This Fog - XITX and Arcachata

Another track in the Jazz Hop genre. 
Nothin' fancy, just a simple easy flow....
So tap yer toes, and let 'er go.

It's also the track that bred the collaboration @ https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/that-slow-n-easy-flow-w-joerxworx     called 'That Slow n Sassy Flow') with Jorg and his Saxes and Flute, recently. 


May you inJOY. :-D

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

That Simple Easy Flow....

“Father Burns (In His Cell)”

Sights to fill their eyes
Noise to fill their ears
All the show man can devise

Rod of gold for my mind
Four walls for my flesh
All to serve a higher life

Yet still I hold out
A hope for the past
And a hope for a new Passover
Free of the beast of Babylon

But I know it’s going to be a long time
Til I cast my eyes over
Over the land of paradise

Until then—I kneel
Down in silence
Until then—kneel
Down in darkness
Down in crooked crosses
Down in blasted wombs
Down in forked gossip
Down in cortex tombs

Nothing’s new under the sun
Variety beggars surprise
More and more makes man less than

Nothing’s old to the wise
Lost truths discovered anew
With empty hands man claims his prize

Yet still I hold out
A hope for the future
And a hope for a new higher culture
The renaissance of a pantheon

But I fear it’s going to be a long time
Til we lift our spirits higher
Higher to a new-world paragon

Until then—I kneel
Down in silence
Until then—kneel
Down in darkness
Down in heroes’ ashes
Down in wearied words
Down in exhausted passion
Down among the herds

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Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy

Mastered by Spencer Martin

Father Burns (In His Cell)

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Oh! Susanna" was the first huge hit song in American popular music. Stephen Foster, often referred to as the Father of American Music, was only 21 years old when he composed it in 1848. He later wrote, “the two fifty-dollar bills I received (for "Oh! Susanna") had the effect of starting me on my present vocation as a songwriter.” In his 37 years of life, Foster wrote more than 200 songs. He visited the South only once, yet many of his songs portrayed blacks and slave life and were frequently performed by blackface minstrel singers. As "Oh! Susanna" was beloved by ‘49ers during the California gold rush and others heading west during the mid-nineteenth century, the song became emblematic of Westward Expansion.

The rise of blackface minstrelsy coincided with Foster's growth to adulthood. He wrote "Oh! Susanna" in the black "plantation" dialect that was common to the genre but is extremely racially offensive by today's standards. As a deeply-divided United States careened towards a Civil War, Foster's music and lyrics evolved to use white, middle-class American English to present sympathetic portrayals of people who were suffering in slavery. He also made attempts to replace the dialect in his earlier songs with verses in standard English.

Above text is internet history from several sources and may be true.

Lyrics:

chorus:
Oh, Susanna!
Oh, don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee

verses:
I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm goin' to Louisiana
My true love for to see

It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry

I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna
A-coming up the hill

A buckwheat cake was in het mouth
A tear was in her eye
I said, "I come from Dixie land
Susanna, don't you cry"

I soon will be in New Orleans
And then I'll look around
And when I find Susanna
I'll fall upon the ground

But if I do not find her
I will surely die
And when I'm dead and buried
Susanna, don't you cry

The song recording has banjo stereo overdubs and my 69 Martin 00-21. The phasing wave sound is an effect added to banjo.

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