Sunday, October 04, 2009

Remembering



Put salt out for the deer
Bake coffee cake and biscuits in the iron oven
Gary Synder “Things to Do Around a Lookout"

Things to Remember While Listening
to One Hundred Folk Songs



A morning at the Harper’s Ferry Folk Festival
Listening to music played on a cigar box dulcimer
Watching a mountain man
Tune sets of strings on a hammered dulcimer

Four women sing "Amazing Grace" A capella
and transform a field into Holy space

“We’ll walk hand in hand…”
Reading psalms on top of Old Rag Mountain

“I do believe…”

A Wolf Trap concert—
Joan Baez sang in bare feet
“With God on Our Side”

Where are the protest songs now?


Pete Seeger at Queens College
During Academic Freedom Week
We sing…

“And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.”


“and I know what I’ll do tomorrow…”

A maple trestle table
In the kitchen
Ballads strummed on a guitar

“It’s a mighty hard road…”

1 Comments:

Anonymous Jan said...

Good question. What happened to protest songs? Everything already written?

October 05, 2009  

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