All Whales Are Mammals

Every whale is a mammal.

          Any whale is a mammal.

Whales are mammals.

          If anything is a whale, it is amammal.

Anything that is a whale is a mammal.

          If anything is not a mammal, itis not a whale.

All non-mammals are non-whales.

          A thing is a whale only if it isa mammal.

Only mammals are whales.

          Nothing is a whale unless it isa mammal.

 

No whale is not a mammal.

Mr. Tambourine Man: The Byrds and Bob Dylan (link)

NOTE:  Seeing Minke whales swimming in the opensea quite close to our boat in Kennebunkport last summer was one of the highlights ofthe year.  We had seen whales before inCabo San Lucas, but only from the shore at a great distance. I would love to have also posted a link to Claire Hamill’s song You Take My BreathAway, but couldn’t find the original version from her Stage Door Johnnies  record.  Eva Cassidy had greatsuccess with her version, but Claire’s is really unforgettable.   The "equivalents" list is excerpted from Logic by Wesley Salmon (Prentice-Hall, 1973).

Old Blue

Old Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
       Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
                 Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
                            The possum growled, Blue wanted him

 

  

                                        My old Blue, he was a good old hound
                               You could hear him hollerin' miles around
                       When I get to Heaven first thing I'll do
                 Is grab my horn and call for Blue

Links:

The Byrds -- Old Blue (1969)

The Dillards:  Old Blue (1963)

Why (J. McGuinn/D. Crosby)

Keep sayin' no to her since she was a baby
Keep sayin' no to her, not even maybe
Why?
Why?

You say there's a limit there, she can't go past that
She don't believe you, she don't think that's where it's at
Why?
Why?

Say she can't change that, it's the way you've always done it
She don't care about that, she thinks you've just begun it
Why?
Why?

You say it's a dead old world, cold and unforgiving
I don't know where you live but you're not living
Why?
Why?

Keep sayin' no to her since she was a baby
Keep sayin' no to her, not even maybe
Why?
Why?

1. Why -- The Byrds 

(Original mono 45 rpm release version), 1966

2.  Why --The Byrds
 
(Instrumental backing track -- fun!), 1967

Carve Your Number On My Wall

Had you come some other day, Then

       It might not have been like This.

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