Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! Zip-A-Dee-A!

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"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A

My oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A

Mister bluebird on my shoulder
It's the truth
It's actual
Everything is satisfactual

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful day

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alyaj/zipadeedoodah.html


Sorry. HAD TO! Special appreciation to John Boehner!

[Duppers]

1. The beginning of the end of the TRump era.

Happy happy!

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2. ...plenty of perp walks, heading their way...

Zip-a-dee Doo-Dah! Zip-a-dee-A!

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3. ...Mister Mueller on their shoulder...

It's the truth
It's actual
Everything is treason-actional!

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7. 😊

[Hekate]

4. That's been one of my favorite songs, since childhood

Bonus to have the added verses -- thanks.

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12. My best friend's father wrote that song.

His name was Jimmy Hanley.

He wrote other famous songs too --- like "Back Home Again in Indiana", "Rose of Washington Square" and others.

[Hekate]

13. What a nice connection to have!

[csziggy]

5. The version I most remember of this song

While I know "Song of the South" is controversial, this song is wonderful. And in these days "satisfactual" is a fun twist.

[Hekate]

14. My innocent childhood memories say this was a wonderful animation of African American folklore

But since I have not seen it in 60+ years, I'm sorry it didn't make the cut, because Bre'r Rabbit is a Trickster straight out of Africa, and his antics are also a carryover.

By contrast, Dumbo is still out there. Another childhood favorite, I was able to actually add it to my video library when it came out. Watching it with my grandson, I was shocked at the dancing crows...

[csziggy]

15. As I child I read all the Bre'r Rabbit stories

My parents even took us to visit the museum of the man who put them into book form (Joel Chandler Harris). I watched the "Song of the South" and enjoyed it as a kid - but I understand why some of the portrayals were offensive to many in the Civil Rights movement.

One of the things that struck me in the song I posted - the three children playing together. I'm surprised that was not an issue with some of the segregationist crowd.

[Hekate]

18. As a kid I also heard them. As an adult studying mythology I started looking for stories/motifs...

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...that had crossed the Atlantic with the slaves, and sure enough, there was the Trickster in his many guises.

I love downloading free e-books from Gutenberg, and picked up Joel Chandler Harris one time. I would like to see what a linguist could do with his rendering of the dialect -- I have a suspicion that he tried to be faithful to what he heard, and was not in any sense mocking the speakers. However, I could scarcely make my way through the stories at all, because I have never heard that dialect spoken and have no idea of either the pronunciation or the rhythm. (Give me some Hawai'ian Pidgin, and I'm fine -- but I grew up around it.)

[csziggy]

19. I grew hearing that patois and still hear it sometimes around here

In central Florida and in central Alabama during my childhood and now in northern Florida. Mostly now it is among the oldest African Americans, old farmers and the people who grew up on the plantations. Here the plantations converted to timber and hunting plantations after the Civil War but they kept on many of the same people who had been slaves. Some were tenant farmers on the plantation fields, some changed over to working for the Northern owners, maintaining their buildings, working as servants, and keeping alive the facade of the Southern plantation and their beneficent owners.

In that, the Song of the South" is pretty accurate in the depiction of the Southern black patois, the cadence and usage. Joel Chandler Harris had the same problem as Samuel Clemens did - he transcribed what he heard. Certainly the world has mostly moved on, but they tried to create the world they knew in a period with no audio recordings.

The real objections came with the Disney movie during the Civil Rights movement of the 1940s. I( can understand how people who had advanced far beyond that way of speech would object, as well as objecting to the image of the "happy negro" still living on the plantation. But even in the heart of the CR movement, some few people were left in the lifestyle of the past. Here on the hunting plantations of north Florida and south Georgia that was very true.

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6. Except John Boehner isn't my favorite vocalist. George Papadopoulos is!

SING! SING, my angel of music! (As Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera would say!)

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Sing, sing a song

Sing out loud, sing out long!

(With thanks to Barbra Streisand)

[Kirk Lover]

9. I'm feeling happy and peppy and bursting with love !!!!!!! n/t

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10. Welcome to DU, Kirk Lover!

I haven't felt this good since A) our daughter's wedding and B) our son's band booking the Warped Tour!

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11. More relevant quotables: "...things fall apart..."

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html


William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Absolute-torch-'n'-twang CREEPIEST poem I've ever read.

[Hekate]

16. It always seems so relevant to me. I think it takes its power from being on the cusp of WWII...

Yeats lived through the Irish revolution and WWI. At the time of his death, Europe had entered WWII.

This is a poem of stunning, unforgettable, imagery. Thanks for posting it.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended!