Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Bessie, won’t you please come home?


Does it bother you when friends wantonly say things like “French cows just don’t get it” and “Cows in France can’t appreciate good music”?


Just click here:     A concert in the field....
 ….so you’re prepared to respond severely next time your buddies are doing their cow-bashing thing….

As you know, William Congreve, the English Restoration poet, wrote this in 1697:
“Music has Charms to sooth a savage Breast . . .”

Yeah, the original phrase was “breast,” not “beast”….

Anyway, that’s just a literate set-up so I can say:
“Forsooth, the jazzmen’s music doth verily transfix the curious milkcow….”

OK, check out the video again, those cows are diggin’ it….

Maybe cows are tuned in to Ray Charles and Basie and Kenton and Ronstadt and “Walk across the fire . . . “

Maybe cows are playing “Name That Tune” as they shamble down the slope of the far meadow….






1 comment:

  1. First off I thought this was going to be about global warming because we all know that cows gaseous discharges cause it. Second, was it about Chic-fil-A and eat more beef? Then I realized it was an ad for Borders....from contented cows comes contended milk! Viva la French.

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