Shake these bones
A couple months ago, I mentioned that Angels in Daring (by Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein, and Michael Cicone) was one of my favorite albums. A kind reader wrote to let me know both of the K/C/E albums, and various related solo albums, are available for online purchase at the Overall Music website. I hied me thither post-haste and ordered up a passel of CDs: both K/C/E albums and two of Kallet's solo ones, all as replacements for my old tapes.
(I'm not as fond of the second K/C/E album, Only Human, as I am of the first, but Only Human contains the Bobs-like song "I'm a Mammal," the best song about breast-feeding I've heard, which to me is worth the price of the album by itself. And the whole album features the trio's superb harmonies.)
Anyway, a song from Angels in Daring just came up in the iTunes mix: "Shake These Bones," by Malcolm Dalglish. The full lyrics can be found in Rise Up Singing; it starts out:
I'll show you what I'm feeling, Lord, every day
I'll shake these bones and shout and sing my life away
I'll shake these bones and I will shout and sing my life away,
For it won't be long until these bones turn to clay.
For someone who's not religious, I like a surprising number of religious songs. One thing I like about this song is the surprising but satisfying rhythm, with the second line of each verse repeated, with two syllables added, as the third line. But I also like the sentiments of much of this song, particularly this verse:
I'll show you how I'm living, Lord, every day
I may not fall down on my knees and start to pray
I may not fall down on my knees and worship you or pray
But there's reverence in my laughter, Lord, anyway.
