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1.
       Dm                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Dm                   F
People die in the strangest ways
       Dm                   F
People die in a hundred and fifty years
     Eb                Edim
Or a hundred and fifty days

2.
       Dm                    F
People die when they least expect it
       Dm                         F
People die like they planned all along
       Dm                   F
People die for ideas they believe to be right
       Eb                    Edim
People die because they were wrong

3.
       Bb                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Bb                   F
People die at the strangest times
       Bb                         F
People die 'cause they're totally innocent
       Eb                  Edim
People die 'cause of their crimes

4.
       Eb                        F
People die when they're at their sharpest
       Eb                    F
People die when they're in a haze
       Eb                   F
People die in the strangest places
       Eb                   F
People die in the strangest ways

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People Die

Image source: Acidifried Insight #42, from Mindful Head Shop Comix #5.
Song originated Feb 1984. Published to mindfulwebworks.com 2007 May 01. Reformatted 2011 Sep 20.
MIDI arrangement uploaded ©1997 Feb 21.

Verse, Audio, MIDI posted to Best of Spirits on 1997 Feb 14.

Subjects: death, dying, fate, fatalism, existentialism

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2016 Sep 1 - Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #4
2012 Dec 25 - Project Blue Book Video
1997 Feb 27 - MIDI primitive arrangement ( 1m25s 4K)

For many years after World War II, the United States Air Force had a public task force investigating reports of extraterrestrial sightings and contacts. The task force report was called Project Blue Book. This is about a different blue book.

1.

D    C   A   Dm   G
I've got a   blue "U" book.

F                G
I wish you would take a look,

    F              Em
But only if you're int'rested

   Dm             C
In what it has to say 

           Dm
Concerning what you ask about.

        Em
You can look with honest doubt,

            F
But it will never help you out

         G
If you explain it all away.

2.

        Am
You can never realize

         G
What you won't internalize.

      F
No surprise will come from

             Em
Anything you read

        Dm
You can argue and debate

          Em
And never have to correlate

               F
Your life with what it has to state

         G
On human need.

Mindful Webworks | Urantiana | Project Blue Book, page 2

3.

        Am
You can choose to worry, or

              G
Choose not to worry anymore,

       F
Listen to or just ignore

            Em
Your better side.

       Dm
No one else can make your choice.

     Em
Only you can use your voice

            F
For singing love or making noises

       G
Out of pride.

4.

         Am
Give the words a second glance.

          G
Don't be afraid to take a chance.

          F
You might find you like to dance

           Em
Instead of sit.

           Dm
But no one else can dance for you,

           Em
Or love in quite the way you do.

        F
And the blue "U" book

     G
  is for the benefit

       F     G  C
    of You

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Image source: Comet — from UB Comix, some cartoonish Mindful Urantiana Webworks.
Originated in the dark ages before 1976. The ending (isn't it silly?) and some of the wording was revised 1987 Oct 6.
MIDI arrangment published 1997 Feb 27. Published on mindfulwebworks.com 2007 Apr 6. Reformatted and links updated 2011 Oct 12.

Verse, Audio, MIDI posted to Urantiana on 1997 Feb 14.

Subjects: Urantia Papers, revelation, spirituality, shelf-consciousness

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MIDI

1.
Em           D
Every time I think about
        C
   what I believe...
              Em  B
   I start to won-der...
    Em         D
How out of uni-ty
                 C
   Came all this multiplicity
                Em  B
:|   all rent a-sun-der... |:

2.
     Em
From Infinite Eternity
       D
   How Time and Space

   began to be,
    C
How GOD Who is
       C7
   all that can be
          D     C        B
   Can be Us... right... now...

3.
Em           D
Every time I think about
        C
   what I believe...
                Em  B
:|   I start to won-der...  |:

"Wonders will never cease."
—Sir Henry Bate Dudley
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
—Socrates
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
—Albert Einstein

Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #2

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Image source: Original Mindful composite. Forgot to keep track of sources.
The words were first composed in Feb 1984, Chicago. First publication on the web ©1997 Jan 21. Chord notations added and published to mindfulwebworks.com ©2007 Apr 29. Reformatted 2011 Sep;20.
The MIDI was composed in February 1997, revised version posted 1997 Feb 21. This is my second MIDI composition, after a one-verse version of Always Up. My first small-but-complete MIDI song arrangement.

Verse, Audio, MIDI posted to Best of Spirits on 1997 Jan 21.

