Music & interpretation by Mingrelia.Lyrics by W.Shakespeare.From the album Deep Waters, 2012

Shakespearean Sonnet #61

Welcome, welcome to the first world
I hope it’s going to last
And it won’t be in the past yet
The first world, welcome to the first world
Come in peace and help to make it grow

Welcome, welcome to the first world
They say it’s going to burst
Being saying that a long long time
The worst would pull the ladder up
Just ‘cos they were lucky to be here by birth

	Many times before
	They said we couldn’t grow
	Couldn’t feed or fit in any more
	The good news is they were wrong
	Together we got stronger

So you’re welcome, welcome here kind stranger
The danger that you flee
Hope we never see again here 
In the first world, welcome to the first world
Come in please and help to make us grow up

	In the dark old days of yore 
	Poor Paddy left his shore
	Reaching out in search of something more
	Many times he’d find
	Doors thick with signs
	“No black or Irish dogs need apply”
	But minds have grown in time
	And we learned to welcome

Welcome to the first world
You who want to live
Be part of take and give here
In the first world, welcome to the first world
Come in please and help to make us grow

Welcome To The First World(abridged)

The postman goes door to door
Some call him a snail
But when the power’s down he can cycle ‘round
And I still get my mail

My baby came back down from bed
Saying her book is dead
I said “I have a paper one
You can go try that instead?”

When the goggler’s down and the screen is blank
I can still carry on
With paper, pen, piano, fingers, pick and axe
I can still write my songs

	My phone will never be smart enough
	My feelings to compose
	As we know from that old line to quote
	You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

I worked out how much sleep I got
By two checks of the clock
I know about how far I ran
By counting trips around the park

Because of the Amazon I can breathe
And birds can send their tweets
We may be wrapped in plastic bubble 
But real apples need real trees

	They can hack your bank, hack your ideas
	With permissions you allow
	But they can’t hack into head until you let them
	Upload it to the clouds

	Well I know you do a lot of great things
	But you’re still just a vassal machine
	So just do what you’re told ‘cos you’ll never have the soul
	Of your master human being

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Written and performed by Seamus Ruttledge, produced by Willow Sea featuring complimentary vocals from Pearse Doherty and Tracy Friel. This is a spoken word track on the self-proclaimed greatness of the ‘good old USA’. It is delivered by writer and performer Seamus Ruttledge in a tongue-in-cheek gospel/preacher style that points to the power of the “cops” in civil society in America, its sound-bite driven politicians, the raging capitalists, the hidden poor and its tragic gods of fame.
Copyright© Seamus Ruttledge 2011

Talk Time USA

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Adam Murphy is an Irish songman. He has seven fully produced albums of original material – ‘The Lazy Load’ , ‘The Idle Dreamer’, ‘Half-Way’, ’The Human Spirit, ‘Green Blues, Black Ballads, and Some Normal Songs for Guitar and Piano’, ‘Everyone’s Special’, and the newly released double album  ‘Out of the System’.
Having worked for periods in Europe, the US, and UK, he now performs regularly in Ireland, and his material has been aired regularly on RTE and various other radio stations. 
Adam has a very broad range of musical influences and can swing prolifically between gentle folk or jazz to hard blues rock. A man of many moods.

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