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Joy To The World   singalong

8/12/2023

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Here are the words.  You know what to do!
(video posted below) 

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine

Singin' joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

And if I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you

Sing it now, joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

You know I love the ladies
Love to have my fun
I'm a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straight shootin' son-of-a-gun
I said a straight shootin' son-of-a-gun

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the world
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world (yeah, yeah)
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me (yeah, now sing it baby)

Joy to the world
Joy to you and me
You know I meant, joy to the world
You know I meant joy
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

You know I meant, joy to the world
You know I meant Joy
All the boys and girls (yeah, yeah)
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me (ah yeah you)

Joy to the world (I meant you and me)
All the boys and girls
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Writer/s: Hoyt Wayne Axton
Publisher: Capitol CMG Publishing, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Whether it's Dolly and company singing about Romeo or En Vogue and Salt -n- Pepa declaring whatta man they've got, sometimes the men just have to be pretty and make us happy. The handclaps will come back by the bridge. Happy Monday! Have some fun today.

7/24/2023

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Sometimes you just need to turn up the volume and sing along.

7/9/2023

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Sometimes Movies Can Inspire           (plus I freaking love Carroll Shelby.)

5/17/2023

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Three minutes into the movie I'm watching...

Doctor to Matt Damon: Your aortic valve is shot.

My Mother: Maybe you don't need to watch this.

Me watching Ford v. Ferrari:
Picture
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An update because it's been a while.

5/7/2023

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Good morning! Yesterday I had a shot injected into each eye.

I do this because I want to keep my sight.

I also do this because I very nearly lost everything that mattered to me last year without realizing exactly how sick I was. My mother, nephew, and niece kept me going. It should also be said that the doctors, nurses, and techs kept me alive.

I am fighting every day to get better. My reconstructed heart and the body that contains it are getting a lot of TLC from me. Sometimes it's frustrating, especially when I hurt all over and feel like hot garbage. When I first got out of the hospital, I had to regain my ability to walk, write with a pen, and knit. Three years of self-paced maths, physics, engineering, astronomy, and German are making a very slow comeback. I am relearning music theory and rehabilitating my instruments. My studio is being de-junked so I can make things again. I even successfully wrote a grant for a press, which is now here and I am anxious to unbox it.

You know what? I'll take it. To do any less is to reject the gift of the love I saw when I was in the hospital. It rejects the effort put forth by people who stepped up to tell me this is Life 2.0.

Back to those shots. They probably sound horrific and I may have left some of you back there. They are not that bad. They only hurt a little after the numbing agent wears off and I usually sleep through the effects. But as fun as it is to talk about getting needles in my eyes as an Ooh! GROSS! thing, there is so much more to say that is really important.

I have made progress. My eyes are getting better. We celebrated that as much as we could in a very busy clinic. This is one of the parts of my care that feels good. These are good people. (Hat tip to my surgeon and his staff as well.) One of their staffers went to the mattresses ("When Harry Met Sally" reference for those of you wondering) to be sure I would be able to get the meds needed to make this happen. Their kindness broke me in a good way when I needed it.

If you are healthy, breathing, alive, and able to enjoy what loveliness there is, what gifts you have been given, and the scale in breadth and depth of how beautiful humanity can be, please embrace that. If you are in pain and this occluded all of the above, please get help. Sometimes I wonder what I might have missed if I hadn't gotten sick by dint of taking so much for granted.

Here's a video of chickens wearing pants to show what a weird, wonderful world we live in. <3
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