[Vision2020] "Hello Stranger, Put Your Lovin' Hand In Mine" Re: Immigration Discussion

Sat Mar 28 15:11:05 PDT 2009

Beautiful!

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:57:23 -0800
Subject: "Hello Stranger, Put Your Lovin' Hand In Mine" Re: Immigration 	Discussion
From: starbliss at gmail.com
To: thansen at moscow.com
CC: kjajmix1 at msn.com; donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; vision2020 at moscow.com

Emmylou Harris's version of "Hello Stranger" is one of my favorites, from the studio album "Luxury Liner," sung with Nicolette Larson.  The song captures a simple (it might seem simple, but is yet complex), profound and compassionate wisdom of the heart, that seems quite relevant to the discussion.  The lyrics come in different versions, but I listened carefully to approximately, I hope, just maybe, get the lyrics mostly correct below, given how the song is sung in the YouTube live version that is available at the website lower down.  The final verse is absent from many of the lyric listings for this song on the Internet, yet is contained in this live version:

Hello Stranger

by A. P. Carter

Hello stranger 
Put your loving hand in mine 
You are a stranger 
And you're a friend of mine 

Get up, rounder 
Let a working girl lay down 
You are a rounder 
And you're all out and down 

Every time 
I ride the four and six street cars 
I can see my baby 
Peeping through the bars 

He bowed his head 
And he waved both hands at me 
He's prison bound 
And longing to be free 

I'll see you 
When your troubles are like mine 
Yes. I'll see you 
When you haven't got a dime

Weeping like the willow
And mourning like the dove
Weeping like the willow
There's a country that I love
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Below is a live "YouTube" version, Harris with the Nash Ramblers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beh9e2i1eaE

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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On 3/28/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

"I was a stranger, and you welcomed me."

- Matthew 25:35

Good words, wouldn't you say, Arnold?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

>
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:03 -0700
> From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com

> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
> To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com; kjajmix1 at msn.com

>
> Keely,
>
> I don't know where you get your information that 135 million American
belie> ve as Buchanan does. However, I do agree that illegal immigration
is a
se> rious threat to the survival of the United States as an economically

strong>  nation with a positive future.
>
> The strength of the United States is based on the diversity which it
has,>  a commitment and loyalty to the nation, a willingness to put more
into
t> he community than they take out, and adherence to its laws and

conversion>  to its societies norms.
>
> I don't think see that with most illegal immigrants. For starters, most
o> f them don't even hold a loyalty to the United States and many are not
even>  willing to learn English. Many of them wish to convert their

environment
t> o the nation they came from, not convert to the US.
>
> Second, they do not follow the nation's laws. They disobey and destroy
th> e communities they live in, and send money out of the country, to

their>  country of origin. They often return to their nation of origin and
still
d> o not consider the US home. They just work here seasonally, or for just
a>  few years.
>
> Third, they take jobs from other US Citizens. Which weakens the

economy> , increased unemployment, and reduces tax revenues.
>
> Look at California and Southern Nevada. These areas are stricken with
dire
> poverty, record unemployment rates, astronomical deficits, and an

ina> bility to govern themselves. The proof is in the pudding.
>
> There is absolutely no reason to support a system which exploits illegal
wo> rkers, US workers, and the community tax base in favor of a handful of

> businesses trying to make a few bucks.
>
> Finally, It is incredibly discriminatory to deny people who follow the
la> w in over 200 nations worldwide fair and equitable access to the US and
bid>  on a chance for citizenship in favor of flooding the country with

illegal
> immigrants from a handful of nations to our south that follow no rules or
r> estricts.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Donovan
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/26/09, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:

>
>
> From: keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?

> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com

> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 2:01 PM
>
>
>
>
> I'm far more concerned about the 135 million people in this country who
bel> ieve as Pat Buchanan does, presuming that the only way our nation

"surviv> es" is if it remains, or reverts to, a nation full of
European-immigran> t descendants.  My 11 years of ministering to largely
undocumented Mexican
> immigrants has convinced me that we have nothing to fear, and much to

gai> n, from Hispanic immigration.  Recognizing that we have millions of
hard-> working, loyal, decent immigrants who desperately love the United
State> s of America would best be demonstrated by a broad and generous

amnesty,
> one that enfranchises people and, not insignificantly, allows the
count> ry to collect taxes and regulate employer abuse they often suffer.
>
> Why Pat Buchanan is so frightened would be a mystery to me, if I didn't

r> ead his stuff and have it confirmed that the "browning" of America, and
t> he "accented" English he hears, threaten his position as a privileged
whi> te
>  male and his dream of a country led and populated by people just like

him.>   Believe me, he makes it perfectly clear . . .
>
> Keely
> http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/

>
>
>
>
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > From: thansen at moscow.com

> > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:22:35 +0000
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> >
> > "Who is going to care 30 years from now whether a Sunni or a Shia is
in
> > Baghdad or who's ruling in Kabul? We're going to have 135 million

> > Hispanics in the United States by 2050, heavily concentrated in the
> > southwest. The question is whether we're going to survive as a
country."
> >
> > - Pat Buchanan
> >

> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > Join us at The First Annual Intolerista Wingding, April 17th,
featuri> ng

> > Roy Zimmerman and Jeanne McHale. For details go to . .
>  .
> >
> > http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding

> >
> > Seeya
> > there.
> >
> >
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