a little birdie told me so: Today's Forecast is Rain

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Today's Forecast is Rain

Watch the first part of this video with your eyes closed.

7 comments:

Betsy BrockAugust 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Ooooh...that was NEAT! I haven't heard that song in ages....and certainly not this arrangement. Very cool!
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DarylAugust 11, 2009 at 8:38 AM
WOW ... nice .. thanks, I needed that
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ZuzanaAugust 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Wow, what an experience! It totally sounded like rain when I closed my eyes, but as soon as I opened them, I heard clapping of hands.;))
Love the song too, it comes from a great decade and a great group.
xo
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RachelAugust 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Very Cool. Love the beginning. I had fun last night. Thanks for always being available. Love you.
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Lisa at GreenbowAugust 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM
I have seen this. It is great.
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Jo ~August 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
it is indeed a storm!
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CharAugust 11, 2009 at 6:58 PM
beautiful - I sit and watch the rain out the window as I listen to this.
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I'm glad you stopped by and I look forward to your comments. As Dr. Fraser Crane would say, "Hello, I'm listening."

...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'