Splishy-Splashy (Dedication to Bobby Darin, inspired by Magnus)

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Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2002-09-02 07:50 PM

(This is a semi-tribute to Bobby Darin, who I admire so very much as an entertainer, yet I've always been saddened by how his political music was ignored after seeing Vietnam and how he lost his audience toward the end of his career and is also on my thoughts and sympathies for him!)

Splishy-Splashy
By: Noah Eaton
9/2/02

Splish-splash, you were taking a bath
Stepped into your dance shoes when you heard the party
A reelin' with the feelin' and a'rollin and strollin'
All your fans had the dancing bug, they were crowing
Then one day you sit by your lonely window
Staring at the lonely avenue watching everyone come and go
Thinking of the things you used to do
Lovers vows, things you didn't do now, memories to help you through

You wanted them to see the other half of you
You tried to sing a song of freedom but couldn't come through
So this is how it goes, that's the way love is
You were splish-splashin
Now you're wishy-washin
If only you had your druthers you'd druther so much more...

Eighteen yellow roses came to you to a bouquet
You didn't know what to say when they came that day
A fathers love without a doubt can never fade away
If only for roses that could be the same
You sit alone in your Di-Dia one hundred and fifty
Speckled in diamond dust, thinking of Sandra Dee
All you wanted was to live up to the shoes of Frank Sinatra
With the rheumatic fever in your heart, singing with euphoria

You wanted them to see the other half of you
You tried to sing a song of freedom but couldn't come through
So this is how it goes, that's the way love is
You were splish-splashin
Now you're wishy-washin
If only you had your druthers you'd druther so much more...

If only everyone could relate to your otherside
In Vietnam where your voice for freedom always subsides
If only everyone could relate to you now
Maybe Mack the Knife would still be back in town...

You wanted them to see the other half of you
You tried to sing a song of freedom but couldn't come through
So this is how it goes, that's the way love is
You were splish-splashin
Now you're wishy-washin
If only you had your druthers you'd druther so much more...

Hear the wire from the albatross
Bobby White, you're still the boss
Make those nightingales wail and whooping cranes insane
Bob White, never stop singing, you are born to reign
Hear the wire from the albatross
Bobby White, you're still the boss
Make those nightingales wail and whooping cranes insane
Bob White, never stop singing, you are born to reign...

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

[This message has been edited by Mistletoe Angel (09-02-2002 07:51 PM).]

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2002-09-02 08:24 PM

Not to shabby Noah...Sing it!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2002-09-02 08:31 PM

Oh Noah...now you're talking my era!
I always loved Bobby Darin! Oooh YES!!
Good write and love the pic.
~Hugs~

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

3 posted 2002-09-02 09:01 PM

Oh YES, Noah... Bobby Darin... an old favorite of mine....
all the way back during the ancient days of the sixties...
thanks for bringing him back here for us...

~ hugs that rock!!!

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

ShadowRider
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since 2001-07-14

Posts 1038
USA

4 posted 2002-09-02 10:18 PM

Shoot, Noah. I wouldn't be able to write 5 lines about Bobby Darin in poetry, even tho i was a DJ once, and you wrote a wonderfully conhesive bio that should probably be posted on a Bobby D website somewhere. Some superb lines in here, very good ones!
~talk to ya soon~
jeff

Singing Sparrow
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since 2002-05-12

Posts 94

5 posted 2002-09-03 05:13 PM

bobby darin is the singing chameleon, gotta love him!

SS

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

6 posted 2002-09-03 05:20 PM

NOW I'm smiling!

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

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Realms of Light

7 posted 2002-09-03 06:14 PM

Noah, read ShadowRider's reply again! It bears repeating. He knows what he's talking about! This was a TT (Terrific Tribute to Mr. D)!

Linda

NewEnglandlazurlu
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since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

8 posted 2002-09-03 06:31 PM

Noah ~~ wanna dance? Of my gosh, where are my bobby socks? This is so right out of my era and I am boppin' in my chair.

Cool man, cool!

Hugs, Marti

"Even if life is full of thorns,
I still embrace it, for I know
that in between those thorns,
there is a rose worth all the pain."

WhiteRose
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since 2002-07-23

Posts 3208
somebody's dungeon

9 posted 2002-09-03 06:33 PM

This was just what I needed today. Great, terrific, incredible. I loved it!!

The White Rose~
A simple expression
of classic beauty.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2002-09-03 06:49 PM

Great...James

TradingSpaces19
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since 2002-08-31

Posts 134
Arvada, Colorado

11 posted 2002-09-13 06:55 PM

NOAH~

You have this Great poetic gene or something because you write so well, and you are so nice everything you reply to people's poems (mine included) is so postive and your poems are positive too, thank you so much for sharing them with everyone and we all love you so much. Feel free to email me at [email protected]

Love,
Andrea Kruckenberg

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