It is currently raining very lightly and I am just so happy, gang. Not only did the heatwave break, but I am totally loving my new gutters and downspouts and new roof and new ceilings….
So let it just rain and rain.
I am planning to work on the screenplay adaptation of The Guide to Being Fabulous today. I just love having my brain back.
Honestly, there is no news that is that urgent that it needs reposting here.
Here’s this from Ross K. Nichols–
What is Manna? (58 mins):
Other than that, enjoy your beautiful Sunday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Some listening-music from this morning!!! (And the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love” is 43-years old TODAY!! Where did the time go??) Okay, enjoy.
Tears for Fears “Pale Shelter”, 1983:
Tom Tom Cub “Genius of Love”, 1981:
Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man”, 1968:
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers “Runnin’ Down A Dream”, 1989:
I know — I look a lot younger when I’m soaking wet…
Okay. So, today is supposed to be the final day of the heatwave.
In case you don’t know, or you’ve forgotten, I don’t have AC in my 123-year-old house. But I do have 21 enormous windows and 2 brand new ceiling fans!! But it’s still unbelievably hot. And sunny!
Mostly, the intense heat just makes it really hard for me to think straight, so I haven’t gotten much writing done the past few days. So I’m looking forward to tomorrow and getting my brain back, even though it’s going to rain.
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Okay.
Not much “news”.
Here’s the weekly Fulford Report!! Always of interest.
Benjamin Fulford Update Today June 21, 2024 – Benjamin Fulford (19 mins):
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News roundup —
Keyboard Operator – 6/21/2024 Several SCOTUS rulings. COVID origins documents coming out (51 mins):
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Dan Bongino was off the charts with this one from Thursday —
F Around And Find Out (Ep. 2775) – 06/20/2024 (58 mins):
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And I guess that is it for today.
I hope you’re enjoying your Saturday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!!
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Another great one from the 80s!! I loved this song so much when it first came out. I played it non-stop. Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life”. Perfect bounce for a sunny day. Enjoy, gang!
Yes, it’s very, very hot around here and it’s not at all conducive to thinking in any way whatsoever. But at least it is yet again a really pretty day!
Regarding the “news” — it does seem to be ratcheting up all over the place, doesn’t it?
If you listened to that news roundup that I posted last night, the 2 items I liked the most were about Trump being recognized as the US President by foreign countries now that the Supreme Court is (allegedly) FINALLY going to announce that they heard the Brunson case, which overturns the 2020 election. (I believe they heard the case a long time ago, they just haven’t gone public with their ruling yet).
There was also a quick mention of JFK Jr. appearing at a 4th of July celebration?? That went by so fast (plus I was driving when I was listening to it), that I almost missed that item. But that would be a huge BOOM, wouldn’t it??
We shall see how it all goes, gang. But it does seem that ever since Phil’s “Boom” livestream on Tuesday, the news coming from everywhere is just getting so intense (and very promising).
Charlie is in transit, so he wasn’t able to do his news update today, but here are Drew and Paul.
CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 2024 (21 mins):
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Restored Republic – ON FIRE: TED CRUZ JUMPS ON TRUMP’S ‘NO TAX ON TIPS’ IDEA AND INTRODUCES BILL (4 mins):
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News roundup.
Keyboard Operator – 6/20/2024 Developments in Trump cases. AG Bailey sues NY over election interference. (34 mins):
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Ross & Jono – Thou Shalt Display 10 Commandments in Public Schools (51 mins):
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New series begins from James Tabor.
Identifying Bible Interpolations The False Pen of the Scribes! (20 mins):
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And on Tuesday, June 25, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will release Part 2 of “The Making of Wild God“. Visit the link below to get notified!
Also, June 25th, is when Nick Cave will resume the final leg of his Solo Tour 2024 in Finland (for 3 nights), then on to Iceland (for 3 nights) however, it is all SOLD OUT.
Nick Cave in Sydney recently, thinking about how cool it was that the Finland and Iceland shows are already sold out…
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Okay. I think that’s it, gang. And please, just to be safe — keep cash at home (preferably in small bills), full tank of gas in the car, extra food on hand for you & your pets! July is likely to be VERY interesting.
Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Yes, one of the best songs ever!! I’ve posted it here before, but here it is again, to get your Friday kicked into a happy gear. Enjoy, gang!!
Yes, I’m heading to town here soon to get all the MANY groceries — which, of course includes food for my many frisky cats.
Yes, it’s kind of unreal how much food very young cats eat compared to what my own cats eat, now that they’re 12 years old…
However, 2 of my co-workers at the train station are pitching in to help keep these FIVE young cats fed. (I am fostering them, indefinitely, and maybe even forever. We’ll see.)
So. Yesterday.
I didn’t get my new front door yet, because all those many guys came back to finish the gutters and soffits on my new roof! I had no idea this hadn’t been done already. They were here for 8 incredibly noisy hours yesterday and were not able to install the new door yet. So they’re coming back one day this week to take care of the door.
Want to hear a story that brought tears to my eyes? I’ve posted here before about how, in this little village I live in, during the summer months when school is out, an old-fashioned “ice cream truck” goes around the village giving free hot lunches to kids in need. A local family owns the truck and does this all by themselves.
The truck was out and about yesterday. It stopped in front of my house to give 3 young girls hot lunches to take home. And then, if that wasn’t cool enough — the man got out and gave hot lunches to all the Mexican guys who were here working on my roof!! The workmen, most of whom didn’t speak English, were stunned when the man wouldn’t take any money for it. “No — it’s free!” So all the workmen got an unexpected free lunch.
I happened to be looking out my upstairs window when it all happened and it just broke my heart in the best way.
The hot lunch “ice cream truck” in Frazeysburg and the family that runs it.
Meanwhile, today I am getting a new ceiling fan installed in my family room! Right at dinner time, so that should be fun.
For posterity, I took photos of my old door before it gets replaced. I love this old door, gang. The iron work on it is so cool. And the history of it fascinates me: who went in & out of this door, and looked through its window, during the last 123 years? You can’t really see the iron work in the photos, nevertheless —
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In other news–
The lovely French actress Anouk Aimee has died. She was 92 (!!). I really loved her.
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For some reason, this next post has a lot of people arguing that the “fence” around the Supreme Court is normal, and also, outdated photos of the really tall older fence are circulating, causing the disputes.
“Waist high fencing has been installed all the way around the SC building. I was told it was for some decisions that are about to come down.”
She has her usual video footage to support it.
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Phil did not do his live last night, but hopes to do it tonight, instead, at 8PM Eastern time. He is planning a second one for tomorrow night, as well. Check here later to confirm.
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Charlie’s update for today – CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – TUESDAY 18TH JUNE 2024 (17 mins):
Keyboard Operator – 6/18/2024 Looks like HRC is preparing to swap in for Biden (34 mins):
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Matt Roeske — Vaseline Cobalt Glass, Copper, Healthy ways, Crystals, and Borax (54 mins):
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James Tabor – Lost in Translation: The Redeemer in the Book of Job is NOT Jesus! (22 mins):
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Ross K. Nichols — A Synoptic Synopsis – Exodus/Numbers/Deuteronomy (1 hr 15 mins):
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And I think that’s it for now, gang.
After I get back from town, I have a bunch of writing to do on both the screenplay adaptation and the staged-reading versions of our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous”.
So, have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Listening-music from breakfast today! “American Girl” live! (The video below is not the version I was listening to, but I like the video because it is so Tom Petty in 1978…)
“American Girl” was the first single from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers first album (1976). It did not chart here in the US, but did chart in the UK. However, it still became a classic Tom Petty song. And oddly enough, it was the last song Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played together live (in LA), before he died a week later (2017).
I could do an entire post about why I love this song and what it has meant to me, but for now, I’ll just post the video. Enjoy, gang!!
