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Birthday Gratitudes

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Celebrations, Longevity, Willie Nelson / May 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This is the week of birthdays
of Pierre and Willie and Neil

And how many candles
have given their lives
that they could live this long

And what thanks do they get
a sip and a joint and Let em eat cake

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Fire Relief Concert in Austin

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Charity, George Strait, Help, Lyle Lovett, Music, Musicians, Support, Texas, Wildfire, Willie Nelson / July 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s damn dry
in Texas this year Y’all

It was summer in spring
and it’s still summer in fall

Big old lakes are all piss-puddle small
and the cows are eatin’ Bar-B-Q grass
the ones that are eatin’ at all

A million trees and a thousand homes
burned up in Bastrop just like dry sticks

But the stars are gathering over in Austin
Willie and George and the Dixie Chicks

Neighbors who know and care how they feel
Lovett and friends and Asleep at the Wheel

So let’s all chip in and do what we do
I’ll write a poem, what about you?

Willie Nelson singing Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die at Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas October 17, 2011 – Click here to listen to him perform it live in 2013

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