Category: Song Lyric Sunday

#SLS — “If a Tree Falls” by Bruce Cockburn (1988/2005)

Bruce Cockburn As I was googling for a good song for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt, I came across a Spotify playlist with over 130 songs to celebrate Arbor Day. How could I not find a good’n? I sampled a good half of the ones not familiar to me and chose this one out…

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#SLS — “Grandma’s Hands,” by Bill Withers

Album cover to Just As I Am by w:Bill Withers, w:Sussex Records, 1971. The above album sleeve features a photograph of Withers next to a brick building, supposedly the factory that he was working in at the time the album was recorded, where he installed airplane toilets. He wears a yellow T-shirt and jeans and holds a lunchbox. It…

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#SLS — Richard Thompson (April 3) “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”

Richard Thompson 6-21-07 at a Brooklyn Celebrates concertin Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY photographed by Anthony Pepitone (CC-BY-SA) Rumor and Sigh album cover Richard Thompson OBE (b. 4/3/49) is an English songwriter, musician (primarily a guitarist,) singer and record producer. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for…

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#SLS Id It Warm In Here? “Gift Horse,” by IDLES

Idles on the Mainstage at Haldern Pop Festival 2019.Photo by Alexander Kellnerl. – r.: Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Lee Kiernan, Adam Devonshire and Joe Talbot   This week’s prompt got me scrambling my brain for a song that taps into the raw sexual energy of one’s – mine, in particular — libido, which Freud said…

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#SLS — “Spill The Wine,” by Eric Burdon and War

When I saw what the prompt was for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, so many songs popped into my head, which means it’s a good prompt.  Thanks, Nancy!  I originally wrote this for one of hanspostcard’s song drafts back in 2021.  It’s an iconic groovefest that never grows old.  Eric Burdon as frontman for War…

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