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My Musical Life 9-4-26

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September 4th, 2026

#12 Tired of Being Alone (Al Green) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I’m so tired of being alone
I’m so tired of on-my-own
Won’t you help me girl
Just as soon as you can🪄
People say that I’ve found a way
To make you say that you love me
Hey baby, you didn’t go for that
It’s a natural fact
That I wanna come back
Show me where it’s at, baby🪄
I’m so tired of being alone
I’m so tired of on-my-own
Won’t you help me girl
Soon as you can🪄
I guess you know that I, uh, I love you so
Even though you don’t want me no more
Hey, hey, hey, hey, I’m cryin’ tears
All through the years
I’ll tell ya like it is
Honey, please love me if you will🪄
Yeah baby
Tired of being alone here by myself, now
I tell ya, I’m tired baby
I’m tired of being all wrapped up late at night
In my dreams, nobody but you, baby🪄
Sometimes I wonder
If you love me like you say you do
You see baby, I, I, I been thinkin’ about it, yeah
I been, I been wantin’ to get next to you baby
You see, sometimes I fold my arms, I say, mmh-hmm-mmh
Oh yeah
Oh baby
Meeting you has proven to me
To be my greatest dream, yeah🪄
I’m so tired of being alone (Tired, baby)
So tired of being alone (Yeah, you don’t know what I’m talkin’ about)
So tired of being alone
Sometimes late at night I get to wonderin’ about you baby
I’m so tired of being alone (Oh baby, baby)
So tired of being alone
So tired of being alone🪄
I’m so tired of being alone (Oh baby)
So tired of being alone (You’re my heart’s desire)
So tired of being alone

My Musical Life 8-18-26

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August 18th, 2026

#76 It’s A Shame (The Spinners) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Ooh doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo🪄
It’s a shame
The way you mess around with your man
It’s a shame the way you hurt me
It’s a shame
The way you mess around with your man
I’m sitting all alone by the telephone
Waiting for your call, when you don’t call at all🪄
It’s a shame (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
It’s a shame (Shame)
The way you play with my emotions
It’s a shame (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
You’re like a child at play on a sunny day
‘Cause you play with love, and then you throw it away🪄
Why do you use me, try to confuse me
How can you stand to be so cruel?
Why don’t you free me from this prison?
Where I serve my time as your fool🪄
It’s a shame (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
It’s a shame (Shame) the way you hurt me
It’s a shame (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
I try to stay with you, show you love so true
But you won’t appreciate the love we try to make
Oh, it’s got to be a shame, uh🪄
Why do you use me, try to confuse me
How can you stand to be so cruel?
Why don’t you free me from this prison?
Serve my time as your fool🪄
Got to be a shame (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
Ohhh, it’s a shame (Shame) the way you hurt me
Oh, It’s a shame, baby, baby (Shame)
The way you mess around with your man
You’ve got my heart in chains, and I must complain
I just can’t be content, oh look at that
Shame (Ow)🪄
It’s a shame (Shame)
It’s a shame the way you hurt me, yeah
Oww (Shame)
Got to
Got to
Got to
Got to be a shame, oh yeah

My Musical Life 8-7-26

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August 7th, 2026

#56 Express Yourself (Charles Wright & The Watts 104rd Street Rhythm Band) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Express yourself
Express yourself🪄
You don’t ever need help from nobody else
All you got to do now
Express yourself🪄
Whatever you do, uh
Do it good, uh
Whatever you do, do, do, Lord, Lord
Do it good, alright🪄
It’s not what you look like
When you’re doin’ what you’re doin’
It’s what you’re doin’, when you’re doin’
What you look like you’re doin’🪄
Express yourself
Express yourself🪄
They’re doin’ it on the moon, y’all, uh
In the jungle too, uh
Everybody on the floor now, uh
Jumpin’ like a kangaroo
So let the horns do the thing they do, y’all, uh🪄
Some people have everything
And other people don’t
But everything don’t mean a thing
If it ain’t the thing you want🪄
Express yourself, uh
Express yourself
Oh, do it, oh, do it
Do it, do it, go on and do it
Y’all, do it, give
Express yourself
Express yourself
Uh, do it🪄
Do it
Do it, ow, yeah, uh
Express yourself, uh
Express yourself, uh
Express yourself, uh🪄
Express yourself, express yourself, express yourself, express yourself, uh, woo
Uh, woo, Lord, hey
Lord, uh, hey, ow, ow
Express yourself, uh, express yourself, express, express
Express yourself, express yourself, express

