Wheee...

[captain_phil]

First off a laurel and hearty handshake goes out to thejoshuatree13.


I actually got to do maintenance at work today! I did get two minor service calls, and was on the way home, but due to a traffic snarl on the blue bridge, I had to cut through Ironton and cross "The Scary Bridge", and made it home around 5 or so. I was going to venture out, but I have leftover pizza, a few beers, and some stuff to do here, so I opted to crank up some bluegrass, eat some leftover pizza, have a beer and get some stuff done.

Speaking of bluegrass, Steve Martin talked about how happy an instrument the banjo is, and I agree,but damn, there's some really dark stuff in bluegrass.


This is an old English song that Ralph Stanley recorded (The guy who sang "Oh Death" on "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?") called

ittle mathie grove

on a high, on a high
on a high holiday
on the very best day of the year
little mathie grove to the church did go
the holy word to hear
and some come in all dressed in white
some in purple and blue
and then come in, lord, arnold's wife
a flower among the few

she looked him
he looked at her
the like had never been done
'til she got up and took his hand
and made him come along
well they tossed and they turned
in the bed all night
'til they laid fast asleep
when they stood up in the newborn dawn
lord, arnold stood at their feet

he said get up, little mathie grove
and put your clothing on
for it'll never be know in old england
i slayed a naked man
i shant get up
i won't get dressed
i fear so far my life
for you have got two very sharp swords
and me not nary a knife

well, yes i've got two very sharp swords
they cost me deep in prayer
and you shall have the better of the two
and i shall take the worse
and you may strike the very first blow
and strike it like a man
and i shall strike the very next one
and kill you if i can

well, mathie struck the very first blow
it hurt, lord, arnold so
and arnold struck the very next one
left mathie lay dead in his home
he turned his eyes to his wife in her bed
the rage and the hate saw she
who do you like best now he said
little mathie grove or me

very well do i like your brow said she
very well do i like your chin
but I like mathie grove in all his boy
better than you and all your kin
well he took her by the hair of her head
he lead her through the hall
and with his sword cut off her head
and kicked it against the wall

is that a feel good song or what?


Still nothing for sure about the Christmas Jam lineup, but there are some interesting rumors going around. I'm hoping that Derek Trucks will be there, and I really enjoyed Marty Stuart's performance last year, maybe he'll repeat. Of course there's a rumor that a famous 70s rock star might come down from Cincinnati to Come Alive for the Christmas Jam.


I'd better run, I just realized that I'm out of coffee for tomorrow!! EEEKSSS

more later