A Couple of Tunes for the Sake of the Day
Posted By Randy on March 17, 2013
No beard back then, but I do have beer. I believe this was taken the day beer was invented. It was green due to chlorophyll content, and when exposed to sunlight it made more beer! Alas, the recipe has been lost. (click to enbiggen)
It’s all about the booze and the music today. I can’t pour you a dram through the internet, ‘though you all know I would if I could, but at least I can share a little LFM musical preference.
This Dennis Leary classic should need no big fanfare of introduction. Have a listen!
My Friend Peter Thompson has my assurance that I will honour his request to sing this over the corpse at his wake. If the corpse is his, well then all the better, but I’m not fussy. Come to think of it, he first asked me to do this a couple years ago, and I’m starting to doubt his sincerity about dying. So much so that I’ve suggested a practice wake … kind of like a wedding rehearsal for the living dead. Listen to this while you think on that.
The Parting Glass – ” Fekken Brilliant “.
And a toast fittin the day
” Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away.
What care I how time advances;
I am drinking ale today. ”
–Edgar Allen Poe
Happy St Pats
Martin M
My Esteemed Friend Martin, may your coffin be built from the wood of a thousand year old Oak tree that I promise to plant as soon as the ground thaws.
And now on to this from the Great Spike Milligan:
We have cracked the midnight glass
And loosed the racketing star crazed night into the room.
The blind harp sings in the late fire light.
Your hand is decked with white promises.
What wine is this?
There are Squirrels chasing in my glass.
Good God.
I’m pissed.
Now I'll have to die 9 Times! Salute my friend!