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Short & Tall Tales

Chicago is the Big Potato. Hard-gritten wallops of bitey observationalism.




Best of Spirits

O! the inevitability of it all!

1.
       Dm                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Dm                   F
People die in the strangest ways
       Dm                   F
People die in a hundred and fifty years
     Eb                Edim
Or a hundred and fifty days
2.
       Dm                    F
People die when they least expect it
       Dm                         F
People die like they planned all along
       Dm                   F
People die for ideas they believe to be right
       Eb                    Edim
People die because they were wrong
3.
       Bb                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Bb                   F
People die at the strangest times
       Bb                         F
People die 'cause they're totally innocent
       Eb                  Edim
People die 'cause of their crimes
4.
       Eb                        F
People die when they're at their sharpest
       Eb                    F
People die when they're in a haze
       Eb                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Eb                   F
People die in the strangest ways



Urantiana

It's not about UFOs. It's about your revelation.

For many years after World War II, the United States Air Force had a public task force investigating reports of extraterrestrial sightings and contacts. The task force report was called Project Blue Book. This is about a different blue book.

1.

D    C   A   Dm   G
I've got a   blue "U" book.

F                G
I wish you would take a look,

    F              Em
But only if you're int'rested

   Dm             C
In what it has to say 

           Dm
Concerning what you ask about.

        Em
You can look with honest doubt,

            F
But it will never help you out

         G
If you explain it all away.

2.

        Am
You can never realize

         G
What you won't internalize.

      F
No surprise will come from

             Em
Anything you read

        Dm
You can argue and debate

          Em
And never have to correlate

               F
Your life with what it has to state

         G
On human need.

Mindful Webworks | Urantiana | Project Blue Book, page 2
3.

        Am
You can choose to worry, or

              G
Choose not to worry anymore,

       F
Listen to or just ignore

            Em
Your better side.

       Dm
No one else can make your choice.

     Em
Only you can use your voice

            F
For singing love or making noises

       G
Out of pride.

4.

         Am
Give the words a second glance.

          G
Don't be afraid to take a chance.

          F
You might find you like to dance

           Em
Instead of sit.

           Dm
But no one else can dance for you,

           Em
Or love in quite the way you do.

        F
And the blue "U" book

     G
  is for the benefit

       F     G  C
    of You



Best of Spirits

Wondering about the sense of wonder

1.
Em           D
Every time I think about
        C
   what I believe...
              Em  B
   I start to won-der...
    Em         D
How out of uni-ty
                 C
   Came all this multiplicity
                Em  B
:|   all rent a-sun-der... |:
2.
     Em
From Infinite Eternity
       D
   How Time and Space

   began to be,
    C
How GOD Who is
       C7
   all that can be
          D     C        B
   Can be Us... right... now...
3.
Em           D
Every time I think about
        C
   what I believe...
                Em  B
:|   I start to won-der...  |:
"Wonders will never cease."
 —Sir Henry Bate Dudley
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
 —Socrates
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
 —Albert Einstein

Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #2




Best of Spirits

(The Way to God is)

1.
       G             D
Oh the way to God is always up,
          C                G
  But you might be up-side-down.
       G          D
That's why his beatific smile
    C              D
  Appears to you a frown.
       C      D           G
You've almost reached the surface,
          Am                   D
  But you stop for fear you'll drown.
          G             D
:| Oh the way to God is always up,
          C               G
  But you might be upside down.  |:
2.
       G             D
Oh the way to God is always in,
          C                G
  But you might be in-side-out.
       G           D
That's why his reassurances
    C                D
  Induce in you such doubt.
    C           D         G
The still small voice you can't quite hear
     Am               D
  Is God's tremendous SHOUT!
          G             D
:| Oh the way to God is always in,
          C               G
  But you might be inside out.  |:
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | (The Way to God is) Always Up, page 2
3.
       G              D
Oh it takes a million years to know
      C                 G
  The One Who Lives Within.
       G             D
You reach the shores of Paradise
         C              D
  On the day that you begin.
  C       D       G
A billion perfect worlds dance on
      Am        D
  The apex of a pin.
         G             D
:| Oh it takes a million years to know
      C                 G
  The One Who Lives Within.  |:
4.
       G             D
The way to God is yours to choose,
        C                G
  Don't let your will be weak.
       G             D
'Cause then, despite His brilliant light,
       C                 D
  Your outlook will stay bleak.
       C       D    G
You'll sail on holy waters,
             Am                D
  But you'll think you're up a creek.
       G             D
:| The way to God is yours to choose,
          C                G
  Don't let your will be weak. |:
5. [SING FAST!]
       G             D
Oh the way to heaven is always leavened
       C                 G
  With love and peace of mind.
       G             D
And I heard a rumor if you don't have humor
           C                D
  That you might get left behind.
C         D            G
Maybe you really don't see it, or
              Am             D
  You're just choosing to be blind,
           G                D
:| But the way to heaven is always leavened
       C                 G
With love and peace of mind. |:   [Repeat 1st verse]
If you have a MIDI player (and you really ought to), check out (MIDI) the tune — my very first MIDI creation. It's a short (less than 1K, about 26 seconds) single-voice, single-note composition, just to give you the basic idea of the tune.

1997 Jan 30: An (MIDI) expanded version of the MIDI tune (~2.5K, 26 sec), adding some more instruments, just for fun. Full-scale orchestration with lead vocal and background chorus will come later….

2001 Nov 26: An (MIDI) even more expanded version of the MIDI tune (~14K, 2:26), all verses, adding many more instruments, and having much more fun. This MIDI was previously only available on the no-longer-unavailable (and now-obsolete) UB Comix diskette. Still haven't actually recorded the song itself yet&hellp;.

2016 Aug 25: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #3
2016 Dec 9: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #15.

Webworkshop #3

Webworkshop #15



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