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Ken I think it is important that the history of a country is kept alive in ways that people can take in easily. Not only because it is  entertainingly interesting and informative but also so they can realize what  people had to endure or go through in times past .
Your song does this in a perfect way folk music at its best.

Phill reading those lyrics I was instantly  transported back to my childhood. We would spend a bit of time out in the wilds and night time for me as a child would send my imagination flying and I would spend many a night in my sleeping bag terrified by the sounds and  tree shadows cast by moonlight in the night. I look forward to hearing you do it as a song.

Phill has got this song going good and his exceptional talents are building this into a good piece of music. My Maree is the Queen of running behind or being late as they jokingly say here, "She will be late for her own funeral." Though that might be a Greek thing being late when I was up in Greece nobody seemed to be on time for meetings or  whatever. Siga siga is a common saying in Greek slowly slowly. Wasn't it  the Turtle that won the race against the Hare? All good things take time.

I will attach  a couple videos of John Wells who lives in the desert of Brewster County South West Texas. First one showing the snow something no one would have thought you would see down there, The second video is him reciting a poem of why he likes living away from the crowds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGHfDNEJQ4

Next  poem video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDoLYrMRIw

Brian if you run out of ink.
I will turn to drink.
Oh man .
That wasn't my plan.
To write words that stink.     

Zurf wishing you all the very best for the future now that those tough years have past. Sorry about the pain of your loss and also the rubbish the government system has thrown  at you.

Here are my uneducated thoughts on rhymes in songs. I wish I could write more lyrics that rhyme I admire people that can do that. The repetition of similar sounds  creates patterns that are catchy or pleasing to peoples  ears. The alternating stressed and unstressed patterns in lyric lines create a rhythm that propels many well known song into our heads’ if that is good or bad I have no strong opinions on that. My songs and poems are mostly me writing as I talk and as a result means that in most cases they would never be likely to be top of the charts listening material.  What I think does help is when someone with a good voice and musicality like  Phill Williams can take my lyrics put them in a good order then add a chorus which does something that makes a song flow into  peoples ears better.     

I always thought with my little knowledge that Texas was a hot climate with lots of desert areas. Then the other night on TV here they showed a big motorway crash in Texas with trucks and cars sliding in the ice.  We are having a cold wintery summer here not sure what's    happened to the climate.

Cheers Ken I don't think lyrics that don't rhyme are a new popular genre. I don't have enough knowledge of modern songs to know for sure. The down side of my poetry and song writing is my words have very little rhyme so it does make it hard for someone to make it flow. I just hope my weird style some how works.     

Thank you Jim, Maree and I enjoyed our Valentines Day. It is summer here with the temperatures around  20 degrees Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit. This summer hasn't  been a typical one with cooler temperatures  than the usual average and some unseasonal storms. On good weather days it has been fantastic.
I hope your Valentines Day was a good one.     

Jeff I love the way you put this together. This song would resonate with many songwriters I am sure this is what happens when many a writer digs into  their head with all the material they have in there to paint stories or pictures with their words.     

Thank you Jeff
I am pleased how Phill and I were able to get this song together. Without Phill's superb talent this song wouldn't have come together.