Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

by Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,

vacation with pay. Want more

of everything ready-made. Be afraid

to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.

Not even your future will be a mystery

any more. Your mind will be punched in a card

and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something

they will call you. When they want you

to die for profit they will let you know.

So, friends, every day do something

that won’t compute. Love the Lord.

Love the world. Work for nothing.

Take all that you have and be poor.

Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace

the flag. Hope to live in that free

republic for which it stands.

Give your approval to all you cannot

understand. Praise ignorance, for what man

has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Say that your main crop is the forest

that you did not plant,

that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested

when they have rotted into the mold.

Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus

that will build under the trees

every thousand years.

Listen to carrion — put your ear

close, and hear the faint chattering

of the songs that are to come.

Expect the end of the world. Laugh.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

though you have considered all the facts.

So long as women do not go cheap

for power, please women more than men.

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy

a woman satisfied to bear a child?

Will this disturb the sleep

of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.

Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head

in her lap. Swear allegiance

to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos

can predict the motions of your mind,

lose it. Leave it as a sign

to mark the false trail, the way

you didn’t go. Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

Practice resurrection.

“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” from The Country of Marriage, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1973. Also published by Counterpoint Press in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1999; The Mad Farmer Poems, 2008; New Collected Poems, 2012.

It's A Good Day

 

It's A Good Day

Peggy Lee

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
	Yes, it's a g	ood	day for s	ingin'	a so	ng,

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
And	it's a g	ood	day for m	ovin'	a - l	ong;

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
Yes,	it's a g	ood	day, how could	anyth	ing go w	rong,

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C
A	good day from	mornin' t	ill ni	ght.

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
	Yes, it's a g	ood	day for s	hinin'	your sh	oes,

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
And	it's a g	ood	day for l	osin'	the b	lues;

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
	Ev'rythi	ng to	gain and n	othin'	to l	ose,

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C
'Cause it's a g	ood day from m	ornin'	till n	ight.

Bridge:

	C7	F
I s	aid to the sun, "good m	ornin', sun.

	Dm7	G7	Am7
	Rise and	shine, to	day."

	C6	C	C6	Cdim
You know you've	got -	ta g	et	go - in'

	Edim	Gdim
If you're	gonna make a	showin'

	F	Dm7	G7
And you	know you've got the r	ight of	way.

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
	'Cause it's a g	ood	day for p	ayin'	your	bills;

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
And	it's a g	ood	day for c	urin'	your i	lls,

	G7	C	Dm7	C	Dm7	C
So	take a d	eep	breath and th	row a	way your p	ills;

	Dm7	G7	Dm7	C
'Cause it's a	good day from	mornin'	till n	ight.

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17 years ago on Valentine Day my husband ask me to marry him. So I wrote him a poem today. I'm a dork...I know!

Six Thousand Two Hundred and Six Days

i just wanted to say
you have never turned away from me
i can't explain what this means
but it has meant everything to me
and it is what i needed most in life

you have accepted me as i am
even though i don't believe in lids, doctors, or underwear
you let me wear your socks everyday
because i can never find my own
i also often can't find
my keys...my courage... or even my mind
and you always lend me yours

every evening you lift your arm
physically saying "here is your soft place to fall"
as people, places, and time have zoomed by
we have stayed here...in this space... inches from each others face
holding each other through all the storms
in this life boat that we built to be rocked to sleep in
every night like spoons under the moon

after our first two weeks of dating i told you
i wanted to be included in all your future plans
you said you would and you did
i told you i never wanted to promise forever
i just wanted to wake up one morning when we were 100 yrs old
and say "wow ... we choose each other everyday"
yes we did get marry
but i said it was just for the old people and i meant it

so i just wanted to say
i choose you again today because
you have never turned away from me
i can't explain what this means
but it has meant everything to me
and it is what i needed most in life

Happy Heart Day

So one day  I got out of the shower, towel dried my entire self but apparently missed "the furry body of my butterfly" . I sat down on the bed and to my surprise when I stood up and looked down at the bedsheet there was a wet spot in the shape of a perfect heart. I was so overwhelmed by this moment... magic is alive, the universe is intelligent, I am not an accident, I am stamp, a heart shaped stamp of love. I fell in love with my body a little more that day, my body must be pretty amazing to do such a thing. Immediately I got a sharpie to make it permanent on the sheet (which I still have 10 years later) and took a picture which I will send you when I find it.  It is hard to explain how much this moment meant to me but often when I stand up I think about the invisible heart stamp I leave. Love.

