Re: Sometimes I Write A Song

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:28:20 -0500
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attaboy frenchy.
"Frenchy" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I'm really proud and pleased at an email I just received. My co-writer,
> Robin Killen, has a friend who's on his way to Iraq next week. He had
heard
> about a song of ours through word of mouth and asked to see the lyric.
When
> my friend read it to him he was profoundly moved by it and asked if it
would
> be okay if he made a copy and took it to Iraq with him so he could look at
> it as a reminder of his mission. He has two young children, a boy and a
girl
> and the song is about a new parent speaking to his/her newborn son and/or
> daughter. It's a song about hope and destiny and a future. We wrote it
long
> before any of the events now taking place in the world occurred. We didn't
> realize when we wrote it that it would apply to a lot of young men and
women
> heading right this minute toward that destiny. This song hasn't even been
> inside the studio yet. No one aside from our publisher has ever heard it
and
> I'm more gratified by this one soldier's reaction to it than if it had
sold
> multi platinum. There are moments when writin' just that one song for
just
> that one person is worth whatever it takes. One of our hero's is gonna be
on
> the other side of the world carryin' around words this friend of mine and
I
> wrote and I'm damn proud and grateful I could add to someone's comfort.
> --
> Frenchy
> http://www.frenchyspipes.com/
>
>