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Piri, in the last few weeks two young ladies I worked with before I retired have had their life's cut short by cancer. Your lyrics for me capture how people are feeling at this time over the loss of these two. A brilliant piece of song writing in a good but not over complicated way. I look forward to hearing you do this song.

Cheers everyone I love your comments New Zealand is a wonderful country with mostly good people but like the rest of the world we are groaning under the pain of the foolishness of humanity. Our politicians from both sides are losing their way it's a bit hard to write about in a few words here as it is a very complex thing to explain. Basically, our schools, hospital and infrastructure is broken with all these committees talking about it but no real action at the coal face. Most of our farmers have been pouring money and work into making sure their farms are ecologically sound. Instead of rewarding farmers for being good environment stewards the government has come up with a new proposed extra special tax for farmers to make life harder for them than what it is now.  Farmers are the economic backbone of NZ and that is where most of our overseas earning come from. The positive thing people are starting to say enough is enough and hopefully this will mean that some commonsense people might rise up to stop this madness but who knows. Unfortunately, in our school kids are being taught to believe absolute rubbish and it's making them think that the farming sector is to blame for all sorts of things. If the proposed tax and herd reductions go ahead, it would be ruinous to many farmers and our country. The kids here love to eat but they are ignorant about where the food on their plate comes from. So, we need Larry from number 10 to come and sort us out also LOL. We need the Uk and the USA to do well because what happens in your country affect us as well. So, if your economy catches a cold and sneezes, we in NZ end up with a financial situation that is like a bad flu and pneumonia. I will attach a link to the Wikipedia page about Larry who is a real cat at 10 Downing Street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)     

Cheers Brian and Piri it is so surreal what's happening with the British politically powerful I really don't know what to make of it.     

Good one Jeff sometimes it is tricky addressing our future demise.     

Here is a water song I like by Kiwi songwriter Brooke Fraser. it's too hard for me to cover. Check out the drummer in this video a very original and subtle style of playing. Maybe someone will cover this song Something In The Water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NsyxBzd8c     

Nice one Richard.     

Good one Piri, I’m a burble purple verbal turtle after a few drinks. Here is a link to that good old Sheb Wooley song "The Purple People Eater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE

Jim.
Those are good words from you. I often wonder what the meaning is behind or what is the Blue Moon of Kentucky ? Donovan used colours in a couple of his songs. Mellow Yellow and that other song Colours. I like that expression leading a colourful life. Growing up people here use to say it's good to eat plenty of greens meaning vegetables. With Supermarkets taking over the old Green grocer shops are now few and far between the same as Butcher shops. Back to music and colours Fleetwood Mac "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" Of course don't forget Bluegrass Music. What is Bluegrass I guess it's not the stuff people smoke LOL? I suppose the grass is bluer on the other side.

Thats a good set of retail songs there Grah with a nice bit of humour.     

Thank you, Brian, Piri and Jim I love your feedback on my nostalgic words.

When I look around there is a world today that is full of sad vain shallow people grasping at the wind trying to show their real value. In my opinion. In the fifties and sixties in the free world most of us who were around then can reflect on a simpler but more satisfying way of life. This is what I was trying to capture in the poem. As expectations rise the happiness level drops the more you get the less you have got mentality. I won't take away from some people that they are experiencing tough times today but when I look at the people older than me who went through the worldwide depression and war they never gave up. My generation was the benefactor of that determination as our elders had to carry on and not give up.  I guess its human nature to have a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past: Even as time progresses that will stay the same I guess and we all remember the good bits even though in that time the world wasn’t perfect and not everyone had a good time.