Hi this week Jim Adams at NewEpicAuthor said our prompt for #songlyricsunday, July 7, 2019 is – Zodiac animals those being a Rat/Ox/Tiger/Rabbit/Dragon/Snake/Horse/Sheep/ Monkey/Rooster/Dog/Pig.
When I was at school, a convent , taught by nuns. I got myself into a whole load of trouble. We were told we should bring in a favourite record to school for discussion. Well I was bullied at school not only by the other girls but by the nuns too.
This was written by Jefferson Airplane front woman Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s book Alice InWonderland
(officially Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs, and she saw a surfeit of drug references in Carroll’s book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are pretty trippy. She noticed that many children’s stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it. Above info foundhere
I loved the song then back in 1967 when I was in my fourteenth year. I had met my now hubby earlier that year when I was thirteen.
It was worth a couple of weeks Saturday Detention just for the look on the nuns face’s.
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and
hopefully in to light ??
I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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I had not heard of this song but it is terrific. I can imagine the nuns fell over backwards when they heard this. I also went to a nunnery for part of my education but Sister Agatha gave me books like Helter Skelter to read so I have much to thank her for.
Excellent I so glad to hear you had a positive experience. Thank goodness there are always good people about. Yes they were definitely not pleased with me 🤭🤭💜💜
Willow you must have been a pretty cool thirteen year old. I was also listening to this in 1967, but I was fourteen at the time and it was on AM radio.
Oh, what a good song, Willow. It is new to me although exists a bit longer on this planet than I do… haha. I can’t believe you had such hard times when bullied from all sides. I am sorry about that.
Jill I would love to but accessible as she may be I am on the other side of the great pond ….. in England…. perhaps one day ….I shall tell her how she helped me 🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂
Jill I would love to but accessible as she may be I am on the other side of the great pond ….. in England…. perhaps one day ….I shall tell her how she helped me 🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂
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Always a fave 🐰💕
Yes indeed 💜
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one!
Really it was big in the late 60s before your time. I live it 💜💜💜
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I had not heard of this song but it is terrific. I can imagine the nuns fell over backwards when they heard this. I also went to a nunnery for part of my education but Sister Agatha gave me books like Helter Skelter to read so I have much to thank her for.
Excellent I so glad to hear you had a positive experience. Thank goodness there are always good people about. Yes they were definitely not pleased with me 🤭🤭💜💜
Willow you must have been a pretty cool thirteen year old. I was also listening to this in 1967, but I was fourteen at the time and it was on AM radio.
I loved records and we had an old Danette record player at home. The first single I bought was ‘Come on’ by the Rolling Stones 💜
It’s a classic, and I shall never think of Alice in the same way again (duh, never clicked with me at all!)
Lol really, well they also say it was a protest song about Vietnam …well that escaped me ! ❤
Oh, what a good song, Willow. It is new to me although exists a bit longer on this planet than I do… haha. I can’t believe you had such hard times when bullied from all sides. I am sorry about that.
I had a very hard time at school and I hated it ! But music and imagination always got me through<3
It was your way you found for making it through. Yes, music was a tool for me too to deal with life.
It certainly helped me ….💜💜💜💜💜💜
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A popular choice today, I’d say…
Maybe 💜💜
Cheeky 🙂
I suppose I was 💜💜💜💜
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Jill I would love to but accessible as she may be I am on the other side of the great pond ….. in England…. perhaps one day ….I shall tell her how she helped me 🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂
Jill I would love to but accessible as she may be I am on the other side of the great pond ….. in England…. perhaps one day ….I shall tell her how she helped me 🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂🙂 🙂 🙂🙂
I can’t believe the number of times I’ve heard how vicious nuns were. I’m glad you got them riled for this song 🙂
I am sure there were good nuns around but the bad ones always cloud things for the rest. ….I think I was a rebel or daft! 🙂💜
Being a rebel is a good thing in my book. Been one for years 🙂
Me tooo😊🧡😊🧡😊🧡
Have always loved this song, but I think I love your story even more!
Hi, glad you liked the song…..my story,well I was always in trouble at school ❤ 🙂 🙂 🙂
Feed your head!
Yes it a call to arms …or heads 😃
OTOH Lao Tzu says empty the mind and fill the belly …
And what about the heart???
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