jvencius
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Yep--the title I was thinking of was "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or at least that's how I learned it when I was joining the Drill Team at PSU).
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Yep--the title I was thinking of was "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or at least that's how I learned it when I was joining the Drill Team at PSU).
big_rooster
HNIC
motley crue's
girls girls girls
always brings a tear to the eye
girls girls girls
always brings a tear to the eye
Drinking song?
"Oh ‘twas there I learned readin’ and writin’
at Bill Bracket’s where I went to school
and ‘twas there I learned howlin’ and fightin’
from my schoolmaster Mr. O’Toole
him and me we had many a scrimmage
and the devil a copy I wrote
there was ne’er a garson in the village
dared tread on the tail of me
mush mush mush too roo li addy
singin’ mush mush mush too ri li ay
there was ne’ere a garson in the village
dared tread on the tail of me coat
Oh ‘twas there I learned all of my courtin’
many lessons I took up in the art
till Cupid the Blackguard in sportin’
an arrow drove straight through me heart
Molly Connor she lived right forinst me
and tender lines to her I wrote
If you dare say one hard word against her
I’ll tread on the tail of your
mush mush mush too roo li addy
singin’ mush mush mush too ri li ay
If you dare say one hard word against her
I’ll tread on the tail of your coat
But a blackguard called Mickey Maloney
came and stole her affections away
he had money and I hadn’t any
so I sent him a challenge next day
that evenin’ we met by the woodbine
The Shannon we crossed in a boat
and I lathered him with me shillelagh
for he trod on the tail of me
mush mush mush too roo li addy
singin’ mush mush mush too ri li ay
and I lathered him with me shillelagh
for he trod on the tail of me coat
Oh me fame went abroad through the nations
and folks came a flockin’ to see
and they cried out without hesitation
“you’re a fightin’man Billy McGhee”
I cleaned out the Finegan’s faction
and I licked all the Murphy’s afloat
if you’re in for a row or a ruction
just tread on the tail of me
mush mush mush too roo li addy
if you’re in for a row or a ruction
just tread on the tail of me coat
There are several good reasons for drinkin’
and another one enters me head
if a fellow can’t drink when he’s livin’
how the Hell can he drink when he’s dead
mush mush mush too roo li addy
singin’ mush mush mush too ri li ay
if a fellow can’t drink when he’s livin’
how the Hell can he drink when he’s dead"
Vegas250RR
GPS GURU!
well I am not a veteran... but the song by Big& Rich "gets me"
8TH of November
Said goodbye to his mamma
As he left South Dakota
To fight for the Red, White, and Blue.
He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
Just doing what he had to do.
He was dropped in the jungle
Where the choppers would rumble
With the smell of napalm in the air.
And the sergeant said, "Look up ahead"
Like a dark, evil cloud
1,200 came down
on him and 29 more.
They fought for their lives
But most of them died
In the 173rd Airborne.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Now he's fifty-eight
And his ponytail's grey
But the battle still plays in his head.
He limps when he walks,
But he's strong when he talks
About the shrapnel they left in his leg.
He puts on a grey suit
Over his Airborne tattoo
And He ties it on one time a year
And remembers the fallen,
As he orders a tall one
And swallows it down with his tears.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around,
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
The 8th of November
The 8th of November
He said goodbye to his mamma
As he left South Dakota
To fight for the Red, White, and Blue.
He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
Just doing what he had to do.
8TH of November
Said goodbye to his mamma
As he left South Dakota
To fight for the Red, White, and Blue.
He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
Just doing what he had to do.
He was dropped in the jungle
Where the choppers would rumble
With the smell of napalm in the air.
And the sergeant said, "Look up ahead"
Like a dark, evil cloud
1,200 came down
on him and 29 more.
They fought for their lives
But most of them died
In the 173rd Airborne.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Now he's fifty-eight
And his ponytail's grey
But the battle still plays in his head.
He limps when he walks,
But he's strong when he talks
About the shrapnel they left in his leg.
He puts on a grey suit
Over his Airborne tattoo
And He ties it on one time a year
And remembers the fallen,
As he orders a tall one
And swallows it down with his tears.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around,
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
The 8th of November
The 8th of November
He said goodbye to his mamma
As he left South Dakota
To fight for the Red, White, and Blue.
