The Hammock Papers: Scamp.

06 June 2011

Scamp.

A documentary on The Gypsy Songman has been released.

More on the movie here.

Dare Of An Angel

Why did we take the rough road
When the trolley road easily by
Why did we climb the high hill
When the valley lay safe at our side
Who sent us out in the twilight
To come back with a handful of words
Just a fashion, a future quotation
Which this desperate world so deserves

Perhaps it was just something foolish
For the dare of an angel at best
Just to chance the ghost of a poet
Whose own songs will never rest

Why did we drink the cold rain
With the soup so warm on the stove
Why did we wind up alone here
Singing melodies of love
We did it simply to do it
We did it to be tender yet tough
We did it for the beauty in the music
Isn’t that explanation enough

Perhaps it was just something foolish
For the dare of an angel at best
Just to chance the ghost of a poet
Whose own songs will never rest

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Jerry Jeff Walker

1 comment:

Robert French said...: Going gray around the temples,
You’ll see days when I won't shave.
Have a habit of trippin’ over ripples,
And watching them roll into waves.
I've been too long riding this range
Running wild, without reins
Always traveling against the grains
And pretty girls deserve better
But I'm too old to change.

And my old friend Dave once said, “Jerry Jeff will yodel at the drop of a hat.”; June 6, 2011 at 11:05 PM

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."

DAN CAMPBELL