OT: Gone but not forgotten

[victoryfactory]

I don't know, maybe it's that windy 60 miler out in Montauk
today or some thing I ate, but I was thinking of a few souls
that are gone but not forgotten (by me, anyway)
Here's a few that are on my list:

Frank Zappa
Ed Abbey
Jean Shepherd
Phil Ochs

VF

[L84dinr]

Warren Zevon.


rtp

[merckx]

my dad

[old_school]

my dad

Man, I felt that one all the way through cyberspace.

+1

[rounder]

my dad

Yeah...my dad too. Not sure if he knew anything about bikes but he loved his boats. You all would have liked him.

[Tom]

My dad's sister, his only family in this world since about 1940. My Aunt Genowefa. It was just this time last year she was diagnosed as sick, I went to see her in the hospital but never thought I was saying goodbye.

[PBWrench]

Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans
At the end of the early British war
The young land started growing
The young blood started flowing
But I ain't marchin' anymore

For I've killed my share of Indians
In a thousand different fights
I was there at the Little Big Horn
I heard many men lying I saw many more dying
But I ain't marchin' anymore

chorus)
It's always the old to lead us to the war
It's always the young to fall
Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all

For I stole California from the Mexican land
Fought in the bloody Civil War
Yes I even killed my brothers
And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

For I marched to the battles of the German trench
In a war that was bound to end all wars
Oh I must have killed a million men
And now they want me back again
But I ain't marchin' anymore

(chorus)

For I flew the final mission in the Japanese sky
Set off the mighty mushroom roar
When I saw the cities burning I knew that I was learning
That I ain't marchin' anymore

Now the labor leader's screamin'
when they close the missile plants,
United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore,
Call it "Peace" or call it "Treason,"
Call it "Love" or call it "Reason,"
But I ain't marchin' any more,
No I ain't marchin' any more

[momof4greatkids]

Warren Zevon.


rtp

++1 on the Excitable Boy. Especially this time of year, reminds me of him, since it's around the same time he died.

Don't let us get sick

Don't let us get sick
Don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
And let us be together tonight

The sky was on fire
When I walked to the mill
To take up the slack in the line
I thought of my friends
And the troubles they've had
To keep me from thinking of mine

Don't let us get sick
Don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
And let us be together tonight

The moon has a face
And it smiles on the lake
And causes the ripples in Time
I'm lucky to be here
With someone I like
Who maketh my spirit to shine

Don't let us get sick
Don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
And let us be together tonight