Bongo died a few days ago, peacefully, in bed, surrounded by friends, relatives and well-wishers (only Del and Twiz were
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dbentley666 — 7 years ago(June 17, 2018 11:23 PM)
This was the last picture we have of Bongo (with the missus)
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dbentley666 — 7 years ago(June 17, 2018 11:34 PM)
She's sad, but she's bearing up well (she's 95, a year younger than Bongo was when he passed!). She said she didn't see much of him in the last few years. He was always in the public library, on the computer there. He wore out three keyboards.
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Gordon Lightfoot — 7 years ago(June 17, 2018 11:31 PM)
I once came back to the band's bus after a show one winter's night in Winnipeg, and a beautiful woman wearing only a smile and a guitar was waiting for me there. She taught me this song:
Oh, Bongo boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and with lots of meltdowns.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and do a beatdown.
But come ye back when Del's driving the Elantra,
Or when VHS' valley's hushed and white with snow,
I'll be here in sunshine or with screencaps,
Oh, Bongo boy, oh Bongo boy, I love you so! -
dbentley666 — 7 years ago(June 17, 2018 11:37 PM)
That was so sad! But so beautiful!
By yon Bongo’s barks and by yon Bongo’s brays
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where Bongo will niver give beatdowns again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Oh he takes the high road and Del takes the low road
And Del stops a woman to ask her
Which is the way to VHS’s house
But Bongo has got to Alaska