“American Girl”
Well, she was an American girl Raised on promises She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there Was a little more to life somewhere else After all, it was a great big world With lots of places to run to And if she had to die tryin’ She had one little promise she was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right Take it easy, baby Make it last all night (Make it last all night) She was an American girl
Well, it was kind of cold that night She stood alone on her balcony (Ooh) Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by Out on 441 like waves crashin’ on the beach And for one desperate moment there He crept back in her memory God, it’s so painful when something that is so close Is still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right Take it easy, baby Make it last all night (Make it last all night) She was an American girl (Ooh)
And if you’re not a father, then happy Sunday, wherever you are in the world.
I have no “news” today. Instead, I just wanted to share a quick post for Father’s Day.
I’m not going to be able to get down to see my dad’s grave today. But I’m planning to just enjoy the day, regardless. It is really beautiful and peaceful here today and all I have on my plate is editing the new collection of short stories, A Man in Her Arms & Other Stories. So it should be a really nice day.
Here are just a few random photos I found of my dad this morning.
Below — my dad and my stepmom, Marie, came to visit us in 1994, after Wayne and I had been married for 1 year. Here we are having Sunday brunch, which, back then, was always bagels, lox & cream cheese!
Above — the final photo I have of my dad with my grandma up in Cleveland — she was, by far, my most favorite person on Earth. She died not long after this photo was taken. (1989)
My dad out west, in the mid-1990s. My stepmom, Marie, took the photo.
My dad and Marie and me and Wayne at the South Street Seaport in NYC, 1994.
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Since all the photos I have of my birth dad are scattered all over the place, I decided to just focus this post on my adoptive dad, who passed away 2 months ago.
If I can gather together the few photos I have of my birth dad, I might come back and do another post. We’ll see.
Okay, everyone. have a great day today, wherever you are .
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Here it is again, gang. “Teach Your Children,” by CSN &Y. Enjoy.
Splendid weather around here today, gang. Tomorrow, we’re supposed to get a heat wave underway for several days, but today is just perfect.
I am really wanting to head down to see my dad’s grave tomorrow, since it’s Father’s Day and I haven’t been to the cemetery since his funeral. So I haven’t actually seen his gravestone yet.
But I’m not sure I can afford the gas to get there and back. We’ll have to play it by ear.
Meanwhile, the Rolling Stones play Cleveland today, and Cleveland Magazine has been making a lot of Stones-related posts on their Instagram page for the last couple of days. (Apparently, the Stones have been in Cleveland since Thursday.)
Cleveland Magazine posted this photo this morning, which I just love. It is from the 1975 concert that I was at. I was closer to the stage than these people are, but I can tell by where they are in the stadium that these people would have all been right behind me.
It’s not only cool to have this photo as a sort of memento of the times back then, but it’s really cool to know that all these people were in the same place I was on one day in history, 49 years ago. Just so cool to wonder who they were and what they did with their lives.
Cleveland Stadium June 14, 1975
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Okay.
Time for another update from Benjamin Fulford — always an engaging thing to listen to, trying to figure out what is optics and why. But overall, most of it is very good news.
Benjamin Fulford Update Today June 14, 2024 (19 mins):
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Another interesting news roundup.
Keyboard Operator – 6/14/2024 Allegations the Vegas shooting was done with a machine gun (26 mins):
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Another update that made me laugh a lot as I was driving home. (FYI, for me, the first couple minutes of this did not have sound.)
Dan Bongino – The Troubling CIA – DOJ Connection (Ep. 2271) – 06/14/2024 (58 mins):
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Phil is expecting to go live on Monday night, 6/17. The time has not been announced yet.
Phil re-posted several very interesting posts from Lin Wood this morning.
You can start here and scroll, but I especially liked this one because it makes a point that I hadn’t seen before:
“Did President Trump lead the way for the manufacture of historic numbers of ventilators primarily for the treatment of Covid-19 or to save the children who had been in underground cages breathing artificial air for years???
Do the research. Connect the dots. Draw your own conclusions.
