Bang A Drum

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Today is Jon Bon Jovi’s birthday and I wanted to share my most favorite Bon Jovi song.  It’s from the movie Young Guns II (about Billy the Kid and cohorts).  The song is Bang a Drum and it’s been called rock gospel by many.

“Bang A Drum”

I went to see the preacher to teach me how to pray
He looked at me and smiled
Then that preacher turned away
He said if you want to tell him something
You ain’t gotta fold your hands
Say it with your heart, your soul and believe it
And I’d say amen

Bang a drum for the sinners
Bang a drum for the sins
Bang a drum for the losers
And those who win
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for yourself son
And a drum for me
Ooh, let me hear you say yeah (yeah), hallelujah, amen

I called upon my brother just the other day
He said: John I’m gonna die if I don’t start to live again
I work each day and night like clockwork
Just trying to make ends meet
I could kick this bad world’s ass
If I could just get on my feet

I’d bang a drum for the dying
Bang a drum for the truth
Bang a drum for the innocence lost in our youth
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for you brother
And a drum for me

I don’t know where all the rivers run
I don’t know how far, I don’t know how come
Well I’m gonna die believin’ each step that I take
Ain’t worth the ground that I walk on
If we don’t walk it our way

[Guitar solo] (ooh…)

No I don’t claim to be a wiseman, a poet or a saint
I’m just another man who’s searching for a better way
But my heart beats loud as thunder
For the things that I believe
Sometimes I wanna run for cover
Sometimes I want to scream

Bang a drum for tomorrow
Bang a drum for the past
Bang a drum for the heroes that won’t come back
Bang a drum for the promise
Bang a drum for the lies
Bang a drum for the lovers and the tears they’ve cried
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
But as long as my heart keeps on bangin’
I got a reason to believe (I got a reason to believe)

(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, hallelujah, amen)
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
Come on now (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
All right girls (yeah) brother (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen

Happy Birthday Jon!

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  4. This old Hank Williams song with a chorus about beating the drum slowly also came to mind….

    As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
    As I walked out in Laredo one day,
    I spied a poor cowboy, all wrapped in white linen
    All wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay.

    “I see by your outfit, that you are a cowboy.”
    These words he did say as I slowly passed by.
    “Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story,
    For I’m shot in the chest, and today I must die.”

    “‘Oh once in the saddle I used to go dashing,
    ‘Oh once in the saddle I used to go gay.
    First down to Rosie’s, and then to the card-house,
    Got shot through the body, and now here I lay.”

    “Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
    And play the dead march as you carry me along;
    Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o’er me,
    For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.”

    “Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin,
    Get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall.
    Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,
    Roses to deaden the clods as they fall.”

    “Then swing your rope slowly and rattle your spurs lowly,
    And give a wild whoop as you carry me along;
    And in the grave throw me and roll the sod o’er me.
    For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.”

    “Go bring me a cup, a cup of cold water.
    To cool my parched lips”, the cowboy then said.
    Before I returned, his spirit had departed,
    And gone to the round up – the cowboy was dead.

    We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
    And bitterly wept as we bore him along.
    For we loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome,
    We all loved our comrade, although he’d done wrong.

    Recordings of the song have been made by Vernon Dalhart, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Johnny Western, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Jim Reeves, Roy Rogers, Marty Robbins, Chet Atkins, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Luboff Choir, Rex Allen, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and many country and western singers, as well as avant garde rocker John Cale, the British pop group Prefab Sprout, Snakefarm, Mercury Rev, Jane Siberry, Suzanne Vega, Paul Westerberg, Buck Ramsey (singer & poet), and The Stone Coyotes. There is also a version on RCA’s How The West Was Won double album, Bing Crosby – 1960. Harry James recorded a version on his 1966 album Harry James & His Western Friends (Dot DLP 3735 and DLP 25735).

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  9. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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