What are you listening to?

Wales play in the football World Cup for the first time since 1958 this week, so I have to share good old Dafydd Iwan, with his ode to Welsh survival Yma O Hyd. Wonderful song. Not the first time I've cited this song, but hell, as a Welsh footie fan this is just too good an opportunity to miss. I almost never watch TV, but I'll be glued to the football coverage this coming month. Good luck to all you fellow forumites who follow football at this tournament, wherever you come from. I think it's gonna be a very exciting one, lots of good teams this time with little to separate them.

 

Talking Old Soldiers​

(Elton John)

Had this experience of listening to soldiers often when as a little kid, as many other did too. Grew up near a veterans hospital - men's bodies and minds shattered in so many ways. PTSD a constant. In or out of the hospital, veterans of many nations after these bloody wars had concluded, were all over in general community life. In families - fathers and grandfathers. The next door neighbor. Some silent, some with many stories to tell. So, became used to listening to them talking, from their days both in WWI and WWII. D-Day, Germans talking about taking out White Russians, while the reverse to the Germans. Storming some rock, river or field. Night becoming day. The rain of iron from the sky's and ships sinking. Gas in the trenches and friends who never came home. A relative captured in Japan forced to march - 78 lbs. soaking wet when retuned - endless.

"No one seems to want to know."

They are now mostly all gone to a person. Just memories of their faces, voices and words.

 


I learned new words from this song and his pronunciation is clear.

Like phat, devour, exploit, kibgpin, etc.

Another thing if you except that Diesel Power it is = Cosmic Power. It is like to let this flow of Universe Diesel Power to flow through you.
You are just a transistor. Speculation...
 
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