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸”
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Nigel Watson – MSM JOURNALIST DROPS A HUGE TRUTH BOMB (15 mins):
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This (the video below) was a huge issue in Ohio, back when I was working at the health food/supplement store and all of us there were trying so hard to help people who were under serious pressure to get the vax . You couldn’t attend school or college, couldn’t play sports, you couldn’t go to your job if you didn’t get the vax, and a TON of people died around here because they got that thing. Or they took it, got sick, went into the hospital, then got remdesivir and died that way.
The saddest was when people came in to see us, desperate to help their kid or their parents who were basically being held prisoner in the local hospital. Trying to sneak their loved ones Vitamin D3 and zinc, like those were illegal drugs. And then when the people came back to the store only to tell us that their parent or child had died anyway from a mandated “vaccine”. It just made us try to fight back harder. It was truly us against the hospitals back then.
That tiny little store was the hub of so much great work in such a small town. People came to us for everything — for handwritten recipes for Hydroxychloroquine, or which Tractor Supply outlet had a new stock of ivermectin, or the latest all-natural protocols for fighting coronavirus and/or the vax.
We even were blessed to have a bunch of tall old white pine trees on the store’s property, so we were able to give customers fresh branches of white pine needles so that they could make their own pine needle tea — a remedy for fighting the spike-proteins that vaxed people were shedding like crazy back then.
And everything was done in secret, in whispers. (“Practicing medicine without a license” would have gotten the store closed down.) What an intense time. I worked there from 2020 to 2023, and basically got paid nothing and was hopelessly broke the entire time, but I will never forget it.
And even at the train station now, people will come in who remember me from the health food store and they say the kindest things — they are still alive because of something we helped them do. It was an exhausting time but worth every minute of the fight.
Since Ohio is “Trump” country, it seemed like that was why they really pushed hard around here, mandating that vax. They wanted to kill or maim as many Trump-voters as they could — and in many ways, they succeeded.
Anyway.
Sanity4Sweden – SIN, CHURCH PEOPLE, THE MOVIE FARGO, AND A TOUGH CLIP FROM OHIO (5 mins):
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Okay, that’s it for today.
Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Driving to town music from yesterday! Enjoy, gang!
Not much “news” really. One thing that stands out to me, though — everyone is trying to be up in arms about Russian nuclear subs, etc., being off the coast of Florida…
Some are mentioning how close Florida is to Cuba and here comes another Cold War (fear porn, don’t fall for it)–
“🇷🇺🇨🇺🇺🇲 The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video of the arrival of the missile submarine cruiser Kazan and the frigate Admiral Gorshkov at the Cuban port of Havana.”
And Keyboard Operator brings up the connection between Cuba and Gitmo, which I find much more interesting. (Remember, gang — the “true” USA and Russia are Allies.)
6/12/2024 Updates on world events (18 mins):
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The guys over at Jeff.pro have another big announcement. They’re getting ready to launch their own search engine. (And btw — their free LibreOffice, software that replaces Microsoft Word, is really great. I still use both, but LibreOffice is really, really good.)
Anyway– they are holding a launch event for the new search engine:
“We are pleased to announce that after nearly three years of work, we built a new, proprietary, branded online Search Engine in exactly the way Jeff.pro subscribers told us they would like, and it’s really, really good. 🙂 In fact, it’s good enough to actually make your life better in ways you will immediately notice every day, once you start using it!”
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2024
Time: 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Venue: Online, accessible from the comfort of your own home!
I can’t wait until we have that new Internet. In the last 2 months, Spectrum has gone up $50, and I almost always have only one bar, sometimes two, and it is really slow. I’ve looked into other services around here and, aside from satellite service, which I don’t like, there is nothing cheaper out here. And all I have is Internet. I don’t even have cable tv, but the price now is just ludicrous.
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Okay. Charlie’s update today was brief —
CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – THURSDAY 13TH JUNE 2024 (10 mins):
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That’s really it today, gang.
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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More breakfast-listening music from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ great album, MOJO, from 2010. “Running Man’s Bible.”
I’ve posted this one here before. I really think Tom wrote this song as a sort of “love song” for himself & the Heartbreakers. I just love it. Enjoy!!
