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First song on the radio this morning (honest!) and it’s still rattling around my brain. They are out of coffee at work, maybe I should switch..

Up every morning at the crack of dawn
Nights as short as the days are long
Life turned out to be another magazine
Livin’ with a stranger now
Girl i knew got away somehow
She went out with two bit gasoline
On the go,back - you know what i mean

Now when the word was Thunderbird
And the price recorded twice
Drinkin’ wine and lovin’ you was fun

Ah,but love turned out to be a passin’ thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine

And Lord i don’t know if i’m gonna make it
Don’t know if i’ll have the strength to take it
Everything’s hung up in yesterday

There’s you a secret-minded social girl
Takin’ short cuts in a woman’s world
She won’t let her hair down when i’m home
Society’s just slavery
And security is killing me
I work hard for it but i give it all away
If i could go back to yesterday

Now when the word was Thunderbird
And the price recorded twice
Drinkin’ wine and lovin’ you was fun

Ah,but love turned out to be a passin’ thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine

- Billy Joe Shaver

(read more about Thunderbird and its brethren here. )

Jingle this

I’m gonna tell you how it’s gonna be
You’re gonna give your love to me
I wanna love you night and day
You know my love not fade away
Well, you know my love not fade away

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In time, in time, in time

Do you know what I can NOT get out of my head? In spite of hours of radio?

That commercial where the guy is driving through the woods and all the little animals come in his car to sing Rock Me Gently.

Yeah. That.

(oh, and you should know this would be a great earworm for me, since I’ve written about it long ago)

Not for lack of trying. I’m listening to “All Right, Now” by Free right now. Baby.

the Ramblin’ entry

Thank you, Jerry Jeff Walker, for making my drive to work much more pleasant (did I mention I sorta fixed my radio? I get the right speaker now. Woot! grinnod )

Yeah, ramblin’, scramblin’
Tryin’ to get my mind untangled
But I never seen nothing in the whole wide world
That’ll give you more trouble than tryin’ to love a girl.

Like most everybody I’ve had bad luck
You know I’ve been down and out and didn’t have a buck
I’ve been hired and fired, loved and mistrusted
Three or four women left me busted

Took my money
Took my lovin’ (yodel) who hoo hooo
Took my toothpaste too.

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My car doesn’t have a radio right now. Well, it hasn’t for a couple months. A child (who shall remain nameless) shoved something into the cassette deck, along with a casette, and now? nothing. The tape won’t play, and it won’t come out to let the radio play.

So.

Why am I telling you this? Because I tend to get stuck with these earworms. Sometimes, it’s a musical line (yesterday it was the theme to Hawaii 5-0, for example) sometimes it’s lyrics (Oink, Oink, Zoopals!).

Today? It’s been a treat.

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind

This old engine makes it on time
Leaves Hazard Station ’bout a quarter to nine
Hits Trouble Junction at seventeen to
At a quarter to ten you know it’s drivin’ again

The thing is, this song will play itself over and over and over again in my mind, and sometimes transmogrify into something else (”War, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin’”) but usually just repeating.

And you know that notion just crossed my mind

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