Category: My Musical Life

My Musical Life 3-13-26

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March 13th, 2026

#61 Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I like to dream, yes, yes
Right between the sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near
To the stars away from here🪄
Well, you don’t know what we can find
Why don’t you come with me, little girl
On a magic carpet ride🪄
Well, you don’t know what we can see
Why don’t you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free🪄
Close your eyes, girl
Look inside, girl
Let the sound take you away🪄
Last night I hold Aladdin’s lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle’s all I found🪄
Well, you don’t know what we can find
Why don’t you come with me, little girl
On a magic carpet ride🪄
Well, you don’t know what we can see
Why don’t you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free🪄
Close your eyes, girl
Look inside, girl
Let the sound take you away🪄
You don’t know what we can find
Why don’t you come with me, little girl
On a magic carpet ride🪄
Well, you don’t know what we can see
Why don’t you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free

My Musical Life 3-12-26

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March 12th, 2026

#60 Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Thrown like a star in my vast sleep
I opened my eyes to take a peek
To find that I was by the sea
Gazing with tranquility🪄
‘Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love🪄
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang🪄
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity🪄
‘Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love🪄
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurd
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang🪄
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang
Here comes the Roly Poly Man
He’s singing songs of love
“Roly poly, roly poly, holy poly poly” he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy” he sang

My Musical Life 3-11-26

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March 11th, 2026

#59 Lady Madonna (The Beatles) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
Who finds the money when you pay the rent?
Did you think that money was heaven sent?🪄
Friday night arrives without a suitcase
Sunday morning creeping like a nun
Monday’s child has learned to tie his bootlace
See how they run🪄
Lady Madonna, baby at your breast
Wonders how you manage to feed the rest🪄
See how they run🪄
Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head (head)🪄
Tuesday afternoon is never ending
Wednesday morning papers didn’t come
Thursday night, your stockings needed mending
See how they run🪄
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

My Musical Life 3-10-26

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March 10th, 2026

#57 I Got The Feelin’ (James Brown) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I got the feeling
Baby, baby
I got the feeling🪄
You don’t know what you do to me
People are heavy, down in misery
Hey, yeah, alright
Hey, hey, good Lord🪄
I got the feeling, alright🪄
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby🪄
I got the feeling, baby
Baby, sometimes I’m up
Sometimes I’m down
My heart, I’m around the town🪄
I’m level with the ground, baby
I said level with the ground
Well, baby, you treat me bad🪄
No, no, I know no, you don’t mean it now
Sometimes, I roam
But I’ll be coming back home
Sometimes, I seem to be fly
I just don’t know when to say bye bye🪄
Hey baby, baby
I got that feeling, baby
I have it, alright🪄
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby🪄
Come on now
Come on now
Oh, oh, oh, oh

My Musical Life 3-9-26

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March 9th, 2026

#56 Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Ooh, baby🪄
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, no, no
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing (oh, honey)🪄
I’ve got your picture hangin’ on the wall
But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name
I realize it’s just a picture in a frame
Ooh, I read your letters when you’re not near
But they don’t move me and they don’t groove me
Like when I hear your sweet voice whispering in my ear
Don’t you know?🪄
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing🪄
I play my game of fantasy
I pretend, but I know in reality
I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me🪄
No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much
To make me feel better
So let’s stay together🪄
I’ve got some memories to look back on
Though they help me when you’re gone
I’m well aware
Nothing can take the place of your being there, oh🪄
So glad we’ve got the real thing, baby
So glad we’ve got the real thing
Oh, Marvin (I know, honey)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby (so glad)
(So glad, oh, darling)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, talk to me
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby (ooh, oh, I’m so glad)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing

My Musical Life 3-8-26

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March 8th, 2026

#55 Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Lord, I gotta raise a fuss, Lord, I gotta raise a holler
About workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Well, Lord, I tried to call my baby, I tried to get a date🪄
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues🪄
Well, my mom and papa told me, “Son, you got to make some money”
Well, if you wanna use the car to go a ridin’ next Sunday
Oh, Lord, I didn’t go to work, I told the boss I was sick, said🪄
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues🪄
I’ve got to take three weeks, I’ve got to have a fine vacation
I got to take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my Congressman and he said quote, dig this boy🪄
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues🪄
I’ve got to take three weeks, I’ve got to have a fine vacation
I got to take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my Congressman and he said quote, dig this boy🪄
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues🪄
Whoa, there ain’t no cure

My Musical Life 3-7-26

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March 7th, 2026

#54 Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Status Quo) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
When I look up to the sky
I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow
I rush home to bed, I sunk my head
I see your face underneath my pillow
I wake next morning, tired, still yawning
See your face come peeping through my window🪄
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Images of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you🪄
Windows echo your reflection
When I look in their direction, gone
When will this haunting stop?
Your face, it just won’t leave me alone🪄
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Images of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you🪄
You in the sky, you with this guy
You make me cry, you lie
You in the sky, you with this guy
You make me cry, you lie🪄
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men

My Musical Life 3-6-26

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March 6th, 2026

#52 Light My Fire (José Feliciano) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you, yeah
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher🪄
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire🪄
The time for hesitation is through
There’s no time to wallow in the mire
Darling we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre🪄
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah🪄
Yeah, you know that it would be untrue
And you know that I would be a liar
If I was to go and tell you
Momma we couldn’t get much higher🪄
Well, come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah🪄
Yeah, come on baby light, would you light my fire, yeah
Come on baby light my fire, would you, oh it’s alright
Light my fire, light my fire, light my fire
Light my fire, light my fire, light my fire, girl
You better light my fire
Come on baby, you better light, you better light my fire

My Musical Life 3-5-26

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March 5th, 2026

#51 MacArthur Park (Richard Harris) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants🪄
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!🪄
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees🪄
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!🪄
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You’ll still be the one🪄
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I’ll be thinking of you
And wondering why🪄
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!🪄
Oh no
No
Oh no!

My Musical Life 3-4-26

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March 4th, 2026

#50 Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma’ in the driving rain
But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m jumpin’ Jack Flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas🪄
I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back
But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas, uh🪄
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled, yeah yeah
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread
Yeah, yeah, yeah🪄
I was crowned with a spike right through my head
But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas🪄
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas🪄
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas