WELL I'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR THE BLUES SINCE THE DAYS OF EVE AND ADAM I'VE BEEN TRYING TO WRITE THE BLUES AND IT'S HARD WHEN YOU AIN'T HAD THEM THESE DAYS I'M GETTING CLOSE BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO STAY MOROSE FOR LONG WHEN I SING THIS SONG I'M GOING TO DIE WITH A SMILE IF IT KILLS ME I AM GOING TO TAKE LIFE'S WINE UNTIL IT FILLS ME TODAY MIGHT BE MY LAST DAWN BREAKER AND IF TONIGHT I MEET MY MAKER I AM GOING TO DRESS UP AND TAKE HER AROUND THE TOWN WELL LIFE TO SOME IS A GOLF SHOT IF YOUR FIRST ATTEMPT DON'T MAKE IT A STROKE IS ALL YOU LOSE DROP A NEW LIFE AND START NAKED I GOT NO TIME TO PLAY THAT WAY NEVER LIKED GOLF ANYWAY AT ALL, THAT HOLE IS TOO SMALL I AM GOING TO DIE WITH A SMILE IF IT KILLS ME I AM GOING TO JUGGLE LIFE'S WINE UNTIL IT FILLS ME TODAY MIGHT BE MY LAST DAWN BREAKER AND IF TONIGHT I MEET MY MAKER I AM GOING TO DRESS ALL UP AND TAKE HER AROUND THE TOWN WELL A SMILE IS NOT N INCIPID THE GRIN IS NOT ARTIFICIAL BECAUSE THE GRINNING IS WITHIN WHAO TODAY I REST THE MORNING BLUES AND THE TYPES THAT TEARS GOT TO ME BUT I AM DETERMINED TO REFUSE TO LET IT KEEP ME DOWN AND DO ME I KNOW I CAN'T CLEAN UP THE MESS BUT I SURE AS HELL CAN'T HELP DEPRESSED SO I AM GOING TO SEIZE THE TIME I AM GOING TO DIE WITH A SMILE IF IT KILLS ME GOING TO JUGGLE LIFE'S WINE UNTIL IT FILLS ME BECAUSE TODAY I WOULD BE, MAY BE MY LAST DAWN BREAKER AND IF TONIGHT I MEET MY MAKER I AM GOING TO SIT IS LONG AND TAKE HER AROUND THE TOWN >> WELCOME.

I AM JON GAILMOR AND I AM REAL GLAD TO BE WITH YOU.

GOING TO BE SINGING ALL SORTS OF SONGS FOR YOU.

AND ALL OF THEM HAVE TO DO WITH MY LIFE, KIND OF THINGS I DO.

AND THAT WAS MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, THE FIRST THING YOU HEARD, I THOUGHT IT WILL BE GOOD TO INTRODUCE MYSELF THAT WAY.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I DO IS BE WITH KIDS.

I HAVE A CHILDREN'S RADIO SHOW ON WDEZ IN WATERBURY ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MORNINGS.

IT'S CALLED "JUST KIDDING."

I THINK I WILL GO FOR A STROLL WITH MY FAVORITE STROLL TAKE A RIDE ON THE BACK OF MY DINOSAUR JACK SUCH A FINE DAY TO FLY, I GUESS I WILL BE A JET PLANE AND IF A GROWNUP PERSON ASKS ME WHAT I'M DOING I WILL EXPLAIN I'M JUST KIDDING JUST BEING A KID JUST KIDDING FROM MONTPELIER TO MADRID SO GOOD TO BE KIDDING WHAT A WORLD WE'RE ALL IN DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL GROW UP BUT WHAT A WE TO BEGIN AFTER A HARD DAY IN THE DIRT HOW ABOUT A COOKIE FOR DESERT GIVE ME AN EXTRA 12, MIGHT HAVE TO ENTERTAIN AN EXTRA ELF IF A PERSON SAYS ACT YOUR AGE, I WILL SAY I AM JUST KIDDING, JUST BEING A KID JUST KIDDING FROM MONTPELIER TO MADRID SO GOOD TO BE KIDDING WHAT A WORLD WE'RE ALL IN DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL GROW UP BUT WHAT A WAY TO BEGIN I PLAY WITH A KID NAMED GIL AND MY BUDDY BILL GOT A PINK PONY AND HER SISTER IS GREEN PETE, WHAT A GUY PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT OUR RAINBOW IS PRETTIER THAN ANY IN THE KID JUST BEING A KID FROM MONTPELIER TO MADRID SO GOOD TO BE KIDDING, WHAT A WORLD WE'RE ALL IN DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL GROW UP BUT WHAT A WAY TO BEGIN I AM A KID SMALL AND PROUD SINGING LONG, SING IT LOUD GETTING LARGER EVERY EVERY DAY, GUESS IT HAS TO BE THAT WAY THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW, I WILL ALWAYS BE A KID INSIDE NO MATTER BIG I GET I AM JUST KIDDING, JUST SACK KID JUST BEING A KID FROM MONTPELIER TO MADRID SO GOOD TO BE KIDDING WHAT A WORLD WE'RE ALL IN DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL GROW UP BUT WHAT A WAY TO BEGIN JUST KIDDING JUST BEING A KID JUST KIDDING MONTPELIER TO MADRID SO GOOD TO BE KIDDING WHAT A WORLD WE'RE ALL IN DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL GROW UP BUT WHAT A WAY TO BEGIN >> WHEN I FIRST GOT TO VERMONT I WANTED TO BE A SCHOOL TEACHER.

