Sunday, May 26, 2013

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face

 
" You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes, you will
That you're beautiful as you feel

Waiting at the station with a workday wind a-blowing
I've got nothing to do but watch the passers-by
Mirrored in their faces I see frustration growing
And they don't see it showing, why do I?

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes, you will
That you're beautiful as you feel

I have often asked myself the reason for THE sadness
In a world where tears are just a lullaby
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart.."
Carole King, Beautiful lyrics
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Carole King was honored with the Gershwin Prize for Music at the White House last week; and she opened her appearance with Beautiful.

The show will be shown on PBS on Tues. night, May 28th.

The millennials, or near millennials, reading this will exclaim "Who is Carole King? and who is her friend, James Taylor?"

As a member of the silent generation, or the almost baby boomer generation, Carole King's Tapestry album still resonates.

And her Beautiful tune is relevant today, when the days are filled with bridges collapsing, tornadoes, hs students planning Columbine massacres, toxic Congressional politicians, yada, yada, yada.

Everyone wake up with a smile; and have a good holiday weekend.

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