I need a hair cut. Hope you enjoy this. I've loved this song since I heard George Morgan sing it years ago.

God's gonna get ya fer that

100 years Veterans day.

Reviewing some family artifacts brought me to this old newspaper from 1918. 

The Lake Geneva News, November 28, 1918

We are coming up on Veteran's day/Armistice Day/ Remembrance Day, depending on where you live. U.S., Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand. The BBC broadcasters are all wearing the poppy on their lapels. Poppies are worn and poppy wreaths are laid in memorium. Our American Legion give the poppies and referance the WWI poem "In Flander's Fields."

I never knew my uncle Pliny. It seems that we were two generations apart. But I have some family artifacts and papers that cause me to remember and I feel it is so timely to share this article now from a century ago and the end of WWI. The pictures are from the newspaper and I have tried to place them in order. God Bless all who serve. We thank you.

All over the place

Hey everyone, I know that many of you are aware of the thoughts and music that I post here and on YouTube. I do have another place where I enjoy posting some other thoughts and music. In the What's Happening blog, (this blog) I have written about and place the original music I have written and sung. Another blog,  Keep on Keepin on, is a place where I like to post other music.
If you have any interest in the other stuff, you can find it in these different locations.
http://orrinson1.blogspot.com/
With YouTube, do a search for john w. blodgett, or orrinson1. That will bring up most of the songs I have posted on these blogs.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+w+blodgett
or https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orrinson1.
I hope you enjoy all of the music and fun that I have been working on the last few years.

Response

I don't receive a lot of response on this blog. Even though I can see that it is visited by people from around the world. It always makes me wonder what those people think of it. And I think, "is there a response?" It helps me understand how God sees us sometimes. A term we hear used after an accident, when checking the person they might say, "he or she was unresponsive". I fear we are too unresponsive in our walk on this earth under Heaven. I do believe the main reason for our existence on this earth is go glorify God. After all that I have gone through in the last couple of years, I have to be thankful each morning for the new day. God has been so good to me and the more I lean on him and trust him the easier it is to trust him. But, it is also easy when things are going well, to take him for granted. I don't want to take him for granted and find myself wondering why things are not going well. So, I find it easier to enjoy as I read in Ephesians 5:19  "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." All day long. It helps me respond to my Savior. Then Psalm 95:2, Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Isaiah 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

 

"Lead Them Home"

This has been a lot of fun. This song, I think is the thirteenth gospel song that I have published on the blog. In the blog year 2015 you will find 53 original songs penned by myself or my son Jason. All with the grace of God and some with the assistance of the holy spirit. The song "Lead Them Home" was written in the early 1970s and inspired by the word of God, usually the King James Version.

If for no other reason but to lift my spirits and sing God's praise.  

If you should wonder about the verse that says to keep them under his blood, the bible says in 1st John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. In Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. 

"LEAD THEM HOME"

©1994 John Blodgett

There are brothers and sisters lost in the darkness.

Reach out and take them by the hand.

Reach out in spirit, let Jesus guide us.

Lead them into life through forgiveness of sin.

(Refrain)                     

 Lead them home, home, home to Jesus   

That's his own wonderful plan

Win a soul, a soul, a soul for Jesus

Through his holy word into that heavenly land.

Close friends and neighbors, all who will listen

Tell them of the love and the mercy of God

Relatives and friends. All who will listen

Lead them back to life, keep them under his blood

      (Refrain)                     

 Lead them home, home, home to Jesus    

That's his own wonderful plan

Win a soul, a soul, a soul for Jesus

Through his holy word into that heavenly land.

The kingdom draws nearer, it's time for the harvest

draw back and let his sickle swing

Have faith and fear not, nothing can harm us

Prepare for the coming of the king.

(Refrain)                     

 Lead them home, home, home to Jesus   

That's his own wonderful plan

Win a soul, a soul, a soul for Jesus

Through his holy word into that heavenly land.

Here's 52. "you've got me dreamin," I will get back to #50 later. I know you will like this one. 

 

"You've got me dreamin"

     Copyr. 1994        

Johnny Blodgett Composer

You've got me dreamin, you've got me schemin,

You don't know baby what you do to me.

You've got me lyin, you've got me tryin,

For love that wasn't meant to be.

I want to touch you, want very much to,

Feel your body close to mine.

If only I knew, If I could tell you,

I want you with me all the time.

There was a time when another woman,

could never make me turn my head,

But somethin snaps when I hear you talkin,

I only wonder what's ahead

The voice that thrills me, those eyes that fill me,

With dreams of heaven in your touch,

This feeling so strong, can it be so wrong,

I want your love so very much.

I've lost control now, you've got to know how,

My heart is burning to call out your name.

My heart is beating, my mind repeating,

The words you're saying, you feel the same.