i the serpent woman fly

so do you see the serpent coiled at the base of my spine
and do you recall what it means
can you still read my signs
do you remember being bitten
oh i still know you cried
well is just a warning at this point
but i am warning you don't blink your eyes
cause in a second flat
I'll change my mind

so do you see the serpent writhing up the center of my spine
and do you recall what it means
can you still read my signs
do you remember making love underneath me
i made you blind
and you felt God through me
as seven of your centers open wide

so did you see the serpent slither and hide away
do you recall what it means
can you still read my signs to this day
oh did you watch me shed my skin for five days and be reborn
did you watch me bleed for five nights
in the morning i the serpent woman fly
i the serpent woman fly
i the serpent woman fly

because you can't let go

it never got easy for me
every time you enter my mind
the hole in my heart caves in again
echos of love are heard
i suppose it was endearing in my youth...
my mellow dramatic nature but now I have grown old
they tell you it is better to have loved...
but what they don't tell you is that if you can't let go
the current of it will drag you under
it will feel like you can never breathe again
you will be trapped in the moment just before death
the moment just before sweet release your hole life
your chest will feels like it will burst
trapped beneath the surface
the light just above you
never to touch you again

we are our choices. things that we just make up. in space where our minds float.

i realize even though choices feel like things
real things that you can pick like fruit
things that feel as though they can be weighed in the hands of our minds 
"maybe this one is heavier or this one is sweeter?"
"should I follow my dreams or follow the money?"
you think and you weigh and you think and you weigh
but the truth is... you will never know
you cannot weigh choices
cause unlike real fruit
the fruit in your mind is not real
it is just a metaphorical paper mache replica
that you made from a pro and con list you wrote earlier in the day
written with a pencil made out of perceived past experience and rhetoric
because you are NOT a time traveling psychics with a do over button
you can never ever really know
never know if you should have gone left or right
if you should have held on with all your might
or should have let go a lot sooner
you can never really know what truly lies ahead
choices cannot be weighed to make the "right" one
i realize now that i am a super creative person
that can make very interesting lists and exciting educated/blind guesses
so now when i think something "is like this" or "she is like that"
or "it's clear what should be done"
i no longer feel my thoughts are as solid and opaque as they once were
my mind now seem full of translucent possibilities

-anastasia

it never got easier for me
every time i think of you
the hole in my heart caves in again
and i can only hear an echo of love
i suppose it was endearing in my youth
but they don't tell you that if you can't let go
it will drag you under
and it will feel like you can never breathe again
an eternity of not being able surface
with the light hitting the surface but never your skin

- the dieing

Dilate

life used to be life-like
now it's more like show biz
i wake up in the night
and i don't know where the bathroom is
and i don't know what town i'm in
or what sky i am under
and i wake up in the darkness and i 
don't have the will anymore to wonder
everyone has a skeleton
and a closet to keep it in
and you're mine
every song has a you
a you that the singer sings to
and you're it this time
baby, you're it this time

when i need to wipe my face
i use the back of my hand
and i like to take up space
just because i can
and i use my dress
to wipe up my drink
i care less and less
what people think
and you are so lame 
you always disappoint me
it's kinda like our running joke
but it's really not funny
i just want you to live up to
the image of you i create
i see you and i'm so unsatisfied
i see you and i dilate

so i'll walk the plank and i'll jump with a smile
if i'm gonna go down
i'm gonna do it with style
and you won't see me surrender 
you won't hear me confess 
'cuz you've left me with nothing
but i've worked with less
and i learn every room long enough
to make it to the door
and then i hear it click shut behind me
and every key works differently
i forget every time
and the forgetting defines me 
that's what defines me

when i say you sucked my brain out
the english translation 
is i am in love with you 
and it is no fun
but i don't use words like love
'cuz words like that don't matter
but don't look so offended
you know, you should be flattered
i wake up in the night
in some big hotel bed
my hands grope for the light
my hands grope for my head
the world is my oyster
the road is my home
and i know that i'm better 
off alone

" Ain't No Cure For Love " - ( Leonard Cohen )

This version is more loyal to the cover of this song performed by a country

singer on the "Tower of Song" album. There's a chorus section in the original I
can't figure out, and I'm pretty certain it's out of key, but it sounds ok like this.

