Light a Candle for Oompa

by BabaYaga 94 Replies latest jw friends

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  GLTirebiter

  Lit.
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  BabaYaga

  I wanted to thank you for posting Oompa's video, Muddy. "Well, it's a start."

  ~~~

  Here are the lyrics to the song Oomps is playing:

  Old Crow Medicine Show
  Wagon Wheel lyrics

  Headed down south to the land of the pines
  And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
  Starin' up the road
  Pray to God I see headlights
  
  I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
  Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
  And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
  I can see my baby tonight
  
  So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
  Rock me mama anyway you feel
  Hey mama rock me
  Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
  Rock me mama like a south-bound train
  Hey mama rock me
  
  Runnin' from the cold up in New England
  I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
  My baby plays the guitar
  I pick a banjo now
  [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/old_crow_medicine_show/wagon_wheel.html ]
  Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
  Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
  But I ain't a turnin' back
  To livin' that old life no more
  
  So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
  Rock me mama anyway you feel
  Hey mama rock me
  Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
  Rock me mama like a south-bound train
  Hey mama rock me
  
  Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
  I caught a trucker out of Philly
  Had a nice long toke
  But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
  To Johnson City, Tennessee
  
  And I gotta get a move on before the sun
  I hear my baby callin' my name
  And I know that she's the only one
  And if I die in Raleigh
  At least I will die free
  
  So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
  Rock me mama anyway you feel
  Hey mama rock me
  Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
  Rock me mama like a south-bound train
  Hey mama rock me
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  mostlydead

  Very thoughtful BabaYaga, thank you. Mine's lit.
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  umadevi

  Thank you Baba!
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  cedars

  Nathan, can you stop blitzing all the Oompa threads with comments that are designed to mock, criticize and deride genuine mourners?

  Just because you don't personally approve of the way people may wish to commemorate Eric, this doesn't entitle you to disrespect other people's attempts to honor him in their own way.

  I don't know what your problem is, but I think your attacks are entirely inappropriate on this of all occasions.

  Cedars
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  Iamallcool

  Done!
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  cedars

  Nathan, I respect many of your posts, but on this issue you are far from "the voice of reason". You are bang out of order.

  If people express sadness for a man committing suicide after struggling with a prolonged period of deep depression, the last thing you should do is question their motives or the manner in which they choose to grieve. Yet this is precisely what you are doing on no less than three threads. What is wrong with you?

  I don't know whether you're drinking or something, or just feeling deprived of attention. However, if I were you I would pipe down, or expect to be barred from posting for a while.

  I'm serious.

  Cedars
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  oldlightnewshite

  Cedars
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  slimboyfat

  If some of the posts are to be believed, then some people on this forum did know Eric very well. So why do you call it fake grief?

  If you don't like a conversation then don't take part. What is with people who need to try to shut other people up?
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  doofdaddy

  Yeah I lit one.

  Death usually brings self reflection on our own lives, the decisions we have made and possible regrets. That's why some react in bizarre and incomprehensible ways. It's their stuff to sort out not project.