POEMS: Andy’s Sunshine and November Morn
We’re doing an Andy Williams tribute as well as rewriting the lyrics to Neil Diamond’s “September Morn” on this week’s CPC Friday Fling.
WARNING: The second is politically charged and may offend some Socialists. If you are one, please don’t bother to read it.
NOVEMBER MORN
Pray for just a while.
God insists I vote for you.
It’s not been long, I hardly know you.
What have we in store?
Pray for me a while.
We know we want to vote for you.
You’ve travelled all across this land
to find A-mer-i-ca!
November morn:
a chance of turning night into new day,
when voters must end scenes from his nightmarish plays.
November morn we hope will cure our sad malaise.
Look at what he’s done.
He’s criticized until we hurled.
I still can hear him whining
how Bush caused all of our gloom.
Look how far down we’ve come,
so far from where we used to be.
But not so far that we’ve forgotten
how it was before.
November morn:
we all remember how he drove freedom away;
one leader playing scenes from some nightmarish play.
November morning votes can make him go away.
Copyright September 27th 2012 RGD
Canadian Sunset
Andy Williams
Words and Music by Norman Gimbel and Eddie Heywood
peak Billboard position # 7 in 1956
competing version by writer Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter hit # 2
Once I was alone
So lonely and then
You came, out of nowhere
Like the sun up from the hills
Cold, cold was the wind
Warm, warm were your lips
Out there, on that ski trail
Where your kiss filled me with thrills
A weekend in Canada, a change of scene
Was the most I bargained for
And then I discovered you and in your eyes
I found the love that I couldn’t ignore
Down, down came the sun
Fast, fast, fast, beat my heart
I knew when the sun set
From that day, we’d never ever part
Stay for just a while
Stay and let me look at you
It’s been so long, I hardly knew you
Standing in the door
Stay with me a while
I only wanna talk to you
We’ve traveled halfway ’round the world
To find ourselves again
September morn
We danced until the night
Became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way
Look at what you’ve done
Why, you’ve become a grown-up girl
I still can hear you crying
In a corner of your room
And look how far we’ve come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we’ve forgotten
How it was before
September morn
Do you remember
How we danced that night away
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way