Phencyclipædia of the Gertrudan Eclipse

Another Do-over, hope you enjoy...

Phencyclipædia or the Gertrudan Eclipse
by Norman B
(Deviations from the Norm)

In bayou Mississippi,
Mister, was this hippie,
One early morn,
And Mississippi's trippy
When you're whippy tippy
With John Barleycorn.

He was gonna hitchhike
Way on up the turnpike
T' see his lawyer.
I said "I'll take ya there,
Just only pay me fair.
(I've no employer.)

"I'll forget love lost and travel
On the pathways made of gravel
Hot in August. I'll be ready very soon."
All the day we walked the weed,
And into evenin', then the speed.
Crossed the border. A red shadow ate the moon.

If I were back in Flor'da,
The hour of the order
Would be to roll up some joints,
But they had crossed the border horrider,
In descent, indecent corridor,
Said "Let's score us some points!"

In a sniff I met the magician,
Then Mississippi fishin'.
We threw 'em back, not one did we kill.
We went to a bar and played at billiards,
But then we felt much sillier,
Because the building had been built upon a hill!

On the wall above the kegs
Were the tail and the hind legs
Of the hind that almost got away.
The balls were curvin' all over the places.
The smiles were curlin' all over our faces.
I don't recall the rest of that day.

"Just watch if there a ranger is!"
John said, "This place is dangerous!
I don't know who that is. HIDE!"
I asked him "Why live thusly?
Why so danger'usly?"
He said "Because it keeps me satisfied."

So you think it may be seemin'
That you were maybe dreamin'
Of the schemin' one early morn,
But nary 'nother demon
Ever came in screamin'
Like John Barleycorn.

(p)(c)2009 Norman Schulerud Bie, Jr., All Rights Reserved. Written in 1982. First performed live and first broadcast in 1985 on Dana Gilmore's Freak Show on WMNF 88.5 FM Tampa Community Radio.

a note from ms socks:
on this torrid summer night in the early eighties whilst our thrill seeking young hero ( i didn't know him yet) and his travelling companion, the mysterious mr. ootoo, were gadding about somewhere in mississipi, i was enjoying a view of the total lunar eclipse through the large plate glass window of my room in the maternity ward of the stonybrook university hospital on long island, holding my just-born baby adam dario , whose coloration at birth matched the winedark hue of the earth's shadow on the face of the moon. that's how i know with certainty that this fateful episode occurred in july of 1982, not august...

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[NewBrazdolph]

wow! fabulous! loved the lyrics!

[ilikeyourvideos2]

you are welcome good old mississippi.

[permacultureli]

good...you are a true production Co....you do have an act there...for sure....what a creative and joyously spontaneous, richly inventive and playful guy...there!.

the turtle is a beautiful and enigmatic creature...don't you think?. I looooooved having the turtle around. She was so alive and attentive, intelligent looking.

[medicinesocks]

hey. i'm no simpering secretary. we co-c reate... in general, he's the performer, i am the shooter and editor of these videos, usually, though our channel isnt the all norm all the time channel i admit he's my best, and most readily accessible subject. him and the cats, lol... oh, there's turtle footage too now that i think about it. i should send it to you

[permacultureli]

me too...I am getting a white beard already...but haven't quite droped the towel and let it take off like that...

I'm not ready to be a forest spirit...

i'm still in my turtle-nursing years.

[permacultureli]

oooopsy daysies...!...I assumed it was greybeard...defending himself...but now i see it was his

pair...so you do the typing, there...a sort of secretarial companion?..

no...I fetch almost whatever I want still...my little white beard is kept too short for me to be asked for pocket change yet....but...yeah...turtles and cats are my best bets actually...no prob.!

[medicinesocks]

wait wait... by the way, you are bantering with rachel, not norm... us medicinesockses come in pairs doncha know...

ole greybeard is snoring a way as i sit here & type... so, as i was saying,

if what *i'm* going through is called menopause... then what you old dudes have to contend with must be womenopause?

[medicinesocks]

thanks :o)

[ilikeyourvideos2]

hey it was a great song man i do not mind do overs.mississippi.

[medicinesocks]

thanks for commenting (again) it's just the first one was so blurry, cause i didnt know how to get it to upload right before.... hope you don't mind do-overs