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Excellent thread TF.  The music I quiet often like to listen to is by muscians who tell stories in their songs. It never ceases to amaze me some of my favourite  artist here who work hard such as a guy called Derek Lind are more or less unknown here in New Zealand. When he performs he always gets a warm reaction from audiences. The mass media radio station and TV tend to bypass our own artists for popular trending overseas artists. As a result I dont listen to much radio I find it irritating. I have found youtube to be an excellent place to find good music. I find it a fun thing to do going in search of artists that are not well known on youtube finding excellent material by random searching.  I will attach a song here with Derek singing about his dad these are the sort of story telling songs that appeal to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcGxhsy0ag&t=122s

Hi Lissandragaren it is a sad thing there are people out there who don't know they are beautiful. Back in the day Ray Stevens sang about that. My second language I spoke until about age six is Fijian my mothers first language as a child..  In our language you are beautiful. is written  Ko ni sa rairai totoka.  It is pronounced  Car own knee sar rah ee rah  ee toe tow.car.

Badeye those two are brilliant together. I wonder what  lyrics  Stevie Ray Vaughan would sing if he was in that place and with us today, now we have Cell Phones.     

Cheers Eb and TF for your commments. The poem is about PERSISTENCE. Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful people  with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognized genius is practically a cliche. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful. I wrote it because this teacher is moving to a challenge he thinks he is not up to. His wife has descided she needed a challenge and has got a job away from here  in this town that will test her skills. She told him she is going and he can join her or stay here. He has taken this job at a school that finds it hard to atttract teachers only because of her and this is my way of saying enjoy the challenge. He has a degree in Maths and another in Music plus a Teaching degree I think the experience  could make him. He could end up like one of those teachers they make films about. His reaction to my poem was "thanks your words are great in theory but not in reality". He has been  pushed out of his comfort zone.     

Cheers badeye Happy New Year.     

Neo enjoyed your music this year all the best to you and your family for 2019.

Bill that is a beautiful song first time I have heard it. Thank  you for sharing it. I must check that movie out
Happy New Year and Love to you and Dondra.     

Cheers TF and TIG  I am glad you enjoyed the videos. NZ parliament is more of a place where we dont have many roaring lions just pussy cats purring. We are most probably fortunate that we dont have many contentious issues like other countries have.  Things are not perfect but I guess we live in a resonable stable place. Our two main parties have very little points of differance once they get  in power.  My party called NZ First  a small party helps to  keep them in line. Many dont like them as the see it as the tail wagging the dog .

Excellent badeye your Blues post are always something I enjoy. All the best for the New Year.
Pete     

Excellent Beamer those words could be the opening lines for a good novel.