pete_seeger epitome of incomprehensibility Why are you dead now? Why? I concluded that flower-picking is the cause of war from "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and now you're dead. That isn't fair. 140128 ... raze well crap. i kind of figured pete was going to live another hundred years. one of the best albums bruce springsteen has made wouldn't exist without his influence, and he was responsible for my favourite version there's ever been of "the lion sleeps tonight", only it didn't have that title yet when he sang it with the weavers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jeooKgTPxk 140128 ... e_o_i Verdict on e_o_i: Too self-absorbed and not checking what blather people wrote about nonblather people in the Real Wide World. Guilty as charged. ...So I just listened to your link today. Never heard his version before, and I learned something new: the "wimoway" part was a mishearing of "mbube," Zulu for lion. So the added words about "the lion sleeps tonight" fit, sort of. I liked Pete Seeger's talking voice too. A funny fact: when he was on trial for "un-American" activities, the committee was questioning about him about his songs, and he said he could sing some for them if they liked. They said no. Silly people. (Courtesy of Gazette paper a few days ago.) 140203 ... e_o_i Also, a conversation with my brother, who says it's not "real" folk music if someone makes it up. Well, some folk have to make folk music up sometime somehow. It doesn't just spring out of the ground. 140203 ... raze but…but what if it did? then we'd have trees named bob and phil and townes and joan, and what folky trees they'd be. 140203 ... e_o_i Ah yes! I can't quite picture him as a tree, though. I think Joni Mitchell would make a good tree. Long hair seems more treelike somehow. 140204 what's it to you? who go blather from