Healing

power in a song

I can remember still when I heard it first, in college at Seton Hall U back in the mid-sixties...before the controversial Forest Hills Tennis Stadium concert...ANYHOW, I was out busking early this evening, looking to bust out of a case of 2-3 day blahs, and I gravitated to this jangly old acoustic chestnut...LIFTED me right out of the mopery I'd been feeling, it did...by the time I got to the 3rd verse I was full bore...

"...and if you should laughin' spinnin' swinging madly across the sun,
It's not AIMED at anyone, it's just escaping on the run..." (entire song for those not familiar with it)

Such is the perennial beauty of music to sooth, to FREE one's soul! My favorite time to be singing it is right around the crack of dawn in the 3 summer months...ask any singer/player you know well enough to get a frank answer, and you'll soon hear that there are entire shows that one can do where nothing special happens, and you are simply glad to get thru without any mistakes...I'd venture to say most performers love certain songs that for them have rejuvenating power...even though there is no guarantee that one particular song will ALWAYS work in this regard...even one's own...
 
What say you?