Where the seagrass lay on the way to the car, I saw an old skeleton prayin' to God.
Watch over Vera, she's all that I had, she and the dog, down in old Portograph.
On the seagrass, darling, on the seagrass.
I think of you often, down on the seagrass.
Wonderful, funny, how time has gone by since Vera came running with tears in her eyes.
Don't go, dearest Martin.
Don't leave me, cried she.
I'll make you find sons if you'll buy it home with me.
But I can't, dearest Vera.
For on the seagrass, you're only a whisper, down on the seagrass.
Here have I sunken and here will I stay, with the skinners and crawlies and hula hands play.
I'll do all, dearest Vera, your dear heart doth ask.
But my brothers are calling down on the seagrass.
On the seagrass, darling, on the seagrass.
I'm at peace forever down on the seagrass.
Don't think of me heartless, don't think of me cruel.
But I've off dearly wanted to play me the fool.
Have over a sweet heart, have one, two, or three.
I'll adore you no less if you'd bid home with me.
For I promise you, darling, down on the seagrass, I'll toast to your children, down on the seagrass.
But now and again as the fish float on by, I'll sit down and have me a bloody good cry.
And still will remember, will hear our sweet song, down on the seagrass, where we sailors
belong.
On the seagrass, darling, on the seagrass.
We'll sing your song nightly down on the seagrass.
Yeah I'd never laid eyes on Mike Boland until that day.
Oh that's interesting.
Yeah.
He's feeling him up out of the blue.
The night before I got a call from a guy saying my name is Mike Boland, I live in the
next town over, and we have a mutual friend, and a friend of mine, Gordon Pinson, has a
whole bunch of lyrics.
And I was like, this is the weirdest call I've ever gotten.
He said, you want to go over to his house tomorrow, around lunchtime, and go check out
his poetry.
And I thought, I don't know what I could possibly do.
But I made as well go meet the guy, and I was like, fun.
And I said, yeah, that was the first time that I met you or Mike Boland, and what was
that, last winter?
Somebody?
Yeah, yeah.
That might have been two years ago.
That's right.
Was it really two years ago?
I think it was.
It sure is, man.
Was it really?
It was great.
It was great.
I had no idea I had these things thrown in a box over the years, and had no idea what
I would do with them.
And the thing is that I didn't know you at all, and I was always like, here's this very
tall, good-looking boy sitting there staring at me and staring at what I was reading in
the words and everything.
I thought, what am I doing this for?
I'm like, oh, another one?
You want another one?
Oh, I can keep reading.
No, the thing finally came to an end, and Travis took a few, and then went home with
them, and he came back with the notion that he'd hand them over to Greg and see what Greg
thought.
I remember saying to Greg, I go, I don't know if you're going to like the poetry, but you're
going to love this guy, Gordon Pinsk.
That's it, yeah.
Well, you know, Easy Ridge.
Easy Ridge is the name given to one of the hills down in the middle of Bel Air in Los
Angeles, and everybody was very health-minded at the time, and I remember I was doing a
pilot of a series, a doctor series, kind of like a medical bonanza, had father and
four sons and so.
And one of the guest stars, and it was Wally Cox, the comedian.
And Wally said, so who are you?
And I said, Gordon Pinscent, and he said, Gordo, I'll call you Gordo.
He said, he said his name was Gordo, and he had a Gordo face.
But what was Gordo doing in this godforsaken place?
That was Cox.
Wally Cox, and everybody at that point, as I said, was health-minded, and they either
ran or they climbed or they rode, whatever, but he said, I like to do a little hiking
myself, and he said, do you hike?
I said, I can.
He said that he climbed hills in Bel Air, and so I joined him the next day, and his
best friend was Marlon Brando, and Brando used to come along once in a while, huffing
and puffing his way up those hills, but it was just, and one of the ridges, he named
Easy Ridge.
He put alphabet situation on most of them, but Easy Ridge was the name, easiest to get
up so he could get home and have a drink, and we all could, and that was it, and Easy
Ridge, of course, was still there.
Then Wally died, Brando died, all that, just a whole page out of something, some other
segment of life, and as I wrote a song about it, a bit of a poem, I spent a day on Easy
Ridge not nearly long enough for me.
And with myself, I waited for the light so I could see him.
I need no rock to rest upon, I need not be at home on time, no need to sing my distant
song in any other tune but mine.
It's confusing how my childhood came, around again and around again, and no amount of strangers
now can know what I knew then.
I'll know when I am somewhere near, when I can see her face, and then I'll spend a
day on Easy Ridge, and never will again.
So yeah, that's Gordon's version, and we had a great day one day.
We came over here and Gordon recited all these poems for us, and it was just too much fun.
So we got that lyric for Easy Ridge, and we just thought, well that's a perfect bluegrass
lyric, because all bluegrass songs are about going to hell or redemption or praying or
something like that, and this song is sort of a prayer.
I'll spend a day on Easy Ridge, nothing long enough for me, it was there I waited for the
light to fade so I could finally see him.
I'll spend a day on Easy Ridge, nothing long enough for me, it was there I waited for the
light to fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade
so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally
see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him, it was
there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited
for the light to fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to
fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could
finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him,
it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him, it was there
I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light
to fade so I could finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could
finally see him, it was there I waited for the light to fade so I could finally see him,
