If you need me, call me. No matter where
You are, no matter how far. Just call my
Name. I’ll be there in a hurry. On that
You can depend and never worry.
(You see, my love is alive It’s like a
Seed that only needs the thought of you to
Grow. So if you feel the need for company,
Please, my darling, let it be me. I may not
Be able to express the depth of the love
I feel for you, but a writer put it very nicely
When he was away from the one he loved.
He said down and wrote these words:)

No wind, (No wind) no rain, (no rain)
Nor winter’s cold
Can stop me, babe (oh, babe) baby (baby)
If you’re my goal

No wind, no rain,
Can stop me, babe
If you wanna go

I know, I know you must follow the sun
Wherever it leads
But remember
If you should fall short of your desires
Remember life holds for you one guarantee
You’ll always have me

And if you should miss my love
One of these old days
If you should ever miss the arms
That used to hold you so close, or the lips
That used to touch you so tenderly
Just remember what I told you
The day I set you free

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Ain’t no valley low enough (Say it again)
Ain’t no river wild enough
To keep me from you

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Ain’t no valley low enough (Say it again)
Ain’t no river wild enough
To keep me from you

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Nothing can keep me
To keep me from you

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Ain’t no valley low enough (One more time)
Ain’t no river wild enough (Say it again)
To keep me from you

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Nothing can keep me
To keep me from you

The early years:

Wake up, Maggie, I think I got something to say to you.
It’s late September, and I really should be back at
school.
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I’m being used.
Oh Maggie, I couldn’t have tried any more.
You led me away from home just to save you from being
alone.
You stole my heart, and that’s what really hurts.
The morning sun when it’s in your face really shows
your age,
But that don’t worry me none. In my eyes you’re
everything.
I laughed at all of your jokes; my love, you didn’t
need to coax.
Oh Maggie, I couldn’t have tried any more.
You led me away from home, just to save you from being
alone.
You stole my soul, and that’s a pain I can do without.
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand.
But you turned into a lover, and
mother, what a lover! you wore me out!
All you did was wreck my bed
and in the morning kick me in the head.
Oh Maggie, I couldn’t have tried anymore.
You led me away from home ’cause you didn’t want to be
alone
You stole my heart. I couldn’t leave you if I tried.
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to
school,
Or steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of
playing pool,
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a
helpin’ hand.
Oh Maggie, I wish I’d never seen your face.
You made a first-class fool out of me,
But I’m as blind as a fool can be.
You stole my heart, but I love you anyway.
Maggie, I wish I’d never seen your face.
I’ll get on back home one of these days.

The Tossers are an American six-piece Celtic punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, formed in July 1993. They have toured with Murphy’s Law, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Dropkick Murphys, The Reverend Horton Heat, Flogging Molly, Street Dogs, Clutch, Sick of it All and Mastodon. They opened for The Pogues in New York City on St. Patrick’s Day in 2007. The Tossers were honored to play the Kennedy Center in May 2016.

The band pre-dates more well-known Celtic punk bands such as the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, which formed in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Their latest album, entitled Smash the Windows, was released on March 3, 2017.

Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. Singer and bassist Ken Casey has been the band’s only constant member.
The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and building a reputation locally through constant touring and yearly St. Patrick’s Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The 2004 single, “Tessie” became the band’s first mainstream hit and one of their biggest charting singles to date.

The Real McKenzies is a Canadian Celtic punk band founded in 1992 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are one of the founders of the Celtic punk movement, albeit 10 years after The Pogues.

In addition to writing and performing original music, Real McKenzies perform traditional Scottish songs, giving them a new punk-influenced sound. They have shared stages with many other bands including Rancid, Shane MacGowan, NOFX, Flogging Molly, The Misfits, Metallica, and Voodoo Glow Skulls.

The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience.

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

Watching Austin Powers the other day Burt Bacharach music started playing.  This guy was good.

Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach’s music is characterized by unusual chord progressions and time signature changes, influenced by his background in jazz, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9M744rDd40&t=26s

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984. They remain best known for the track “Having an Average Weekend”, of which an alternate version was used as the theme to the Canadian sketch comedy TV show The Kids in the Hall. Although commonly classified as a surf rock band they rejected the label, going so far as to release a track called “We’re Not a Fucking Surf Band”, although they also later released a compilation box set titled Oh, I Guess We Were a Fucking Surf Band After All.