I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MUSIC SCHOOL TEACHER SO I WENT AROUND ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT I WAS UNDERQUALIFIED.

I DIDN'T HAVE MY CERTIFICATION.

AND I TRIED TO FIND A SCHOOL WHERE THAT DIDN'T MATTER.

IT WASN'T EASY.

THEN I DISCOVERED THAT I COULD TRY TO MAKE A LIVING SINGING.

I STARTED DOING THAT.

AND I STARTED GETTING INVOLVED WITH SCHOOLS AND WITH KIDS AND I GOT INVOLVED WITH THE VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS.

AUDITIONED FOR THEM TO BE ON THEIR REGISTER OF TOURING ARTISTS AND STARTED SINGING AT SCHOOLS, AND I STARTED REALLY RELISHING THE IDEA OF BEING WITH KIDS AND SINGING WITH KIDS.

I DID SOME LIVE SHOWS ON THE RADIO OF MY SINGING.

ONCE I DID A LIVE SHOW WITH KIDS.

ON A RADIO STATION IN MONTPELIER AND IT WAS MAGICAL AND WONDERFUL AND THAT'S HOW THE RADIO SHOW JUST KIDDING BEGAN.

AND I STARTED DOING MORE AND MORE WITH KIDS AND SINGING AT SCHOOLS, AND IT JUST MUSHROOMED AND SNOWBALLED AND MUD-PIED AND IT'S A VITAL PART OF MY LIFE NOW, BEING WITH KIDS.

JUST -- IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

AND KIDS INSPIRE ME.

DADDY IS ON THE BRINK OF A DRY MARTINI MAMA IS AN OLD FASHIONED GIRL UNCLE PETE IS A STRAIGHTUP STINGER AND GRANNY IS A PINK SQUIRREL I HAVE A FAMILY OF GUZZLING GUPPIES THEY ALL CALL ME NUTS NOT TO WANT SOME JEEZ, I JUST TURNED SIX GIVE ME DIRT I CAN ROCK 'N' ROLL AROUND IN DIRT DIRT ALL COVERED BY SUNDOWN, I AM A DAY CRAWLER NORMAL KIDS GO FOR THE G.I.

JOE GAMES, I NEVER WENT FOR GREEN THEN THERE IS THOSE SLIDING TO SNOW GAMES, COLD AND A LITTLE TOO CLEAN ME I'M WORKING OUT IN A BIG OLD SANDBOX GETTING MY SCULPTURE DONE MICHELANGELO MIGHT HAVE MADE MORE MONEY BUT NEVER HAD THIS MUCH FUN SLINGING DIRT I CAN ROCK 'N' ROLL AROUND IN DIRT ALL COVERED BY SUNDOWN I AM A DAY CRAWLER NOW ROSEMARY GROWS WELL IN THE DIRT BUT NEVER IS IN THE SOIL WHEN SHE IS WEARING A SKIRT SUN NOWERS TOWERING YOU CAN DIG IT, DIRT MUD MY ALA MODE DISCOVERED BY SUNDOWN, I AM A DAY CRAWLER DECK MY PANTS WITH MUD 'TIS THE SEASON TO BE DIRTY ALL AROUND ME FOLKS ARE MOPING FA-HA-LA DIRT FOREVER I AM HOPING DIRT I CAN ROCK AROUND DIRT MUD PIE A LA MODE COVERED BY SUNDOWN I AM A DAY KERRY CRAWLER DIRT, ALL COVERED BY SUNDOWN I AM A DAY CRAWLER I SAID I AM A DAY CRAWLER YEAH I AM A DAY CRAWLER >> THESE KIDS TAUGHT ME THAT.

