Songs • Tomuzy

From A to Z, we begin our list of songs to sing with text and video here!

ALONG THE WAY
Along the way you walk with sun,
Along the way you walk with rain
Along the way you pass through fields of stars,
Til’ morning comes again
Along the way you take the pleasure
Of your drink and daily bread
While each day you take as treasure
All the trail still left ahead
Along the way

Along the way the blazing Sun,
Along the way the cooling Rain
Along the way the crystal Field of Stars,
Til’ morning comes again
Along the way you hear the histories
Of lives the tellers speak about
The miracles the Pilgrims find
As faithfully they seek
Along the way
Everyday a little closer crossing golden growing land,
Everyday a little stronger than you were when you began
Everyday a little meeker as the fortune that you find is
The will to just continue on,
Your weakness’ full in mind
Along the wayAlong the way there is redemption
Second chances in the sight
Along the way is resurrection
Coming closer to the light
Along the way some sorrow’s dropped upon
Each mile you leave behind –
And though the way is long it has an end
For everyone to find
Along the way
Along the way you walk in sun, along the way you walk in heat
Along the way you sit in little shops where Peregrino’s meet
Along the way the many languages, translation is a game
And happy gestures supplement the meanings clearly plain and
Every day there’s no diverging from the road within the wood while
Every day there is converging with the pilgrim neighborhood and
Every day brings consolation of the priceless sleep at night
Before emerging to another day, the path still in our sight.
Along the way
Along the way we live our freedom
Along the way we greet old friends
Along the way we share our courage
To continue to the end
Along the way with gathered strength
We learn to bear our daily load.
And we live to journey on along
The long unwinding road
Along the way
Until one day you find the end
You’ve sought along the way
And pass beyond while singing
Ultreia at close of day
And follow in eternity what
Led you here today
The pilgrim congregation
Flowing gently to the sea
Along the way
Copyright c 2015, Christopher F. Porth

I Like the Apple

I like the stem and the leaf and the skin and the flesh and the seeds at core of my apple. I like the stem and the leaf and the skin and the flesh and the seeds at the core of my apple.

Some apples are red, some apples are green and other apples are yellow. Some apples are sweet, some apples are tart and other apples are mellow.

Some apples are pies, some apples are juice and other apples are cider. Some apples are wedges, some apples are whole, but every apple’s inside ya!

Some apples on the tree, some apples on the ground, and other apples in the basket. When I want an apple to eat in my lunch all I have to do is ask for it!

Landforms

Oh the Earth has landforms, quite lovely landforms
Over all it’s surface, most lovely landforms
So come with me and look at lovely landforms
Come and walk this land with me

Come and see the islands on the rivers and oceans
On the lakes and ponds and water in motion
From the coastal waters and the sheltered inland bays
Come and see the islands with me

Come and see the mountains looking down to valleys
Over grassy plain’s lands and Over the prairies
Down deep in canyons up flower covered hills
Come and see the mountains with me

Come and see the deserts where the land lives drily
Come and see savanna’s where the rain falls rarely
See tropical forests where the rains fall all year long!
Come and see the deserts with me

Come and see volcanos While they’re erupting
And the Ash clouds rising Weather disrupting
And the lava flowing It’s surface crusting
Come and see volcanos with me

Potatoes

Potatoes can be red or white, yellow, purple, black or blue
But all potatoes first came up from Chile and Peru
High up in the Andes hillside terraces the Quechua grew 38 hundred types from which today we’ll only see a few

Papa Blanca, Amarilla, Perricholi, Peruanita,
Huamantanga, Juito Rojo,
Camote, Coctel, Pupura, Huayaro,
Negra, Tomasa, Yungay, Chunno

Narciso guides on The Inca Trail, talks of history old and New, of walks and travel and feasts of finest Inca food
From slanted stones in Sacsaywaman, Cusco city too,
He says, “Just wait until you eat the tasty Inca food!”

Pure de Quina con Papa, Cascaritas de Papa,
Dedos de Papa, Papa Rellena Con Cuy
Ajiaco ed Melloco, Locro De Papa con Achogcha,
Crepes de Papa al Azucar Negra

Wild potatoes are bitter from a toxin hiding inside
The Quechua bred their tubers ‘til some of the toxin’s Finally died
The Spanish and the English spread the Potato far and Wide. In any restaurant today potatoes will abide!

So to cater for your ‘tater in the restaurant where you eat,
Root out another nightshade for a very tasty tomato-y treat – Catch up with you hand that creamy Catsup,
Drip it in your Mash, or on your Tot’s…
It’s the “tot” that counts when you have a penny for your Tots…

You can bake your spud or chop it up for chips or fries for You. You can smash if flat for latkes or make some
Hash browns for breakfast too. Bake some Bakers for a Party you invite the ladies to, or Papa’s mixed with Salsa So delicioso OOOOO!

On Valentine’s day you must go out for dinner for to eat a Delicious Yam because that potato is so lovely sweet
For St Patty’s day you know the Irish Cobbler is for you
Murphy knows that Pratie’s can be Cooked into your stew!

