Yay! I seem to have killed a thread! But I am resurrecting it!
Cause, on the TAO forum someone did a little random question thing and the first question was what song can you not get enough of right now. And weird enough, it's lately been The Highwayman by Cash, et al.
That's a great song. It's kinda choked me up before. I told dh I WANT that song played at my funeral. Maybe even have it on one of those little bookmark type things they hand out at funerals with prayers and such (maybe that's just a Catholic thing?).
But being a humanist, I think the lyrics to that in place of a prayer would be fantastic! Kinda a Sagan-esque thing going for it and it works on how I explain my beliefs to my kids when they ask about the life after death thing, eg energy is not created or destroyed and always being around in that way. And?
: 
: I am a GEEK, and there are 
: SPACESHIPS! : 
Here's a great live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1bHaUk1CM
And here are the lyrics:
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..
Cause, on the TAO forum someone did a little random question thing and the first question was what song can you not get enough of right now. And weird enough, it's lately been The Highwayman by Cash, et al.
That's a great song. It's kinda choked me up before. I told dh I WANT that song played at my funeral. Maybe even have it on one of those little bookmark type things they hand out at funerals with prayers and such (maybe that's just a Catholic thing?).
But being a humanist, I think the lyrics to that in place of a prayer would be fantastic! Kinda a Sagan-esque thing going for it and it works on how I explain my beliefs to my kids when they ask about the life after death thing, eg energy is not created or destroyed and always being around in that way. And?
: : I am a GEEK, and there are : SPACESHIPS! : Here's a great live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1bHaUk1CM
And here are the lyrics:
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..