A LOT OF KIDS LIKE THEM, TAUGHT ME HOW BEAUTIFUL DIRT IS, AND IN FACT, I BET THAT THEY HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT MORE THAN I HAVE EVER TAUGHT THEM.

THAT'S FOR SURE.

AND ANOTHER THING THAT THEY HAVE TAUGHT ME ABOUT IS STUFF THAT THEY ARE REALLY AFRAID OF.

DEAR YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS I WAS SEVEN IN MAY AND I AM WONDERING YESTERDAY I HEARD THE PLANES AND SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT WE HATE THE ISRAELIS SHOULD I HATE THEM, TOO I AM SMART IN SCHOOL I AM A GOOD SOCCER GOAL I CAN SING SONGS I AM LEARNING TO COOK I CAN'T WAIT TO BE OLDER SO I CAN SMOKE PIPES AND DRIVE CARS ALL.

THE CHILDREN HERE ARE WORRIED BECAUSE ALL THEIR FATHERS ARE WORRIED IF THEY ARE GOING TO BE WAR PREMIERE PLEASE TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW I AM HAPPY THAT'S WHY I AM SCARED SINCERELY TANYA DEAR MR.

PRESIDENT I'M IN FOURTH GRADE HOW ARE YOU I AM FINE ALL EXCEPT I AM SCARED YESTERDAY THE MAN ON TV SAID WE'RE BUILDING BIG BOMBS THAT KILLS KIDS LIKE ME AND GROWNUPS LIKE GRANDPA I LIVE IN VERMONT AND I LIKE SWIMMING IN SUMMER THE LEAVES TURN IN THE FALL THEN THE SNOW IS GREAT FOR SLEDDING DAD GETS GRUMPY IN APRIL BUT I LOVE TO BAKE MUD PIES AND I AM LEARNING UKULELE SIR, PLEASE TELL ME SHOULD I FINISH MY VEGETABLES SO I WILL BE BIG AND STRONG JUST LIKE MY DAD EVEN IF EVERYBODY'S DAD FROM THE BOMBS, THAT'S WHY I AM SCARED, DAVID, AGE NINE LA-LA-L A-LA >> YOU NEED MUSIC TO DELIVER A MESSAGE WELL.

I THINK THAT MUSIC IS VERY IMPORTANT IN ORDER, IF YOU HAVE A MESSAGE, TO COMMUNICATE HAVING POWERFUL MUSIC BEHIND IT, EFFECTIVE MUSIC IS ESSENTIAL.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

I THINK THAT PEOPLE, IF THEY ARE LISTENING TO A SONG THAT MOVES THEM, MUSICALLY, WILL LISTEN TO THE WORDS MORE.

READILY.

AND SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT VEHICLE FOR DELIVERING A MESSAGE.

AND ANOTHER INTERESTING THING IS WHEN I FIRST STARTED WRITING MUSIC, I TIP-TOED OFTEN, AND MY MESSAGES, I ALWAYS LIKED TO SLIP IN SOMETHING.

IN A SONG.

AND I AM NOT AS SUBTLE AS I USED TO BE.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ME BUT I SORT OF DECIDED THAT IT'S GETTING LATE.

IT'S ALSO MUCH MORE SATISFYING TO DELIVER A MESSAGE WITHOUT BEING AFRAID.

IT FEELS GOOD.

IT'S MORE OF A VENTING FOR ME.

SOMETIMES I THINK THAT PEOPLE LIKE TO HEAR MESSAGES THAT ARE ALL THERE AND NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE TO FIND AND SEARCH FOR.

I AM AMAZED AT WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ME SINCE I'VE BEEN LIVING IN VERMONT.

I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSERVATIVE ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS, AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS LAND DEVELOPMENT.

I NEVER USED TO CARE.

I USED TO, WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID, GO VISIT RELATIVES IN CONDOS AND GO AND MARVEL AT THE BEAUTIFUL MODERN CONSTRUCTION AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND EVERYTHING POPPING UP.

I GOT TO VERMONT, AND IT WAS THE FIRST PLACE THAT I LIVED WHERE I TREASURED THE LAND.

FELT A REAL PART OF THE LAND.