My Musical Life 7-22-26

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July 22nd, 2026

#30 Green-Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Green-eyed lady, lovely lady
Strolling slowly towards the sun
Green-eyed lady, lovely lady
Soothing every raging wave that comes🪄
Green-eyed lady, passion’s lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green-eyed lady feels life I never see
Setting suns and lonely lovers free🪄
Green-eyed lady, windswept lady
Moves the night, the waves, the sand
Green-eyed lady, lovely lady
Child of nature, friend of man🪄
Green-eyed lady, passion’s lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green-eyed lady feels life I never see
Setting suns and lonely lovers free

My Musical Life 7-21-26

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July 21st, 2026

#28 I Want You Back (The Jackson 5) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Uh-huh, huh, huh
Just let me tell you now
Uh-huh🪄
When I had you to myself, I didn’t want you around
Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd
But someone picked you from the bunch, one glance was all it took
Now it’s much too late for me to take a second look🪄
Oh, baby, give me one more chance (to show you that I love you)
Won’t you please let me back in your heart
Oh, darlin’, I was blind to let you go (let you go, baby)
But now since I see you in his arms (I want you back)
Yes, I do now (I want you back)
Ooh, ooh, baby (I want you back)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (I want you back)
Na, na, na, na🪄
Trying to live without your love is one long sleepless night
Let me show you, girl, that I know wrong from right
Every street you walk on, I leave tear stains on the ground
Following the girl I didn’t even want around
Let me tell you now🪄
Oh, baby, all I need is one more chance (to show you that I love you)
Won’t you please let me back in your heart
Oh, darlin’, I was blind to let you go (let you go, baby)
But now since I see you in his arms, uh-huh🪄
Ah, buh bum, bum, bum
Ah, buh bum, bum, bum
All I want
Ah, buh bum, bum, bum
All I need
Ah, buh bum, bum, bum
All I want
Ah, buh bum, bum, bum
All I need🪄
Oh, just one more chance to show that I love you
Baby (baby)
Baby (baby)
Baby (baby)🪄
Forget what happened then (I want you back)
Let me live again🪄
Oh, baby, I was blind to let you go
But now since I see you in his arms
(I want you back)🪄
Spare me of this cause
Get back what I lost🪄
Oh, baby, I need one more chance, ha
I tell ya that I love you
Baby (oh), baby (oh), baby (oh)
I want you back, ha
I want you back

My Abundant Life 7-13-26

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July 13th, 2026

Stocking The Larder

“Cooking–yes, and living become simpler rite this month. I have made a list of satisfactory meals planned around only one cooked dish. This list is hung on the door of my kitchen cabinet for reference. When I am lacking ambition I do not wonder what to have for dinner.”

Nell B. Nichols (Author; August 28th, 1894 to May 28th, 1984)

“Won’t you agree with me, as you lie looking up at the leafy canopy above you, that a home now and in every other month must be a haven to the spirit as well as a place in which the physical needs are supplied?”

Nell B. Nichols (Author; August 28th, 1894 to May 28th, 1984)

“My own is my haven. I love to shut out the world and just exist in our hobbit house with my love and dog.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 255 to 257 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.

My Musical Life 7-10-26

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July 10th, 2026

#12 Everything Is Beautiful (Ray Stevens) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world🪄
Everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day
And everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s heaven
The world’s gonna find the way🪄
There is none so blind
As he who will not see
We must not close up minds
We must let our thoughts be free🪄
For every hour that passes by
You know the world gets a little bit older
It’s time to realize that people lies
In the eyes of the beholder🪄
And everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day, ah, sing it children
Everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s heaven
The world’s gonna find a way🪄
We shouldn’t care about the length of his hair
Of the color of his skin
Don’t worry about what shows from without
But the love that lives within🪄
And we’re gonna get old again now
Everything is gonna work out fine
Just take a little time to look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind🪄
And everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day, ah, sing it children
Everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s heaven
The world’s gonna find a way, one more time🪄
Everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day

