Monday, July 30, 2018

"Summer"

Yester-day I listened to Rod Argent's Moving Home (I think for only the third time).  I don't think this was new to me, but I'd forgotten that "Summer" contains a Biblical allusion.  In what I think is the second verse (I'm not that familiar with the song yet, so I'm going purely by how the lyrics are formatted on the record sleeve), there's the line "Take me to your milk and honey lands."  In Exodus 3:8, God says, "I have come down to deliver [my people] out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey...."