"I feel the earth move under my feet. I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down..."

"Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea.
Joy to you and me..."

"Country Roads, take me home
to the plaaaaace, I belooooooong..."

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you.
It's late September and I really should be back at school..."

"I am I said. To no one there.
And no one heard at all not even the chair.
I am I cried. I am, said I
And I am lost and I can't even say why..."

"It was just my imagination, running away with me..."

1971.
a GREAT year for music.

I mean, really. "She's A Lady"? You can't compete with that kind of goodness.

Now that we've covered most of the good things that happened in 1971, let's move on to some of the more tragic events:

A big ugly boat was built.

38 years (and who knows how many divorces) later,
it sits in front of my house.
Perhaps it has come here to die.