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This a video called "Glass Recycle Man'" that Phill Williams kindly let me use one of his clever instrumental tunes on it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgFO5WXEUOA 

I have been watching videos on youtube  recently of people who just get out there and who just do things in their own not loud way. What they have is two things  needed to succeed or live a quality of life is a good attitude and a strong work ethic. These two men have stuck out for me because of their different perspectives, One of these people is a young British guy Alfie, with no qualifications, he makes a living doing odd jobs on his tandem bike. He was a disaster for the people who employed him not because he didn’t try it was just because he wasn’t up to it. So he figured out maybe just go out and have a go at using what he could be good working at for himself instead of just sitting at home giving up. He is getting somewhere as a result. Another one I have watched is about Titus Morris from deep in the woods of rural Appalachia this man lives alone on his land. He grows his own food, has no government ID, his overhead is $140 a month, and he possesses a claimed happiness by being free from the system. I couldn’t live Titus life or Alfies but I can really admire what they are doing with their life and it has a good sense to it.  Titus is a horse person and a small part of my life and more for my extended family lifestyle has for us and our sins been spent raising horses and Titus philosophy on interacting with these magnificent creatures and all animals ticks my boxes. I’m a meat eater and he’s a vegetarian and I would have many philosophical differences with Titus but I would like to meet him and be a friend. So I wrote this poem knowing these two are truly living a good life.   So here is my poem about these two good men who I would like to meet and be proud to call friends.

Alfie and Titus
Might not be Rock and Roll
But completely whole
Two men who make me realise
That while I am trying in vain to be a little bit sophisticated
Complicated and good
I know very much I am the same as all the other trees in this wood
That is what drives me to write this poem
To give it a home
While filling in time while no one is online
I’m not saying we are all willing members of a toxic throng
All getting it wrong
We are all people of hope
Although we all can be part of the masses hidden in the throng
Sometimes not always able to sing our own song
Its always good to know.
The humble doers
Ones maybe we should admire
Nothing to do with their attire.
Bearfoot or in shoes
They just do what they do
As I take up a pen and write down notes
Of what those good people do .
The words they use are not because they are the ones who want votes
Yet they have good antidotes
They are people
Who can’t  be defined
Do their time
In a practical way
Laid back making it look easy
Enjoying working hard in their particular  paradigm
Not always considered of our time
No words
Just living by their actions
No followers of herds
Many considered them as nerds
When they are the ones who truly  are not destroying our abundant reserves 
Not ticking the right boxes option.
To pass a man-made judgment plan
Invented by popular woman and man
Not just talking theories
People with a natural zeal
With a practical sense of real
While discarding some bad suburban mythology
I’m not about to say a deeply held belief though not mine is just mythos
That would degrade all good persons, with a heart and soul
It can be a unnecessary mean way of making anyone not feel whole
While they are achieving a perfectly good goal
Alfie with a bike
Titus with horses
If they were married men
Neither would end up going for divorces

Back to Duos two people working together making music good I will make this post the last one in my contribution to the Easy Beat revival. I am not running away just back to not making this an every day or week thing. I have enjoyed learning a bit more about everyone on here in the last weeks. You are all good people thank you for your time and efforts to look in and post.

A big thank you to (Piri) Phill Williams for the work he has done making sure that we all comply with keeping this site a place with a good culture connected to music and our different outlook on life and the world.

Music history this woman was briefly married in 1964; and then divorced when she would not end her music career to stay home. She has no children. In a 2015 documentary she revealed that Bob Dylan once proposed to her, and she turned him down. She has a stage presence and a natural joyous charisma and even with the help of just one guitarist in this video she has it going on when performing.  Born on July 10, 1939. She began her career with her family group in 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luV3G_1wFpc 

I wrote this after hearing a lady on a train say to another person  "my Father was a Opera lover and a Barbie Doll hating Statistician." For some reason it made me write this as I tried to conjure up in my head what he would talk like if someone met him. Rather than put the words here it's more of a thing you have to listen.to in order for it to work as it's a bit out there.. Link attached
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWp5KrQXUMA 

I do have others, but these are two I look at and listen to often when I'm in the mood.

This one always starts my weekend of good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skURlILxRo

This one also has a good vibe and is a change from the original which is a fav song of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5AuFDHdrrg

Here  in New Zealand we use the words working class. The first time I went to the USA a lady asked me if I liked American Country Music and I told her, I liked Johnny Cash singing  The Man In Black . She said to me your obviously a Blue Collar Man . At the time I thought she meant I like blue shirts and I thought thats a bit of a weird thing to say about me liking a song about a man in black. Later on I found out when the penny dropped  that she meant  "Working Class" her statement made sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDd32K-mOVw

In the few last days I put up a link with Johnny Cash's ex son in law and his band doing great harmonies. This man was married to his daughter from from 1983 to 1988. Now I’m going to put up a link with Johnny Cash sister doing a song and recording with an Australian band   This song was originally written for Johnny Cash by the rock group Coldplay, but Johnny passed away before he could record it. So this is Joanne Cash singing a song meant for her brother with an Ozzy band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tKb9RXYMw 

This is genius how they do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByKHIku2dg

And as it is bonus week on  chordie here it is all put together  in a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEFzNN3jwE