I see " Dancing at Whitsun" when ever I hear it. I can imagine it through the eyes of an old woman who lived to see her men off to war. None to return.

I have been in small boats on big water with men who knew their jobs well. Only to know that no matter how well the job was done the water would have it's ultimate way with us. I hear "The Jeanie C" and I see that battle.

And I have worked with watermen who would go out in any gale to save a friend or loot a wreak if the chance was better than even that they would come back with a living person or Napoleon Brandy from "The Athens Queen"

I have lived among farmers and I see "The Field Behind The Plow". And I remember my parents at 50 when ever I hear "Lies". And seven brothers and sisters who got to view the kind of love and affection so well displayed there.

If I could win the Lottery I would make a movie of "The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel" There is a beautiful love story in that song.

Don