Twisting and turning

Let's twist again


Come on everybody clap your hands
Ahhh you're looking good
I'm gonna sing my song and you won't take long
We gonna do the twist and it goes like this
Come on let's twist again like we did last summer
Yea, let's twist again like we did last year
Do you remember when things were really hummin'
Yea, let's twist again, twistin' time is here
Round 'n around 'n up 'n down we go again
Oh baby make me know you love me so again
Twist again like we did last summer
Come on twist again, like we did last year

Written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell and recorded by Chubby Checker 1961

Or, if you prefer:


The Shaker Dance Song Simple Gifts.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come 'round right.

Tune and lyrics written by Elder Joseph Brackett in 1848, at the Shaker community in Alfred, Maine. 

The vision of loveliness in the "Extra" is the aptly name Splendid Waxcap Hygrocybe splendidissima. Superlatives are rarely used to describe fungi, but in this instance there is justification: the specific epithet splendidissima means 'most splendid', and it is hard to imagine a more splendid Autumn sight than this bold red mushroom.