The pain is done now, our souls are one now,

Your trembling lips are pressed to mine.

My arms enfold you, forever hold you.

Your heart is mine till the end of time.

Down Below

Sorry fans. Running a little behind here and have a lot to do before the New Year.

Three more songs for --

One a week for 2015

I have tried my best to post number 50 on the blog but can't nail it down. I am not satisfied with what I have been able to record so far. So I am going to give you number 51 instead.
This is a song that I put together in about 1969 while working part time at Badger Marine. We were producing parts for the aircraft industry. I was working during the day at the radio station and evenings for about 4 hours trying to make a few extra dollars so Mama could stay home with the babies. I can't believe that was 46 years ago. Wow!
It is a religious type song. Having nothing to do with any kind of message about how to live or believe, but as the imagination takes us and then the verses come together until it becomes a song. It is a vengeful or vindictive thought that comes up with a song called "Down Below".

Down Below

copyright 1994

  Johnny Blood Composer

I met you in a tavern, shoulda seen it then,

You weren't the kind who would stay to long from sin.

For a while you were mine, we shared a love devine.

But the life you were used to was always on your mind.

(refrain)

Down below - - -Down below

I know I'll laugh when you go.

Down below - - - Down below

When you meet your maker, you're gonna meet him down below.

You must not have listened, to the little parsons words,

To love honor and obey, you must not have heard.

You've broken your vows like you've broken my heart.

Now I'll wait impatiently for you to depart.

(refrain)

Down below - - -Down below

I know I'll laugh when you go.

Down below - - - Down below

When you meet your maker, you're gonna meet him down below.

I know you won't be lonely, whenever you go,

Your friends will all be there, reapin what they've sowed.

The Devil, your master, and ruler of your soul,

Prepares a warm welcome for you down below

(refrain)

Down below - - -Down below

I know I'll laugh when you go.

Down below - - - Down below

My hell on earth is over, when you - go down below

"I want to be yours" #49

A nice melody and some good lyrics. I struggle with today's music. It seems over produced to me. Too much stuff. I am so old fashioned I know, but I still enjoy the simple things. A pretty song. Something with an easy melody and lyrics that I can relate to. But then maybe it is because I can't find a way to do any more than a basic presentation.
I may record this again live. It is one of my favorite love songs. She was a very special and exciting girl.

        

  "I want to be yours"                                            

                                                                      ©1994 John Blodgett

                                                                      Johnny Blodgett Composer

In my mind, In my mind I'm free,

And I know, yes I know I'll always be

Anything I want, till eternity,

And Mimi, I wanta be, I wanta be yours.

                                                                                                                       

I wanta be yours babe, till the sun no longer shines,

Yours and I want you to be mine.

All the rest will be in its'own time,

Mimi I'll be yours and you be mine.

                                                                                                                       

This freedom road, means an awful lot to me.

It took so long, just to know where I should be.

Now I know, yes I know and I can see,

Mimi, I want to be yours.

I wanta be yours babe, till the sun no longer shines,

Yours and I want you to be mine.

All the rest will be in its'own time,

Mimi, I'll be yours and you be mine.

                                                                                                                       

I want the good times, all the good times and the fun.

I want the songs, all those songs I've never sung.

Let them flow, like honey off my tongue,

But, Mimi more than this,  I wanta be yours.

I wanta be yours babe, till the sun no longer shines,

Yours and I want you to be mine.

All the rest will be in its'own time,

Mimi I'll be yours and you be mine.

                                                                                                   

I'm gonna make it, make it all the way this time.

No lookin back to the heartaches or the cryin.

Leavin all these bitter memories far behind.

Mimi, I'll be yours and you be mine.

I wanta be yours babe, till the sun no longer shines,

Yours and I want you to be mine.

All the rest will be in its'own time,

Mimi I'll be yours and you be mine.

Song number 48 "Look up, Look up, Thy redemtion draweth nie."

"May I say to you" is what I hear. The voice and words of Dr. J. Vernon McGee with his Through the Bible programs, which are still being aired almost 30 years after his death. Thru the bible

I use his podcasts and sermons as a great source of meditation and understanding. 

We have so much information at our fingertips via tv, radio, internet and telephone. Sometimes it is almost impossible, no my friends it is altogether impossible to understand what we are up against. We see through a glass darkly, as the King James bible puts it. 1st Corinthians 13:12.

It is so easy to just be taken up with our every day existence and not to worry or care about the things we seem to have absolutely no control over. But there is something you and I can do, should do. Must do! We can Pray! 

