Sherlock Foolish Music: "Oh The Pretty Bird" rewritten

I am reading “The Double Life of Bob Dylan”  by Clinton Heylin 

https://www.amazon.com/Double-Life-Bob-Dylan-1941-1966/dp/0316535214

Where I found Bob did a version of Cuckoo 

and he is not the only one - 149 collected or recorded versions according to wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo_(song)

One of the most recent versions is an enchanting song I had seen “Rising Appalachia” do in a  cool video https://youtu.be/h6ow2Z5Jh9Y 

So while I am wrapped in preparation for the Franklin election season

Candidates, interviews, questions & answers, ultimately leading to a vote on Nov 2

Upon which the town government can/will move forward - how would it?  It all depends on the vote and who wins

So that was the inspiration behind this 

Imagine a nice banjo and folk guitar tune, and a better voice than mine 

as I rework the lyrics of this old folk song  ...

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The candidate from Franklin talks as he walks

she brings good tidings written in chalk

Ignoring the flowers they make their voice clear

The more we ignore, the more they’ll play to fear

Oh the cuckoo

She’s a pretty bird

How I wish she was mine

She never drinks whiskey

She only drinks wine

The voters from Franklin want answers today

To the key questions, what’ll the candidates say?

Storm water or fee increase, Mask or override

The voters guide will help us decide  

Oh the cuckoo

She’s a pretty bird

How I wish she was mine

She never drinks whiskey

She only drinks wine

Whether young or old, the time is near

Candidates to reveal what they hold dear

The voters can cast their vote as they may

And we’ll see a new board after that day

Oh the cuckoo

She’s a pretty bird

How I wish she was mine

She never drinks whiskey

She only drinks wine

How each board will manifest remains to be seen

So let’s keep the campaign real clean

Or we’ll need liquid spirits to provide

Relief as we settle in for the ride

Oh the cuckoo

She’s a pretty bird

How I wish she was mine

She never drinks whiskey

She only drinks wine

Sherlock's Foolish Music (MADCAP Records) 2021

 

The Franklin 2021 "Election Collection"  ->   https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/07/franklin-election-collection-2021.html

Democrats debate

If someone had predicted that a Sherlock and a Holmes would be asking questions of Democratic candidates in a debate moderated  by the chief of police, I would have said "you're crazy".

However, this did happen. Yes, Monday evening in Franklin. A power outage moved the event from the middle school to the Municipal Building but that only helped to spice up the event.

Rick Holmes, an opinion editor for the MetroWest Daily News, joined me in asking questions of the two candidates, Jeff Roy and Peter Padula. These two are facing off in the Democratic primary on Thursday, Sep 6th. One will go on to face the winner of the Republic primary held the same day. The Republicans have three candidates campaigning for this seat, C Stolle Singleton, John Jewell, and Rich Eustis

Questions I used came from this listing.

Berkman@10: Lisa Stone, Co-Founder and CEO of BlogHer

Berkman@10: Lisa Stone, Co-Founder and CEO of BlogHer
"What Women Want: How Candidates and Companies Hurt and Help Themselves with Women Today"

Thursday, March 20, 6:00 PM
Austin West Classroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School
No RSVP required
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level2.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&series=W

What Women Want: How Candidates and Companies Hurt and Help Themselves with Women Today
So, Britney Spears, America Ferrera and a Soccer Mom walk into a bar...

In the coming decade, political candidates, consumer brands and new technologies will be made or broken by their ability to embrace the habits and demands of the most powerful consumers and voters in the world: Techno-savvy American women. This powerful demographic controls 83 percent of household spending as well as the majority of votes in the U.S. Today, thanks to the Internet and to the new social media tools embraced by female consumers, American women online represent stunning economic and political power -- and a rapidly morphing target.

In her talk on the ballooning habits of adult women online, Lisa Stone shares how U.S. presidential candidates and household brands have helped--and hurt--themselves by failing to understand what many women online increasingly demand. This insider's guide to how women are translating their words into action includes a discussion on the failures and triumphs of: HillaryClinton.com, BarackObama.com, Facebook, Starbucks, Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, and pending legislation on post-partum depression.

About Lisa

The originator of BlogHer, award-winning journalist and blogger Lisa Stone has launched successful blog networks and interactive programming for many national brands, including Hearst and Rodale magazines, E! Television/Online, HBO’s Sex and the City, Knight Ridder Digital, American Lawyer Media and Glam Media. While executive producer and Editor in Chief/VP, Programming for Women.com, Lisa launched an 18-channel network and helped grow it to a Top 30 site overseeing all original content programming and newsletters, including a team of 25 and an annual budget of $3 MM. Her team’s best-known work included Bachelors of Silicon Valley, The Women.com | Bloomberg Index, RU A 10? and Majority 2000, an election initiative with Good Housekeeping and Gallup. Lisa has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Oakland Tribune, Publisher’s Weekly and Frommer’s, among other publications. She is the first internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University. Lisa’s personal blog, Surfette, began as an extension of her 2004 convention blog for the Los Angeles Times.

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