It is Saturday morning.  The day promises to be comfortable, more so than the high 90s of the past several days.  This morning the Farmers Market with Laura and our daughter and grand daughter is anticipated.  In the afternoon I look forward to keeping accompany with my son to the race track in Wisconsin.  Watching the Pro-Modified cars “rotate-the-earth” is guaranteed to be exhilarating.

What about a song for this time?  This 1979 hit song by Neil Diamond has always appealed to me for its simplicity.  The repeating verse offers a stark contrast between mere affluence and the infinite satisfaction of affection felt for another human being.  I have listened to radio play of the tune countless times, and continue to enjoy it, as if it were a mantra of resistance to our late-stage capitalist society.

And yet, there’s the tongue-in-cheek COMMERCIAL by Will Ferrell which surely sold many pair of blue jeans for Gap.

The tune is an anthem to those moments when nothing matters, nothing except the sacrosanct bond between one human being and another.

Forever In Blue Jeans

By Neil Diamond

Money talks
But it don’t sing and dance
And it don’t walk
And long as I can have you
Here with me, I’d much rather be
Forever in blue jeans

Honey’s sweet
But it ain’t nothin’ next to baby’s treat
And if you pardon me
I’d like to say
We’ll do okay
Forever in blue jeans

Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, by the fire
All alone you and I
Nothing around
But the sound of my heart
And your sighs

Money talks
But it can’t sing and dance
And it can’t walk
And long as I can have you
Here with me, I’d much rather be
Forever in blue jeans, babe

And honey’s sweet
But it ain’t nothin’ next to baby’s treat
And if you pardon me I’d like to say
We’ll do okay
Forever in blue jeans

Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, by the fire
All alone you and I
Nothing around
But the sound of my heart
And your sighs

Money talks
But it don’t sing and dance
And it don’t walk
And long as I can have you
Here with me
I’d much rather be
Forever in blue jeans

And if you pardon me
I’d like to say
We’ll do okay
Forever in blue jeans, babe
And long as I can have you
Here with me I’d much rather be
Forever in blue jeans, babe

Lyrics by Neil Diamond and Richard Bennett