Today’s theme on the OTB Zone was rain.
The rainy season has begun. I started the show with Fats Waller asking the musical question Where’ s The Sun?
Where is the sun, oh clouds above me?
Where are the birds that used to sing?
Everything’s wrong, oh where is their song of love?
Where is the one who said she loved me?
Gone, like the flowers I used to bring!
Can it be true there’s somebody new to love?
Listen, my heart,
Don’t feel so bad,
Think of the kisses we knew!
You know, my heart,
The moments we had,
Maybe she misses them too!
Where is the sun, oh clouds above me?
Don’t take the dreams to which I cling!
Where is the sun, oh where is the one I love?
Fats Waller is one of my favorite pianists. He is very underrated, but if you listen to his piano solos, you will hear a master musician.
I also played Johnny Ray singing Just Walking in the Rain. A great song for practicing your word chunks. Listen to the phrases, practice the rhythm.
Just walking in the rain
Getting soaking wet
Torturing my heart
By trying to forget
Just walking in the rain
So alone and blue
All because my heart
Still remembers you
People come to windows
They always stare at me
Shaking their heads in sorrow
Saying, who can that fool be
Just walking in the rain
Thinking how we met
Knowing things could change
Somehow I can’t forget
Today’s vocabulary tidbit – soaking wet. It means very, very wet, like if you get caught in the rain without your umbrella and have to walk all the way home from the train station.
soaking wet – also dripping wet, and drenched – they all mean very, very wet. Useful words for this time of year.
