy telling Hillary,"Sorry dog I just dont get it"and Bill running out on stage yelling about Randy calling his wife a bitch. Simon would tell McCain that he looks like a robot and to "for Gods sake move your lips when you talk".And Paula telling Obama that she tried singing his name in the name game song and it sounded good, then taking a swig from that big coke cup in front of her,and what goes better with coke than Bacardi.

Just think about it,all the mudslinging could be over in one television season and all of our votes would count instead of only the votes of the electoral college and the best part is that we could vote from the comfort of our own home or anywhere else that has a phone.

Since it is getting to be camping time I thought that I would put some lyrics of some of the songs that my family has sung for many years. Enjoy.

BESSIE THE HEIFER
Recorded by: "Little" Jimmy Dickens
Writer: Boudleaux Bryant and Jimmy Dickens

[C] My daddy gave a calf to me
For a Christmas present [G7] once
I picked a little heifer out
'Cause both of us were [C] runts
She never had no sense
But she grew up allright some-[G7] how
And when it came to givin' milk
She was an educated [C] cow.

CHORUS
[C] Bessie the heifer
The [F] queen of all [C] cows
She gave more milk
Than any law al-[G7] lows
In the [C] mornin' she gave pasteurized
At [F] nite she gave homogenized
[C] Bessie the heifer
The [G7] queen of all the [C] cows.

I took her to the county fair
To try to win a prize
She knew what was goin' on
I saw it in her eyes
The contest made her nervous
She tried so hard to please
But when I tried to milk her
All I got was cottage cheese.

CHORUS

I planted me a 'tater patch
To earn some extra dough
To take a short vacation
With some city folks I know
But no one else would milk the cow
No matter how I'd nag
So pa took my vacation
Leavin' me to hold the bag.

CHORUS
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We had some chickens
No eggs would they lay
We had some chickens
No eggs would they lay
My wife said, Honey
We're los'in money
An' that ain't funny
Why won't they lay eggs
Then one day a rooster
Came into our yard
An' caught those chickens
Completely off guard
They're lay'in eggs now
Just like they use'ter
Ever since that rooster
Came into our yard
They're lay'in eggs now
Just like they use'ter
Ever since that rooster
Came into our yard

We had some milk cows
No milk would they give
We had some milk cows
No milk would they give
My wife said, Honey
We're los'in money
An' that ain't funny
Why won't they give milk
Then one day a rooster
Came into our yard
An' caught those milk cows
Completely off guard
They're giv'in eggnog
In wax containers
To bad that rooster
Ran out'a steam
They're giv'in eggnog
In wax containers
To bad that rooster
Ran out'a steam

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I'm a nut in a rut I'm Crazy
I called Myself up on the phone just to see if I was home
Asked Myself out on a date
Picked Me up at Half Past Eight
I'm a nut in a rut I'm crazy
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I'm a juvenile delinquent
I roam the streets from one to four.
I drink and smoke with every guy and bum
waiting  on the corner for the pickup to come.
I'm a juvenile delinquent,afraid to go home anymore

My mother hates me,

afraid to go home anymore, 

my daddy beats me,

afraid to go home anymore,
and then theres granny,
Swingin' on the outhouse door,
as if she owned it,
Swingin' on the outhouse door,
without her nighty,
Swingin' on the outhouse door.

Grandpas yellin more,more more

This is the last time, swingin on the outhouse door

Haha I fooled ya

Swingin on the outhouse door.

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1. The poor old slave has gone to rest, we know that he is free;
His bones they lie, disturb them not, way down in Tennessee.

2. The pee-or old slee-ave has gee-one to ree-est, we knee-oh that hee-oh
is free-oh-free-free;
His bee-ones they lee-eye, dis-tee-urb them nee-ot, way dee-own in
Tee-ennessee-oh-see-see.

3. The piggety-pag-poor old sliggety-slag-slave has giggety-gag-gone to
riggety-rag-rest,
we kniggety-nag-know that higgety-hag-ho is free-oh-free-free;
His biggety-bag-bones they liggety-lag-lie, dis-tiggety-tag-turb them
niggety-nag-not,
way diggety-dag-down in Tiggety-tag-tennessee-oh-see-see.
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This next one was a must if we were going to visit my dads mother.

The old gray mare,
She ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be,
Ain't what she used to be
The old gray mare,
She ain't what she used to be
Many long years ago.

Many long years ago,
Many long years ago,
The old gray mare,
She ain't what she used to be
Many long years ago.

