brother believe in your silver-spangled skill-set stand on the shore, survey the scene let your guitar sing, reverberate those rhythms play it again boy, play it with ease
brother believe in your power and your glory step all aboard, anchors set free dive into those oceans, manipulate that music play it all night boy, play with the breeze
brother believe, bring back your tall tales return to the harbour, head held high hold fast to the memories, they’ll last you a lifetime play with your youth boy, play and believe.
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This is in honour of my young brother Doug, who sets off today for Barcelona and beyond, playing his guitar and delighting cruise passengers aplenty. He’s a jazz muso, so this fits perfectly. Dead proud of you little bro, dead proud.
Thank you, dVerse for the timely inspiration. Enjoy many, many more jazz-inspired poems here.
