{"id":20579,"date":"2020-12-18T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T13:32:15","slug":"life-island-times-plague-blues-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-plague-blues-after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Plague Blues After Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(Refuge Farm in snow, recherch\u00e9. Photos courtesy of Grace).<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: No snide bemoaning of the momentary politics this morning. That squirrelly jet stream of frigid air beat us up but good this week. More snow last night atop the crusty ice that enveloped us at mid-week. The usual preparations for the unknown were revealed to have gaping holes, and winter storm Gail got a name. In response, she gave us crusty slush filled with attitude. <\/p>\n

I had assumed it would be the usual Piedmont drill: bad for a while, then a quick melt, a sigh, and back to business as usual. Gail\u2019s host jet stream is still with us, and the earnest weather people on the morning news programs promise us a chilly few days to come that will keep the slush with us. Christmas next week. I think I am supposed to do something about that. In the meantime, Marlow takes action.<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

Plague Blues After Hours <\/p>\n

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I was watching a well-known, pre-market, business cable YV broadcast from NYC the other day, when the wealthy, multiple-country house owning, limo-riding, talking heads\u2019 whining about this or that vaccine boody-hoody-hoo stuff and how they miss their vacation travel to resorts we unwashed can only read about in Conde Nast became an old lame-assed blues song.<\/p>\n

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Wrote a song about it. Like to hear it, hear it go. <\/p>\n

Got plague blues after hours
\nAnd it lasts me until the break of day
\nGot the plague blues after hours
\nAnd it lasts me until the break of day
\nI\u2019ve been looking for a little relief
\nBut I swear it\u2019s all gone away <\/p>\n

Plague blues after hours
\nI swear they all fell on me
\nGot the plague blues after hours
\nAnd I swear they all fell on me
\nI\u2019m just an ole poor boy wanderin and wonderin
\nWhere can a little fun be <\/p>\n

Gee, fellas, plague ain\u2019t been good for you too
\nGee oh gee, fellas, ain\u2019t been good for you
\nWe\u2019ll find and love us some fun
\nI swear, no matter what these plagues do <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s all cry \u201cOh Lord, please send good times back to me
\nOh Lord, please send good times back to me
\nNow if they don\u2019t come back
\nI\u2019m afraid these plagues gonna bury me.\u201d <\/p>\n

——-<\/p>\n

Let er rip, my New York City boyz, let er rip, while you endlessly strum the same lame bar of blues notes as you lament your distant place in line for a vaccine shot. Don\u2019t forget to end your blues take with your trademark falsetto “Ahhhh haaa” and conclude with a shouted faux-modesty “Thank you very much!”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2020 From My Isle Seat
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