A song by Si Kahn called "Wild Rose of the Mountain." Chorus: "Honey from the honeycomb, water from the fountain, sugar from the sugarcane, my wild rose of the mountain!" (I WISH . . . )

Here's Kathy Fink doing a version of the song. She used to play at the local MSU folks club when I went there. Si Kahn too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFu1-mD8o1k

I love bluegrass! Kathy reminds me of Mother Maybelle Carter, ever heard of her?

Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost [her] bite

I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

I don't expect to sleep through the night.

How in the world do I remember the entire lyrics of the Patty Duke Show!

Paris, the Swiss Alps, a lake in the north woods, or home around Chicago, just let me turn off my phone for a year or forever.

This is all I could think of.

Feeling Good, Nina Simone

Feeling Good

Finally, did you ever watch the show? I never missed an episode and even bought her album. lol

Trail, if I knew how to do emojis, I'd insert a heart. :)

Lars, that's some heavy stuff. I had to look up the song and found this: Song meaning Is that how you interpret it?

Cawaps, I don't think I've heard that song before. Love the video and glad I watched.

bpath...love Joni and what a great song!

Nina Simone, wow! She is GOOD.

bpath, yes, indeed. I, too, would go back tomorrow but for all my excuses. Should have stayed all those years ago.

Just chiming in to say I love the Talking Heads. So creative!

For the last few years of driving back and forth coordinating my parents' care and son's education, I had Free Man in Paris and Lake Shore Drive on a loop in my car.

Well, I don't want to brag but pretty sure this one was actually written about me

I don't read too much meaning into the Talking Heads song, but I was aware that David Byrne had been a student at RISD, and I often thought that if I had to do it over, that's where I would have wanted to get my first degree. I sort of regretted not majoring in architecture when I was 18-22, but then I would not be who I am today if I had.

A friend from my high school did go to RISD, and then he ended up living on the East Coast, and I'm sort of glad that I ended up on the West Coast.

When I was getting my design degree at UT Austin in my mid to late 30s, my 3D design professor told me that she did not consider me to be a serious artist and lowered my grade from an A to a B at the end of the semester. I told her that I did not care and that whatever grade she gave me would not affect whether I would get work as a designer. She had gotten her masters at Yale and had the attitude that designers were not artists, which is a common concept in the New York art community, according to my brother. Anyway, I had a very successful career as a furniture designer. My 2D art professor at UT loved me and told me that I would be able to do whatever I wanted, and so I listened to him instead of to the 3D professor. I took architecture classes in addition to art classes for my design degree, and I did the best in those.

Not my favorite song, nor inspirational, but I like it a lot, and it pretty much describes me.

What She Said, by The Smiths.

"What she said, 'How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead?

And started to bury me,

God knows I'm ready.

La, la, lo, lo, lo'"

And it goes on from there. The melody is actually cheerful and upbeat. I've been morbid since early childhood.

I don't know of a song that perfectly describes me or at least nothing comes to mind at the moment. But this is one I love and has meaning to me - this part resonates a lot -

How long can you hold your breath?
Can you count to ten, can you let it pass?
And keep, can you keep it in?
And keep it behind lashes, can you make it last?

Trying to find a specific video that's at least 10 years old because it's the best version I've ever seen, unfortunately I can't locate it. The new versions don't have the same raw feel to me and I'm not crazy about the addition of the drummer in them - I prefer just Brandi and the twins. This version is good though.

Brandi Carlile - Dreams

Pal, after watching the video I looked up the meaning of the song. Very very interesting. The best word someone used to describe it was "Mystique." Yep.

Probably "Here Come's the Sun". I am a glass half full kind of person and always look for the positive.