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Here is a water song I like by Kiwi songwriter Brooke Fraser. it's too hard for me to cover. Check out the drummer in this video a very original and subtle style of playing. Maybe someone will cover this song Something In The Water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NsyxBzd8c     

Nice one Richard.     

Good one Piri, I’m a burble purple verbal turtle after a few drinks. Here is a link to that good old Sheb Wooley song "The Purple People Eater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE

Jim.
Those are good words from you. I often wonder what the meaning is behind or what is the Blue Moon of Kentucky ? Donovan used colours in a couple of his songs. Mellow Yellow and that other song Colours. I like that expression leading a colourful life. Growing up people here use to say it's good to eat plenty of greens meaning vegetables. With Supermarkets taking over the old Green grocer shops are now few and far between the same as Butcher shops. Back to music and colours Fleetwood Mac "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" Of course don't forget Bluegrass Music. What is Bluegrass I guess it's not the stuff people smoke LOL? I suppose the grass is bluer on the other side.

Thats a good set of retail songs there Grah with a nice bit of humour.     

Thank you, Brian, Piri and Jim I love your feedback on my nostalgic words.

When I look around there is a world today that is full of sad vain shallow people grasping at the wind trying to show their real value. In my opinion. In the fifties and sixties in the free world most of us who were around then can reflect on a simpler but more satisfying way of life. This is what I was trying to capture in the poem. As expectations rise the happiness level drops the more you get the less you have got mentality. I won't take away from some people that they are experiencing tough times today but when I look at the people older than me who went through the worldwide depression and war they never gave up. My generation was the benefactor of that determination as our elders had to carry on and not give up.  I guess its human nature to have a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past: Even as time progresses that will stay the same I guess and we all remember the good bits even though in that time the world wasn’t perfect and not everyone had a good time.

Thank you, Roger, that is real good having a birthdate for chordie.  Also thank you to Per.  Twenty on October 25th a good age to reach as at that time of chordie  registration  I should imagine the world wide web would still have been young a new frontier for many at that time in history.     At that time 2002 a computer was something I only used at work I never thought at that time of using one at home.

Richard that is genius how you found that site thank you. I think it will be safe to infer that December 8th, 2002, is the date chordie kicked into action or had people responding to it online and use that as its birthdate.

Thank you, Jan and Phill, for giving my rough recording a listen and comment. Here I am recording a song with a young talented guitar player who has no aspirations to be a professional musician doing an anti phone song recorded on a phone. Never thought I would use the word moderation when it comes to phones it reminds me of my mother saying to me drink alcohol in moderation  when I was young. Since my friends daughter has ended up in hospital due to her smartphone use I have become very aware of smartphone addiction in all age groups.     

Jandle, good choice of song. You do it good.
Grah, hope you get over Covid soon.  Good cover only thing lacking was a harmonica solo. Your guitar and voice and guitar worked good in the true Blues tradition.

Thank you, guys, for your info so far.  So our man from Bonnie Scotland upyerkilt (Ken) 'Unofficial king of Scotland' at the moment is on record as been the first known  to post on chordie. So if your out there I salute you upyerkilt and if you do read this please pop back and say hi. I see jets 60 joined in March of 2006 a little bit after  upyerkilt. If you have some memories of the first people to inhabit habit chordie that would be interesting. Looks like Phill and Roger came to chordie in its early days so both can claim to be here for a good part of its history. I’m thinking that it could probably be that chordie could date back maybe to somewhere in the first years of this century. BTW I came to chordie as a result of easybeat who joined chordie  in 2010 encouraging me  to check it out in 2015. At that time there was a bigger number of people posting from diverse backgrounds. Maybe the founder or founders can give us the start date??