Jet, I heard Eric do this some yrs back, (he's a great story teller, at least about his songs, he tells a great one about how he came to write The Band Played Waltzing Matilda), he's says (this is the short of it) that while sitting in a bar an old gent started to relate his life's story to Eric, he sat, listened & when the man left, he ran outside, got something to write on or with & scribbled it down, the song literally fell into his lap, of course he has a knack for changing words into song. Barry