and i wrote this song couple of years ago in response to a very sad of that we also on television this beautiful little boy curdie who had washed up on shore he was trying to escape syria with his family had big effect on everybody people all over the world saw this and i said i really need to write something to honor his memory but also to honor and respond to the refugee crisis all around the world people are dealing with running away from violence famine and rising waters now climate change which is a real thing whether you try to sneak it in before thanksgiving or not it's a real thing you could be anyone's john let's try that again take two two three four you could be the ones to any one son we don't seem to kidder unless it's happening to us but these people are like you and me they're humans just like you  jesus say and my husband likes to add today at the end of it because it really is a commentary about here and now  thank you thank you i'm going to end with the last laugh and it's the second to last song of my album this is a fun one i hope you'll join me on this one the chorus is really kind of members of the quartet ballet castle andrew who sings and plays violin and guitar he's a high school teacher of cinema production who's performed publicly for many years both here and in ireland he's a county  freeholder and the hibernian and you have to ask him later on a little bit about the hibernian things so go ahead and do that and we also have below neil who sings and plays guitar and this before him publicly for many years both here and in ireland bill is a retired high school teacher of english and hibernian so they have a website ballet castle band dot com and we are thrilled to have them here so go ahead and get set up top we'll get you with all th he i more than forty years so come on down here people get to set up here he regularly appears throughout the region providing a combination of new and old acoustic blues tunes and one where his story he's been a regular performer at the new jersey thought festival the minstrel and godfrey daniels his most recent cd that in paris and other people's blues is available on amazon and cd baby and spotify an apple music and i tunes so he's got quite a repertoire here and we are so pleased to see that he's got all this talent he's bringing to us here forty years that's really awesome pretty amazing to come up here  thank you i was surprised anybody came out in the rain so thank you very much and thank you mr ashley impress everybody made it through thanksgiving i made it through with only one little nick nobody nobody got cut other than me which is always a good thing for thanksgiving elizabeth cotten those with cotton you might know she wrote freight trains and things like that you played left handed with the strings upside down so if you wanted to figure out what she was doing you had to look at her in the mirror while you're standing on your head  i do anything in this god almighty world to keep my candy man thank you rodgers thank you that's how i learned that this afternoon and i mixed up some of the words probably didn't even notice  a name like mcdonough you think i would do the right to man and all that stuff those guys were doing earlier but you'd be wrong you name do you call do you and they're about they're about the murder of a woman named do you green who was murdered on christmas eve in eight hundred ninety nine outside atlanta by a guy named curtis in and delia the fourteen year old who at the at the young age of fourteen got around a lot she had a lot of men in low all i got and she's go so i told you reverend davis was born and learned south carolina and he was blind didn't tell you that he was blind and he couldn't see couldn't do much right what's that little african american kid going to do in the turn of the century blind down there so  learned to play guitar and anyone up to the tobacco auction houses up around durham left north carolina where there was a lot of money and a lot of alcohol a lot of women all that cash right and the play dances and anything that would entertain people for money and and he did that for a few years and then he went up to new york and he couldn't play on the streets in new york and i said a cabaret license and right about the time that they told me needed a cabaret license he found god which again when you moved to new york after being around a lot of women and alcohol and cash you could find god and after he found jesus he stopped playing one more i guess ok ok when she was the sweetest gal i'd ever seen i can hear the whistle blow and