Dear TFT, thanks for the e-mail. I will post the lyrics to DT. I guess the lyrics do tell it all. I just didn't hear all of it first time around. I wondered why there was this odd mix of anger and grief in the song. You also don't often get an announcer choking up over a song. Many thanks again. Yours, Peter

GODSPEED: Ron Hynes, 1997 (Requiem for Gene MacLellan)

Godspeed, Godspeed,

Forgive a sweet soul a desperate deed

His was a prison and he was freed,

Godspeed, Godspeed.

God bless, God bless,

What's born out of sorrow or out of distress,

Speculation is anyone's guess,

God bless, God bless.

God only knows,

What takes the petal from the rose

what makes the dark rivers overflow

What makes a lifetime come and go --

But God damn

God damn

You put your hand in the hand of the man,

You must have believed he would understand,

And forgive a sweet soul a desperate deed,

Godspeed, Godspeed

(repeat from "God only knows").....

From CD "Face to the Gale" (1997).