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Raleigh Song Ideas - Keep 'Em Comin'
Posted 2006-12-12T19:46:24+00:00 - Updated 2006-02-03T13:40:00+00:00
Raise your hands and repeat after me: "I love Raleigh because............."
Thanks for filling in the blank.
We'll take it the bank.
We'll sing a song about what's right not wrong with this beautiful place which ages with grace.
Okay. I'm getting carried away again. I appreciate your kind help in composing the official song of Raleigh. I will do my best to weave your ideas on what make's Raleigh great into a song to be performed in September when the city's second group of Raleigh Hall of Fame members are inducted. All right. I wanted to salute a couple of more poets. The first one comes from David McKnight, a brilliant writer and musician:
"Where the Piedmont meets the Coastal Plain
"And the Neuse flows down that Eastern crest,
"Where on a sky blue day you can 'bout see Maine,
"My mornings shine 'till evening rest."
Thanks, David! And from John Pendergrass another fine effort:
Warm biscuits, warm smiles
And minivans for miles
Hoop dream abound
Student rivalries thrive
Just a little to the west
Of I-95
Blue skies and blue grass
A bog ole acorn
Most of the residents
Are not native born
Loop on the belt
Belt out a tune
Tune up a symphony
On the lawn in mid June
Go to the fair
Eat long and eat well
If you don't pull for State
Well then go (nevemind)
Thanks for filling in the blank.
We'll take it the bank.
We'll sing a song about what's right not wrong with this beautiful place which ages with grace.
Okay. I'm getting carried away again. I appreciate your kind help in composing the official song of Raleigh. I will do my best to weave your ideas on what make's Raleigh great into a song to be performed in September when the city's second group of Raleigh Hall of Fame members are inducted. All right. I wanted to salute a couple of more poets. The first one comes from David McKnight, a brilliant writer and musician:
"Where the Piedmont meets the Coastal Plain
"And the Neuse flows down that Eastern crest,
"Where on a sky blue day you can 'bout see Maine,
"My mornings shine 'till evening rest."
Thanks, David! And from John Pendergrass another fine effort:
Warm biscuits, warm smiles
And minivans for miles
Hoop dream abound
Student rivalries thrive
Just a little to the west
Of I-95
Blue skies and blue grass
A bog ole acorn
Most of the residents
Are not native born
Loop on the belt
Belt out a tune
Tune up a symphony
On the lawn in mid June
Go to the fair
Eat long and eat well
If you don't pull for State
Well then go (nevemind)