Subjects: Spirit, faith, wonder

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1.
       G             D
Oh the way to God is always up,
          C                G
  But you might be up-side-down.
       G          D
That's why his beatific smile
    C              D
  Appears to you a frown.
       C      D           G
You've almost reached the surface,
          Am                   D
  But you stop for fear you'll drown.
          G             D
:| Oh the way to God is always up,
          C               G
  But you might be upside down.  |:

2.
       G             D
Oh the way to God is always in,
          C                G
  But you might be in-side-out.
       G           D
That's why his reassurances
    C                D
  Induce in you such doubt.
    C           D         G
The still small voice you can't quite hear
     Am               D
  Is God's tremendous SHOUT!
          G             D
:| Oh the way to God is always in,
          C               G
  But you might be inside out.  |:

Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | (The Way to God is) Always Up, page 2

3.
       G              D
Oh it takes a million years to know
      C                 G
  The One Who Lives Within.
       G             D
You reach the shores of Paradise
         C              D
  On the day that you begin.
  C       D       G
A billion perfect worlds dance on
      Am        D
  The apex of a pin.
         G             D
:| Oh it takes a million years to know
      C                 G
  The One Who Lives Within.  |:

4.
       G             D
The way to God is yours to choose,
        C                G
  Don't let your will be weak.
       G             D
'Cause then, despite His brilliant light,
       C                 D
  Your outlook will stay bleak.
       C       D    G
You'll sail on holy waters,
             Am                D
  But you'll think you're up a creek.
       G             D
:| The way to God is yours to choose,
          C                G
  Don't let your will be weak. |:

5. [SING FAST!]
       G             D
Oh the way to heaven is always leavened
       C                 G
  With love and peace of mind.
       G             D
And I heard a rumor if you don't have humor
           C                D
  That you might get left behind.
C         D            G
Maybe you really don't see it, or
              Am             D
  You're just choosing to be blind,
           G                D
:| But the way to heaven is always leavened
       C                 G
With love and peace of mind. |:   [Repeat 1st verse]

If you have a MIDI player (and you really ought to), check out the tune — my very first MIDI creation. It's a short (less than 1K, about 26 seconds) single-voice, single-note composition, just to give you the basic idea of the tune.

1997 Jan 30: An expanded version of the MIDI tune (~2.5K, 26 sec), adding some more instruments, just for fun. Full-scale orchestration with lead vocal and background chorus will come later….

2001 Nov 26: An even more expanded version of the MIDI tune (~14K, 2:26), all verses, adding many more instruments, and having much more fun. This MIDI was previously only available on the no-longer-unavailable (and now-obsolete) UB Comix diskette. Still haven't actually recorded the song itself yet&hellp;.

2016 Aug 25: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #3
2016 Dec 9: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #15.

Webworkshop #3

Webworkshop #15

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Always Up

Here areis my first song of 1997, and my first MIDI creation, too. A bouncy little ditty inspired by a sign on Silver Lake Baptist Church here in Washington County. Mary Jo tells me I'm in good company, as George Harrison's Devil's Radio was also inspired by a church sign.

Verses 1, 2, 3, & 5, and the tune by Don, Mary Jo, & Majic Tyler-Clark, Verse 4 ©by Tom Channic. Published to mindfulwebworks.com 2007 Apr 05. Reformatted 2011 Sep 20. Originally posted on various Urantia Book internet mail lists. Verses 1-3 were first published 1997 Jan 7. Verse 5 came out several days later, published again onvarious UB internet mail lists on 1997 Jan 18. A word or two has been changed along the way to this version. Tom Channic composed a verse in response to the first three, which I've placed in its historical position as verse 4, with friend Channic's permission. Sing at your own risk.

Short link to 2nd video this page: https://bit.ly/always-up-2

Verse, Audio, MIDI posted to Best of Spirits on 1997 Jan 21.

Subjects: faith, Spirit, God, truth-seeking

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1.
C              Am   C
I just read an interview
C                Am     C
with a couple of people who
      G
  had died and returned
  and told what they learned
                        C
when given their living anew.

2.
The article pointed out
that people who carried doubt
  before they came back
  they saw only black
and nothingness all about.

3.
On the other hand, it's odd,
the one who had faith in God
  saw a beautiful sight
  and to our delight
saw a home beyond the bod.

4.
Those of you who haven't died,
you can take the holy ride.
  For eternal relief
  hang onto belief.
You can reach the other side.

5.
Being moral all your life,
even kind and even nice,
  if you don't want to know,
  if you don't want to go,
you will never reach Paradise.

6.
You can say what we want we see,
which is how it turns out to be.
  So, for people who care,
  please be heaven-aware,
You can dance up there with me.

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Choice

Image source: It's All in Your Mind (comic)
First publication on Urantia Foundation's URANTIAL discussion mail list, 1996 Dec 28. Published to mindfulwebworks.com 2007 Apr 29. Reformatted 2011 Sep 20.

The lyrics were composed in about 1975, probably around Christmastime, after I read a review in a Chicago newspaper, the Sun-Times I think, of a then-new book of interviews with people who had been pronounced clinically dead and then revived. I believe the book was Life After Life by Raymond Moody. The reviewer's name I neglected to note.

This is not just about what I read in the article about NDE's, but is also colored by conclusions I'd drawn from reading The Urantia Book, which at the time I had only read twice, and had been studying for but a little over two years. (For more information on The Urantia Book, you could see my article regarding it. For more articles and links to other sites concerning the UB, see Mindful Webworks Urantiana.)

The limerick-like tune was a half-remembered children's song, if you know it: I went to the animal fair, the birds and the beasts were there... something like that, and I don't know who might've written that, either. Or you can substitute any tune you want instead, I don't mind. You're just fortunate you don't have to hear me perform this….

Verse posted to Best of Spirits on 1997 Jan 1.

Subjects: choice, near-death experience, faith, transcendence, humor

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