{"id":17705,"date":"2017-06-02T05:58:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=17705"},"modified":"2019-03-03T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:40:08","slug":"lucky-star-desmond-kelly-star-elanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lucky-star-desmond-kelly-star-elanka\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A LUCKY STAR&#8221; by Desmond Kelly \u2018the Star of eLanka\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;A LUCKY STAR&#8221; <\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by Desmond Kelly \u2018the Star of eLanka<\/span>\u2019<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJJEEa_Fuk8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Another &#8220;TOP&#8221; Country Music &#8220;favourite&#8221; of mine, in fact, one of the greatest &#8220;Country&#8221; Singers ever, MERLE HAGGARD. Fondly known and remembered &#8220;The Hag&#8221;, he was anything but one. Handsome, rugged, a &#8220;man&#8217;s man&#8221;, with the Christian name of a &#8220;girl&#8221;, as we, in Ceylon remember &#8220;Merle&#8221;, he was nonetheless anything but one. Merle Haggard grew up (as I did, myself), a born &#8220;rebel&#8221;, wanting to live his life, his way, which he did, right to the end. Born with a talent in music, Merle Haggard sang, entertained, played guitar &amp; &#8220;fiddle&#8221;, which the &#8220;Country Yanks&#8221; call a Violin and wrote quite a few of his own songs.He wrote them, the same way I do, simple but meaningful<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Dear readers, please , watch this one on &#8220;You-Tube&#8221;. Merle, rest in peace. You were great indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">TWINKLE. TWINKLE LUCKY STAR, CAN YOU SEND ME LUCK FROM WHERE YOU ARE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">CAN YOU MAKE A RAINBOW SHINE THAT FAR ?, TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">CAN YOU REALLY MAKE A WISH COME TRUE, &amp; DO YOU SHINE ON JUST A CHOSEN FEW,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">IS IT OVER, HAVE I GONE A BIT TOO FAR ?, TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">LIKE TWO SHIPS ON THE OCEAN, WE DRIFTED APART, &amp; YOU FOUND AN ISLAND AT SEA<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I&#8217;M STILL ADRIFT WITH THIS PAIN IN MY HEART, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">WON&#8217;T YOU SEND HER SWEET LOVE BACK TO ME ? TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR, CAN YOU SEND ME LUCK FROM WHERE YOU ARE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">CAN YOU MAKE A RAINBOW SHINE THAT FAR ?, TWINKLE TWINKLE LUCKY STAR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Lovely Lyrics&#8221; from one of the &#8220;greats&#8221;. Just to let all my readers at the &#8220;e&#8217;Lanka&#8221;website &amp; the &#8220;Lanka Times&#8221;,know, that I have actually sung &amp; recorded &#8220;in harmony&#8221; with Merle Haggard, but that is another story. In the meantime, please watch &amp; listen to the guy HIMSELF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atUQzt6RKPw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/desmond-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12844 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/desmond-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Kelly.<br \/>\n(Editor-in-chief)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Star of eLanka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A LUCKY STAR&#8221; by Desmond Kelly \u2018the Star of eLanka\u2019 Another &#8220;TOP&#8221; Country Music &#8220;favourite&#8221; of mine, in fact, one of the greatest &#8220;Country&#8221; Singers ever, MERLE HAGGARD. Fondly known and remembered &#8220;The Hag&#8221;, he was anything but one. Handsome, rugged, a &#8220;man&#8217;s man&#8221;, with the Christian name of a &#8220;girl&#8221;, as we, in Ceylon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1104],"tags":[1887,1888],"class_list":{"0":"post-17705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-desmond-kelly","9":"tag-a-lucky-star-by-desmond-kelly-the-star-of-elanka","10":"tag-a-lucky-star","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;A LUCKY STAR&quot; by Desmond Kelly \u2018the Star of eLanka\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;A LUCKY STAR&quot; by Desmond Kelly \u2018the Star of eLanka\u2019 Another &quot;TOP&quot; Country Music &quot;favourite&quot; of mine, in fact, one of the greatest &quot;Country&quot; Singers ever, MERLE HAGGARD. 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