Jim,if you visit dickmilesmusic on youtube you will see that I have 18 videos,you can also visit www.sound lantern .com where I have 50 audios.people are free to comment on all these.
as regards my suitability to judge songwriting competitions,I have received compliments from song writers such as Richard Grainger and John Conolly regarding my compositions.
here is one which I hope people will like.
when the lads come back to port,
   they spend their money free,
its rattle the cash,jack the lad,
the boys are on the spree.

weve been to sea six weeks or more
out on deck with fingers sore
cold and wet unto the bone
waiting for the day when we get home.

its gut em and ice em down the hole
just one more net and then well go
homeward bound for yarmouth town
pockets full of gleaming siver crowns

and when to sea we do return
for beer and lasses then we yearn
the silver herring jumpin the light
its haul in the nets boys good and tight.

siver shadows in the pale moonlight
gleaming silver crowns so bright
thinking of the crack when we get home
its haulin the nets were yarmouth bound.

and now our cash is almost gone
i swear the herring hear us come
the shoakls are getting hard to find.
its haul in the nets boys one more time.

and now the fishings getting poor
we follow the sight of the whales blow
watch the gulls to find the shoals
its haul in the nets then head for home.

and when to town we do return
we swear our oilskins we will burn
but when the rentman comes around
its seaboots on for the fishing grounds copyright DickMiles