w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

I couldn’t trace Today’s Lyric in this version of the song? I heard it first some 40 years ago, being a folksy ballad about infatuation necessarily spurned because of the gentleman’s standing engagement. When he hears of the threat of suicide, he makes a momentous decision to change his destiny and marry the new girl.

Is it such an extreme method of “getting your man”? Maybe that’s how the Mounties always succeed. They send a letter to the perpetrator, saying “If you don’t give yourself up at the police station, we’re all gonna top ourselves” (in a Canadian accent, obviously).

Also 40 years ago, my Dad traced our lineage to this man, through nine generations. I’d quite forgotten about the pedigree which I now possess, until someone mentioned they were tracing their family tree but, because they’re not computer-literate, hadn’t even considered the interwebnet thingy as a possible time-saver. Needless to say, they’ve now got some useful URLs and some written instructions.