Our Man in Europe/now Belize, Dave Delacroix: "Loch Lomand!"

 

Our Man in Europe/now Belize, Dave Delacroix: "Loch Lomond."

(dedicato: Pete/fellow Music Man in Corozal, now in Japan/2 Yorkshiremen)

"Loch Lomond."

Funny how the COVER (tune) takes the Crown over an original, be it Kate Bush, John Lennon or all the "COVER-orchestras" whose "Conductors" GLORY in the shadow of Beethoven, Bach, Chopin et.al.? 

Funny how that phonic Diamond, that Shakespear in aspic, every writer confesses or pleads "da 5th!" -sounds, & funny how, the kitchen maid becomes her DREAM, a Princess in the wings awaiting to be seen? (Golden slippers from the "Goodwill" store?)

Have U ever had a Dream? Have U ever rose above Life's Scream? Or does it seem like U? What's ONE Scream over another? The World is fractured with Screams? (S-what we do/maybe silently?) Painter Edvard Munch in Orlando-F.L.A.?

Funny how a joke can kill your friend, funny how political SMOKE will blind your Will? Funny how finally you find U lost your way? Thank God, as far as U know the Kids are, O.K.

All those twists & turns to turn U away from your Truth, catapult U from your Youth, so far away, now misted!

Funny how U dance the night away, best breeches! Funny how U jest & speeches. Funny late at night, a VAMPIRE, comes to bite your Conscious-NECK-bleeding!? (Who'da guessed?) A puncture in your wings?

Funny how eternal remorse. Daylight gone, just nights: "Flap-flap-flap" -Bats wings hanging UP-side down! (Flap-flap-flap.) A HAMMER-HORROR (cheap-ass Brit movie w/tits)  at your door.

 Inverted DISCO? And funny, on our death bed, all those Cats who gave a "Damned", we request they - coffin-lowered - they bellow OUT: "Oh Danny-Boy!" ("Mein Gott!!!)

If ya got an extra-Buck hire a Scottish PIPER (Lord knows they need the work?)....(Singing:) 

"If U & mah true love will ever meet again...And U'll take the high road, and I'll hitch-hike on the LOW road N' I'll see ya on the banks of Loch Lomond! For Mio & that GAL will never meet again - SCOTLAND/where else? -on the bonny banks of U know where!!!"

c.2025, dave delacroix.