Verse:
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/leonard-cohen/104404.html ]
G                               C                     G
I loved you for a long long time I know this love is real
G                                               C                  G
It don't matter how it all went wrong that don't change the way I feel
G                        B7                        C                     G
And I don't believe that time is gonna heal this wound that I'm speaking of
G                           D                   C                  G
There ain't no cure, there ain't no cure, there ain't no cure for love

Verse

Chorus:
               Em            B               C         G
There ain't no cure for love, there ain't no cure for love
    C                          D7
No pill no drug, ain't nothin pure enough
            Em           B               C        G
I can't get nothin done, I can't be with anyone
G                           D                   C                  G
There ain't no cure, there ain't no cure, there ain't no cure for love

(Bridge 2nd time):
                  (A) 
(I don't want no brother love, I don't want no other love)
       (D)7
(There ain't no cure for love)

Love Be Brave

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Stay High

Em G D C

  Em                     G
I ate my dinner in my bathtub 
              D
Then I go to sex clubs
                C
Watching freaky people getting it on
   Em           
It doesn't make me nervous
     G       
If anything I'm restless 
D                         C
Yeah I've been around and I've seen it all 

   Em                  G
I get home, I got the munchies
                  D
Binge on all my Twinkies
                 C
Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep
Em                   
And I drank up all my money 
G                       D
Tasted kind of lonely 

       C                      Em
You're gone and I got to stay high 
         G                       D         C
All the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo
Em            G                       D         C
High all the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo

Em                   G
Spend my days locked in a haze 
            D                           C
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
           Em           G                          D        C
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you Ooooo Oooooo

Em                     G
Pick up daddy's at the playground
               D              
How I spend my day time
               C                                        
Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive 
   Em                                              
I make it fast and greasy
G                         D
I know I'm way too easy

       C                      Em
You're gone and I got to stay high 
         G                       D         C
All the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo
Em            G                       D         C
High all the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo

Em                   G
Spend my days locked in a haze 
            D                           C
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
           Em           G                          D        C
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you Ooooo Oooooo

Em
Staying in my play pretend
G                           D     C
Where the fun ain't got no end
Em
Can't go home alone again
G                         D       C
Need someone to numb the pain
Em 
Standing in my play pretend
G                           D        C
Where the fun ain't got no end
Em
Can't go home alone again
G                         D         C
Need someone to numb the pain

       C                      Em
You're gone and I got to stay high 
         G                       D         C
All the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo
Em            G                       D         C
High all the time to keep you off my mind Ooooo Oooooo

Em                   G
Spend my days locked in a haze 
            D                           C
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
           Em           G                          D        C
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you Ooooo Oooooo

I Need A Dollar

Artist: Aloe Blacc
Song: I Need a Dollar
Album: Good Things

Intro:
     G#m         F#             C#m
e|---11-11-11-11-9--9--9--9--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12---|
B|---12-12-12-12-11-11-11-11-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14---|
G|---13-13-13-13-11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13---|
D|-----------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|

Chorus:
G#m       F#               C#m
 I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey hey 
G#m            F#               C#m
 Well I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey hey
G#m                F#               C#m
 And I said I need dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need
          G#m               F#              C#m                        D#5
 And if I share with you my story would you share your dollar with me

G#m            F#          C#m
 Bad times are comin and I reap what I don't sow, hey hey
G#m          F#               C#m
 Well let me tell you somethin all that glitters ain't gold, hey hey
G#m          F#                C#m
 It's been a long old trouble, long old troublesome road
         G#m             F#            C#m
 And I'm looking for somebody come and help me carry this load

G#m       F#               C#m 
 I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey hey
G#m           F#                C#m
 Well I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need
D#m           G#m         C#m
 Well I don't know if I'm walking on solid ground
D#m    G#m                C#m
 Cause everything around me is falling down
D#m        G#m         C#m                 D#5
 And all I want is for someone to help me

G#m      F#          C#m
 I had a job but the boss man let me go, he said
G#m        F#             C#m
 I'm sorry but I won't be needing your help no more, I said
G#m            F#                   C#m
 Please mister boss man I need this job more than you know
        G#m             F#              C#m                      D#5
 But he gave me my last paycheck and he sent me on out the door

