"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" ~ from the song Nature Boy, written by George McGrew, aka eden ahbez, and recorded by Nat King Cole and others
A child born, unloved, in the winter cold
might like a river, from affection, run;
but like brittle bones when they get old,
when colder still, might freeze, shrink from the sun.
Afraid that warmth might make him break and crack,
this sad, and lonely fragile entity,
may view love as a frightening attack,
and a threat to his timid identity.
To quote, "the greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return".
Who are you
Dan McGrew?
You sound quite mean
If rumours' true
You lodged yourself
Inside his head
Some seventy years
Still, now you're dead
A tale of love
Of bars and booze
The wheel of fate
Alas, you lose
The west was wild
Back in the day
As danger framed
Each male afray
But what of Lou?
The lady fair
Of unkissed lips
And tousled hair
A broken heart
May never mend
A scar unhealed
Until the end
So as our story
Precious told
Still held in head
Though tired and old
A life not lost
No shooting here
Just words uncovered
Crystal clear
By man with joy
For life, 'tis true
May soon reunite
With his own lady Lou
I met this lady named Susan McGrew
who loved Irish whiskey through and through,
on St. Patty's Day she drank,
her mind went completely blank...
she now has tiny leprechauns -- two!
And have you heard the story
Of Captain Sean McGrew,
Who sailed the mighty oceans,
In a square rigged wooden shoe?
His first mate was a salty dog
From east of Lilla Bay.
The ship's crew hailed from Lilligo,
In Lilliput, they say.
Then one sad day, he lost his ship,
His crew, and all his loot,
To a roguish band of pirates,
In a rapid sailing, chukka boot.
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