{"id":8096,"date":"2017-10-26T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:49:51","slug":"friends-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/friends-in-need.html","title":{"rendered":"Friends in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Text straight from my YouTube video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friends in Need\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJDjaKmyx64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Made this wee video in January (nearly 10 months ago) to show friends on Facebook and hadn&#8217;t intended it for public consumption when it took me two days to pluck up the courage even to post it there, but took another listen the other night and thought &#8216;why not?&#8217;<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes I write songs, though not for me because I&#8217;m not a singer! This (tiny as it is) is probably my favourite, written for a Kinlochleven High School mini-production of &#8216;Kidnapped&#8217; in November 2007 and sung by two offstage girl singers as a kind of Greek chorus at the point at which a sick David and Alan quarrel and make up. The cue lines from the book are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alan,&#8221; cried I, &#8220;what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?&#8221; &#8220;Deed, and I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said Alan. &#8220;For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:\u2014 and now I like ye better!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afraid you have to make do with my voice here because no-one else has sung it for years, but I still liked it well enough to try it myself. The balance could be better when it&#8217;s just straight-from-camera on a tripod at the end of the piano, but I was actually playing much quieter than it sounds and at least you can still hear the voice!<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics (also by me):<br \/>\nAngry words may cut you deep<br \/>\nAnd quarrels make you cry,<br \/>\nBut though true friends can make you weep<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll still be standing by.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter though your mood may be<br \/>\nAt times of needless strife,<br \/>\nYour friends in need are friends indeed<br \/>\nAnd surely friends for life,<br \/>\nAnd surely friends for life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text straight from my YouTube video&#8230; Made this wee video in January (nearly 10 months ago) to show friends on Facebook and hadn&#8217;t intended it for public consumption when it took me two days to pluck up the courage even to post it there, but took another listen the other night and thought &#8216;why not?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11665,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/11665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}