As you may know, I released a new song yesterday. It’s called “George Around the Corner,” and it’s more or less about real people I know.
George does, in fact, live around the corner, and he did, in fact, fly a fighter jet in 1969 (and the years on either side of it). The line about him not remembering my name was true when I started working on the song, but more recently he has begun to remember my name when I see hm.
Tim stops by for coffee fairly regularly if not actually once a week, and sometimes I stop by his house. The line about us not speaking, however, is entirely false. We talk a lot. But “speak” rhymes with “week.”
And Brian did visit Philadelphia once. He was actually visiting family in Delaware when he made the additional trek out to see me. His son came with him and did take a picture of us waiting for the train. However, that was not the only picture he took.
Also, I stand by my claim that sometimes the best of times move kind of slow.
5 responses to “For the Record: “George Around the Corner””
I had a good friend, Moe Morris, who’d passed in 2005. He was a retired Navy Captain who, in his younger years (late 1940s), flew aircraft into the Antarctica. Here’s a post I wrote up that mentions him, in the second-from-the-last para: https://fpdorchak.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/the-pikes-peak-writers-conference-2013/
In his obituary it is incorrectly listed that the second item is named after him. Moe never ever said anything about that, and as you’ll read in the above link, he used that second item in the joke: https://obits.gazette.com/us/obituaries/gazette/name/marion-morris-obituary?id=26789402.
And Moe’s initial’s are “M.E. Morris,” Not “H. C. Morris,” who was a ship commander. But I do remember Moe saying that there was another “Morris” in the Navy when he was and that had caused issues, I think sometimes humorous….
I miss Moe. He was such a great guy. Keep cultivating that relationship with George, Marc!
Thanks, Frank! Sounds like Moe was a fascinating guy, and I’m impressed that he had a glacier named after him. I’ll certainly continue cultivating my friendship with George!
Congrats, Marc, I like the tune’s bouncy upbeat vibe!
Thanks!
Enjoyed this very much. I always like the explanations you give regarding the song. Definitely agree that “sometimes the best of times move kind a slow.”