There I was driving,
Driving along the road
Looking forward to croquet,
Croquet the game that is now part of me.
But then it happened!
A piece of music came from the radio,
I was listening to jazz
When on came this sound,
Such a glorious sound,
A sound I did not recognise.
So I waited,
Waited in glory,
Listening to this wonder.
The music stopped
The announcer said who it was,
I repeated the name,
Repeated the name time after time
While I drove along the road.
At the club I stopped
And then I could write down the name,
The name of Rick Braun,
A name I did not know.
But I knew him in the evening
As his music surrounded me
As I sat in my lounge listening,
Listening to this new sound,
This new wonderful sound
Piercing my heart,
Piercing my heart with its wonder.
Yet again music had done it,
It had surprised me,
Surprised me in an unexpected way.
That is the power of music.