[Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times

[Fred Karpoff]

Great Milan! Good ideas for helping to get us through these times!
Marian Karpoff

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <
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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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