Rock and roll - England
The American commentator on ESPN said: "You can say what you want about the Brazilian and the German fans, but when the English fans get rockin an rollin they are a sight to behold, and for my money they are the best in the world."
The camera then showed the English crowd, and I have to admit, all national modesty aside, that they really were a sight to behold, and they were rockin and a rollin and shouting and singing and I looked at the very colorful sight of it all, and it felt good to see the English being English. When the English get going they even put the Irish, Scots and Welsh to shame.
If there's one thing I like about the Irish, Scots and Welsh, it's that they feel no shame in being patriotic. I like more than just that about them, of course, I've got the lot of them swilling around in my beer enriched blood, and in a way I identify with them all. However, seeing as the larger part of my blood comes from the wee Island across the Irish sea, as well as the type of beer that I drink; and seeing as I am legally a citizen of the Irish Republic, I identify with the Irish a bit more than I identify with the Scots and Welsh, and I love the Irish music. It reaches a part of me that can only be reached by listening to it. I can easily see why the American blacks once loved their soul music, it was personal, it was tailor made, and it spoke to them in a way that only it could. The blues, played with rich and heart felt guitar expressions, came out of soul music, and out of the blues came rock and roll.
Maybe that's why rock and roll speaks to all nations. It came, after all, out of a sadness of heart and from the realization of the folly in and of the human condition.
Rock and roll is the child of sorrow and pain, and maybe that's why we rejoice and feel so good when we hear it. Rock and roll is the triumph over the unjustness and the down right agony of it all. It's a triumph of our human nature over the nature we were all born into. Ah yis, we are all the children of Mother Earth, and she lets us know it time after time, and yet, some how, we alone, amongst the children of Mother Earth, try to be some thing different. We really don't know what it is that's driving us to be rebellious children, but we know, some how, that we don't like the ways of Mother Earth.
As well as being a citizen of the Irish Republic, I am also British, or I should really say I am English. My Grandad was English, and I was born and raised in England. I am Anglo/Irish. I feel no shame in feeling patriotic towards my Irish-ness, and I feel no shame in feeling patriotic towards my English-ness. Seeing as my children are yanks I feel a bit of patriotism there too.
Is there really any understanding of it all? I doubt it. There's not one iota of it all that makes any sense, you can talk about mathematics all you want, but what has that got to do with all those flag waving cheering chanting rock and rolling Englishmen. Is there a formula for it? Is there a formula for rock and roll music?
The English, upon hearing it for the first time, took rock and roll music to their heart. What does that say about the English soul? It could even be said that when one hears the words rock and roll people think of England, as in the American commentator saying "When the English get rockin an rollin..."
Think about it.
And I loved it. My heart was with all the rockin and rollin English supporters. I felt some thing that only seeing such a thing could deliver. I felt a feeling of at one-ness with them. They were me and we were we and we were all together.
If the people of this planet are ever going overcome the dog eat dog world of our mother Earth nature, we will need to be as one with each other, and it has to start some where. Destroying patriotism, like some people seem to want to do, seems to me to be the wrong way to go about it. Surely patriotism is the first step along the way to total oneness.
Can you here the coca cola song" "I'd like to teach the world to sing in total harmony..."
What a load of rubbish!
It'll never happen on this planet, but at least we can get a bit of harmony through patriotism.
I don't know, I don't know much of anything, and I'm probably making no sense what so ever; but I know I like a patriot no matter what country he belongs to...that is as long as he doesn't plan on...you know what I mean...there's just something about a patriot that I like; and I like rock and roll too.
Walter
The camera then showed the English crowd, and I have to admit, all national modesty aside, that they really were a sight to behold, and they were rockin and a rollin and shouting and singing and I looked at the very colorful sight of it all, and it felt good to see the English being English. When the English get going they even put the Irish, Scots and Welsh to shame.
If there's one thing I like about the Irish, Scots and Welsh, it's that they feel no shame in being patriotic. I like more than just that about them, of course, I've got the lot of them swilling around in my beer enriched blood, and in a way I identify with them all. However, seeing as the larger part of my blood comes from the wee Island across the Irish sea, as well as the type of beer that I drink; and seeing as I am legally a citizen of the Irish Republic, I identify with the Irish a bit more than I identify with the Scots and Welsh, and I love the Irish music. It reaches a part of me that can only be reached by listening to it. I can easily see why the American blacks once loved their soul music, it was personal, it was tailor made, and it spoke to them in a way that only it could. The blues, played with rich and heart felt guitar expressions, came out of soul music, and out of the blues came rock and roll.
Maybe that's why rock and roll speaks to all nations. It came, after all, out of a sadness of heart and from the realization of the folly in and of the human condition.
Rock and roll is the child of sorrow and pain, and maybe that's why we rejoice and feel so good when we hear it. Rock and roll is the triumph over the unjustness and the down right agony of it all. It's a triumph of our human nature over the nature we were all born into. Ah yis, we are all the children of Mother Earth, and she lets us know it time after time, and yet, some how, we alone, amongst the children of Mother Earth, try to be some thing different. We really don't know what it is that's driving us to be rebellious children, but we know, some how, that we don't like the ways of Mother Earth.
As well as being a citizen of the Irish Republic, I am also British, or I should really say I am English. My Grandad was English, and I was born and raised in England. I am Anglo/Irish. I feel no shame in feeling patriotic towards my Irish-ness, and I feel no shame in feeling patriotic towards my English-ness. Seeing as my children are yanks I feel a bit of patriotism there too.
Is there really any understanding of it all? I doubt it. There's not one iota of it all that makes any sense, you can talk about mathematics all you want, but what has that got to do with all those flag waving cheering chanting rock and rolling Englishmen. Is there a formula for it? Is there a formula for rock and roll music?
The English, upon hearing it for the first time, took rock and roll music to their heart. What does that say about the English soul? It could even be said that when one hears the words rock and roll people think of England, as in the American commentator saying "When the English get rockin an rollin..."
Think about it.
And I loved it. My heart was with all the rockin and rollin English supporters. I felt some thing that only seeing such a thing could deliver. I felt a feeling of at one-ness with them. They were me and we were we and we were all together.
If the people of this planet are ever going overcome the dog eat dog world of our mother Earth nature, we will need to be as one with each other, and it has to start some where. Destroying patriotism, like some people seem to want to do, seems to me to be the wrong way to go about it. Surely patriotism is the first step along the way to total oneness.
Can you here the coca cola song" "I'd like to teach the world to sing in total harmony..."
What a load of rubbish!
It'll never happen on this planet, but at least we can get a bit of harmony through patriotism.
I don't know, I don't know much of anything, and I'm probably making no sense what so ever; but I know I like a patriot no matter what country he belongs to...that is as long as he doesn't plan on...you know what I mean...there's just something about a patriot that I like; and I like rock and roll too.
Walter
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