Every day I am awoken by a clip from the Sitcom "Friends". The clip's star is colloquially referred to as the 'singing man' who greets each dawn with the same song opposite Joey's bedroom. He's introduced in the One where the girls lose their flat and Rachel is driven insane by the man's early morning serenade as she is forced to bunk up in Joey's old room.
The song he sings is effectively named "Morning's Here" because that's its first line and my sister and I used to sing it in Hong Kong jokingly. It is actually based entirely on a Chuck Mangione track called "Feels So Good" on which his virtuoso french-horn performance kicks a bit of Jazz guitar up and down groove street (Chuck of course being mentioned numerous times in Friends, for instance in the episode with the beach house where phoebe tries to find her father and finds her mother instead) but the words are made up. So infectious is it, that you just can't stop singing it, just as I never grow tired of hearing it wake me up (my wife, if any girl is foolish enough to marry me, is going to kill me in my sleep, fearful of the morning serenade). The lyrics are these:
"Morning's Here
The Morning is Here
Sunshine is Here
The Sky is Clear
The Morning's here
Get into Gear
Breakfast is near
The Dark of Night Has Disappeared"
It's kinda goofy and nonsensical but after a night like the one I had its nice to wake up to :)
Oh and an explanation of Today's snapshot (yay it's working!): It's a view of Westminster Cathedral, a monument which is not 4 minutes from this flat and the Centre of the Catholic Church in England. It's on the short walk to Starbucks so I pop in and settle my conscience and thoughts when I feel I could use a bit of a helping hand from God (and that's often these days).
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 20, 2003 03:16 PM | TrackBack