DESCRIPTION:
My newest song, based loosely around Robert Burns' song, Auld Lang Syne, which I quote from in mid-song. I was remembering Bogun Mazappa, our band's manager and fiddler for a while. Also, many years ago there was someone in my neighbourhood who'd play solo violin late at night. This video is a first run-through, mistakes left in...

CUP OF KINDNESS

Late at night a violin from somewhere down the street
Is scratching out a fractured Auld Lang Syne
Reminds me of old Bogun doing Bonapartes Retreat
That night we all surrendered to the wine
He nursed it sad, that melody, played it slow and long
There's magic in a lonely violin
Tonight its Robbie Burns, that auld acquaintance song
I feel the ancient mem'ry rise again

The seas are wide between us now, but I do not forget
That somewhere in the world there waits a cup of kindness yet

Who might be the restless one who draws that resin'd bow
A student or some old man playin blind?
Now hes taken to another, it's the ghost of Jackaroe
The one who went a-sailin out with trouble on his mind
Bless the tattered melodies that make us beg for time
To live until our wishes come ashore
The racket of the world hushed by the shadow of a rhyme
And music be the fitting end to war

The seas are wide between us all, but I do not forget
That somewhere in the world there waits a cup of kindness yet

"And theres a hand my trusty friend
And give us a hand o thine
And well take a right goodwill draught
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
Well take a cup o kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne"
(quoting Burns)

Late at night a violin from somewhere down the street
Is scratchin out a broken Auld Lang Syne
And Jackaroe is dancin now to Bonapartes Retreat
Hes run the slopes and gathered daisies fine
An ounce of joy has found us now, return the ancient tune
Theres magic in a lonely violin
Heres to songs and better days and soldier be home soon
And to the peace we're here to welcome in

For the seas are wide between us, but we do not forget
That somewhere in the world there waits a cup of kindness yet

Deep inside our hearts there waits a cup of kindness yet

DL