T-Bone Walker: "Stormy Monday"

Sometimes English with McCabe must play a song.  Give  T-Bone Walker a listen, if you like. Here he is playing "Stormy Monday" and telling us--sorry, Rebecca Black--what "Friday" is really all about.

Now, how good was that? Here's the lyrics:

They call it stormy Monday,
but Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Monday,
but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse,
and Thursday's also sad

Yes the eagle flies on Friday,
and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday,
and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church,
then I kneel down and pray

Lord have mercy,
Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy,
my heart's in misery
Crazy about my baby,
yes, send her back to me

Japan Earthquake: Images, Stories, and Relief (UPDATE 3/19/11)

A woman surveys the devastation in Ishimaki City, Miyagi prefecture.  Photo: AFP/GETTY. The London Telegraph, March 13, 2011.

Some links to images, stories and relief efforts about the disaster in Japan.

Photographs from The New York Times

Certainties of Modern Life Upended in Japan
The New York Times, March 15, 2011
by Ken Belson

TOKYO --  Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control.

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How to help.

New links posted 3/19/11:

Here is The New York Times summary of the disaster, including a timeline, more photographs, and other links: Japan — Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis (2011)

The New York Times also has extensive video coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear crisis.

A mother and son were checked for radiation exposure in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The New York Times, March 14, 2011