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Mouse’s Waltz

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I’m late. I’m late. I’m late. For a very… ah, never mind. And, besides, that was the damn rabbit, not the mouse.

If the song below strikes you as inconsequential, sloppy even by the hyper-relaxed standards of A Year of Songs, and smacking strongly of being a hastily thrown together filler, I’m thinking you’re not as dumb as I look.

I apologize for technical and personal scheduling difficulties which have been interfering with my regular musical posts. In addition to my own schedule issues, it appears that my media hosts have been experiencing some recurring difficulties which have prevented uploads.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Topical Limerick…

There was an apparatchik named McClellan
who didn’t have much in his melon

For this Prez he seemed suited
but in a fake shakeup was booted

Still — he might just end up a felon

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Slide Interlude

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Slide interlude

Q Lately it seems like your AYoS posts have been increasingly late and increasingly brief. Where are all those goofy little vignettes I’ve gotten in the habit of reading while listening to your podcast?

What gives?

A We musicians and songwriters have a technical term for the answer to that question. We call it the day job.

It’s both the engine of freedom which keeps us from having to perform back-to-back versions of “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” in subway stations and on popular promenades as well as the perennial distraction that drags us away from the important business of making original music few will likely ever hear and even fewer will care about.

Which might seem to provoke the question: Why bother with music at all in the first place?

Might as well ask the caged bird why he sings…
SLIDE INTERLUDE

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A thousand Mondays

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[This version was so awful that I redid it the very next day.]

This version of this new song is the musical equivalent of dragging your sorry backside into work so impaired, so trashed, so worthless that you really should have stayed home.

It’s a mess… but it’s here, reporting for duty.

Chain of Mondays

a thousand mondays
that’s just 19 years
put your head down
put yourself in gear

before you know it
the day is done
fall asleep
and there’s another one

chain of mondays
wrapped round my life
chain of mondays
until the day I die

I’m good at what I do
but what I do is dumb
pushing things around
all day long

what’s it all for
don’t ask me
i’m just a well-worn gear
in the big machine

chain of mondays…

don’t take off my shackles
i don’t want to be free
cause theres nowhere to go
and no one to be

been at the grindstone
for so damn long
there’s nothing much left
except this song:

chain of mondays…

(C)2006, TK Major

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