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the seed song
Antigen:
I wonder if anyone remembers a guy, I think his name was John and I think he was from Boston. I remember coming in to open meeting seeing him standing on the side of group, wondering how in the world he could have graduated so quickly. He'd just arrived within the past couple of weeks. It turned out he was standing because he was unable to sit because of the way the cast on his leg was done.
That cast stayed on for ever! And I used to always look at him and make a mental note whenever we sang that line about "your leg'll break" (or, alternately, "your leg I'll break") Somehow, I got the impression that the guy's leg got broken during a take down when he tried to split.
Anybody remember that?
Oh, and did you guys also sing "I Am Straight" to the tune of Helen Ready's "I Am Woman"? I always thought that line about having been "down there on the floor" was particularly ironic.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
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Anonymous:
John M, from Boston, was a staff member at the seed 1971, he left in 1972, returning to Boston for awhile to see family, etc., returned sometime later on his own, after he had broken his leg in Boston.
GregFL:
"I am seedling here me roar..in numbers too big to ignore"
::puke:: ::puke:: ::puke:: ::puke:: ::puke:: ::puke:: ::puke::
Yep, we did~!
:grin:
Ft. Lauderdale:
I always thought it was a little blonde haired girl that stuck her foot out at the open meeting "with an evil look in her eye" that tripped John M. I think she was eating a peanut
butter & Jelly sandwich. :grin:
tom s.:
I remember some of the group and staff members(Renee,Rick,Libby,Charley Oats I think) singing the seed song on national tv when Art was interviewed by the Today Show back in '70 possibly '71.I actually have it on cassette!Art did quote a rather high success rate.From where I sat and what I saw and heard in the meetings there was no way the numbers could match the persons achieving absolute sobriety.Too many of us were still evolving as youth to commit to an ideal that told us we were to struggle for something so adult in concept.That was not a kids' formula.Some of us couldn't grasp the concept because we hadn't reached the point where it would be a necessity to strive for clarity only due to the high energy of youth itself leading us goofily and smiling as our bodies and metabolisms unfolded into our personal futures.The numbers couldn't match for that reality;but we sang the song gleefully because what we COULD understand was that tiny joy in doing just that- as the event intersected the need to voice something that was chosen to represent something intelligible by the authority there.Hence the only way to feel a part of such an alien concept was to parrot it in the most acceptable manner,and a little song and dance appeased the 'gods'and then we were all acceptably absorbed and appreciated even if we didn't understand.
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