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I Want to Be at the Meeting

I Want to Be at the Meeting
The Sensational Nightingales is a traditional black gospel quartet that reached its peak of popularity in the 1950s, when it featured Julius Cheeks as its lead singer. The Nightingales, with several changes of membership, continue to tour and record.
The group was founded in 1942 by Barney Parks, who had formerly sung with The Dixie Hummingbirds.

( da Wikipedia )

Versi significativi per AWS.

"Trouble will be over, sorrow will be gone "
"Unbuckle my sword off my side, stick it in the golden sand "

( ricordano anche:
"I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield " e
" I'm gonna lay down my heavy load " di
"Down By The Riverside" )
I want to be at the meeting
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envoyé par L. E. 19/6/2020 - 15:20
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Loves Me Like a Rock

Loves Me Like a Rock
1973
Singolo poi incluso nell'album There Goes Rhymin' Simon


da Songfacts :

- Paul wanted to do a gospel-feel type song….... And he wanted to have fun with the lyrics. This was recorded in early 1973, around the time the Senate Watergate Committee was holding its famous hearings and Paul couldn't resist the playful reference.

- I read in an interview Simon gave that the lines "My momma loves me....." are specifically about Nixon, that no matter how many dirty things he did, in Nixon's mind it was ok because his mom loved him.

- I like the way the speaker's (Nixon?) means of justifying himself shows a corruption of his soul. In the beginning he is "consecrated" by some religious rite, an outpouring of God's mercy. Then he is "consummated", referring to the act of consummation which makes complete and is justified by the marriage rite, but at the same time refers to the sex act in... (continuer)
When I was a little boy
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envoyé par L. E. 13/6/2020 - 23:52




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