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Most Meaningful Song Ever . . .

Joy to the World is Three dog night.

Amazing grace on the bagpipes is hauntingly beautiful,we had this played as we layed my gramma to rest,a beautiful fall day in a military cemetary.
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Joy to the World is Three dog night.

Amazing grace on the bagpipes is hauntingly beautiful,we had this played as we layed my gramma to rest,a beautiful fall day in a military cemetary.
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LOL, yep you're right, don't know what I was thinkin' :oops: and I have that tape too. :oops:
 
For jigs:


This song it was written down
In a pea green windowless room
Four o'clock and the TV's dead
Wired up with nothin' to do
I drunk all my whiskey I smoked all my beer
I'm already gone I just got here
An old hairy ash hillbilly
Still up and hangin' on

Made me think of a Similar time
In the Tropicannibal motel
Takin' showers 'bout every hour
'Cause I wasn't really feelin' well
Well in walked the Alabama Leanin' Man
His ol' buddy Billy Swann
Two old hairy ash hillbillies
Still up and hangin' on

[Chorus]
Takes a friend to make you laugh
A slap on the back someone who knows
Right where you're at
A friend in town who just heard you're around
Came by see how you're gettin' along

Most people go out to clubs
Just to see an electric dildo
A human jutebox who loves to play
Every single song they know
But they don't care if you blow your soul
They usually stand up and tell you so
And leave that hairy ash hillbilly
Still up and hangin' on

So wherever you may be tonight
I wish you luck
You may be with a friend of yours
And may your friend be your lady love
But if you gotta go and do a show
And afterwards you got no where to go
You're just a hairy ash hillbilly
Still up and hangin' on
 
Maple Leaf Angus said:
Whoa . . . . Jigger Boss! You are talking about my home stompin' grounds! Don't tell me you were partying at the 'Bend in the summer time?
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Those were some of my old stompin grounds too :wink: . Been to Grand Bend lots. Too crowded for me though. I would assume lots of stuff have changed since I've been there last.
 
Ian Tysons music is good no doute about that BUT his stage presence leaves alot to be desired,hes well known in Alta. for sure for not showing up and when he does often he doesn't play alot of the time. I would WAY rather buy his CD's then even attempt spending money to go one of his live shows...JMHO
 
Jigger Boss said:
Maple Leaf Angus said:
Whoa . . . . Jigger Boss! You are talking about my home stompin' grounds! Don't tell me you were partying at the 'Bend in the summer time?
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Those were some of my old stompin grounds too :wink: . Been to Grand Bend lots. Too crowded for me though. I would assume lots of stuff have changed since I've been there last.
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Well do the names "Zurich" or "Blake" have any significance to you? Cuz they sure do to me.
 
They play amazing grace and some other songs on the pipes at a lot of the police and fireman funerals around chicago.. While I have never been to one of them I have heard them and there simply is no other way to play/hear amazing grace than on the bagpipes.. The only thing that rivals them is if someone has a real good voice for the singing of them...

Really, I don't think of any one song being the most meaninfull to me or even any number of songs. Certain songs holdmeaning to me but more so because of what happened during them. The first time I told my wife I loved her for example Hotel California was playing... First time her and I really talked before we dated was when I gave her a ride to a party since she lived nearby and the song that sticks out in my mind from that trip is a Doors tune..
 
IL Rancher said:
The first time I told my wife I loved her for example Hotel California was playing...
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Now that statemnet brings a few questions to mind.

Like what line of the song moved you to tell her that?

Surely not

"Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz"

or -

"She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends"



:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

Really sorry to do that to ya buddy, but it was just too funny to pass up! :)
 
Amanda
By Don Williams
I named MCG after that song, love the name, love the song.



I've held it all inward, Lord knows I've tried.
It's an awful awakening in a country boy's life.
To look in the mirror in total surprise,
At the hair on your shoulders and the age in your eyes.

Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.

Well, a measure of people don't understand,
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band.
I got my first guitar when I was fourteen,
Now I'm crowding thirty and still wearing jeans.

Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.

Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life,
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
 
reader (the Second) said:
MLA - You inspired me to go listen to Hotel California. Yeah, it's a great song, very complex and frightening actually. What does it all mean??? You've had decades to think about it.
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Well a good therapist would say, "Well, what do you want it to mean?"

:lol2: :lol2:

Listen to it a few times and I would be surprised if it does not become fairly self-evident. I googled it to get the words and quite a few explanations came up.

But I would recommend that one would listen to the words and music to draw his or her own conclusions first. It's pretty amazing how the music can give an exponential increase in impact of the lyrics as well.


I would be happy to swap ideas with those who find the song compelling.After all, that is what makes songs stick in our minds and hearts.
 
Chuckle... I know... But wasn't really thinking about the meaning of th song.. It was a high school dance and we had been dating for a while and we were dancing together and it just came out.. But she has stabbed me with some steely knives everyonce in a while so mybe it was a prophocey.
 
reader (the Second) said:
I have (and got some of them autographed by him as well) -- Cowboyography, Old Corrals and Sagebrush, Live at Longview, Songs from the Gravel Road. Great songs - Navajo Rug, Somewhere in the Rubies, even his rendition of Blue Moon which reminded me of my early high school years.

I sure wish I had known he was still singing and heard him live over the years. He has real stage presence, a voice to die for, and is still a heart throb for us ladies even at 73. One of the all time greats in his genre. While y'all turned me BACK on to cowboy music, I was brought up with it both in my Western ranching hometown and watching the old TV shows. My favorite of all time being Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
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I think anyone that has any Ian Tyson has Cowboyography. It was my first one. My favorite song on that tape is Navajo Rug.
Now you'll have to get....

Eighteen Inches of Rain
And Stood There Amazed
One Jump Ahead Of The Devil
Ol' Eon
the one just titled "Ian Tyson"
Lost Herd
All the Good'uns
I Outgrew the Wagon

I'm sure you'd enjoy them all! I sure do.
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Ian Tysons music is good no doute about that BUT his stage presence leaves alot to be desired,hes well known in Alta. for sure for not showing up and when he does often he doesn't play alot of the time. I would WAY rather buy his CD's then even attempt spending money to go one of his live shows...JMHO
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I have only been to one concert that was held in the little community centre in Bearberry AB, it was fantastic!! It was a wonderful performance.
I love his version of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' which he played at the end. He'll be in Williams Lake this year, I sure hope I'll be able to make that concert. I would love to see him in concert again. :D
 
Maple Leaf Angus said:
They are the village and hamlet where I was born and raised, not far from Grand Bend. Just checking to see if we're old neighbours!
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Zurich is near St Joseph, I was there the last time I went home.
Stopped in to have a look at all the neat little shops when my nephew got married not far from there. Neat little town. :-)
I grew up in the Oil Springs/Petrolia area. Its a good place to be from :wink: .
 
don said:
'til the circle is through by ian tyson. played it at our son's funeral.
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Beautiful song Don.

"May you stay where the river runs through
the range and the sky, buckskin and blue
May you ride to the end on the wings of the wind
till you're home and your circle is through"
 
sw posted them a while ago... the whole song..hmmm I can't remember the name of the thread,that is a beautiful song.

Reader...I found the thread and brought it up for you in coffee shop.
 
When I was a kid Uncle Remus he put me to bed
With a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my head
Then daddy came in to kiss his little man
With gin on his breath and a Bible in his hand
He talked about honor and things I should know
Then he'd stagger a little as he went out the door

CHORUS:
I can still hear the soft Southern winds in the live oak trees
And those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me
Hank and Tennessee
I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be
So what do you do with good ole boys like me

Nothing makes a sound in the night like the wind does
But you ain't afraid if you're washed in the blood like I was
The smell of cape jasmine thru the window screen
John R. and the Wolfman kept me company
By the light of the radio by my bed
With Thomas Wolfe whispering in my head

When I was in school I ran with kid down the street
But I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed
But I was smarter than most and I could choose
Learned to talk like the man on the six o'clock news
When I was eighteen, Lord, I hit the road
But it really doesn't matter how far I go

high school, used the title on quote for senior picture
 

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