A Little Salt Around the Rim
My colleague, the gifted pianist and musician Bill Payne, and I have been creating some music. He's the expert; I'm the scribbler, dabbling in fields I don't know. But somehow we've made some magic.
We put together a memorable one the other day, My Tequila Margarita, a little love song with a distinctive rhythm and a tenderness that lifts the heart. I hope it succeeds. He will play it here and there, and maybe it will touch a few romantics.
It occurred to me that it is a perfect response to the xenophobia of Donald Trump, and I hope the song will be seen in that fashion. Long ago, in the 1970s, I lived on the border for a while, and got to know and enjoy the Mexican people. They hitchhiked a lot, and I picked them up now and then. They were hoping to earn a little cash to support their families back home. Our stiff Anglo culture was and is blessed by the human warmth and cheer and courage of these people from other places and other lands.
We put together a memorable one the other day, My Tequila Margarita, a little love song with a distinctive rhythm and a tenderness that lifts the heart. I hope it succeeds. He will play it here and there, and maybe it will touch a few romantics.
It occurred to me that it is a perfect response to the xenophobia of Donald Trump, and I hope the song will be seen in that fashion. Long ago, in the 1970s, I lived on the border for a while, and got to know and enjoy the Mexican people. They hitchhiked a lot, and I picked them up now and then. They were hoping to earn a little cash to support their families back home. Our stiff Anglo culture was and is blessed by the human warmth and cheer and courage of these people from other places and other lands.
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