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Thank you, Jim. When Ryan offered to do the guitar for me on this song, I knew he would be good despite my vocal short comings, and he delivered with his good playing. The song came about after a sweet young girl I know has ended up in hospital due to problems around her smartphone addiction causing her to have an eating disorder.  It is also an observation of mine when out and about noticing young people in groups many are focused on their devices not communicating or talking to or with each other and not seeing what's going on around them. I will put the lyrics down below of my song.
 
                                   Put Down The Phone

I don’t need to be glued to a phone screen all day.

Maybe it‘s because I’m old and I‘ve  been brought up in a different way.

Hey kid can’t you see your glued to that screen all day.

It seems to me as though its taking your communication away.

I wish you could just put down the phone leave it alone for a minute or two.

Just take some time.

Just maybe have a talk or two.

Put down the phone and lets look around and roam.

Put down the phone.

There are other possibilities.

Put down the phone.

There’s lots more going on.

I know your anxious because your waiting for a call.

Your  life’s tied up on that screen.

But believe me there is more to life than stuck on that screen.

I wish you could learn to dream about other things.

And see the possibilities.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Leave it alone.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Leave it alone.

You got a lot more that you can do with your life.

There’s things out there  that you got to see.

I don’t need a phone maybe  cause its a fact of age.

But then look at me.

I’m happy.

Because I don’t need that technology.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

I know it seems easy because I’m older and I don’t need that machine.

But see that’s why I’m happy.

Happy baby because I don’t need that technology.

That’s why I’m happy.

I don’t need that technology.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Jim it is good to hear your rendition of your well written song. I would love to hear Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives do this song singing it with a country gospel style, that they use when performing some songs like they do with that song The Unseen Hand.

Beautiful sentiments Jeff.     

In the Maori language, The Queen is known as Kotuku, which means "the white heron", a cherished bird rarely seen in New Zealand. She was our head of state here in New Zealand a role she handled incredibly well. It is sad that our Queen has passed on it feels like losing a member of the family.  I wish Charles all the best as our King.     

Richard and Uncle Joesband great to see your videos on here. I have had to more of less stop playing guitar a health thing. So I will put up a song I wrote three years back, "Mountains To Sea."  I hope it makes sense as it's about the weird way songs come to me sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jua53gh04NY

Good words Jeff. Coming from down here at the bottom of the South Pacific crossing the equator it use to be a big rite of passage in the days when people travelled to and from  the northern hemisphere mostly by sea. If it was your first time to cross there was an initiation ceremony performed on each voyage at sea. Today most people fly so when you cross the equator there is no ritual performed. A short video attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_cNKReOz8

Good one Richard .     

I love your song choice on that one Jan you did a good rendition. It got me reminiscing about the coffee bars here in Wellington when I was in my teens. Many of these places would at night have folk singers singing and the patrons would singalong with them and that was one of the songs I would hear.     

Cheers Jan  thank you for your feedback.  leading into Spring and with today being the first day of Spring I have noticed the birds around here have had plenty to feed on in the last few weeks and are getting plumper.

Jim
Another clever song very true, love is patient love is kind.  I have been married to Maree this September for 41 years. Maree and I relationship before we got married is a long story.
It  was after knowing each other for nearly ten years that we could say those three magic words to each other. Finding that right moment  to say, "I Love You"  when we had that epiphany about us being meant to be more than friends was a scary but when it came it was perfect. As your song says our love has endured through all the challenges that many couples face. Once again another brilliant piece of song writing by you. Nothing wrong with the bible references Bob Dylan does that a lot with his lyrics and so do many others.
Congratulations on  your 39 years.
Pete