hi kenny, it's been a while... nice to see you back in the saddle me old mate, this is a truly beautiful song, you should record it any way you can, even if it's just to give us a taster.
10 out of 10

phill

hi kenny,

felt weepy reading your comment before reading your words, so you can imagine the burning sensation in my eyes while going through the song...strong words written tenderly and powerfully...god bless our hero's one and all

phill

wunch of bankers? lena...naughty but nice

the god reference is because i sometimes feel so let down, not for myself but for others who it seems have all the "poo" in creation dropped on them from a great hight, like homeless people, and the ones that will become homeless thanks to the recession. in my town..llanelli there have been a string of drug related deaths lately, plus a lot of stabbings one just this week, it's being treated as murder, but the sad thing is that it's all to do with the fact that working class people need to work, even if they dont realise it, and in all honesty, carmarthen county council are not doing anything to stop the outflow of jobs in the town, in fact they seem to be encouraging employers to close factories down so they can turn the town into a holiday resort...where do they think we are portugal...hi roger!

sorry for the rant, and i am very angry about it even if it doesn't show

thanks lena

phill

Here's a little thing I wrote in 2000, it's about my home town Llanelli, Wales, known as Sosban [saucepan] due to the saucepans on the top of the goal posts at Stradey Park rugby ground. And the reference to scarlet shirts is the colour and nick-name for the rugby team.

Sosban, Llanelli

There's a place where the rolling hills of Wales come to an end
In fields of green and golden sands
Where tin and coal and copper worked by men
Who worked until their lives did end

Where rivers run through valleys
And they find their way to the sea
where lies my home town; sacred place
Sosban, Llanelli

I look out from my window
See the Gower looking back
The estuary in between
Ebbing out and flowing back

The streets where miners trod-in coal
And sang their way to work
And tin men of a Saturday
Pulled on the scarlet shirt

There is no other place on Earth
That I would rather be
So I shall die here, rest in peace
In Sosban, Llanelli

While all along the sea-shore
Wild fowl will sing for me
Here is my home town
Sacred place
Sosban, Llanelli

hi kenny and daddycool, it may not sound angry, but i was when i wrote it, and once i got started it was hard to stop, which is why there are 2 versions [with different titles...?]

i got started with the factory closing which is why i gave the businessmen and bankers a bashing, and i also hate child abuse and the fact that more and more people are being made homeless so that was God's fault, as was terrorism and wars and murder...and politicians for everything. and they deserve it!

phill

hi alan

i havent had time to listen yet but i promise i will over the weekend

phill

hi daddy,

as i read the words the first thing that came to my mind was the fart scene in blazing saddles, then when i read the comments it seems everyone else thought the same....great minds....?

cant wait to hear it, i hope it's ozone friendly

phill

hi russ,

thanks for that, you put me in mind of a hilltop i'm familiar with in a place called the gower, it's a peninsular across the loughor inlet, i'm on one side the gower on the other! it's a place of natural beauty and the southern coast line is something to see on a hot sunny day in july. i remember from my childhood going over there on a sunday, and as you come over the top of the  mountain the view is breath taking, the sea a mile or so away deep azure and reflecting sun rays, tearfully beautiful...i recomend it to everyone.

thanks alan,

guy clark's song kinda reminds me of the time i thought an old umbrella would work as a parachute....no it didnt, maybe that's why i'm so thick?

hi daddy,

hope to record this tonight, i've written another verse...just when you think it's done?

thanks to all

phill

hi alan,

you are right, most of us have suffered a life threatening illness at sometime, i had something called "sarcoidosis" which at various times had been misdiagnosed as a chest infection and even TB! i had  a hooterectomy where they stuck a camera up my nose and into my lungs where they found an enlarged gland, they thought it might have been cancerous but luckily [for me] it wasnt. but in the space of one week i lost 10 kilos in weight, 22 pounds, i had no energy and i found it hard to walk, drive and most of all i didnt want to sing...i must have been ill. now i'm well again, but my wife has confessed that the whole family thought i was going to die...hard lines i'm still here!

great and thought provoking lyrics...and i can play all the chords...lol

phill