[Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times

[Milan Hamilton]

Here is another one I wrote some time ago. I just got up one morning and it
sort of came out.
https://youtu.be/t8Qk8V81tXY

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Nancy Trask via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it.  Your guitar
> and your voice were both wonderful.  I do hope you keep composing,
>
> Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?!
>
> Nancy
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: thanks vvx
>
>> Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE!
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>> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE <
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>>
>>> I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of
>>> failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had
>>> the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a
>>> sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry
>>> after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently,
>>> after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times,
>>> begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both
>>> take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load
>>> as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into.
>>> Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom
>>> work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo
>>> Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This
>>> song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember
>>> singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic."
>>> The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on
>>> YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing
>>> voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians
>>> could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more
>>> "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come.
>>> ----Milan Hamilton
>>>
>>> Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament:  https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40
>>>
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