AND THE SEASONAL CHANGES AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT, SO I HAVE BECOME VERY POSSESSIVE OF THE LAND AND VERY ANGRY WHEN I SEE IT INDISCRIMINATELY COVERED WITH CONCRETE AND ONE DAY I GOT PARTICULARLY ANGRY.

I DON'T KNOW IT WAS A COMMERCIAL I SAW ON TELEVISION.

A BANK COMMERCIAL WHICH SEEMED TO GLORIFY THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERMONT AND SEEMED TO SAY IT WAS A GOOD IDEA, AND I GOT ANGRY WHENEVER I SMELL A MEADOW ?OAD WHERE BUILDINGS GOT TO BE, I GOT TO ROLL UP BY WINDOW TO AVOID MY ALLERGY GROWING THINGS IS WASTEFUL FARMLAND DOESN'T RATE SO I WILL TURN THESE FIELDS TO FACTORIES AND FLY HOME OUT OF STATE I GOT THIS EDIFICE COMPLEX AND I HATE MY MOTHER EARTH I'M A KING OF CONCRETE THINKING AND I WILL GET MY MONEY'S WORTH ENOUGH OF A SIGN OF CONDOS SUMMER OF 1948 THAT CONGESTED HOSPITAL ROOM JUST MADE ME SALIVATE I TAKE RIGHT AFTER MY DADDY A CHIP OFF THE OLD CINDERBLOCK AT THE ZOO HE'D POINT TO THE CAGE AND SAY SOME OF THOSE CAVES THEY WERE LIVING IN AN EDIFICE COMPLEX AND PAP HATED HIS MOTHER EARTH INTO THE ORIGINAL KING OF CONCRETE THINKING AND HE'S GOT HIS MONEY'S WORTH OLD MCDONALD'S HAD A MALL EIEIO ON THAT MALL WERE LOTS OF STORES EIEIO HERE A BUCK, THERE A BUCK, NEVER MORE A LIVE BUCK OLD MCDONALD'S HAD A MALL EIEIO WHERE MAPLES SO TALL WHERE PASTEL IN THE FALL NOW THE UNITS ARE CROWDED ALL DAY WHEN FIRST I LEARNED ABOUT MY COMPLEX I WAS READING SIGMUND FREUD IT TAUGHT ME THAT DEVELOPMENT SHOULD ALWAYS BE ENJOYED SO I MEASURED IN MATHEMATICS THAT'S WHEN I HIT MY STRIDE I GO TELL THE WORLD TO MULTIPLY SO I CAN SUBDIVIDE I HAVE GOT THE EDIFICE AND I JUST HATE MY MOTHER EARTH WITH A PASSION I WAS KING OF CONCRETE THINKING AND I GET MY MONEY KING OF CONCRETE I GET MY MONEY THE KING OF CONCRETE AND I WILL GET MY MONEY'S WORTH >> TWAS A CRANK UP THE WOOD STOVE MONDAY IN THE HUGH OF A SKY SOPRANO WIND SANG FOR ME THAT WINTER 1979 FOR A RUN THAT OTHERWISE WAS A COLD DAY MY BLOOD FLOWED WARM AND TRUE THIS FIRE IN ME WAS KINDLED THERE BY THE GLOW OF THE MAIDEN SOFT AS AN IRISH DRIZZLE BOLD AS THE IRISH SEA THROUGH TURQUOISE EYES HER SOUL CHOIR SINGS THE LOVING MELODY NOW I HAVE NOT BEEN A LOVE SONG WRITER MY WORDS FALL THIN IN SONNET AND ON CANVAS HAS BEEN FINER SAID ALTHOUGH THE METER MAY NOT RING I FEAR NO REASON NOR RHYME FOR OF ECSTASY I SING MAIDEN OF EDEN I REVEL IN HER SPIRIT AND SHE UNDERSTANDS MAIDEN OF EDEN THE LUXURY OF HER LOVE SO RICH AND SWEET WITH SONG IN MIND FOR THE JOY OF BEING HER MIND >> VERMONT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD ABOUT AMERICA.

TO ME IT'S THE BEST OF AMERICA, THE WAY AMERICA WAS WHEN IT FIRST STARTED AND STILL CAN BE.

I USED TO LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS.

I USED TO SING WITH ANOTHER FELLA.

FOR TWO YEARS WE SANG TOGETHER.

ONE OF THE PLACES WE LIVED IN WAS IN MASSACHUSETTS, AND I LIVED THERE IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1974.

BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CITY.

NORTHWEST -- NORTHEAST OF BOSTON.

