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1. F C Dm Am Doo wah choo gah Bb B C Am too doo bay-bee F C Dm Am Whin ewe gaw to Bb B C Am dooit may-be F C Dm Am Sum thin goo dwill Bb B C Am hap entoo ewe Bb Bb7 Iffew key pon try-in'
2. F C Dm Am Iffew doo nawt Bb B C doo wah choo Am (gah choo gah choo) F C Dm Am Gaw too doo whin Bb B C yew gaw too Am (gaw too gaw too) F C Dm Am Nuh thin goo dwill Bb B C Am Hap entoo ewe Bb Bb7 Iffew key pon cry-in' Dm3sus Iffew keepdee nyin myluv
1. Em Walked down to the D seven-eleven to Em buy me another D pack Em There on the magazine D cover I discover'd C C7 you starin' back.
2. Em Don't remember D thinkin' about it or Em pullin' it off of the D rack but Em When I got home to my D bedroom alone I found C C7 you in the sack.
3. Em 'Ja know I might see it? D Think about me as I Em thumb through this dumb D magazine and Em Read about you and your D lover and how you' been C C7 makin' the scene.
4. Em Never did know I'd be D hurtin' so bad after Em All these years since we' been D through. Em Smokin' my Camels®; D Drinkin' Jack Daniels®; C Thinkin' 'bout you. Em Thinkin' 'bout you.
1. Bb Fm First time it happens Bb Fm You don't even know Bb Dbm Bb How it is that you ought to re-act Bb Fm Second time it happens Bb Fm You say you're o-kay Bb And you're taking it as Dbm Bb matter of fact Fm Bb Then it runs a-way with you Ebm Bb There's nothing you can do Fm :| Another chance to Db Bb choose between love |:
2. Bb Fm Blown two di-rections Bb Fm Your mind under glass Bb Dbm Bb You see your own life on t.v. Bb Fm What will you future? Bb Fm How did you pass? Bb Did you really think that Dbm Bb love could be free Fm Bb When it runs a-way with you Ebm Bb There's nothing you can do Fm Another chance to Db Bb choose between love Fm Db Another chance to choose...
[Bridge] Bb Fm Why do all the colored patterns Bb Fm Spinning in my eyes Bb Fm Unfolding in my mind as bold ideals Bb Fm Neverending change? Bb Fm Star outpouring saturation Bb Fm Flows among our thought Bb Expressing on the earth as Fm Mighty works so Bb Quickly fade away Bb Quickly fade... Fm Bb And it runs a-way with you Ebm Bb There's nothing you can do Fm :| Another chance to Db Bb choose between love |:
3. Bb Fm Scattered di-mensions Bb Fm Where you inter-sect Bb For some to win Dbm Bb must others always lose? Bb Fm Not your cre-ation Bb Fm You can't con-trol Bb Dbm Bb Nothing here to take or re-fuse Fm Bb Then it runs a-way with you Ebm Bb There's nothing you can do Fm :| Another chance to Db Bb choose between love |:
Short song (two, actually) of a brief love affair that wasn't to be.
Annie's Departure
Gb
Oh, well, I can tell by the fact
Abm
That you haven't unpacked
Ab Abm Gb
That you have no intention to stay
Gb
And I really don't mind
Abm
If you leave me behind
Ab Abm Gb
And I really don't care either way
Gb
Change your face Change your name
Abm
I will know you the same
Ab Abm Gb
You're the one that I knew once before
Gb
Change your mind Change your heart
Abm
I can tell you apart
Ab Abm Gb
Even now and even forevermore
Mad Affairs
Gb
It was just one of those mad affairs
When nothing was planned
Abm
Where everything happened
One of those mad affairs
Gb
And you wonder who made that one up
And you know it isn't more than coincidence
Abm
A happenstance of time and space
Ab
But you imagine you can feel
B Dmaj6 Gb
The Author of the play
Defending Common-Law Marriage
In 1980, my spouse and I married each other. We were not married by the State. We were not married by a pastor or a justice of the peace. We were not married "by" anybody. We did not even seek our families' approval. As free people, we chose to marry one another, and quite intentionally chose to marry each other here because, despite so many other tyrannical notions, Oklahoma law permitted free people to marry one another (at least if they were heterosexual and monogamous). Representative Ray Vaughn of Edmond says common-law marriages are "an affront to legitimate marriage." Our marriage of seventeen years and three children, legal and recognized by the State of Oklahoma, he has just as much as called illegitimate! Rep. Vaughn, you owe us an apology.
