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7 July 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Stand Your Ground – Pharoahe Monch
Fun, Fun, Fun – The Beach Boys
Your Eyes – Anoushka Shankar
This Old Town – Nancy Griffin
The Mighty Quinn – Bob Dylan
Obedeskamos – Los Miserables
Jingo – Santana
Aiko and I – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Give It Up – Dr. Michael White
Overture – My Fair Lady
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street – Bruce Springsteen
My Mother Won’t Let Me Marry – The Sands Family
Pilgrimage to Santiago – The Chieftains
Ophelia – The Band
How Can I Keep from Singing – Celtic Woman
Cotton Mouth River – Jim Croce
You’ll Accomp’ny Me – Bob Seger

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6 July 2019, part deux

Treadmill. Gym at the Shire.
Mulungu dalitsa Malaŵi – National Anthem of Malawi
Desafinado – Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
The Heather on the Hill – Brigadoon
When the Ship Comes In – The Pogues
Death Letter – Cassandra Wilson
Pride and Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Chain – Shawn Colvin
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South – Louis Armstrong
Raise the Alarm – Beyonce
Oye Como Va – Santana
Good Enough – Sarah McLachlan
My Girl – The Temptations
There for You – Clannad
You Tried to Ruin My Name – Wilma Lee Cooper
Minor Swing: To Django – Children of the Revolution
Peace God – Wyclef Jean

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6 July 2019

Morning Ramble. Morningside Gardens.
Making sure that motivation does not lag as it did yesterday.
Misty Morning, Albert Bridge – The Pogues
Good Morning Aztlan – Los Lobos
As I Went out One Morning – Bob Dylan
Dusty Morning – Johnathan Edwards
Good Morning Good Morning – The Beatles
There’ll Be Sunshine in the Morning – Jim & Jean Strathdee
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
One Too Many Mornings – Johnny Cash & The Avrett Brothers
Good Morning – Lenny Kravitz
Quite Early Morning – Holly Near
Every Morning – Keb’ Mo’

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5 July 2019

Hard day. Not motivated (which given that it was only walking says a lot about lack of motivation). Tired. Not feeling well. Pushed through.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Kalimba Blues – Earth, Wind & Fire
A New Machine – Pink Floyd
Last Best Place – Jack Gladstone
Busigan – Las Golondrinas Viajeras
Wind That Shakes the Barley – The Chieftains
Cherry Avenue – Melissa Etheridge
Life Is for Living – Santana
Break Your Heart – Natalie Merchant
Call Me, Tell Me – Pure Prairie League
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Bob Dylan
Rock Island Line – Little Richard
The Retreat Song – Miriam Makeba
When Sick Is It Tea You Want – Boys of the Lough
Đời Gọi Em Biết Bao Lần – Hồng Nhung
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
The Strangers – Eric Bogle & John Munroe

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4 July 2019, part deux

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Treaties – Frank Wain
American Tune – Eva Cassidy
Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
Freedom – Richie Havens
Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey in the Rock
For America – Jackson Browne
My Country ‘Tis of Thy People Are Dying – Buffy Sainte-Marie
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee – Redbone
Yorktown – Hamilton
Sounds Like America to Me – Harry Chapin
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) – K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC & Residente
America – Tracy Chapman
We Are the Children – Omar Calimbas, Jen Low, Glenn Fajardo and Karen Ng
Glory – Common & Legend
I Am a Patriot – Little Steven
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Querido FBI – Calle 13
Freedom – Beyonce
This Land – Gary Clark, Jr.
We Shall Overcome – Tao Rodriquez-Seeger, Pete Seeger, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Let America Be America Again (by Langston Hughes) – James Earl Jones

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4 July 2019

Happy Birthday to my sister Patty.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
Do You Hear What I Hear – Ed Ames
The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables
Orinico Flow – Enya
To Each His Dulcinea – Man of La Mancha
Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Joan Baez
Let the River Run – Carly Simon
Boris the Spider – The Who
American Pie – Don McLean
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning – Alfred Drake
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy

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3 July 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Beech Spring – Various
Mujer de Carne y Hueso – Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy
Ten Degrees and Getting Colder – Nanci Griffith
I Used to Love Him – Lauryn Hill
Any Colour You Like – Pink Floyd
Devil in Her Heart – The Beatles
My World Is Empty without You – The Supremes
Maria Maria – Santana
Somebody’s Baby- Jackson Browne
Slowness – Calexico
The Boxer – Mumford & Sons
Leali – Rasha
One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Dover Fault – Come from Away
The Rumor – Fiddler on the Roof
We Will Rock You – Queen

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2 July 2019

Happy Birthday, to my brother Paul.
Walking. Morningside Gardens
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
Seven Bridges Road – The Eagles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Got a Name – Jim Croce
This Is the Time – Billy Joe
Shut Up and Dance – Walk the Moon
Day by Day – The Hooters
Fool’s Parade – Michael Stanley Band
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Icarus – Kansas
Fishin’ in the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Toto – Africa
What Is Life – George Harrison
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen

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1 July 2019

Treadmill. Gym at the Shire.
Walking. Morningside Gardens
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
My Greatest Masterpiece – Bif Naked
Northern Plains – Alan Doyle
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
A Dream Like Mine – Bruce Cockburn
Soul Run- Tanika Charles
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Native North American Child – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Prairie Wind – Neil Young
Helpless – k.d. lang
Fallen Angel – Robbie Robertson
Catharsis – Natalie MacMaster
Share the Land – The Guess Who
Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Gordon Lightfoot
O Canada – Canadian Anthem Singers

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29 June 2019

Posted a day late.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Electric Lady – Janell Monae
Four Women – Nina Simone
Doubt – Mary J. Blige
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
Flawless Remix – Beyonce
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Different Drum – Linda Ronstadt
Sisters, O Sisters – Yoko Ono
U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifah
You Let Me Down – Billie Holiday
You Don’t Own Me – Grace
Thorn in Your Side – Namoli Brennet

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