Diary (May 23, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday May 23, 2020.

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Song of the Day for Howard Kranz

One Nation Under a Groove.

Nineteenth in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover, or be inspired by, or something.

One Nation Under a Groove

"One Nation Under a Groove" by Fundadelic

So wide you can't get around it
So low you can't get under it
(So low you can't get under it)
So high you can't get over it
(So high you can't get over it)
Da-yee do do do do do do

This is a chance
This is a chance
To dance your way
Out of your constrictions
(Tell suckah!)
Here's a chance to dance our way
Out of our constrictions
Gonna be freakin'
Up and down
Hang-up alley way
With the groove our only guide
We shall all be moved
Ready or not here we come
Gettin' down on
The one which we believe in
One nation under a groove
Gettin' down just for the funk
(Can I get it on the good foot)
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
(Good God)
(Bout time I got down one time)
One nation and we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now
Ah ah aye aiii aiiieeeeee

Feet don't fail me now
Givin' you more of what you're funkin' for
Feet don't fail me now
Do you promise to funk?
The whole funk, nothin' but the funk

Ready or not here we come
Gettin' down on the one which we believe in
Here's my chance to dance my way
Out of my constrictions
Do do deeyodo do deeyodo do deeyodo
Do do deeyodo do deeyodo do deeyodo
(You can dance away)

Feet don't fail me now (ha ha)
Here's a chance to dance
Our way out of our constrictions
Gonna be groovin' up and down
Hang up alley way
With the groove our only guide
We shall all be moved
Feet don't fail me now (ha ha)
Givin' you more of what you're funkin' for
Feet don't fail me now

Here's my chance to dance my way
Out of my constrictions
Givin' you more of what you're funkin' for
(Feet don't fail me now)
(Feet don't fail me now)
Do you promise to funk, the whole funk,
Nothin' but the funk
One nation under a groove
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
One nation and we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now
Nothin' can stop us now
One nation under a groove
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
One nation and we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now
Nothin' can stop us now
One nation under a groove
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
One nation and we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now

Do you promise to funk?
Do you promise to funk?
Hah
Do you promise to funk, the whole funk?

One nation under a groove
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
(Here's my way to dance my way out)
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
One nation
And we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now

Do you promise to funk, the whole funk?
You can't stop us now
Givin' you more of what you're
Funkin' for

• One Nation Under a Groove @ YouTube
• One Nation Under a Groove (song) @ Wikipedia
• Funkadelic @ Wikipedia
• Post @ Facebook

Spoonerism

Fate don't feel me now.

Uncouth

I personally do, in fact, wish to be uncouth, after my own fashion. But I find doing so very difficult. The shame is too much.

I wish, by contrast, that my country would never behave in an uncouth manner, and here I have been repeatedly ashamed of my country's behaving since ... well, certainly Watergate was the tipping point, although I remember being four years old in 1965, looking the pictures in a newspaper (either the *Star* or the *Tribune*; I think they were still published as separate papers in those days), and asking my parents what the little explosion symbols on the map of Southeast Asia were for.

As for any military abiding treaty obligations ... who was it said "Trust, but verify"? Not the "Genghis Khan with a Telephone" guy — the other one, the American.

• Comment @ Boing Boing

Genghis Quaker

Genghis Quaker - TO_DO: pitch television show: Genghis Quaker: American Khan to talent scout from Extract of Radium.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)