A song about the reminders that come over me occasionally of a lost loved one

I'll Never Say Goodbye

After a busy season St Nick nips away for some R and R

Santa Samba

About a friend of mine I met in Vieques Puerto Rico.  As it turns out he was Robert DeNiro's personal assistant. He was one of those people who was surrounded by poetry  -  as charismatic and interesting as anyone I have ever met. No movie star or performer could have been more compelling.

BOUGAINVILLAEA BOBBY

About those little towns that you stop in ever so briefly in order to get to the big towns and places that really interest you.

Town For Tired People

When you've got em  at some point you'd gladly give them away

Wanna GIVE AWAY THESE BLUES

A song about the desire to just give away the blues 
reasoning that they could indeed be a benefit to many other things

Wanna Give Away These Blues

Due to ignorance of the the area -an encounter with a large visually scary fish.

Cool Barracuda

The dire consequences  of bad musicianship

Ukulele Crime

A song of semi social isolation  and inter species  friendship.inspired by a road sign.  I was returning to Wells from Quesnel and about half way back the official road sign said WINGDAM  13(kilometers)  Thinking I must have missed it on the way down I watched the mileage  and indeed after 13k there was what appeared to be the remains of some sort of operation and down by the river there was a man and a dog. I drove down to where they were. “I don’t know the area” I said “ What is the population of Wingdham?”  Looking me squarely in the eye he said “One man – one dog.” Not much more to say after that so I proceeded on. About a third of a mile further along there was a small parking lot and a sign indicating “Blessing’s Grave” a tiny historical site dedicated to a famous murder from the 1860’s.  As I passed it out wandered a bear. All this got parked away into my song topic reserve tank until it became necessary to write some songs of a slightly historical nature about the Wells/Barkerville /Quesnel region some years later. I changed certain elements to suit the 30’s time frame we were presenting things in  - et voila -  a bouncy little number.

Winghdam South of Wells

I performed at  the Theatre Royal in Barkerville BC for a number of summers . I lived in the Wells apartments in Wells each summer . I had my yearly routines down . A few fond memories of the experience.

SOLEBAKKE

Santa Claus after pulling off another great Christmas for one and all decides to take a vacation in the Caribbean and really gets into the lifestyle .  The locals let him know he's appreciated.

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