Potatoes can be red or white, yellow, purple, black or blue
Potatoes come from Chile and Peru
Potatoes can be roasted whole when old or when they’re New, but you better look out or those
Spuds will keep their starchy eyes on you.

Tide Pools

The Barnacles and Octopus and Sea Anemones,
The Starfish and the Urchins, they are all just some of the Invertebrates that you will find within the Green Algae and the Plankton and the Sea Weed in the
Tide Pools of the sea…

The Phytoplankton is a plant we must treat carefully, it Uses Photosynthesis while feeding in the sea, absorbs the Carbon Dioxide and when finished does release the Oxygen for every animal on Earth to breathe!

The Barnacles when they are young will swim around so free, then glue their heads right to a rock and settle down to be a Shellfish that will eat the Phytoplankton happily with little mouths that open and shut a’-clickin’ in the sea!

A predator with tentacles is the Sea Anemone, it waits to touch and sting a Shrimp or Starfish of the Sea, the sting will paralyze it’s prey – then push it easily into It’s mouth and then inside its digestive cavity!

Submerged a little deeper are the Urchins you will see, with spiny bodies that move upon their tube-shaped feet, the Urchin uses a beak-like mouth to feed voraciously on Kelp and Plankton and Periwinkles and Mussels in the sea.

The Bladder Wrack and Knotted Wrack and others you can see, like reddish-purple fan shaped Irish Moss are all Seaweed, the Lettuce of the Sea is just a batch of Green Algae and with the Kelp create a forest underneath the sea.

The Dog Whelk is a ferocious snail that feeds so easily, it grinds a hole in shellfish with it’s drill-like tongue you see and then it sucks the animal in the shell right out to eat and moves along and leaves the shell as empty as can be!

Finally we have the Crabs, the scavengers of the sea! Although it’s also a predator and hunts it’s food to eat. The Spider Crab will camouflage itself with Green Algae, and Hermit Crabs will wear the empty shells of Periwinkles….

OH WAIT!
The Mummichogs are little fish that sometimes you can see trapped in tide pools after the tide retreats back to the sea. The Killifish and Tautogs, Blennies, Gunnels and Gobies all can walk across the rocks on fins to get back to the sea!

TORNADO
Cyclonic winds are whirlin’ and a turnin’ and a swirlin’ all ar-
ound and round above the ground inside a nimbus where they’re found—
The tube of wind a’startin horizontally a twistin’ turns up
Vertically a swirlin and becomes a twisty rope of wind—
That reaches with a finger down to maybe touch the ground and if it touches ground the twister forms when balance comes to be as a

TORNADO – TURNADO –
a whirling cloud made visible by condensation and debris
TORNATHE – TORNATHO –
TORNARE is TORNADO an extremely violent whirling wind!

The baking and the heating of the ground in the locale of colder
upper atmospheric air is just the cyclone spinning starting place
The upper colder dryer air just wants to drop back to the ground and with the rising of the hot and humid air they both will race
The cold will drop down just as fast as hot will rise, each other pass but going fast they sometimes go back just the other way they came from rising dropping swirling, spinning, twisting twirling forming a

TORNADO – TURNADO –
a whirling cloud made visible by condensation and debris
TORNATHE – TORNATHO –
TORNARE is TORNADO an extremely violent whirling wind!

The spiral rocking rolling wind revolving horizontally is
like a paper tube a rolling on the ground so rapidly—
The rising of the hot air in the middle of that tube will push the
middle into vertical and if it keeps stability—
The horizontal tube will rise up vertically into the sky where
then the finger of the end will touch the ground where anything it touches blows or flies away for feet or yards or miles, a

TORNADO – TURNADO – a whirling cloud made visible by condensation and debris
TORNATHE – TORNATHO – TORNARE is TORNADO an extremely violent whirling wind!

You Gotta Have Lift

You gotta have lift, you gotta have thrust, to get a bird to fly
You gotta have lift, you gotta have thrust, to get into the sky
You gotta have air above and below the wing
Flow faster above than below the wing
Then you will have lift, and you will have thrust, to get into the sky

The wings of a bird will rise and fall to thrust it through the air
Like a tail of a fish moves side to side, a bird swims through the air
The wings of the bird divide the air above and below the wings
In two different streams one fast one slow, the fast above and the slow below which
Makes a remarkable thing called Lift…

The wings of a plane stay steady as they pass through the air
The engines on the plane propel the plane to thrust it through the air
The wings of the plane divide the air above and below the wings
In two different streams one fast one slow, the fast above and the slow below which
Makes a remarkable thing called Lift…

You gotta have lift, you gotta have thrust, to get a bird to fly
You gotta have lift, you gotta have thrust, to get into the sky
You gotta have air above and below the wing
Flow faster above than below the wing
Then you will have lift, and you will have thrust, to get into the sky,
Then you will have lift, and you will have thrust, to fly into the sky!