My Musical Life 7-9-26

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July 9th, 2026

#11 Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (Three Dog Night) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Want some whiskey in your water?
Sugar in your tea?
What’s all these crazy questions they’re askin’ me?
This is the craziest party that could ever be
Don’t turn on the lights ’cause I don’t wanna see🪄
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain’t the way to have fun, no (uh-uh)🪄
Open up the window, let some air into this room
I think I’m almost chokin’ from the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you’re smokin’ ’bout scare me half to death
Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath🪄
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain’t the way to have fun, son
That ain’t the way to have fun, son (oh, yeah!)🪄
The radio is blastin’, someone’s knockin’ at the door
I’m lookin’ at my girlfriend, she’s passed out on the floor
I seen so many things I ain’t never seen before
Don’t know what it is, I don’t wanna see no more🪄
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
She said, (“That ain’t the way to have fun, son”)
(“That ain’t the way to have fun, no”)🪄
Mama told me, mama told me
Mama told me, told me, told me
Mama told me
Oh, yeah
Mama told me, not to go…🪄
That ain’t the way to have fun, no
That ain’t the way to have fun, son
That ain’t the way to have fun, no (look at you)
That ain’t the way to have fun, son🪄
Listen to mama, listen to me baby
Mama told me, not to go…🪄
That ain’t the way to have fun, no (yeah!)
That ain’t the way to have fun, son (somebody tell ’em)
That ain’t the way to have fun, no (mama)
That ain’t the way to have fun, son

My Musical Life 7-7-26

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July 7th, 2026

#9 Let It Be (The Beatles)👍🏼

Lyrics:
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be🪄
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be🪄
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be🪄
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be🪄
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be🪄
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be🪄
And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shinin’ until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be🪄
And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be🪄
And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

My Musical Life 7-6-26

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July 6th, 2026

#8 Get Ready (Rare Earth)👍🏼

Lyrics:
I never met a girl could make me feel the way that you do
(You’re all right)
Whenever I’m asked what makes a my dreams real
I tell ’em you do
(You’re outta sight)
Well tweedle dee, tweedle dum
Look out baby now here I come🪄
I’m bringin’ you a love that’s true yeah, get ready (get ready, get ready)
I’ll stop makin’ love to you, get ready (get ready, get ready)🪄
Get ready, ’cause here I come (I said I’m on my way)
Get ready, ’cause here I come🪄
If you wanna play hide and seek with love, let me remind ya
(You’re all right)
The lovin’ you’re gonna miss, and the time it takes to find ya
(You’re outta sight)
Well tweedle dee, tweedle dum
Look out baby now here I come🪄
I’m bringin’ you a love that’s true yeah, get ready (get ready, get ready)
I’ll stop makin’ love to you, get ready (get ready, get ready)🪄
Get ready, ’cause here I come (I said I’m on my way)
Get ready, ’cause here I come🪄
If all of my friends shouldn’t want me to, I think I’ll understand
(You’re alright)
I hope I get to you before they do ’cause, that’s how I planned it
(You’re outta sight)
Well fee-fi fo-fo-fum, look out baby, said here I come🪄
I’m bringin’ you a love that’s true yeah, get ready (get ready, get ready)
I’ll stop makin’ love to you, get ready (get ready, get ready)🪄
Get ready, ’cause here I come (I said I’m on my way now)
Get ready, ’cause here I come (oh)🪄
If you wanna play hide and seek with love, let me remind ya
(You’re all right)
The lovin’ you’re gonna miss, and the time it takes to find ya
(You’re outta sight)
Well tweedle dee, tweedle dum
Look out baby now here I come🪄
I’m bringin’ you a love that’s true yeah, get ready (get ready, get ready)
I’ll stop makin’ love to you, get ready (get ready, get ready)🪄
Get ready, ’cause here I come (I said I’m on my way now)
Get ready, ’cause here I come (oh)🪄
Get ready, ’cause here I come (hey, get ready, baby)
Get ready, ’cause here I come (you gotta get ready, ready)
Get ready, ’cause here I come (baby here I come)