Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

"I'm not sure what it means, but it sure ties up a lot of loose ends."
PK fox a friend I had nearly 50 years ago, Perhaps the wisest girl I ever met.

 
Daniel~ said:
Until quite recently, before the wonders of the electric age. The hand pump was the only way we could bring up the water from the deeps.
(Larger wells did use Windmills My grand father had one. But they needed to be primed as well.)

The hand pump needed to be primed.
Priming was the process of filling the pipe down to the water line so as to create suction.

The priming water was always left in a can or jar beside the pump handel. They, in the poetry of their souls called this"
"A little water from another time."

This took on the meaning of needing the wisdom of our fathers to prime us to learn to draw upon our own waters and calls us to remember to
leave a bit of water for the next in line.

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Pretty song, thank you.
 
Daniel~ said:
This comes to us out of the civil rights movement.
When demonstrators were hunted down like dogs and the last place in the world they would be safe from harm was jail.

Listen closely and you will hear the birth of freedom.
"if one of us is chained, then none of us are free."

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The real painful zinger is that the Republicans may well succeed in their rabid drive to set us back seventy five years. How can ""people"" be so spectacularly mentally ill and expect no sane person to notice?
 
Daniel~ said:
"I'm not sure what it means, but it sure ties up a lot of loose ends."
PK fox a friend I had nearly 50 years ago, Perhaps the wisest girl I ever met.

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I resented this song for years. Why? Prolly because I didn't understand it. Don't think I really do now, tbh. But I no longer resent it.
 
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