Shuffle It Up
("Smorga's Bored", 2002, Chicago, Ezra Soiferman)
Anyone who's used iTunes knows the power of the Shuffle feature. It basically randomizes all the songs on your computer.
Just wanted to thank whomever invented this function. It really adds that great 'buffet feeling' to another important part of life: musicalization.
Here's to mixing things up in the world and having a soundtrack to go along with it.
Ez
3 comments:
Ez,
What's on your Shuffle now?
Ezra
Ezra,
"Little Seed" with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, sung by Cissy Houston.
Little Seed
Take my little hoe, dig a hole in the ground
Take my little seed and I plant it down;
Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
We’ll all dance around and see my little seed grow.
CHORUS:
Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo,
Let’s all dance around and see my little seed grow.
The rain it come and it washed my ground
I thought my little seed was going to drown
I waded and I splashed and I carried my seed
I planted it again on some higher ground.
Chorus
The sun got hot and my ground got dry.
I thought my little seed would burn and dir.
I carried some water from a watering mill,
I said, “Little, you can drink your fill.”
Chorus
The snow it blowed and the wind it blew;
My little seed grew and it grew and it grew.
It grew up a cradle all soft inside;
And a baby was sleeping there covered over with vines.
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
© Copyright 1956 (renewed) and 1963 (renewed) by TRO-Folkways Music, Inc.
Take care and 'tooky tooky'!
Ez
Ezra,
One more thing... I'm cheating... I just stomped on the clutch and jammed iTunes out of Shuffle and into Repeat-1 mode.
Been listening to Little Seed over and over. It's that good.
Folk on,
Ez
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