“Running Man’s Bible”
You’re with me tonight on this dark highway We’ve run it together So many times We’ve run it for money We’ve run it for music We’ve run it to pay for our innocent crimes
I took on my father and I’m still walkin’ Took on all comers in some shape or form And I see with the eyes of somethin’ wounded Somethin’ still standing after the storm
Here’s one to glory and survival And stayin’ alive It’s the running man’s Bible I been next in line
I been next to nothin’ Been next to bystanders Who shoulda said somethin’ It was not in my vision It was not in my mind To return from a mission A man left behind
Here’s one to glory And survival And stayin’ alive It’s the runnin’ man’s Bible I don’t speak of the times I’ve nearly died
I don’t speak of out lastin’ those who are gone Or the things I’ve done I care not to remember Or the desperate measures That might have been wrong
Honey here’s one to glory Here’s to bad weather And all the hard things We’ve been through together
Here’s to the golden rule and survival And to stayin’ alive It’s the runnin’ man’s Bible Here’s one to glory and survival And stayin’ alive It’s the runnin’ man’s Bible
But as I’m sure you’ve heard, “Hunter Biden” was found guilty yesterday and will likely be sentenced to prison.
One good thing about this, though, is that, since he’s allegedly already dead, it won’t cost the State of Delaware very much to feed him for the next 25 years…
Okay.
Here’s Charlie’s update — for some reason, it won’t let me embed the video today, so you have to use the link:
CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE 2024 (17 mins):
Sanity4Sweden – HEAVY METAL MESSAGE, UNCOMFORTABLE CLOWN JUSTIN, ANGER AND A SMART RABBIT (6 mins):
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More optics but I love this one!! [From the comfort of her prison cell, if she’s even still alive] Nancy Pelosi admits that she should have had the National Guard present on Jan 6… no kidding.
Dan Bongino – The REAL January 6th Story Is Starting To Come Out (Ep. 2268) – 06/11/2024 (59 mins):
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X22 Report – EP. 3376B – [HB] CONVICTED, [NP] J6 REVEALED, IT’S NOT WHAT IT SEEMS, DRAFT, TRUMP IS 5 STEPS AHEAD (1 hr 15 mins):
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RT – BRICS BRINGS NEW DIMENSION TO WORLD WHERE PEOPLE HAVE MORE CHOICE – SRI LANKAN FM (2 mins):
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SGT Major – WAS THERE A HISTORY RESET? A LOOK AT FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA [2019-02-19]- CAMBELL PURVIS (28 mins):
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In other news, the wonderful French singer Francoise Hardy has died at the age of 80, gang.
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And in my own news–
Here is what the cover art for my new book will look like!! Thanks so much to Valerie in Brooklyn!!
It will be published in print and as an eBook as soon as I’m finished editing it. (Again, these are erotic short stories and intended for ADULT READERS ONLY.)
And, off the record, there is GREAT news regarding the Off Broadway staged reading of our play, The Guide to Being Fabulous, but I can’t post it to the blog yet!! As soon as I can, I will.
And that’s it for today.
Have a wonder-filled Wednesday, wherever you are in the world, gang!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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My morning-listening music!!! (With many, many cats scampering everywhere!!)
From Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ‘ album, MOJO, 2010, “Let yourself Go”. I love this effing song! Well, I love the whole album, actually. Okay. Enjoy, gang.
“Let Yourself Go”
Rain on the river, I’m soaking wet Waiting on a friend who ain’t come yet And he might not get here for three or four days Got to make a little bit go a long way
I’ve got a blond-headed woman who likes to come around Cute little hippy girl lives in town Brings a bag of records and she plays ’em ’til dawn Give me little loving then she got to go home
When times are hard When you start feeling low Let yourself go When the river’s rising And the world feels cold Let yourself go Let yourself go
I got a 442 sitting in the sun Well it’d been ten years since she used to run Man, she was a beauty in ’69 But there ain’t no more coming down the line
When times are hard And you start feeling low Let yourself go When the river’s rising And your world feels cold Let yourself go Honey, let yourself go Let yourself go
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