30 Days!!
By eleven November, deliver a record
The Beatles’ contract tightly drawn
Two albums a year
In mid-October they came together
They were fab but..come on!
No pressure here
Thirty days, sixteen songs
An album plus a forty-five
Plus a Christmas tune for fans Great Britain
Thirty days the race was on
To keep their string of hits alive
And none of the songs were written
Paul and John usually took this on
But now they were getting help
If I Needed Someone
George’s song and it came along
With Think for Yourself
Here comes the son
Just returned from an American tour
Loved being back back in the U.K.
Long road took its toll
Abbey Studio was the cure
And they put away Yesterday
And gave us Rubber Soul
Dostoyevsky penned “The Gambler”
In about a month or so
And then there’s Jack
Kerouac a 7-year rambler
But wrote “On the Road”
A thirty day insomniac
Genesis takes precedence
Twenty percent as long
The world and all its people
But God’s relevance
is pretty much gone
We worship still The Beatles
In the beginning was The Word
But it’s in the middle of the first side
Followed by Michelle
And in the end as John observed
Time to run for your life
If I fell
Once, I have fallen a thousand
For the brilliance of this art
What goes on is just so good
I don’t know what allows them
To take my soul my heart
Into their Norwegian wood
For more information on the recording of Rubber Soul and other Beatles’ albums, check out the films of Scott Freiman.
Throughout November I am writing a poem a day in an effort to raise money for The Center for New Americans, an organization that is located in Western Massachusetts and does great work in acclimating our new citizens to their new homes.
You may help by going here.
If you appreciate my efforts and my work please share.
Also, most of you know I am moving to Oregon at the end of the year. Before I leave I will bedoing two shows. Both will be in Amherst at the NACUL Center at 7:00 on November 30 and December 7. Proceeds will benefit The Center for New Americans.