Chorus

D#m           G#m         C#m
 Well I don't know if I'm walking on solid ground
D#m    G#m                C#m
 Cause everything around me is falling down
D#m        G#m         C#m                 D#5
 And all I want is for someone to help me

D#m          C#m        D#m           C#m
 What in the world am I gonna to do tomorrow
D#m       C#m           D#m               C#m
 Is there someone whose dollar that I can borrow
C#m
 Who can help me take away my sorrow
N.C.                                                       D#5
 Maybe its inside the bottle, maybe its inside the bottle

G#m         F#                  C#m
 I had some good old buddy, his names is whiskey and wine, hey hey
G#m         F#             C#m
 And for my good old buddy, I spent my last dime, hey hey
G#m         F#             C#m
 My wine is good to me, it helps me pass the time
        G#m            F#               C#m
 And my good old buddy whiskey keeps me warmer than the sunshine, hey hey

G#m          F#            C#m
 Your mom of mayhem just a child has got his own, hey hey
G#m         F#              C#m
 If god has plans for me, I hope it ain't written in stone, hey hey
G#m                F#               C#m
 Because I've been working working, myself down to the bone
       G#m               F#             C#m
 And I swear on grandpas grave, I'll be paid when I come home, hey hey

Chorus

         G#m                    F#           C#m
 Come on share your dollar with me, go ahead share your dollar with me
         G#m               F#                   C#m
 Come on share your dollar give me your dollar, share your dollar with me
         G#m                    F#     C#m
 Come on share your dollar with me

G#m F# C#m  D#5
G#m

First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining

First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tuning: Standard, CAPO on 2nd fret!
Tab: Eric Lambrecht, 04/2014

Picking Pattern (Capo 2nd fret!):
   Em                                G                                 D                                 Em
e:---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|...
b:-------0-------0-------0-------0-|-------3-------3-------3-------3-|-------3-------3-------3-------3-|...
G:---0-------0-------0-------0-----|---0-------0-------0-------0-----|---2-------2-------2-------2-----|...
D:-2---2-------2-------2-------2---|-0---0-------0-------0-------0---|-0---0-------0-------0-------0---|...
A:---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|...
E:---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|...
~~ The example above shows the verse, but it can be applied to every other section of the song!

~~ I would recommend muting the higher e-string if you strum the chords, this fits the song better 
   in my opinion.

~~ Tip: It also sounds nice to play a good old Cadd9 in the chorus ;)


[Intro:]
Em
Em

[Verse:]
Em                                        G                                   
I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers
D                                  Em
   Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter
Em                                                         G
   I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow
  D                             Em
Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no I've got to go

Em                                    G
   There?s no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on
D                                          Em
   And you've just gotta keep on keeping on
Em                              G
   Gotta keep on going, looking straight out on the road - can't worry 'bout
D                                             Em
   what's behind you or what's coming for you further up the road

Em                                       G
   I try not to hold on to what is gone,   I try to do right what is wrong
D                              Em         
   I try to keep on keeping on    
G              D                  Em
   Yeah I just keep on keeping on


[Chorus:]
C                G        D                 Em   
  I hear a voice calling,   calling out for me
C                     G          D             Em
  These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
C           G       D           Em 
  Be it for reason,   be it for love
C   G     D          C G  Em   
  I won't take   the easy road

Em  G D Em
Em  G D Em

[Verse:]
Em                               G 
  I've woken up in a hotel room,   my worries as big as the moon
D                                       Em
  Having no idea who or what or where I am
Em                                   G
  Something good comes with the bad,   a song's never just sad
D                                Em
  There's hope, there's a silver lining

G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining
G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining


[Chorus:]
C                G        D                 Em   
  I hear a voice calling,   calling out for me
C                     G          D             Em
  These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
C           G       D           Em 
  Be it for reason,   be it for love
C   G     D          C G  Em   
  I won't take   the easy road

  Em             G             D                         Em               
I won't take the easy road the easy road, the easy road      (oho)
  Em             G             D                         Em               
I won't take the easy road the easy road, the easy road      (oho)

Em  G D Em
Em  G D Em

G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
G            D        Em
  Show me my   silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on