He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
Just doing what he had to do.
Crumm
Fordoholic
Lucky Man by Montgomery Gentry 
Hoss 350
My GSP, Dutch
Wings for Marie Parts 1&2 (10,000 days) by the band Tool.
Since I am sure that a good portion of you gents are probably not Tool fans, I'll give you a brief synopsis. The song(s) deal with the lead singer's (Maynard is his name) mother, who spent about 10,000 days (26 years or so, just about the same time I've been alive...) paralyzed and broken from disease. Maynard is an atheist. His mother was about as devoutly christian as one could possibly be. Despite her disease, her paralysis, and her wasted life and torture, she remained christian, devoutly faithful.
Maynard did not understand it. He even wrote songs about his confusion, and even his anger, at his mother for still loving a God that had obviously treated her so poorly. His mother's name, Judith Marie, was in the titles of two of his songs. The one above, and another detailing his frustrations years before his death, entitled "Judith".
"It's not like you killed someone.
it's not like you drove the hateful spear into his side
you pray for the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you...." Excerpt from the song "judith"
When she died, Maynard penned another song, wrought with grief, partially angry at God, partially thankful to his mother for truly saving him in a way that no one else had.
"So set am I in my ways and my arrogance
burden of proof tossed upon non-believers
you were my witness, my eyes, my evidence
Judith Marie... Unconditional one...."
"Should you see your maker's face tonight
look him in the eye
and tell him
I never lived a lie,
never took a life
but surely saved one
Hallelujah, it's time for you to take me home..."
And also his frustrations with others that claimed to be religious, but only did so for the posturing:
"Ignorant flippants in the congregation,
gather 'round spewing sympathy
spare me...."
"You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
shake your fists at the gate
screaming:
I HAVE COME HOME NOW
fetch me the spirit, the son and the Father,
tell them your pillar of faith has ascended
It's time now, my time now, give me my wings..."
Anyway, I will spare all of you the pain of reading 20 minutes worth of song lyrics. Suffice it to say that once I realized what the song was about, and the depth and feeling in the lyrics and the song, juxtaposed over the sound of a thunder storm at the beginning...
It got me a little misty....
Since I am sure that a good portion of you gents are probably not Tool fans, I'll give you a brief synopsis. The song(s) deal with the lead singer's (Maynard is his name) mother, who spent about 10,000 days (26 years or so, just about the same time I've been alive...) paralyzed and broken from disease. Maynard is an atheist. His mother was about as devoutly christian as one could possibly be. Despite her disease, her paralysis, and her wasted life and torture, she remained christian, devoutly faithful.
Maynard did not understand it. He even wrote songs about his confusion, and even his anger, at his mother for still loving a God that had obviously treated her so poorly. His mother's name, Judith Marie, was in the titles of two of his songs. The one above, and another detailing his frustrations years before his death, entitled "Judith".
"It's not like you killed someone.
it's not like you drove the hateful spear into his side
you pray for the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you...." Excerpt from the song "judith"
When she died, Maynard penned another song, wrought with grief, partially angry at God, partially thankful to his mother for truly saving him in a way that no one else had.
"So set am I in my ways and my arrogance
burden of proof tossed upon non-believers
you were my witness, my eyes, my evidence
Judith Marie... Unconditional one...."
"Should you see your maker's face tonight
look him in the eye
and tell him
I never lived a lie,
never took a life
but surely saved one
Hallelujah, it's time for you to take me home..."
And also his frustrations with others that claimed to be religious, but only did so for the posturing:
"Ignorant flippants in the congregation,
gather 'round spewing sympathy
spare me...."
"You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
shake your fists at the gate
screaming:
I HAVE COME HOME NOW
fetch me the spirit, the son and the Father,
tell them your pillar of faith has ascended
It's time now, my time now, give me my wings..."
Anyway, I will spare all of you the pain of reading 20 minutes worth of song lyrics. Suffice it to say that once I realized what the song was about, and the depth and feeling in the lyrics and the song, juxtaposed over the sound of a thunder storm at the beginning...
It got me a little misty....
godofdew11
Full Access Member
well growing up around the fire service and eventually becoming a firefighter myself, when i hear Amazing Grace on bagpipes i have a hard time keeping my eyes dry
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