Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ships and Trains and Boats and Planes

Doors, Crystal Ship

Clancy Bros., When the Ship Comes In.  Peter, Paul, and Mary also do a fine job with the great Dylan anthem.

Brewer and Shipley, One Toke Over the Line.  What you'll be when the shit comes in.  Matters feculent bring Brian Leiter to mind. Speculation is running high according to a New York Times piece that he mailed feces to four philosophers.  

Dionne Warwick, Trains and Boats and Planes

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Leaving on a Jet Plane

Arlo Guthrie, City of New Orleans.  Classic Americana.

Jimmy Dean, PT 109

Frankie Ford, Sea Cruise

Phil Ochs, Pleasures of the Harbor

Credence Clearwater Revival, Proud Mary

Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Powerful song, great lyrics.  "Does anyone know where the love of God goes/When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"

Beach Boys, Sloop John B.


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