TCATS #272 - Brazzle Dazzle

The Tabernacle Choir has several songs they sing from musical and movie

R.Murphy conducting his arrangement

soundtracks. These include such well known titles as Climb Every Mountain and My Favorite Things (Sound of Music), Tonight (West Side Story), Love is a Song (Bambi), One Person (Dear World), and Come to My Garden and Hold On (from

Secret Garden). These songs have been sung for years by the Choir and it's rare that we get anything "new". But a year or so ago, Ryan Murphy arranged a song from the movie Pete's Dragon, called Brazzle Dazzle Day, (original, Murphy's arrangement) and while the Choir doesn't sing it as often as some of the others, we did get to sing it today. 

At first listen, the song's happy, go-lucky melody may not seem to carry much depth. But some of the lyrics really are recipes for a happier life. And who among us doesn't want to be happier? Here are just a few things that the lyrics invite us to do:

Pete's Dragon stars singing Brazzle Dazzle

*throw off the past
*enjoy every minute, every hour
*shake away life's blues
*live the high life
*don't put off work that needs doing
*dwell on love instead of sorrow
*realize that each day has something *special to enjoy 

These are all things that I could do better at, and I suspect there are at least a few that you'd want to adopt more of, as well. I don't mean to trivialize the hardships of life and how difficult it is to get through such hardships. But sometimes small things bring about big results. And it may make all the difference in the world, some days, to just take one of these invitations above and try living it. 

I plan to try. And hope you will too.

Until next time, God be with you. 

PS: thanks to my wife for her suggestion to write about this song today!