Re: silly trivia contests--the end!! (I know, thank goodness)

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Re III:  "Strap yourself to the tree with roots" ... BINGO!  And Mazel 
Tov/Yasher Koach!  I'm sure the whole list thanks you, Hayyim, for bringing 
this contest to a merciful end.  Thanks and congrats to all who entered!  
Where (let alone how--why did I do this) do I send a cupcake?!


>From: Hayyim Feldman <hf (at) world(dot)std(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>CC: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
>Subject: Re: silly trivia contests
>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 17:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Robert Cohen wrote:
>
> >Re the Dylan quotes:  [...] I had in mind a more obscure quotation--
> >obscure in the sense of not transparent (maybe I mean "opaque"):  It has
> >no obvious Jewish reference _at all,_ yet I think has profound Jewish
> >implications (maybe or not for Dylan himself--can't say). I'll give one
> >hint; then (if I don't get any responses, or any correct ones) give the
> >answer a week from today and bring this contest to a merciful close--only
> >a week or two after the Independent Counsel statute expired!  Here's the
> >hint:  EITZ CHAYIM.  Good luck everyone!
>
>I.
>Of war and peace the truth just twists
>Its curfew gull just glides
>Upon four-legged forest clouds
>The cowboy angel rides
>With his candle lit into the sun
>Though its glow is waxed in black
>All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
>
>(But this is more likely Eitz HaDa'as.)
>
>II.
>Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases
>Pass the tree of smoke, pass the angel with four faces
>Begging God for mercy and weepin' in unholy places
>Angelina
>
>(But "angel with four faces" is too explicit for your description.
>So, my best guess...)
>
>III.
>...Strap yourself
>To the tree with roots
>You ain't goin' nowhere
>Whoo-ee! Ride me high
>Tomorrow's the day
>My bride's gonna come
>Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
>Down in the easy chair!
>
>(Git Shabbes!)
>
>-Hayyim
>
>~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>And may the spirit of this song,
>may it rise up pure and free.
>May it be a shield for you,
>a shield against the enemy.
>
>                       -Leonard Cohen, "Lover Lover Lover" (1974)
>~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~


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