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Hi Jim
Hope you had a good holiday. I'm hoping the people of Russia find a way to take away Putin's license to kill. It would be good to see more people post on here.

Cheers Piri brawd, I tried to write the poem in a way that left it open to many interpretations. The poem actually  started off in my head when I reflected on spending a night in a hotel behind the old Iron curtain many years back. I rang the reception to to see if I could get some soap and fresh towels. The receptionist couldn't supply me with those but asked me if I would like a girl or a boy to share my bed for the night as she had plenty that I could choose from. It was a hotel in a place that felt like hell.  From that memory using artistic license  I found my first line and then made that thought go on new imagined directions. The big  corporates all around the world get the big market share, take away the competition and then rip the consumer off. I used to work for a small company that did a lot of government work. We could always compete on price and quality. When they started moving to a preferred supplier process we started to miss out to the big operators not even given a chance to submit a tender. So to explain the government used to have an open competitive process, where any supplier can submit a tender or proposal to the  government buyer for review. Then the powers to be under our different political leaderships here moved to the closed competitive process, where selected suppliers are invited to submit tenders or proposals.  To make it simple for themselves they went through a process of cutting it down to just a handful of companies who could quote cutting out many good companies from that market like the one I worked for. They also introduced. direct sourcing,  apparently as we were told to save the government money and time where a selected supplier always a big corporate is directly approached by a government buyer to do the work.

Here in NZ we have the Monopolies Commission a big joke that is supposed to stop monopolistic practices by businesses. and ensure fair competitive principles to give consumers a fair deal.

The world is full of corruption.     

Cheers Phill

Now I know where you get Jumping The Broomstick from very interesting. Using the interweb I looked up that song Lets Jump The Broomstick and this is what I found out.

"Let's Jump the Broomstick" is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee. Her version reached No.12 in the United Kingdom in 1961. Song attached first time I remember hearing it is today but maybe others have memories of it on here.   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLFmHpa0m4A

I also found this on interweb about the history of jumping the broomstick.

Like many traditions, the history of jumping the broom at a wedding ceremony is complicated and difficult to trace back to one single source. Some believe the practice originated in the early 1700s in Wales, when broomstick weddings served as a Welsh marriage rite for Roma communities who were not permitted to marry in churches. In this execution, the broom was placed at the threshold of a door, and the groom jumped first, followed by his bride. The practice grew in popularity over the decades, and by the turn of the century, was quite common. It may even serve as the original inspiration for the “carrying the bride over the threshold” tradition we see practiced by modern couples of all cultures today.

Another theory is that jumping the broom originated in West Africa, in the region now known as Ghana. It’s believed that in this practice, the broom cleansed the marriage ceremony of evil spirits and represented the couple’s commitment to caring for and maintaining their newly shared home (and, metaphorically, their marriage). In some cases, the couple would both jump the broom, and whoever was observed as jumping the highest would be given the role of decision maker for the home.  The practice is thought to have eventually made its way to the American South as a result of the transatlantic slave trade. Another theory for how this practice became implemented by African Americans is through cultural exchange with poor white American southerners, many of whom were direct descendants of British islanders who practiced broom-jumping as a legal wedding alternative, as described above.

A chap I know he plays piano has been taking singing lessons recently he now has this whole new good way of using his voice. Good one Beamer.     

Zurf that guitar of yours has got a beautiful tone and you sing and play Rexs Blues real good. I liked your spoken intro, introducing the song also.

Cheers Jim
I think John Entwistle is busy making music with Doctor John and Stevie Ray Vaughn all who are not answering their phones at the moment so we might have to make do with Paul McCartney. It will be wonderful to see Paul working with Ringo again. Now I am wondering would a  band called Wanted  Dead Or Alive be an appropriate name for Phills new group.????     

Thank you Jim for taking the time to comment and have a watch and listen. It would be a real good rockn the blues band with Phill Williams, Stevie Ray Vaughan and maybe Billy Gibbons on guitars. Though it might be hard getting Stevie there due to the helicopter accident, We would also need another tricky person to get in, on piano considering where he is now  that person is Doctor John. To give the sound a different edge maybe Ringo on drums. Maybe Booker T , Jones on Organ. Who do we get to play bass  that  could be tricky.????????????     

Good lyrics EB.     

Hippy girls that takes me back  a few decades crazy wild girls living in broken down houses or squats  partying.  I knew many who are settled down old ladies  now living  conventional life's. Never went out with any as a boyfriend but had some wild times I tended more towards the conventional type of gal.     

Riversdale lets rock on, Here is Phill doing an accordion sound on a song..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHHcYdko8A