“A ROSE”(In the snow) – by Des Kelly Shirley Myers of Canada wrote the song, presumably with boyfriend, Rod Nicholson & recorded it, many moons ago, in Nashville. The Song, Artiste, Recording, in total, has not got the recognition it truly deserves. Shirley has a “true” Country voice, simple, still beautiful, the song, presumably written by herself & boyfriend, Steel-guitarist Rod, is exactly what a good “Country-Song” should be, totally listenable, beautiful “life-like” lyrics & a recording that I love. All my readers of eLanka are now aware, that when I pick a “song”, any song, vocal or instrumental, it will be the very best that 75 years of experience in the “Music” business can muster. I KNOW a good song, & “A rose in the snow” is certainly one of them. In addition, this song, & “story” are dedicated to another “Rose”, whose name was “Dawn”. I have written ...
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“A BEAUTIFUL DAWN” This is a true but sad “tribute” to a “Special Lady” who came into my life a few years ago. I wrote a song entitled “Another Dawn, another day”, recorded it, and was the luckiest man alive, to have had her “company” for an extremely brief six months or so, before she HAD to go back to Surrey, in Canada to “look after” two very young grand-children whose Mother, her daughter, was very ill and had to “visit” hospital regularly for treatment. We were both “single”, Dawn was the Mother of three daughters and one son and I am the Father of three sons and one daughter. There have been a few “Stories” written about this “AMAZING WOMAN”. After migrating to Canada at the very beginning of the “Seventies”, Dawn was struck by a car as she “crossed” a main street in Surrey, on a legal “crossing”, ...
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