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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
Digging herself in deeper and deeper
-- Yep, it's your one and only Giver-uppper of the Golden Cow Chips, back from
the 'moving' wars and ready to test your little gray cells once again!! I'll
just take this opportunity to let all you wonderful Challenge!rs know how much
I've missed you -- and I hope we won't ever be parted for so long again . . .
This Challenge! will be sorta personal, if y'all don't mind too much ;-) . . . I
do think, however, that it will test your collective imagination and rhyming
capabilities satisfactorily . . . Here's a picture
of the new homestead, perched appropriately on a high sandstone hill in the Post
Oak Savannah of Texas (the East Cross Timbers, to be exact). Please note the
sandstone wall on the left . . . behind that wall is a curious little patch of
broken stones, buried in a sandy clay loam, quite different from the rest of the
grounds (you can't 'dig' here -- there's one inch of dirt, then rock, then THICK
wet (not damp) clay). I've been digging and breaking rocks with my trusty
spade and pickaxe for two weeks now, and I still haven't reached the bottom of
this strange plot of earth. However, I have discovered a few interesting things
buried under the first layer of dirt and rock . . . your Challenge! is to write
a song about what I found buried beneath the red-tipped photinias, honeysuckle
and asian jasmine . . . let your minds run wild and let your collective freak
flags fly, my dear Challenge!rs and GO FOT IT! Hugs and snogs to each and
every one of you -- and two kisses on each of your
cheeks (hahaha) -- Áine (songtress, chef, chief bottle washer and now Mad
Gardener)
Things On My Land by Amos
Three miles of bubble gum, used and extended!
Fifty four jacks, of which four had got bended!
Six round-head railroad spikes, and one golden band,
These are some things I have found on my land!
Half an alarm clock with Mickey Mouse pointers,
Three rusty blades from an adze or a jointer!
One Marshall Dillon badge, one Band-Aid can,
These are some things I have found on my land!
When my back aches, when my lungs wheeze, when my arms are sprained,
I simply imagine the things in my land,
And then I don't feel soooo pained!
A waterstained ticket stub to see Maggie's Maulers!
One can of Red Man full of limp Rebel dollars!
A dance card from Dallas in 1903!
These are some things which my land brought to me!
Half of Colt handle, signed by Bill Bonnie
Three mossy Moxie jars and shards from a jonny!
A Stevenson button, a pearl-handled fan,
Wonderful things i have found in my land!
When my back aches, when my lungs wheeze, when my arms are sprained,
I simply imagine the things in my land,
And then I don't feel soooo pained!
Love, A