Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Naggy-Nag I am a Nagger

Honestly.  Has anyone out there in blogland actively supported this (in my opinion) God-forsaken TIME CHANGE?!  Really?

I have never, EVER heard one person exclaim the virtues of moving the clock one hour earlier or one hour later.  It just messes us all up.  EVERY SIX MONTHS, IT MESSES US ALL UP.

Every six months, we all complain and grind our teeth and go through the cyclical motions.  And yet, as lemmings, we do it.  Well, most of us do it.  Hawaii does not observe the time changes.  (Bravo!!)  Arizona, save for the Navajo Nation, does not observe the time changes.  (Bravo!!)  But the rest of us in these united states do.

If I could, I would instigate the change of two things post-haste:

1) NO MORE TIME CHANGES.  EVER.

Oops.  And now I am on another tangent.  From time changes to the National Anthem.  How does my mind work???

2) Say, how about we change the National Anthem to something more peaceful.  
Instead of :
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

How about we change it to:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

And that's all I have this evening.  Except this evening's dinner menu.  Think Southern:  Grits, collard greens, and fried eggs.
Mmmm....

2 comments:

Louise Plummer said...

I am so with you on the time change. I hate it so much.

Sometimes, I sing to Tom, "Tomasius, Tomasius, God mend thine every flaw." And then I break into laughter.

America, America--so fun to sing in parts.

twebsterarmstrong said...

Well, it's done now. I will hear your rendition in my head any time I listen to that verse.

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