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Chocolate is one of those beautiful words that sustain me, describing a  health food item guaranteed to  make me smile.  Now a piece of visual art  design to seduce me  into devouring its beauty.

When I listen to songs I never really hear the lyric content until someone explains them or I read them.  For most probably all my Sixty Three years I have heard Danny Boy been sung by friends and family this is the first time I knew what the lyrics are about.
Bill there are two Waltzing Matilda Songs. The Aussie Folk Song
Waltzing Matilda is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing, derived from the German auf der Walz) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (wealthy landowner), and three mounted policemen pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never take me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site.
The figure of the "jolly swagman", represented most famously in Banjo Paterson's bush poem "Waltzing Matilda", became a folk hero in 19th-century Australia, and is still seen today as a symbol of anti-authoritarian values that Australians considered to be part of the national character.
A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a Swag (bedroll). The term originated in Australia in the 19th-century and was later used in New Zealand.

The Band Sang Waltzing Matilda  is the other Waltzing Matilda song.

And  the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. Many cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded  in differant counteries around the world.
This the  other Waltzing Matilda Song  is an account of the memories of an old Australian man who, as a youngster had travelled across rural Australia with a swag (the so-called Matilda of the title) and tent. In 1915 he had been recruited into the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and sent to Gallipoli. For ten weary weeks, he kept himself alive as around [him] the corpses piled higher. He recalls that terrible day ... in the hell that they called Suvla Bay [they] were butchered like lambs at the slaughter ... in that mad world of blood, death and fire. He is hit by a shell and awakens in hospital to learn that he has lost both his legs.
When the ship carrying the young soldiers departs from Australia the band plays Waltzing Matilda while crowds wave flags and cheer. When the crippled narrator returns and the legless, the armless, the blind, the insane are carried down the gangway to the same popular music, the people watch in silence and turn their faces away.
I will let the song tell the story below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY

Bill sorry to hear of Dondra sister passing. I pray that 2018 will be a better year for you and  Dondra,  Christmas day  a few years back my Nephew's  Father inlaw passed away Christmas  Day as a result  this day has a tinge of sadness for the family. What sustains us is the memories of the good times,  So I raise my glass to the good times from better  years and remember  the treasured memories of times with those  who can't be with us this Christmas.

Tig it is coming up to Christmas Lunch time now and I have just shown your song to the young ones here. They love your song shame they wouldn't let me record them. singing it.
Merry Christmas.

Hello Bill, once again Merry Christmas , I can't play piano and guitar that well now days due to me now having limited movement in my arms and hands. I put this little video together for you. It is trecorded on my cheap laptop so it is a bit patchy in sound. Most probably a good thing as it covers over my not so good vocals and playing. Here made for you and my chordie friends my song  I Wish I Could Play Real Fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hd7RJQiV4

Phill I have read lots of poetry in my life. My Fate would have to be one of those poems that stand out above the rest. Here in beautiful New Zealand we have major problems with domestic violence and abuse in it's many forms. Your poem is  not only written beautifully it has opened up a healthy discusion many need to have.

Bill and Dondra
You are a wonderful couple and I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2018.
Love to you both .
Pete and Maree

Merry Christmas Mojo and a very good New Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVOJA_Rqe04

Jandle you have got that ukulele sounding great and your voice spot on.
EB you got a good mellow sound going there with a nice bit of song writing.

Cheers guys for giving it a watch. The backing music on the video  was not a good choice of mine. The funniest answer for whose face so far has been Mick Jagger. MY wife didn't think it was a good idea me drawing Paul Macker  face on a woman's picture. Richard thank you for the music offer. Here is Seinfield talking about Paul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzpVE5ixAG8&t=63s

Neo Kings park nice setting. Looks like a plesant area to work close to and you  did Hallelujah real  good . Nice to catch you and wife and kid on video your a good family man.