A "U.C. Davis Song"

 Check it out, Aggies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYUlfUVmPd8

Woman Puts Down Her TACO To Sing THIS!

She turns Elton John's "your song" into a sweet lullaby

Get Rhythm Johnny Cash Martin Delray

'CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE' (BARRY WHITE) Cover by The HSCC

The Fairfield Five

 The Fairfield Five, a Black gospel group, sings to a room full of white folks:  

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

Babyface - Change the World (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)

Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash & Dj Serj Moldova (remix)

Dummy Hypnotises Ventriloquist | Live at the Apollo | BBC Comedy Greats

Long Black Veil by Lefty Frizzell - 1959 (with lyrics)

Parisians Try to Pronounce Words in English

Move

Move through dew

on grass like an eel
muscling itself between
canals. Move

into light and shadow,
the dappled landscape
of your life. Ride
like a child

the silly contraptions
of commerce--escalator,
elevator, metro, & sad,
sagging bus. Keep

going, knowing
you're probably not
going to get anywhere
special fast, except Here.

hans ostrom 2023

Hello, Stranger

 (with apologies to Barbara Lewis, who recorded the song "Hello, Stranger," in the 1960s)

As I walked under
a Norwegian spruce
today, a dove cooed
three times.

It sounded like someone
blowing carefully
on a conch shell:
the hard c in coo

had dissolved.
Three musical notes:
what a nice thing
to say to a stranger

walking by, I thought--
how sweetly polite,
how tonal, coaxing a
smile out of me.

hans ostrom 2023