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Love's Lost and Found

A short silly appeal for love and duty.

1.
F   C   Dm   Am
Doo wah choo gah
Bb  B   C   Am
too doo bay-bee
F    C   Dm  Am
Whin ewe gaw to
Bb B  C   Am
dooit may-be
F   C    Dm  Am
Sum thin goo dwill
Bb  B C   Am
hap entoo ewe
Bb            Bb7
Iffew key pon try-in'
2.
F C   Dm  Am
Iffew doo nawt
Bb  B   C
doo wah choo
Am
(gah choo gah choo)
F   C   Dm  Am
Gaw too doo whin
Bb  B   C
yew gaw too
Am
(gaw too gaw too)
F   C    Dm  Am
Nuh thin goo dwill
Bb  B C   Am
Hap entoo ewe
Bb            Bb7
Iffew key pon cry-in'
                     Dm3sus
Iffew keepdee nyin myluv



Love's Lost and Found

When lost love is found again in the public eye

1.
Em
Walked down to the
D
seven-eleven to
Em
buy me another
D
pack
Em
There on the magazine
D
cover I discover'd
C           C7
you starin' back.
2.
Em
Don't remember
D
thinkin' about it or
Em
pullin' it off of the
D
rack but
Em
When I got home to my
D
bedroom alone I found
C          C7
you in the sack.
3.
    Em
'Ja know I might see it?
D
Think about me as I
Em
thumb through this dumb
    D
magazine and
Em
Read about you and your
D
lover and how you' been
C          C7
makin' the scene.
4.
Em
Never did know I'd be
D
hurtin' so bad after
Em
All these years since we' been
D
through.
Em
Smokin' my Camels®;
D
Drinkin' Jack Daniels®;
C
Thinkin' 'bout you.

Em
Thinkin' 'bout you.




Love's Lost and Found

When love runs away with you, what can you do?

1.
Bb            Fm
First time it happens
Bb             Fm
You don't even know
       Bb          Dbm         Bb
How it is that you ought to re-act
Bb             Fm
Second time it happens
Bb              Fm
You say you're o-kay
           Bb
And you're taking it as
Dbm       Bb
matter of fact
               Fm       Bb
Then it runs a-way with you
        Ebm             Bb
There's nothing you can do
     Fm
:|  Another chance to
 Db             Bb
 choose between love  |:
2.
Bb           Fm
Blown two di-rections
     Bb         Fm
Your mind under glass
    Bb           Dbm       Bb
You see your own life on t.v.
Bb            Fm
What will you future?
Bb          Fm
How did you pass?
        Bb
Did you really think that
Dbm           Bb
love could be free
               Fm       Bb
When it runs a-way with you
        Ebm             Bb
There's nothing you can do
 Fm
Another chance to
 Db             Bb
 choose between love
 Fm               Db
Another chance to choose...
Mindful Webworks / Loves Lost and Found / Choose Between Love, page 2
[Bridge]
   Bb             Fm
   Why do all the colored patterns
   Bb             Fm
   Spinning in my eyes
             Bb            Fm
   Unfolding in my mind as bold ideals
   Bb          Fm
   Neverending change?

   Bb              Fm
   Star outpouring saturation
   Bb              Fm
   Flows among our thought
              Bb
   Expressing on the earth as
   Fm
   Mighty works so
   Bb
   Quickly fade away
   Bb
   Quickly fade...

              Fm       Bb
And it runs a-way with you
        Ebm             Bb
There's nothing you can do
     Fm
:|  Another chance to
 Db             Bb
 choose between love  |:
3.
Bb           Fm
Scattered di-mensions
Bb              Fm
Where you inter-sect
    Bb
For some to win
     Dbm           Bb
must others always lose?
Bb           Fm
Not your cre-ation
Bb            Fm
You can't con-trol
        Bb      Dbm        Bb
Nothing here to take or re-fuse
               Fm       Bb
Then it runs a-way with you
        Ebm             Bb
There's nothing you can do
     Fm
:|  Another chance to
 Db             Bb
 choose between love  |:



Love's Lost and Found

Short song (two, actually) of a brief love affair that wasn't to be.

Annie's Departure

                Gb
Oh, well, I can tell by the fact
         Abm
That you haven't unpacked
         Ab        Abm        Gb
That you have no intention to stay
      Gb
And I really don't mind
       Abm
If you leave me behind
      Ab           Abm         Gb
And I really don't care either way

            Gb
Change your face   Change your name
       Abm
I will know you the same
           Ab              Abm    Gb
You're the one that I knew once before
            Gb
Change your mind   Change your heart
      Abm
I can tell you apart
     Ab           Abm    Gb
Even now and even forevermore
Mad Affairs
            Gb
It was just one of those mad affairs

When nothing was planned
                 Abm
Where everything happened

One of those mad affairs
                                 Gb
And you wonder who made that one up

And you know it isn't more than coincidence
                           Abm
A happenstance of time and space
         Ab
But you imagine you can feel
    B             Dmaj6   Gb
The Author of the play



Radical Incline

Does the State define marriage?

Defending Common-Law Marriage

Background: The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill which would destroy common-law marriage in the state. Immediately below is a letter to the Tulsa World defending the right of individuals to contract to marry one another without approval of church or state. Further below is a follow-up article.

