Dear Bobby Bob,

Whow! This is fantastic! Finally I succeeded! This is exactly the song I meant. You've made me very happy. Internet really is a great medium, isn't is? I've heard this song several times in a pub in my hometown Leiden, a nice town in between the Hague and Amsterdam. In this pub they used to do great sessions and somemtimes they performed this song. But the original people who played in the sessions are "replaced" by other ones. And now these sessions are much less interesting. Anyway, whenever they performed "Absent friends" it touched me deep in the heart. I'm very grateful for your efforts. Maybe one day I can be of any help to you!