Sunday Song lyric: Better get to living!

As much as it grieves me I have to say Dolly Parton writes some brilliant songs with so much meaning! Well I fell in love with this little ditty then I accidentally found this young man’s version of the words! His interpretation has inspired me on and off over the years since I found it! so please enjoy!

“Better Get To Livin'”

People always comin’ up to me and askin’
“Dolly, what’s your secret?
With all you do, your attitude
Just seems to be so good
How do you keep it?”
Well, I’m not the Dalai Lama, but I’ll try
To offer up a few words of advice.

You better get to livin’, givin’
Don’t forget to throw in a little forgivin’
And lovin’ on the way
You better get to knowin’, showin’
A little bit more concerned about where you’re goin’
Just a word unto the wise
You better get to livin’.

A girlfriend came to my house
Started cryin’ on my shoulder Sunday evening
She was spinnin’ such a sad tale
I could not believe the yarn that she was weavin’
So negative the words she had to say
I said if I had a violin I’d play.

I said you’d better get to livin’, givin’
Be willing and forgivin’
Cause all healing has to start with you
You better stop whining, pining
Get your dreams in line
And then just shine, design, refine
Until they come true
And you better get to livin’.

Your life’s a wreck, your house is mess
And your wardrobe way outdated
All your plans just keep on falling through
Overweight and under paid, under appreciated
I’m no guru, but I’ll tell you
This I know is true.

You better get to livin’, givin’
A little more thought about bein’
A little more willin’ to make a better way
Don’t sweat the small stuff
Keep your chin up
Just hang tough
And if it gets too rough
Fall on your knees and pray
And do that everyday
Then you’ll get to livin’.

The day we’re born we start to die
Don’t waste one minute of this life
Get to livin’
Share your dreams and share your laughter
Make some points for the great hereafter.

Better start carin’
Better start sharin’
Better start tryin’
Better start smiling
And you better get to livin’…

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If we were having Coffee: Chateaux and ghosts

Boussay Chateau

Welcome everyone especially Sheri who arrived last night sleeping bag in hand. Now I have explained that the internet is very sketchy around here, in the Rhone Alps!

Now I have decided that we shall travel back to Boussay and that beautiful Chateau that I felt so sorry for! Let’s bring it to life for a few hours if only virtually. We can throw cushions and drapes around , maybe you could all bring your own! We can have a party here a tea party and breath some virtual life into the sad empty place.

Don’t worry everything is as it always is with tea and coffee from all over the world not to mention all our cakes and muffins and as Paul calls them sweets! Every single one is calorie free! Plus of course we now have spirits and liquors to warm the coldest of you.

If we were having Coffee: I would ask you what has been going on in your world this week, has anything deeply affected you, have you need a sympathetic ear, a shoulder to cry on or just needed someone to make you laugh! If yes feel free to talk it out here with us. We will all help if we can.

Lets join everyone here and all the other “IF WE WERE HAVING COFFEES”

Join in !

If we were having Coffee: I would remind you that there are lots of other coffee mornings all shared and organized By Diana and Gene’O over at,Part time monster

Paul who is over at Mark Bialczak in Syracuse this week and all this month. So don’t forget to visit him over there! I shall be later!

If we were having coffee: I would welcome you to this wonderful place and ask you how you have all been. Now although we are not still in Boussay my thoughts are dragged back there by the beautiful but empty Chateau. The owner who was 95yrs old and lived in two rooms of the Chateau toward the end of his life only died in May of this year….. imagine that old man alone in a huge chateau with all his memories and ghosts.

Now If we were having coffee : although we are in a wonderful place with mountains, swimming pool and lovely hosts I am still drawn back to the chateau. I hope you are enjoying our sojourn here! I have to dash off now as I have not enough time to stay as long as I would like also not enough wifi! So please stay and enjoy I am with you in spirit …just like the ghosts of the chateau!

I shall love you and leave you all to enjoy I am putting my feet up now and taking in the view so come and join me or wander over to see Paul who is over at Mark Bialczak in Syracuse this week and all this month. Let us see what they are all discussing ! It has been lovely as always to have you all here and I hope, as does Paul that you will all join us here and at Mark Bialczak ‘s again next week.