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Bill Dees (songwriter) : Roy played a big dome in our hometown, and the voice was so clear and loud and piercing. By that time he was immobile as a statue, just his right knee would move.
I'd been working with a sledgehammer and, when he saw my hands, he said, "You work that hard?" I was flipped that he still remembered me; and then he asked if I was still writing. I sang Borne On The Wind. The kids of a man I knew got caught in the undertow in the ocean and he dived in to save them. When I heard about it they hadn't found his body. I was backstage at a concert and I went into the bathroom with my little four-string guitar. It was echoing real good, and I was able to write Borne on The Wind before I went on stage. It was a very sad song, but it held an element of hope. If you take out the Spanish thing in the middle - "You don't love me, but you love me to be in love with you" - that is basically what I had. It was speeded up and given a Tex-Mex feel.
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I'd been working with a sledgehammer and, when he saw my hands, he said, "You work that hard?" I was flipped that he still remembered me; and then he asked if I was still writing. I sang Borne On The Wind. The kids of a man I knew got caught in the undertow in the ocean and he dived in to save them. When I heard about it they hadn't found his body. I was backstage at a concert and I went into the bathroom with my little four-string guitar. It was echoing real good, and I was able to write Borne on The Wind before I went on stage. It was a very sad song, but it held an element of hope. If you take out the Spanish thing in the middle - "You don't love me, but you love me to be in love with you" - that is basically what I had. It was speeded up and given a Tex-Mex feel.