9.11.2001 USA SPLASH PAGE
© Barbara Ann Lyons
DON HENLEY
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Lying here in the darkness.
I hear the sirens wail.
Somebody going to emergency.
Somebody's going to jail.
If you find somebody to love in this world.
You better hang on tooth and nail.
The wolf is always at the door.
In a New York minute.
Everything can change.
In a New York minute.
Things can get a little strange.
In a New York minute.
Everything can change.
In a New York minute.
Did Don Henley have a VISION when he penned this song?
To dream the impossible dream.
To fight the unbeatable foe.
To bear with unbearable sorrow.
To run where the brave dare not go.
To right the unrightable wrong.
To be better far than you are.
To try when your arms are too weary.
To reach the unreachable star.
This is my quest, to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far.
To be willing to give when there's no more to give.
To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live.
And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest.
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest.
And the world will be better for this.
That one man scorned and covered with scars.
Still strove with his last ounce of courage.
To reach the unreachable star.
OVER THERE
by George M. Cohan
Over there
Over there
Send the word
Send the word
Over there
That the Yanks are coming
The Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tuming everywhere.
Over there
Say a prayer
Send the word
Send the word
To beware.
It will be over
We're coming over
And we won't come back
Till it's over
Over there.
YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG
by George M. Cohan
You're a grand old flag, you're a high-flying flag,
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of the land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Every heart beats true 'neath the red, white and blue.
Where there's never a boast or brag;
"But should auld acquaintance be forgot".
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
Here is a great "grand old flag" site.
by Henry van Dyke
Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
To admire the crumbly castles and the statues and kings
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
