Dharma In Popular Music: Bobby Blue Bland
Posted on July 5, 2010, in Art of Dharma, with 0 Comments The Samyutta Nikaya states: 
“According to the seed that’s sown,
So is the fruit you reap there from,
Doer of good will gather good,
Doer of evil, evil reaps,
Down is the seed and thou shalt taste
The fruit thereof.”
Further On Up the Road
Further on up the road, someone’s gonna hurt you like you
hurt me
Further on up the road, someone’s gonna hurt you like
you hurt me
Further on up the road, baby you just wait and see
You got to reap just what you sow, that old saying is
true
You got to reap just what you sow, that old saying is
true
Like you mistreat someone, someone’s gonna mistreat
you
Now you’re laughing pretty baby, someday you’re gonna
be crying
Now you’re laughing pretty baby, some, someday you’re
gonna be crying
Further on up the road, you’ll find out I wasn’t
lying
Yeah, baby, further on up the road, baby, hmmm, you’ll
find out I wasn’t lying
Further on up the road, when you’re all alone and
blue
Further on up the road, when you’re all alone and
blue
You’re gonna ask me to take you back baby, but I’ll
have somebody new
Hmmm, baby, further on up the road Hmmm, baby, further on up the roadHmmm, you’ll get yours
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” -Galations 6.7
“You gotta reap just what you sow; that old saying is true. Just like you mistreat someone, someone’s gonna mistreat you.” -Bobby “Blue” Bland
A perspicacious Mr. Bland chides the listener into more circumspect behavior by extolling the aptness and inevitability of karma in “Further on up the Road.” Listen HERE. This song was written by Joe Medwich Veasey and Don D. Robey.
Karma demands that every act, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil. The idea of reaping what you sow expresses the principle action of karma. Karma may also be loosely thought of as the ethical law of cause and effect, poetic justice, what goes around comes around, the law of causality, or the chickens coming home to roost.
