January 18,2020 - 127 - "Singing Your Heart Out"

 

     Performing artists amaze me.  It seems like the bravest thing in the world that anyone could do.  And the hardest.  Baring your soul for your supper.  

       We have friends who'll play for just about anyone anytime.  Guess it's part of their make up.  The grass has to poke up through the sidewalk and find the sun . Fish gotta swim.  Birds gotta fly...

     Living in New York City cured me of giving money to random panhandlers.  But someone singing, or playing the saxophone, or performing jazz of any kind at all...

     Well...I'll probably be digging in my purse for something to put in their jar or instrument case.  

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"But the one man band 

By the quick lunch stand

                          He was playing real good for free."                      

-Joni Mitchell

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"The buskers sing by candle light 

In front of Bewley's Store 

And a young nun offers me a chair

 At a table near the door.  

And I feel compelled to tell her 

Of the sisters that we knew 

How when they lit their candles 

I'd say a prayer for you." 

-Nanci Griffith and Fred Koller

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