"Simple like an uncarved block."
Tao te Ching


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Showing posts with label Buttermilk Sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buttermilk Sky. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

BUTTERMILK SKY


Here is a song from my childhood that caught my attention and my heart. Buttermilk Sky maybe one of the first songs that I still sing and it makes me feel so contented. Every time I see clabbered milk clouds up above I return to those days of yesteryear and remember the joy of learning that clouds have different configurations and they can be named. Fanciful names not those boring scientific Latin things.
Buttermilk Sky was written by Hoagy Carmichael around 1946 and I was five years old. I wanted to display a video of him singing but I am so raw at this that the best I could do was one of Willie Nelson which is also wonderful. The Carmichael video for some reason rejected my request, or more than likely I just hit the wrong icon. This technical stuff is not coming easy for me. I will continue to explore downloading a video here and it's bound to happen one of these days.
Music has filled my life and continues to underscore my sense of myself. Hope this works and you can enjoy this fun old song.
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