I sympathize, a little, with the judges, that divorce or estate problems can arise from poorly-substantiated common-law marriages. It is important that if (as the law has been) a man and woman "hold themselves forth as married," and they have property or children, they must do so in some public fashion to establish the legitimacy of their marriage for legal, financial, and inheritance purposes. (Actually, it is my opinion that there are no illegitimate children, and that every birth signifies a kind of marriage, regardless of the legal marital status of the parents, and regardless of the effective "bigamy" that may sometimes result; the separation of "marriage" from family-creation is one of the greatest peculiarities of our age. But that's another matter.) In our marriage, substantiation took the form of re-writing my will to identify myself and my spouse as married, and we let our friends and family know we were subsequently to be regarded as married from 1980 February 5. People who marry one another by any means without proper thought to the legal ramifications are asking for "headaches," as the World article put it. The burden of proof should lie with the couple. For those who wish to do so, registration with the State is a convenient way of substantiating marriage. However, the convenience of the State is no excuse for obviating adult liberty to marry one another.
Marriage Liberty, not Marriage License
As if state-approved marriage is not a frequent source of litigation? I noted the difficulties with freedom to marry, and I noted the importance of careful establishment of even a common-law marriage, and I protested that the convenience of the state or the occurrence of difficulties is not sufficient cause for regulation. If, after such statements, you can still ask me to "explain exactly how much of a hardship it would have been for you to obtain a license," I despair of doing so as much as I would in attempting to explain the benefits of a free-market system to an ardent communist.
The point is not that we would have found it "much of a hardship" to kowtow to State overcontrol of a private contract, but whether the State has the right to stick its fat Big Brotherly nose in our private marriage at all! You may perhaps gather something of my radical libertarianism if I point out that I in the same vein protest such laws as driver's licenses, and Social Security registration, both of which are on my mind especially this weekend as I have just obtained an Oklahoma driver's permit for my daughter (as evidenced by my fingernail gouges in the dashboard), and attempted to, at long last, and under protest, register my three offspring with the Socialist Insecurities Pyramid Scam office.
(Amusingly, the SS would not accept their birth certificates as sufficient, and required a second i.d. Since they are all home-schooled, we have no school i.d.s to offer, and we have had to ask our physician to provide some kind of identification that they are who their parents say they are, which was the only other form of i.d. the SS serf said was acceptable. With redoubled irony, I note that now that the birth certificate which the SS said was insufficient has been used to obtain a driver's permit for my daughter, she can turn around and use that permit as i.d. to register with the SS. Go figure that!)
That which it is unnecessary for the state to do should not be done. Mary Jo and I have been married for over twenty years, legally, without recourse to State or Church, and since such liberty is feasible, it is not our burden to suggest why it would be a "hardship" to register with the Gummint, but the Gummint's impossible burden to prove why private marriage contract should not be valid without State approval. That others attempt criminal abuse of liberty should no more be a cause for us to be regulated than the private consumption of a substance by sociopaths should impinge upon the rights of peaceful and non-trespassing individuals to acquire and consume as they will. But of course, we know where our Prohibitionist-mad nation stand on that!
Marriage liberty, not marriage license. [grin] The right of the State to approve marriage also, no matter how careful the wording of the legislation, ultimately gives the State the right to disapprove as well, and that includes the prohibition of forms of contract which, as with liberty of speech or press, you or I might not like for ourselves or our children, as polygamy or homosexual life-contracts, neither of which has approval in any state, yet, last I knew, although the latter was being softened up in some states.
Thanks for the opportunity to attempt expansion on this, even if I'm not all that effective in my attempt.
Alabama’s marriage license abolition would be a bureaucratic nightmare by Casey Given, Rare
…While leaving the complex matter of marriage up to two consenting adults and their community is undoubtedly the best option in a libertarian utopia, the unfortunate reality is that doing so in the American legal system today would put a couple at significant disadvantage. To be specific, the federal government has a number of tax and entitlement benefits earmarked specifically for married couples, and Alabama’s failure to recognize a couple’s nuptials — gay or straight — could lead to a bureaucratic headache.…