COUNTRY & WESTERN IN BAHAMAS!

 

My husband Erskine Knowles sings "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (No. 1 hit on the Billboard US Country chart for Johnny Cash). Written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded in 1969 by Ray Stevens. WATCH HERE

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A MEDLEY OF CALYPSO SONGS!

Erskine Knowles singing and playing 

a medley of Calypso songs

“A Medley of Calypso Songs” is sung and played HERE by my husband Erskine on his guitar. This is another song from our Tiktok platform "youngheartsforever". These songs are folklore and quite old.

I often wonder how Erskine has such a good memory! He knows the words and music of hundreds of songs: Bahamian, Caribbean, Rhythm & Blues, Rock, Soft Rock, Romance, Blues, Country & Western, and so on!

He says he once had a book with 900 chords that he studied - "All kinds of chords". Along with the major and minor chords that he already knew, he learned 300 more but he says he hardly ever uses all of them. He could use them if he wanted to though and he does use a lot of them in songs.

Thank goodness Erskine has this remarkable memory as I am quite the opposite!

(Video was originally posted on our Tiktok platform "younghearts")

"YOUNG HEARTS" - A SONG OF ROMANCE

Erskine Knowles

This song by my husband Erskine tells of how we met over 58 years ago!

YOUNG HEARTS
Lyrics, music, guitar and vocals by Erskine Knowles
(Based on true events when Erskine and I first met!)

View Video here

Listen/download digital track here

LYRICS

The day we first met I will always remember
You came into my life in the month of September
Your smiling face, your warm embrace
No one else in the world can take your place

We fell in love on a warm summer’s night
Down by the sea under a pale moonlight
The stars shone brightly from above
That’s the night when I found my one true love

CHORUS:
Lying here all alone thinking of you
Long blond hair and pretty eyes of blue
Two hearts that beat as one
From two different worlds now under the sun
We have a love that will last for years to come

BRIDGE:
You went away, but you couldn’t stay
Across the sea so far away
Those lonely days and nights so long
Back into my arms where you belong
Back into my arms where you belong

We’ve been together for so many years
Lots of happiness and lots of tears
And as we look back and reminisce of our past
We knew then we had found true love at last

CHORUS:
Lying here all alone thinking of you
Long blond hair and pretty eyes of blue
Two hearts that beat as one
From two different worlds now under the sun
We have a love that will last for years to come
We have a love that will last for years to come
We have a love that will last for years to come

© 2015 Erskine Knowles

WHAT AN ADVENTURE! FROM UNHOUSED TO HOUSED!

If you're wondering where I've been all this time, Erskine and I have been travelling a lot for the last several months, as we searched for and transitioned from one home rental to another here in Nassau, Bahamas. We had been given only 40 days' notice to vacate our Cable Beach apartment in January, as it had been sold! 

We managed to find a rare but expensive three months' short term rental in Cable Beach.

However, when that ended we were in a dilemma. We still couldn't find a permanent apartment or even another short-term one. So we decided to spend the month of June in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, as it was cheaper to stay in an apartment in Florida than AirBnB here! And we had some JetBlue credits that were about to expire.

    

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea sea grapes!

Our sons kept looking for rental apartments for us back in Nassau while we were in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and we searched online.

There is a shortage of affordable and decent rentals here in Nassau, partly (or perhaps mainly) due to the increasing number of expensive AirBnbs and also because some foreign companies snatch up rentals sight unseen and are prepared to pay high rents and large deposits for their non-Bahamian employees in advance. We read that a similar problem exists with the rental market in many other countries.

View from our third-floor apartment at

Surf Rider Resort, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea

“Fancy Nancy”, one of the wonderful drivers

who drive the free Circuit electric trolleys up and down

A1A, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea!

While in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, we strolled around the town and discovered the Town Hall. Unfortunately, the library was closed at the time. Quaint little place. Well kept and very quiet, but has great amenities. Would love to live there! One apartment owner that we chatted to said she had been there seven years and loved her “little piece of paradise”! 

In the nearby Publix, before starting our walk around the town, I asked an employee there if it was safe to walk. Would there be any stray dogs that might attack us (as can happen in Nassau when walking in some neighbourhoods!)? The employee laughed and said no way, "the place would be closed down right away"!

                                                       Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Town Hall

Never far away from a book! Small guest library, 

gym and computer station at Surf Rider Resort.

When our unexpected vacation was over, we returned to Nassau. Unfortunately, a rental that one of our sons had found for us fell through, and we moved back into the Orange Hill Beach Inn on the Western Shores of Nassau, where we had spent a night or so in between our moves. 

Grounds of Orange Hill Beach Inn

(with "visitor'!)

We ended up staying in a room there for 28 days! Fortunately, the hotel owners were very kind and helpful. We were even able to set up our desktop computer there and start to get back to a somewhat “normal” life.

Finally, we found a permanent rental apartment in Cable Beach, signed a year’s lease and moved in at the end of July.

Final destination!

It’s been quite an adventure, if we can call it that, as it was a strain on our finances. But we held out for what we wanted and didn't choose second best, despite the "naysayers". 

We’ve learned a lot and are going forward with more strength and vigour. Our new Tiktok platform (tiktok.com/@youngheartsforever) has given us a new interest and is becoming quite successful. My husband Erskine is a musician and is enjoying playing his guitar and singing a selection of songs (including some he has written himself) for videos we upload to Tiktok.

And I am getting back to my writing projects. I have so much to catch up with!

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YOUNG HEARTS FOREVER!

 

Check out our (Erskine and Fay's) new Tiktok account at https://tiktok.com/@youngheartsforever

And follow us on Tiktok to see all the new videos coming soon on our Tiktok account!

There will be more videos of Erskine playing guitar and singing old Bahamian, romantic and inspirational songs. Future recordings will include him talking about old Bahamian musicians and entertainers.

A BOOK ABOUT "PEOPLE WHO DESERVE TO BE HAPPY"!

A friend just read my book of short stories "Sunbeams from The Heart: A Collection of Twelve Romantic Short Stories" and made a lovely comment about it. She said she really enjoyed it as it's about "people who deserve to be happy"!

AMAZON APPROVES SUNBEAMS FROM THE HEART!

This is pretty cool! Amazon added the following to the details page of my book of short stories, “Sunbeams from The Heart: A Collection of Twelve Romantic Short Stories”:

“Customers find the romance plot delightful, enjoyable, and heartwarming. They also describe the emotional tone as beautiful.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews”.