The old gray mare,
She went to the county fair,
Sat in the electric chair,
Burned off her underwear
The old gray mare,
She aint what she used to be
Many long years ago.

Many long years ago,
Many long years ago,
The old gray mare,
She aint what she used to be
Many long years ago.

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O.K. first off let me say that I am NOT in the same class of a writer as my sister saintvi and her daughter. They both have the gift of being able to write things in such a way as to keep you hooked and coming back, I on the other hand very rarely update my xanga as there is nothing much that happens where I am and if it did I wouldn't be able to make it an interesting story like she does. That being said I will attempt to put this story of Easter 1970 or possibly 71 down.

My father was store manager of Woolco Department stores (and woolworth) for many years and he got transferred quite frequently. We had just moved to Corpus Christi Texas the year before (69) from Denver Colorado. Dad taught us kids the fine art of toilet papering houses (we would do his assistant managers houses mostly) and his assistants found a way to get us back that year. The Woolco store was in a shopping center that also had a pet store in it and as the pet store had finished for the week (there was a blue law at the time that wouldn't let you open on Sunday) and Easter was on the following day,the assistants got together with the pet store owner and asked what was going to happen to the extra rabbits they had left over from easter sales. The owner said it would be just terrible if the rabbits got "stolen" and that is exactly what happened.

About 12am the phone rang and my mother answered it only to hear a voice she didn't recognize ask "Is Patrick home?"now you need to understand that I was only 9 or 10 at the time and my mother has always been kind of high strung. She replied that I was in bed and the person on the other end said to get me up and tell me the easter bunny has been to our house. When she asked what he was talking about he just said to look in the backyard and hung up.( O.K. here I need to tell you that we lived in a brand new 2 story house in the country club estates ) She looked outside and hollared for all of us to get up and come help her fast. There were 36 rabbits in our backyard and the cats were lined up on the fence just waiting for a chance to get them.

We all went outside and with fishing nets,trash cans or anything else we could lay hands on we started catching them and putting them in the garage. It took us a pretty long time as I recall to get them all in the garage but we finally got them all. Sundays paper had a story in it about a break in at the pet store and 36 rabbits being stolen.

We toilet papered every one of their houses.

I got to looking around and came across some animusic and thought of my neice in Michigan and how much she would enjoy seeing and hearing this.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvPRbh0jmE

                      It just totally blows me away what they can do on the computer these days

I forgot how time consuming it is trying to teach someone how to do simple things like checking emails or using the dvd player. Mom is trying though,she came into my room last night just as I got into bed to get back up and go to her room and show her how to reprogram her channels into her tv and today she had me show her again how to use the dvd player I guess that considering that up until 7 months ago she had NEVER used a dvd player or a computer til last month she is slowly coming into the 21st century.( I would put her at about 1995 right now ) She needs to get some practice on the computer so if you will all send her some emails so that she gets used to opening,reading and passing them on or deleting them it would be a great help as right now she usually gets them from her brother Leonard,Avanell,Wilma and Heather with a few more here and there,but not enough to where she feels comfortable with it yet ( she is afraid that she will push the wrong button and break the computer even tho I have told her she wont)

Aunt Jeanne passed away early this morning

I just got off the phone with the funeral home in Safford and they said that the very earliest they can have the funeral would be on Tuesday but since there has been no definate date set I would guess either Wed or Thurs. The name of the funeral home is: Bunker Family funeral home 112 E Main st Safford. Tel# 928-428-1740. posted 1-25-08  2pm

Mom got a call from Glenna tonight,I don't know how many of you knew that Aunt Jeanne has been in ICU in San Antonio for pneumonia. Like I said mom got a call tonight that they are going to take Jeanne off of oxygen (not sure if she is on life support or not) but she is not expected to live the week out.

I know that when I went to Duncan this last summer to see her she was not doing well at all,even with her oxygen hooked up she was smoking as heavy as she had without it. So be sure that you keep mom and her brother and sisters in your thoughts and of course Bonnie,Jane,and Glenna. I asked mom if she was going to try to go to her funeral but she doesn't think that she will as she still hasn't been up for a full day in over 6 weeks and still gets weak as a kitten.

I figured that this would be an easy way of making sure that you knew about this.

As usual I made a mistake in the video at the end when it tells when dad died I did not mean to have the words scroll up like the begining of star wars,please overlook my mistake. ( it only took me over 3 hours to redo the video and get the player back on the front page for a 4 minute video)