In 1980, my spouse and I married each other. We were not married by the State. We were not married by a pastor or a justice of the peace. We were not married "by" anybody. We did not even seek our families' approval. As free people, we chose to marry one another, and quite intentionally chose to marry each other here because, despite so many other tyrannical notions, Oklahoma law permitted free people to marry one another (at least if they were heterosexual and monogamous). Representative Ray Vaughn of Edmond says common-law marriages are "an affront to legitimate marriage." Our marriage of seventeen years and three children, legal and recognized by the State of Oklahoma, he has just as much as called illegitimate! Rep. Vaughn, you owe us an apology.

I sympathize, a little, with the judges, that divorce or estate problems can arise from poorly-substantiated common-law marriages. It is important that if (as the law has been) a man and woman "hold themselves forth as married," and they have property or children, they must do so in some public fashion to establish the legitimacy of their marriage for legal, financial, and inheritance purposes. (Actually, it is my opinion that there are no illegitimate children, and that every birth signifies a kind of marriage, regardless of the legal marital status of the parents, and regardless of the effective "bigamy" that may sometimes result; the separation of "marriage" from family-creation is one of the greatest peculiarities of our age. But that's another matter.) In our marriage, substantiation took the form of re-writing my will to identify myself and my spouse as married, and we let our friends and family know we were subsequently to be regarded as married from 1980 February 5. People who marry one another by any means without proper thought to the legal ramifications are asking for "headaches," as the World article put it. The burden of proof should lie with the couple. For those who wish to do so, registration with the State is a convenient way of substantiating marriage. However, the convenience of the State is no excuse for obviating adult liberty to marry one another.

Marriage Liberty, not Marriage License

In response to the article above, a lawyer replied to Law Forum on CompuServe. My correspondent suggested that the traditional reasons for common-law permission were antiquated and reiterated the legal difficulties and fraud which may occur due to common-law arrangements and asked how a requirement for a marriage license would violate the right of free adults to marry. This is my reply, slightly edited.

As if state-approved marriage is not a frequent source of litigation? I noted the difficulties with freedom to marry, and I noted the importance of careful establishment of even a common-law marriage, and I protested that the convenience of the state or the occurrence of difficulties is not sufficient cause for regulation. If, after such statements, you can still ask me to "explain exactly how much of a hardship it would have been for you to obtain a license," I despair of doing so as much as I would in attempting to explain the benefits of a free-market system to an ardent communist.

The point is not that we would have found it "much of a hardship" to kowtow to State overcontrol of a private contract, but whether the State has the right to stick its fat Big Brotherly nose in our private marriage at all! You may perhaps gather something of my radical libertarianism if I point out that I in the same vein protest such laws as driver's licenses, and Social Security registration, both of which are on my mind especially this weekend as I have just obtained an Oklahoma driver's permit for my daughter (as evidenced by my fingernail gouges in the dashboard), and attempted to, at long last, and under protest, register my three offspring with the Socialist Insecurities Pyramid Scam office.

(Amusingly, the SS would not accept their birth certificates as sufficient, and required a second i.d. Since they are all home-schooled, we have no school i.d.s to offer, and we have had to ask our physician to provide some kind of identification that they are who their parents say they are, which was the only other form of i.d. the SS serf said was acceptable. With redoubled irony, I note that now that the birth certificate which the SS said was insufficient has been used to obtain a driver's permit for my daughter, she can turn around and use that permit as i.d. to register with the SS. Go figure that!)

That which it is unnecessary for the state to do should not be done. Mary Jo and I have been married for over twenty years, legally, without recourse to State or Church, and since such liberty is feasible, it is not our burden to suggest why it would be a "hardship" to register with the Gummint, but the Gummint's impossible burden to prove why private marriage contract should not be valid without State approval. That others attempt criminal abuse of liberty should no more be a cause for us to be regulated than the private consumption of a substance by sociopaths should impinge upon the rights of peaceful and non-trespassing individuals to acquire and consume as they will. But of course, we know where our Prohibitionist-mad nation stand on that!

Marriage liberty, not marriage license. [grin] The right of the State to approve marriage also, no matter how careful the wording of the legislation, ultimately gives the State the right to disapprove as well, and that includes the prohibition of forms of contract which, as with liberty of speech or press, you or I might not like for ourselves or our children, as polygamy or homosexual life-contracts, neither of which has approval in any state, yet, last I knew, although the latter was being softened up in some states.

Thanks for the opportunity to attempt expansion on this, even if I'm not all that effective in my attempt.

2015 Jun 10: Years later, the question is more pertinent than ever.
Alabama’s marriage license abolition would be a bureaucratic nightmare by Casey Given, Rare

…While leaving the complex matter of marriage up to two consenting adults and their community is undoubtedly the best option in a libertarian utopia, the unfortunate reality is that doing so in the American legal system today would put a couple at significant disadvantage. To be specific, the federal government has a number of tax and entitlement benefits earmarked specifically for married couples, and Alabama’s failure to recognize a couple’s nuptials — gay or straight — could lead to a bureaucratic headache.…

(h/t TJ Martinell, Tenth Amendment Center)




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