Rfduck, the music-loving mememeister, has gone off and gotten jiggy with those wahoos of the environmental left. See for yourself:
“Hi everyone! Another week is here, and with it comes another Monday Music Mambo. Today is World Environment Day. What I want you to do today is give me a song or artist related to each of the basic world elements:”
And what I have done is give songs that have been sung by Jerry Garcia that address each of the quaternaries of the world, because I'm in a Jerry Garcia state of mind:
Fire – Fire On The Mountain by Robert Hunter & Mickey Hart, modified lyrics by Jerry Garcia
Water – Off To Sea Once More traditional, sung by Jerry on the Shady Grove album
Earth – Save Mother Earth by M Saunders, E Lewis, Played by Jerry Garcia with Merl Saunders in the early 1970s
Sky – Ghost Riders In The Sky by Stan Jones Played by Jerry Garcia at a studio session in Novato on August 21, 1971
Finding one for water was kinda difficult – Jerry was a sky pilot and an earth sprite but never a water witch.
“If that's not enough for you, give me a few songs about things that destroy the environment.” So sayeth rfduck...
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes -- Jerome Kern and Otto Harback
Oil On Water – Raspberry Silk
There you have my choices. Click the link below to play along and have a good week, everybody... stay cool.
The rules are, there are no rules!!! All you need to do is copy and paste the above questions into your blog and add your responses. After you've finished, return here and leave us a comment so we'll know you've Mamboed. Be sure your Mambo is linked back to http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com so others can dance too.
Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn't inspire you then simply "pass" it. Just use your imagination and dance like crazy!
If you don't have a blog or you're an exhibitionist *woo hoo* feel free to Mambo right here in our comments section. There's absolutely no pressure ... although it's called the Monday Music Mambo you can Mambo on any day.
Until next time, this is your music-lovin' Mememeister saying have a good Monday and a good Mambo!
Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Mickey Hart
Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
You're playin' cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.
Theres a dragon with matches thats loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
Chorus
Fire! fire on the mountain!
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
You say its a livin', we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, theres no one to compete.
If mercy's a business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true.
Chorus
Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really cant fake.
Chorus
Robert Hunter wrote two additional verses that the Grateful Dead never performed
Baby's in scarlet, her shackles in gray
If loves to love she's got it salted away
Out of the rat trap and under the wire
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Put it down heavy, strip it down lean
Got to lay it down dirty and play it back clean
Fireman, fireman, call off your dog
This isn't a blaze, it's just a hog in the log
Cut up in sections, squirming alive
Lost to the world on that fifty-cent jive
There's a fire on the mountain, running around
What doesn't go up can never come down
Mickey Hart recorded this as a rap-type studio version ages ago, and now performs a similar version with Mystery Box and The Other Ones. These include yet another verse:
Wound in barbed wire, hell I ain't sore
Only hurts when I laugh, or roll on the floor
Only hurts a little, at least that's what I'm told
When you drown in hot oil it can even feel cold
I know I'm in love but I can't tell you why
It feels like poison, shoot me down when I cry
He also mixes around the additional Hunter verses, and adds one further couplet:
Gonna drink a hot water before I die
It cools me down, I ain't telling no lie
Hunter sang a version with the Dinosaurs in January 1984 which again mixes around the order of the couplets, and includes an additional opening verse - partly ad-libbed:
I asked my mother for fifteen cents
To see this Italian fella jump the fence
He jumped so high [fell] on the [grass]
Ever see an Italian French fry, yes, yes, yes
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