My thoughts today take me to Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South Africa, the middle East, Europe and Eastern Europe, the millions of souls who are displaced by famine and war. Most of the old world and much of the new world. I see children all gaunt and shriveled up, hollow eyed with their abdomen distended from starvation. See people drowning and being murdered while trying to flee the destruction. To use McGee's words, "may I say to you my beloved", there will be no end to these trials in our lifetime. In Luke 21:9-38,"

⁹ But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
¹⁰ Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
¹¹ And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
¹³ And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
¹⁶ And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
¹⁷ And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
¹⁸ But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
¹⁹ In your patience possess ye your souls.
²⁰ And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
²¹ Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
²² For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
²³ But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
²⁵ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
²⁶ Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
²⁷ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
²⁸ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
²⁹ And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
³⁰ When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
³¹ So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
³² Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
³³ Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
³⁵ For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
³⁶ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
³⁷ And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
³⁸ And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him."

This song came from a dream I had in 1972. The dream was very real to me. I was standing and talking with a friend about how the Lord would come in the clouds and as I spoke to her, I looked up and saw a swirling in the clouds and then Jesus emerging with his hand reached down to me. As I saw this, I reached out my hand and was lifted up to meet him in the air. Praise God! It was and is real to me.

 

"Look Up, Thy redemption draweth nigh"

©1994 John Blodgett

While I kneeled in prayer last night at my bed,

The spirit of God came over me.

I will not forget the words that he said,

three times he repeated it to me.

Look up, look up, thy redemption draweth nigh

The kingdom of God is at hand.

Watch and pray that worthy you may be

to stand before the Son of Man.

As I lay asleep, I dreamed my savior came,

I was standing with a friend,

and as he approached, I heard him call my name,

He reached down and took me by the hand.

What a thrill filled my soul, as I was lifted up.

My friend was left standing there.

From behind me she called, but I couldn't turn my head

and I met my savior in the air.

What a wonderful dream, I will not forget

But a heavenly message was there.

I must reach my friends so they may not be left

and remember them always in prayer.

"Don't be waiting for me"

I have no idea why it has been so hard for me to get this song recorded and put on the blog.
Last week I see that I had 71 views on the blog from Russia. Curious about that. It was fun to see and makes a guy wonder who's watching huh?
I relate the song to the book of James in the bible.
James 1:12-15 says in the New International Version, "
¹² Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
¹³ When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; ¹⁴ but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."
I worked on this in a couple of different keys and settled on D major. I am counting this as song number 47, so I still owe 5 more for this year, as I have promised 52 for 2015. Maybe now I can settle in and get a few more before the new year. 

"Don't be waiting for me"     

 Johnny Blodgett Composer

 copyright 1995

Don't be waiting for me, when I call don't be home.

Don't call my name as you lie there alone,

I belong to someone else, there's no way can't you see.

Can this be hurting you as much as it's hurting me.

I know if we cheated we could never be free,

two broken hearts would pay the penalty,

I can't help how I feel, I can't lie to my soul.

I want you more than life but no one will ever know.

What songs to sing. Six new for 2015

Just thinking this morning of what to do next. Trying to choose. It looks like I have 5 or 6 songs to get on here before 1/1/2016. These are the songs I am considering.

Any thoughts will be appreciated. 

DON'T YOU WANT TO BE MY BABY      

DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME                       

DOWN BELOW                                                              

E.T. AND GRAPEFRUIT        

YOU'VE GOT ME DREAMIN         

I REMEMBER YOU   

YOU'RE ALL THAT MATTERS    

HOLD ON THERE WOMAN 

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME

LOOK UP,  THY REDEMPTION DRAWETH NYE

LEAD THEM HOME

I WANT TO BE YOURS 

VICTORIA JANE

 

What Am I Gonna Do

I enjoyed a trip to Colorado back in the late 80s. Visiting my brother and just taking in the countryside. Central City, Colorado was a great place away from it all. Think that's where you would fine the "lost gold mine". Great place back then. Can't begin to imagine what it was back in the day. https://www.colorado.gov/centralcity
Maybe some movie with Henry Fonda or John Wayne would give a little look.   

One of the interesting things I found there was a cemetery. The Knights of Pythias cemetery. http://www.pythias.org/

But back to the song. This is number 46 of one a week for 2015. 

           What Am I gonna do              

Copyr.1995

words and music

johnny blodgett

I thought I was free as the wind,

Nothing could ever hold me.

Then you came along like the words of a song,

Like wave after wave of the sea.

                   (refrain)

What am I gonna do babe,

What am I gonna do....

I'm so much in love with you Babe,

So much in love with you.

I stood on the top of the mountain,

Sipped of the worlds vintage wine.

Like a book that was open and page after page,

All of life's pleasures were mine.

(refrain)

I was happy to stand all alone,

There was nothing that I couldn't do.

The road rose to meet me, the wind couldn't beat me.

But what will it be without you.

(refrain)

Come with me and stand by my side.

Let's meet each new day you and I.

There's a rainbow in heaven as this time is given.

Here's my hand.  take wings.  Let's fly

(refrain)