Five short songs were added to this page – – “Gotta Light?” – “Just An American Boy” – “My Name, It Is Music” – “It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine – “Maybe She Loves Me and Maybe She Don’t” – and a “Dead Buffalo Tank Report” audio comment.
Short Songs
It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine
Song – It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine above
Your Car Knows Exactly Who You Are
Song – Your Car Knows Exactly Who You Are above
Song lyrics are as good a way to describe the world as are “big expert theories” – – ‘blame your car.’
Fossil fuels create problems ranging from global warming and air pollution to water pollution of streams, lakes and oceans.
And, Your Car Knows Exactly Who You Are.
Dead Buffalo Tank Report
Tank Report June 7th 2021 Dead Buffalo above
The above combines oil tank facts and artistic license in a Dead Buffalo Tank Report – comments John made to a local city council.
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Gotta Light?
Song – Gotta Light? above
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Just An American Boy
Song – Just An American Boy above
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My Name, It Is Music
Song – My Name, It Is Music above
My Name, It Is Music
by John E Martin
Travel with me
I’m a travler through time
Your moments are precious
Your life is a rhyme
I’m just a feelin’
I live in your soul
My name, it is music
And I’ll ne’er grow old
So sing to the mountains
And sing to the trees
Whistle along with the
Leaves through the breeze
Tell me you love me
And tell me you care
Tell me you’re with me
And tell me you dare
Travel with me
I’m a travler through time
Your moments are precious
Your life is a rhyme
I’m just a feelin’
I live in your soul
My name, it is music
And I’ll ne’er grow old
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It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine
Song – It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine above
It’s Gonna Shine, The Sun’s Gonna Shine
by John E Martin
Gas tank’s on empty
And the car’s drivin slow
Haven’t been able
To make my life go
Mary, she calls says
“Johnny, answer the phone
I got somethin’ to sell
And gettin’ down
To the bone
Ya know it
Won’t cost ya nothin’
Man,it’s up there
It’s free
It ain’t owned
By the voters
Or the utilities
It’s gonna shine
The sun’s gonna shine”
Well I’ve been beat up
And I’ve been torn
You know I,
I talked to God
I thought I
Was reborn
I’ve been hungry and tired
And cold and wet
I put my money on the ponies
And I lost my bet
I’ve seen the years grow shorter
And my friends grow old
But when I find myself
Out in the cold
It’s gonna shine
The sun’s gonna shine
If you got trouble
If ya lost your job
Well if ya
Lost your life
Or if ya think you’re a slob
When you’re
Out a money
And you’re
All alone
And the tax man calls ya
On the phone
And a pile a dirt
Is your best friend
When ya think life’s over
And you’re at the end
It’s gonna shine
The sun’s gonna shine
It’s gonna shine
The sun’s gonna shine
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Maybe She Loves Me and Maybe She Don’t
Song – Maybe She Loves Me And Maybe She Don’t above
Subject: General Public Comment for the June 7, 2021 City Council Meeting.
The Dead Buffalo Tank Report June 7, 2021.
General Comments delivered at the
City Council Meeting by
John Martin
jmartinnoj@hotmail.com
My name is John and it’s time for the Tank Report
To Leak or Not to Leak – That is the Question
This City has underground home oil heating tanks and they are all deciding to leak, or not to leak.
If you think the tank decided to leak, you can take the tank out of the ground and clean up the oil.
If you think the tank decided not to leak, you can seal up the tank and leave it in the ground.
Then you have to hope and pray that there is no oil under the tank, but you won’t know for sure until you dig up the tank.
That’s probably why this city’s Environment Element policy is that “When underground tanks are no longer used, they should be removed and the site cleaned up.”
That’s why leaving the tank in the ground is a bad idea because you won’t know for sure if there is any oil under the tank until you dig up the tank, and by that time, leaking oil may have reached the water table.
Imagine generations from now when our current construction is demolished and they find oil tanks and contaminated soil.
The next generation might ask, “What were these people thinking, leaving their mess for us to clean up?”
When we discovered we had oil tank pollution, we shut down leaking oil tanks nationwide, removed them, and cleaned up the contaminated soil.
In this city, we have made enormous progress with oil tank pollution, but we still have to be diligent until the tanks are gone.
And how big is the mess?
Well, we don’t really know because when we fill a home heating oil tank with sand and leave it in the ground, we don’t test the soil.
We at least need to find out how big of a mess we have and that is why we need to take soil samples.
I am proud of the City Council for saying they will research, study, and have a staff report about passing an ordinance that makes soil tests mandatory for tanks that are left in the ground.
And I strongly encourage the Council to amend the fire code and make soil samples for tanks that are left in the ground mandatory.
But what people say and what people do are not always the same.
We have an opportunity to finish the job and clean up the remaining oil tanks.
We have an opportunity to clean up our mess instead of leaving it for the next generation.
We have an opportunity to leave a cleaner environment
Ask a salmon, or a whale, or a buffalo, if they think it’s a good idea.
I asked a salmon and it said, “We still have a chance.”
I asked a whale and it said, “We still have a chance.”.
I asked a buffalo and it said,
“What the human race says and what the human race does are not always the same
and,
pretty much,
it killed me.”
My name is John,
And that’s the Tank Report.
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