So I watched AFI Top 100 Years... 100 Songs last night and other than learning that the top pick was Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (duh) and number 2 was As Time Goes By from Casablanca. I like As Time Goes By better and I think it should've been number 1; but I'm getting off topic. I learned something important last night...
I want you all to think of the song from M*A*S*H*, and try to grab it from the beginning... if you need help you can find it here. And when the horns start begin singing these words:
Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
Now the TV show theme pretty much leaves it there, but there are more words to the song, which can be found here (and that is also where I found the words above though I heard them last night). I guess I was just really surprised that a theme I had heard since childhood had such disturbed lyrics; though the show isn't always the happy-go-lucky image as it has often been projected. It is a searing social commentary on the Vietnam and Korean Wars and the changes those wars brought, though the show supposedly takes place during the Korean War.
Did anybody else see the show? It was interesting and most of the songs were great and it made my whole family sing whenever a song popped up. A lot of them made you cry too, well not me, but perhaps other people with weak tear ducts... my tear ducts never leak... what are you laughing at??
Posted by 10lees at June 23, 2004 12:40 PM