From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #345 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, October 6 2001 Volume 03 : Number 345 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: war songs [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] Re: war songs [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] Re: war songs [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] Goodnight Saigon ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:57:21 EDT From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: war songs I like the Billy Joel one, on the Allentown album (another senior moment, must be the post RSAT stress syndrome). I also like Life During Wartime by Talking Heads, way outta the folkie ballpark. I was listening to it the other day, and after the 9/11 tragedy, it had such relevance and resonance! Funny how so many songs now take on new power and meaning, like heard for the first time. Even tho it's not a war song, I do like Bruce Springsteen's song Independence Day for some reason. And of course there's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, the Band version bien sur. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:57:20 EDT From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: war songs I like the Billy Joel one, on the Allentown album (another senior moment, must be the post RSAT stress syndrome). I also like Life During Wartime by Talking Heads, way outta the folkie ballpark. I was listening to it the other day, and after the 9/11 tragedy, it had such relevance and resonance! Funny how so many songs now take on new power and meaning, like heard for the first time. Even tho it's not a war song, I do like Bruce Springsteen's song Independence Day for some reason. And of course there's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, the Band version bien sur. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:57:23 EDT From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: war songs I like the Billy Joel one, on the Allentown album (another senior moment, must be the post RSAT stress syndrome). I also like Life During Wartime by Talking Heads, way outta the folkie ballpark. I was listening to it the other day, and after the 9/11 tragedy, it had such relevance and resonance! Funny how so many songs now take on new power and meaning, like heard for the first time. Even tho it's not a war song, I do like Bruce Springsteen's song Independence Day for some reason. And of course there's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, the Band version bien sur. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 00:28:38 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Goodnight Saigon Laura wrote: >>I like the Billy Joel one, on the Allentown album (another senior moment, must be the post RSAT stress syndrome).<< "Goodnight Saigon". And it is a beautiful song. I grew up on Billy Joel (not surprising that I was a Queens child of the 70s). Goodnight Saigon -- Billy Joel THE NYLON CURTAIN (C) 1982 We met as soul mates On Parris Island We left as inmates From an asylum And we were sharp As sharp as knives And we were so gung ho To lay down our lives We came in spastic Like tameless horses We left in plastic As numbered corpses And we learned fast To travel light Our arms were heavy But our bellies were tight We had no home front We had no soft soap They sent us Playboy They gave us Bob Hope We dug in deep And shot on sight And prayed to Jesus Christ With all of our might We had no cameras To shoot the landscape We passed the hash pipe And played our Doors tapes And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Yes we would all go down together Remember Charlie Remember Baker They left their childhood On every acre And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the fight We held the day In the palm Of our hand They ruled the night And the night Seemed to last as long as six weeks On Parris Island We held the coastline They held the highlands And they were sharp As sharp as knives They heard the hum of our motors They counted the rotors And waited for us to arrive And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Yes we would all go down together ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #345 ***********************************