olds from the music front

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

It's amazing how "old" music is still relevant. I'm not talking about Bach,
but about more profound (;-) country/rock music by singer-songwriter John
Prine. I recently stuck his early-1970s album (named "John Prine") and was
hit by its relevance: there's a sad song about destroying Appalachia to get
coal ("Mr. Peabody's Coal train has towed it away."), a humorous one about
the War on Drugs ("Illegal Smile"). There's a song about a drug-addict
Vietnam War veteran ("Sam Stone"), which isn't quite relevant but still
poignant. And there's a funny song with the following chorus:

"Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore;
It's already overcrowded from your dirty little war;
Jesus don't like killin' no matter what the reason for;
Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore."

This makes me feel much better about all those "United We Stand"
bumper-stickers on those SUVs that cut me off on the freeway. Now I have
something to sing (almost yodel).

BTW, after the DarwinFish on my car induced a woman driving a car with a
"Darwin is Dead" bumper sticker to give me quite a dirty look, I'm printing
up a sticker that says: "What Would Darwin Do? [in smaller letters:] use
scientific method."

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine