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Thread #68627   Message #1163503
Posted By: Barry Finn
16-Apr-04 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Songs about 1914 Newf. sealing disaster?
Subject: RE: Songs about 1914 Newf. sealing disaster?
Hi Marion

Excellent song Marion. Very nicely done with the story well covered though not overly covered or needlessly to long. Though to give the story any justice you still had to cover quite a bit. I thought you handled the balance in great taste.


I never did past writting an outline, never mind getting down a rough draft. I think that one of the few ways it could been covered would have been to write it in an old ballad style long enough tyo rival Tam Lin but not many people these days will stomach such a long ballad & even less if it's recently been written


Yes I'm the same Quest bedridden barry. Like Jeri mention, back then, I was in the hospital for a few months trying to surivive on a diet of liver & onions. Couldn't do it so they finally gave me a liver of my own. Like Jeri, I'd like to hear it someday. I wrote a few songs there while lounging on my backside, some I finished & some I didn't. Just a long enough time to get a few good things mixed in with the garbage heap.

Barry