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F6 Cmaj7
What did you want me to do today, Lord?
Bbmaj7 Am7
What do you want me to do?
Bbmaj7 Am7
I've given up. Can't figure it out.
Dm7 G
I'm turning it over to you.
Am7 Cmaj7
My mind is yours. I'm an open book.
Bbmaj7
I've got nothing to hide.
F6 Dm7
What do you want me to do, dear Daddy?
Bb6 Bb7 F7
And He said: Just de- cide.2016 Sep 23: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop Episode #7
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Dm C
Aunt Anna will turn ninety-nine this year
C Dm
All her friends have died off long ago
Dm C
It's harder these days for Aunt Anna to hear
C Dm
It's harder still for us to know
F Em Bb Dm
What thoughts go on in Aunt Anna's head.
Dm C Em
Sometimes her eyes seem so alive.
F Em Bb Dm
This could be the last year for Anna to live,
Dm C Em
We've said for the last twenty-five!
F Em Dm
Aunt Anna still finds it a nice thing to do
F Em Dm
To put all the young people on.
F Em Dm
With a wink and a smile all her mirth will show through
C Dm
And two moments later it's gone.
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Aunt Anna, page 2
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Dm C
Aunt Anna will turn ninety-nine this year
C Dm
Her breath comes sometimes in a wheeze.
Dm C
She burps when she wants like an infant child
C Dm
Aunt Anna has no one to please.
F Em Bb Dm
And the children cannot comprehend
Dm C Em
And the old ones say she's insane
F Em Bb Dm
And sometimes she's so aimless
Dm C Em
She doesn't know what words to say
Dm
or what games to play
F Em Dm
And I'd love to tell her, no, you're not old,
F Em Dm
And I'd love to see her go on
C
smiling
Dm
baby-wise.Aunt Anna stories
Mary Jo's Great-Aunt Anna lived to be ninety-nine years old. It was an honor to know her.
There are many Aunt Anna stories to tell, but I will leave them to those who knew her better. Here, though, are two of my favorites, one from before I knew her, and one of my own experience.
I am told that when President Richard Nixon was resigning, some young person (to Aunt Anna, everyone was a young person) asked her what she thought about it. After a pause, in her creaky old voice, she commented, "He just couldn't believe he got the job!" Probably no political analyst ever summed it up better.
One day wife Mary Jo and I were going across the street for some ice cream, and we were "taking orders" from anyone else who wanted some. My mother-in-law, "Bubby," turned to Aunt Anna and asked, "Do you want some ice cream?" Anna, hard of hearing, croaked, "Whaaat?" Bubby repeated the question, "Do you want some ice cream?" and Anna, frustrated a bit by her ailing body as she often was, asked with greater intensity, "WHAAAAT?" At which point, in that way some people do some times, Bubby spoke loudly enough to be heard, but this time changed the question, "DO YOU LIKE ICE CREAM?" The message registered in Anna's face, a moment of startle, a brief look of puzzlement, and then she repeated, "Do I like ice cream?" She looked me right in the eye, winked boldly, and replied, "Noooo, I don't like ice cream." With a wink and a smile all her mirth would show through; and two moments later, it's gone. I'll always remember.
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1.
C Dm
Why do diamonds come from coal?
F C
Why is New Mexico?
C F Am
Why is fire hot and not
Bb
a crystal like the snow?
C Dm
Why not three sides to a square?
F C
Why is the sky above?
C Am
Why when babies cry
Bb
do mothers care
C
and why is love?
2. Why do birds lay eggs? Why doesn't water run uphill? Why is money? Why is funny? Why is William Bill? Why chip potatoes? Pick tomatoes? Lick an ice cream cone? Why is a crowd so loud? Why do I sometimes feel alone?
3. Why is cheer? Why is fear? Why is L.S.D.? Why was Hitler? Why is Buddha? Why do you and me? Why are what? how? who? how often? When? Which? Where? and Why? Why is a three year old? Why is the Fourth of July? Why why why why why why why? Why is the Fourth of July?
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D Bdim
There's a certain risk involved
D Bdim
in almost everything you do.
D G
There's danger in the course you take
E A
and the one that you eschew.
D Bdim
There's a certain risk involved
D Bdim
in almost every breath you take,
D F6
So no matter what you do
Em A
it's going to look like a mistake.
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D Bdim
There's a certain price to pay
D Bdim
for every choice you make or don't.
D G
There's problems if you will
E A
and there's obstructions if you won't.
D Am
A setback is forseeable.
G Gm
You'll likely miss the boat,
D G
And curse your luck until you find
Bb A
it didn't stay afloat.
Mindful Webworks | Short and Tall Tales | Risk, page 2
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D Bdim
If you never took the chance
D Bdim
you might be safer, but
D G
The day you didn't leave
E A
you are the victim of a nut.
D Am
We'll spare you now the details.
G Gm
You can catch the film at nine,
D G
Watching from the safety of your living room,
Gb A D
Saying glad his life ain't mine.
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #2
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Even devoted parents long for a night out, but it's not always easy, especially when the kids are very young.
1.
F7
One Two Three
And they've all gone down
Getcher dancin' shoes babe
We're goin' out on the town
Bb7
We're goin' dancin'
Doo wop a doo
F7
We're goin' dancin'
Shoo boop a doo be
C7
Goin' dancin'
Bb7 F7 C7
All de leedle tykes're asleep.
2.
F7
O, we can smoke a jug o' wine
An we can flip a couple lids
If we can only find a sitter
Who'll come 'n' mind the kids
Bb7
We're goin' dancin'
Bo do dee oh
F7
We're goin' dancin'
Woh woh woh
C7
Goin' dancin'
Bb7 F7 C7
Wait a sec, I think I heard a peep.
Mindful Webworks | Short and Tall Tales | Got No Babysitter Blues, page 2
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F7
Change a diaper then another
Dad I wanna drinka water
Got a dolly for my daughter
Tuck her brother into bed
Bb7
And we'll go dancin'
Whee-dee-dee dee-dee-dee
dee-dee-dee-dah-dah
F7
Dancin'
Ya-ta-ta ta-ta-ta
na-na-na na-na-na
C7
Dancin'
Bb7 F7 C7
Babe just go 'n' getcher dancin' shoes.
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F7
Granny's feelin' po'ly
An' the sitter's got a test tomorrow
Then our frien' nex' door comes down
A-lookin' for yer shoes t' borrow
Bb7
Dancin'
Hup hup hup
F7
She's goin' dancin'
Yup yup yup
C7
Goin' dancin'
Bb7
I think I got those
F7 C7
got no babysitter blues!
2016 Sep 23: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop Episode #7
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