Sunny Songs: Sunshine

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Last night I picked the muscle relaxer bottle up, looked at it, then set it back down. I went to bed without patches or Tylenol or the muscle relaxer. Sore, not in pain. Thank God! Thanks again for your concern. Here’s a sunny song that @Scarred4lyfe has been waiting for. Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards was an 18th century Congregationalist preacher. His 1741 (not a typo) sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is still referenced and quoted today. That’s not the Jonathan Edwards we’re dealing with in this song. THIS Jonathan Edwards was born about 200 years AFTER that sermon was written (he’ll be 79 in a couple of weeks). This one is a one-hit wonder folk singer. And this is the one hit. For all the cheery sound and upbeat title, this is one angry protest song. It’s about the Vietnam War, Nixon, and the politics of the day. The standout line in the song is, “He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.” Nixon, who had an enemies list (don’t stop me if any of this sounds familiar), didn’t read between the lines of this one. It’s a little more subtle than, say, “One Toke Over the Line” (which Nixon’s VP Spiro Agnew went after with the full force of the FCC, threatening radio stations with the loss of their license if they played such a “subversive” song), but a lot of people got the message. It’s still applicable today, to all the bureaucrats (I was on the phone this morning for 45 minutes because of them) in the world. Sunshine Written by Jonathan Edwards Recorded by Jonathan Edwards From Jonathan Edwards, 1971 He’s got cards he ain’t showing: