Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today because I had to adapt to certain electronic situations that swirled out of my control this show is about happy accidents, finding songs I didn’t know I had, buried deep in the external hard drive
1) Love Reign o’er Me, The Who 5:48
2) Shut Up And Let Me Go, The Ting Tings 2:52
3) Groove Me, Terrance Simien 3:11
Accidents
by Marcia Popp
i broke a vase at my great-grandfather's house when i was five here come sit on my lap
he said don't feel bad about that vase i didn't like it anyway you helped me get rid of it
I knew better but let him comfort me while i felt secretly bad inside did you know that my
own mother said i was her worst boy no i said that can't be true oh yes he said and she was
right i made accidents happen all the time i didn't really mean to do bad things they just
came upon me when i wasn't paying attention when i was five my brother and i chased the
goose in the barnyard until it fell over dead we propped her up in the fence so she would
appear to be interested in the grass on the other side
what happened my father noticed
that the goose did not move all day we got spanked should i get spanked too for the vase
not in my house he said.
4) Scarborough Fair, Simon and Garfunkel 3:11
5) Woman’s Work, Tracy Chapman 2:04
San Francisco
By Richard Brautigan
This poem was found written on a paper bag by Richard Brautigan in a laundromat in San Francisco. The author is unknown.
By accident, you put
Your money in my
Machine (#4)
By accident, I put
My money in another
Machine (#6)
On purpose, I put
Your clothes in the
Empty machine full
Of water and no
Clothes
It was lonely.
6) Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Ray Charles and Bonnie Raitt, 4:35
7) Midnight in Harlen, Tedeschi Trucks Band 5:53
8) Life Without You, Stevie Ray Vaughan 4:19
9) Meet Virginia, Train 4:00
Search
By Hester Knibbe
Translated By Jacquelyn Pope
Wandered tonight through a city
as ruined as a body with broken
ribs and a bared heart. Looked for you
there with cookies in my pocket, searched
for a sigh, for movement in demolished
streets and alleys. Tonight
since I’d forgotten for a moment where you are,
I searched for you with hope in my bones.
But no matter how I lured you with my voice
and my eyes, walls of debris
grew up steadily around you, cellars seemed
to creep around you. I remained alone
with those cookies in my pocket
and kept calling and walking.
10) Willin, Little Feat 3:51
11) Traveling Riverside Blues, Led Zeppelin 2:47
12) Boom Boom, John Lee Hooker 2:31
Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith
The approach of a man’s life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive. The endless wonder of this meeting is what causes the mind, in its inward liberty of a frozen morning, to turn back and question and remember. The world is full of places. Why is it that I am here?
—Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House
Spared by a car or airplane crash or
cured of malignancy, people look
around with new eyes at a newly
praiseworthy world, blinking eyes like these.
For I’ve been brought back again from the
fine silt, the mud where our atoms lie
down for long naps. And I’ve also been
pardoned miraculously for years
by the lava of chance which runs down
the world’s gullies, silting us back.
Here I am, brought back, set up, not yet
happened away.
But it’s not this random
life only, throwing its sensual
astonishments upside down on
the bloody membranes behind my eyeballs,
not just me being here again, old
needer, looking for someone to need,
but you, up from the clay yourself,
as luck would have it, and inching
over the same little segment of earth-
ball, in the same little eon, to
meet in a room, alive in our skins,
and the whole galaxy gaping there
and the centuries whining like gnats—
you, to teach me to see it, to see
it with you, and to offer somebody
uncomprehending, impudent thanks.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso
Peace
13) Song of the Wind, Santana 6:08
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