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Crazy Thoughts After Caring for Aging Parents

Caring for aging parents is like being a virgin
Having sex for the first few times
It's awkward, it hurts, and the more you do it
The less it hurts, but the crazier it all gets.

There is a reason
Creedance Clearwater Revival is played rocking loud
It sounds good, feels good, and if it worked for Vietnam Vets like my father
It works for me!

So crank up the rock
Have a beer
Raise your glass
And, live life the best you can before its done!

Author notes

Another day lived caring and loving while going crazy!

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  • Sheilasbabygal4life gold member
    October 26

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    This was a nicely written piece. I found this really enjoyable too read. Ths was very good. Thanks for the read and keep up the good work.


  • awannabepoet
    October 15

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    Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)
    Lyrics: Lightnin' Hopkins
    Music: Lightnin' Hopkins

    This was played by the Grateful Dead a dozen times in 1970 and 1971, and before that in 1964 by Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions before the Dead proper were formed.

    It seems clear that the Dead knew this song as "The Rub". In July 1964, for example, Weir introduces it by saying that Mr Pigpen McKernan is going to sing a Lightnin' Hopkins song - The Rub. But Lightnin' Hopkins recordings have it under the title "Ain't It Crazy", "Mighty Crazy" or "The Crazy Song."

    The lyrics below are from 28 April 1971.

    Mama got the rub board, sister got the tub
    They're going round doing the rub-de-rub
    Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy
    Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing

    Two old maids, they was layin' in a bed
    One turned over and this is what she said
    Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy
    Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing

    Yeah mama killed a chicken, thought it was a duck
    Put him on the table with his feet sticking up
    [Alternative: ... with his feet turned up]
    Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy
    Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing

    There was two old maids, layin' in the sand
    Each one wonderin' if the other was a man
    [Alternative: Each one wishing that the other was a man]
    Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy
    Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' at that thing

    [repeat all verses]


  • csmmoms2
    October 13

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    It was April of '68.
    Turn it up L O U D !

    Oh Suzie Q
    Oh Suzie Q
    Oh Suzie Q Baby I love you
    Suzie Q
    I like the way you walk
    I like the way you talk
    I like the way you walk I like the way you talk
    Suzie Q
    -c