The Band Plays Waltzing Matilda Eric Bogle: Stephen James Smith DUBLIN POETRY SPOKEN WORD

[G58]

The best version since June Tabor.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

@G58 thanks!

[vassiliki08]

Hi stephen, saw this a couple of months ago when I brought 2 aussie friends for a weekend in Dublin in the international bar so you decided to do this as your first piece seeing as they were there! Made me cry, very embarassing in the middle of a bar.. had to get a napkin from Niall!

Thanks though for your card, finally found you now that I have to attempt to write some poetry for the first time and your voice was echoing in my head. X

[mrstephenjamessmith]

@vassiliki08 hiya, jaysis thanks so much for your kind words! dont feel too bad, i have made several folks cry with my poor renditions before too! haha

i love reciting this, it is just a great abet sad story, and sometimes with the music i am not sure that is portraited.

great to hear you are putting pen to paper, will you be back at the international? if so please pop down and share your words with use!

be good now!

SJS x

[vassiliki08]

@mrstephenjamessmith

Haha no worries, the kind words are well deserved! Stuck in sunny England for now but next time I save up enough pennies for a visit (blimey it's an expensive city!) I will be beelining for the international. Appropriate as it is!

Keep it up mate Xx

[mrstephenjamessmith]

@vassiliki08 that it is! where you based in england? i am sure there must be lots of spoken word and poetry events for you, why not head along and share your freshly written words! or email them on to me so i can have a read if you wish...

[thebluemoonriver]

i'm spellbound by this performance

[dashpoet]

Great performance! Quality.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thank you kindly!

[Tadek59]

Fantastic performance and excellent interpretation !

5*****

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks again, i really enjoy doing this as spoken word.

[janwindle]

This is really great. Held me spellbound.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks kindly, i just love reciteing this song as i do, i find myself in character.

thanks again i will be adding some more stuff up again in the next few weeks.

hope this finds you in fine form.

[raymondcrooke]

What a brilliant interpretation. Thanks for linking it as a video response. Definitely a favourite.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks very much raymond, appreciate that you like it!

eric bogle himself emailed me last night to say he likes it, jumped up and down i did!

hope this finds you in fine form.

[cheerydavie]

very good interpretation

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks very much, Eric Bogle himself just sent me an email to say he likes it, imagine that!

[missseriouslyhilary]

it's beautiful stephen, well done...

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks, i like it a lot, largely as it is produced very well, got some more videos from the same gig to come out in the next while, will let you know about them when they are out.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

@missseriouslyhilary thanks it is really a song but I like to do it as spoken word.

[europemagee]

Great work Stephen, well done!

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks very much, i love saying it, i try to live in the song.

[kalleryan]

Great performance of a crackin piece. The mixtape crowd have done a really good job of capturing your live performances

[mrstephenjamessmith]

cheers dude, yeah I love it, and the job they did on all the other videos is great I will be posting some more up in the next few weeks.

having the 3 camera angels helps too, if you could favourite this on your channel that would be savage and rate it, i hate to be a spamming whore but i want this one to get a bit of extra coverage.

kisses

oh did brian and niamh get back to you?

[kiwiproject]

Amazing dude

[mrstephenjamessmith]

cheers buddy, it is ok.

[VisionGhostPoet]

Stephen you are amazing, one thing in poetry I cannot do is what you did right there!

[mrstephenjamessmith]

thanks, i wish i wrote it though!

[VisionGhostPoet]

Life is a doughnut, never perceive the hole in the middle, always savour the sugar of substance one has to harvest!

[mrstephenjamessmith]

haha will keep that in mind!

[Lonelyschizophrenic]

Great stuff man, saw the original on the mixtape site!

[mrstephenjamessmith]

nope this is a different one, the mixtape site had, anto for taoiseach an interview and the bobby sands one, this is the first official viewing of this take.

[Lonelyschizophrenic]

well it was over a month ago that i watched it squire lol

[mrstephenjamessmith]

so it didn't stand out then, just another sjs waffle wha'?!

anto you prick!

kisses

[Lonelyschizophrenic]

absolutely not! You know in love the band plays,after watching the one on mixtape i got mixed up and for that im sorry,must have mixed it up with the boolavogue remix with dj whacker!

[mrstephenjamessmith]

ah all is forgiven, you love i love you ya baldy headed tallaght head.

[Lonelyschizophrenic]

when one moves up in the world one must not look back.Bet you're the only scumbag in terenure lol.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

haha, yeah the poor security gard in the local shop just shit himself there when i walked in, poor thing no more lidle for me, now where is the nearset harrods?

[Lonelyschizophrenic]

lol