…et caput inter nubila condit

Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes,
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum:
Mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo,
Parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras
Ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.

[En seguida el Rumor recorre las grandes ciudades de Libia,
Rumor, un mal veloz como ninguno: 
La velocidad le da fuerzas, que aumentan según avanza,
Pequeño y medroso al principio, pronto se remonta a los aires
y con los pies en el suelo, esconde su cabeza entre las nubes.]

(Virgilio, Eneida, IV, 173-177, citado por Thijs van Leer de Focus, Round Goes the Gossip, Focus 3, 1972)

I hear you singing in the wire

I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road,
Searching in the sun for another overload.
I hear you singing in the wire,
I can hear you thru the whine,
And the Wichita Lineman
is still on the line.

(Jimmy Webb, Wichita Lineman, 1968)

If your memory serves you well

If your memory serves you well
We were going to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late

No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well

This wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

(Rick Danko - Bob Dylan, This wheel's on fire, 1967)

Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

(Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billie Joe, 1967)