Come Join This Happy Song- Day 3

Oh i had plenty of pleasant bus rides in my last travel a couple of weeks back. Now it feels like the stationary life at base is not so becoming. Oh dear me i am restless courtesy the voracious travel bug . Especially this month of February when winter seems to be fading and it's just so comfortable to travel and enjoy all. Just the perfect month for some journeys.
So my predicament matches exactly to that of The Happy Wanderer.

The way we had learnt it  in school was akin to this by Ms Diana Decker-


Okay for this particular song i'd love to copy the simulated body shaking laughter as i have always loved interactive songs. Remember the Birdy Song!!


The Happy Wanderer

Val de ree, Val de raa,  Val de raa, Val de ha ha ha ha
Come join this happy song

I love to go a wandering along the mountain track.
But as I go I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.

Val de ree, Val de raa, Val de raa, Val de ha ha ha ha
Val de ree, Val de raa,  my knapsack on my back

I love to wander by the stream that dances in the sun.
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
come join my happy song.

Val de ree, Val de raa, Val de raa, Val de ha ha ha ha
Val de ree, Val de ra, come join my happy song.

I wave my hat to all I meet and they wave back to me.
And blackbirds call,
So loud and sweet,
From every greenwood tree.

Val de ree, Val de raa, Val de raa, Val de ha ha ha ha
Val de ree, Val de raa, from every greenwood tree

High overhead the skylark's wing they never rest at home.
But just like me,
They love to sing,
As oe'r the world we roam.

Val de ree Val de raa Val de raa Val de ha ha ha ha
Val de ree Val de raa as oe'r the world we roam

Oh i may go a wandering until the day i die.
Oh may i always,
Laugh and sing,
Beneath God's clear blue sky.

Val de ree, Val de raa, Val de raa, Val de ha ha ha ha
Val de ree, Val de raa,  beneath God's clear blue sky.

But the version i seem to enjoy more these days has some change in the way the chorus is sung-


For me The Happy Wanderer is just another infectious cheerful song and i had no clue whatsoever that it can be sung as a marching anthem too.


Thank you Samaritans. You who have taken pains to upload and put various versions of the unforgettable classics.
And THANK YOU youtube for helping them in their sincere effort which i deem to be no less than any social service.
It makes my day and i'm sure although they remain invisible i am in company and together we are having the time of our lives.

                                                                                                                                       

Day-2 Immortal # 1

We all lose things, feel bad for sometime and then move on. The loss seems to fade away despite the aftermath of regrets and endless consolations.
But somehow you always seem to remember the loss. You are never able to get over it completely and absolutely. i guess it's something to do with our brains and no matter what people say you are never able to shut out that part of the brain which time and again keeps reminding you of that loss.

I still regret lending my school song notebook to my junior in school when i was in the 10th grade. The notebook never came back to me. I do remember my efforts too. Of trying so hard to retrieve it from the international circulating library.

Today i seem to thank the brain for being so.
Also for it being virus proof and malware resistant.
My annoyance/ frustration/ pain on loss has lessened not only for this notebook but some traumatic ones too.
We might talk about time being the healer. Agreed but not without giving a well deserved kudos to the resilient sponge that forms the center of the nervous system.
Coincidentally i have before me a few pieces of walnut which quite resembles that sponge.
So far so good...

My thoughts about kissing the frog and turning it into a prince, and all those others... experiences good and bad stays.
In a nutshell life in it's full glory remains thanks to the looking like a walnut brain.

Yeah that soft sponge of a walnut which also rewards us with TIMELESS...PERENNIAL...IMMORTALs.
This one for instance- Oh Susannah or like what i wrote in my notebook once upon a time ' I Come From Alabama'.

I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
I'm going to lou'siana
My true love for to see
It rained all night the day i left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death
Susannah don't you cry

Oh Susannah
Oh don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

When I jumped aboard the telegraph
And traveled down the river
The electric fluid magnified
And killed five hundred cheer
When the bulls ran bust the horse ran off
The baillif thought i had died
So I shut my eyes to hold my breath
Susannah don't you cry

Oh Susannah
Oh don't you cry for me
For I've from from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought i saw Susannah dear
A- coming down the hill
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth
The tear was in her eye
Said I, I'm coming from the south
Susannah don't you cry

Oh Susannah
Oh don't you cry for me
For I've come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee

Now I soon will be in New Orleans
And then I'll look around
And when i find Su-Sannah,
I'll fall upon the ground
But if i do not find her
Then i will surely die
And when i'm dead and buried
Susannah, don't you cry

Oh Susannah
Oh don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee.

Oh Susannah
Oh don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee.

Before i draw this to a close i cannot seem to thank enough technology which after all is what has germinated from that beautifully carved and amazingly designed soft walnut. So not only do i overcome but can also reclaim and accumulate...and in the process not only be richer but also get rejuvenated...

http://youtu.be/_eZUn2rUVGk
http://youtu.be/sui84FJgQAU
http://youtu.be/t78H8OFjmq0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_Susanna