if you are seriously listening
to genuine folk songs of the world
not to the muzak that pervades all malls
after a while you find yourself
floating into these worlds of ancient tunes
imagining an ambience of ages past
whose melodies have kept their power over centuries
and still keep tickling legs and bodies
in our days
of young and old
these melodies of our ancestors
simply remind us that they,
too,
did know a thing or two
about the joy
of living