"FICKLE LOVE-STORIES" Archives

“FICKLE LOVE-STORIES” As we go through life, there are many of them. I was of the “age” when “same-sex” marriages were not even heard of. For us, it was simply boy loves girl and vice-versa. Everything was wonderful. Yet, when I started to write my songs, I knew, from personal experience, that these “love-stories” could sometimes be fickle. So, this is why I wrote songs like :- “TEACH ME TO LOVE YOU” (Latin Bolero/Swing Tempo). Teach me to love you, teach me all I need know Show me the meaning of that sweet word “amor” Give me a lesson on what’s wrong and what’s right Teach me to love you, teach me tonight Come on, (“swing”) & teach me to kiss you teach me to squeeze you teach me to hold you close then, someday, teacher we’ll see a preacher might well be tomorrow who knows? (back to ...

Desmond Kelly the Songwriter When I was born in “My lovely Island Home”, as I always refer to her (all beautiful things are referred to, in the feminine gender), Lanka was known as Ceylon. As a “song-writer”, I cannot think of a better way to introduce myself than with a “Calypso” I wrote for her, many “moons” ago. Hope you like it, my friends. CALYPSO D/CEYLON THE MANY STAGES OF A WOMAN THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN ESPECIALLY FOR MY ELANKA READERS REMINISCE WITH ME AS LIGHTNING IS FOLLOWED BY THUNDER ELANKA’S FOR “LANKANS DOWN UNDER” A COUNTRY ANNIVERSARY SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME BACK, WHERE I STARTED, AGAIN A BEAUTIFUL DAWN FICKLE LOVE-STORIES DEFYING GRAVITY/THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG EDELWEISS THE BALLAD OF MARY-ROSE by DK “the Star of elanka!” IS THERE ANYTHING AS NICE AGAIN, & YET AGAIN OF ALL THE FOOLISH THINGS I’VE DONE STRANGE LOVE THE REASON BEING OUR ANNIVERSARY MEMORIES ...