WHERE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN MEETS THE MERRIMACK RIVER.

AND AT THE TIME I WAS VERY TAKEN WITH THE CITY, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND THE PEOPLE IN IT.

WONDERFUL, A LOT OF WARMTH.

FELT LIKE A SMALL NEW ENGLAND FISHING VILLAGE.

JOHN, THE POET, LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LONG AGO AND WROTE A POEM ABOUT NEWBURY PORT WHICH I DISCOVERED IN THE LIBRARY.

I LIKED IT.

PUT IT TO MUSIC AS WELL AS SOME WORDS OF MY OWN.

IT'S WINDOWS FLASHING THROUGH THE SKY NEED THE THOUSANDS ROOFS OF BROWN FAR DOWN THE VEIL MY FRIEND AND I THE GHOSTLY SAILS WENT OUT TO SEA FLAPPED THEIR WHITE WINGS, A MYSTERY SAIL ME TO THE PORT OF NEWBURY FEEL THE PEACE OF YESTERDAY MEET ME IN THE PORT OF NEWBURY WHERE THE GULLS AND PEOPLE PLAY IT'S BEACHES GLIMMERING IN THE SUN AND THE CAPES THAT RUN INTO THE SEA NORTH AND SOUTH THE SAND BLUFFS AT THE RIVER'S MOUNDS THE SWINGING CHAIN AND AFAR, A FULL NINE ON THE HARBOR BAR WANDERING DOWN THE STREETS OF NEWS ABOUT BURY GEORGIAN HOUSE AND WIDOWS WALK SEA TAILS BY THE WHARF IN NEWBURY WITH THE BOATS AND SAILORS TALL SHE CAME AND SHE CONQUERED WITH HER SALT SMILE AND WARM YANKEE STYLE WE LEFT WITH OUR PEACE OF MIND HAVING KNOWN THE GRACE OF HER TIME-WORN FACE HOW IT SHINES SING NOW TO THE PORT OF NEWBURY OF THE FRIENDS AND BEAUTY THERE THANKS BE TO THE PORT OF NEWBURY WE'LL TAKE YOUR MEMORY EVERYWHERE MY REASON FOR BEING IS MUSIC AND TO REACH A FEW HEARTS IF I CAN THERE'S NOTHING THAT FEELS LIKE THE FEELING OF TOUCHING AND WITH A GIFT OF A SONG I CAN TRY THERE IS A JEWEL IN THE HEART OF NEW ENGLAND WHERE THE MUSIC I LIVE BY IS BORN SHE'S A SIMPLE SWEET TUNE FOR THE ASKING SHE'S HOME FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT FOR THE WARMTH OF HER HAND FOR THE FREEDOM THAT SHE SHARES WITH THE SOULS OF A LAND WHERE THE GENTLE BELONG WHERE TO FEEL IS TO BE STRONG SHE'S GOT A SONG ON OUR SOUL SHE TELLS YOU TO FOLLOW WHAT FEELS RIGHT GIVES YOU REASON TO LOVE WHAT YOU ARE SHE'S ALLOWED ME TO LIVE BY MY MUSIC AND MY HEART NOW THE TUNES CAN SING THERE UNTIL THEIR VOICES WHISPER AND THE POETS CAN RHYME UNTIL THE TIDES HAVE NO RHYTHM AND THE POTTERS CAN THROW UNTIL THE WHEEL OF THE WILDER SPINS NO MORE FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT FOR THE WARMTH OF HER HAN FOR THE FREEDOM THAT SHE SHARES WITH THE SOULS OF A LAND WHERE THE GENTLE BELONG AND WHERE IT FEEL IS TO BE STRONG SHE'S TAKEN HER SONG ON US ALL AND MY WORDS MAY BE TRITE AND OLD FASHIONED FROM CENTURY AND TIME BUT TO ME SHE'S A LONG AGO LADY OF PRIDE AND COMPASSION WITH ELEGANT WRINKLES SNOWED SHE'S MADE OF APP ERA THE COUNTRY HAS FORGOTTEN SAYING VERMONT FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT, FOR THE WARMTH OF HER HAND FOR THE FREEDOMS THAT SHE SHARES WITH THE SOULS OF A LAND WHERE THE GENTLE BELONG AND WHERE TO FEEL IS TO BE STRONG SHE'S GOTTEN HER SONG ON US ALL >> FOR MORE CLASSIC PROGRAMS, VISIT VERMONTPBS.ORG/FROM THE