Hi everyone,

First of all I want to wish you a very good 2020. With lots of songs to be made and all that in good health!
Secondly I want to apologize for not being too active on listening to your songs the last month. There were some bad things that caused this, but all this is behind me so I can tease you with my comments again...

In one post I said I'd made a waltz but hadn't the guts bringing it to this forum. Well, now I did! This song originally was made by me in 2017, but I wasn't really happy with it. So it took me some time between other things to refresh that song. At first the lyrics now rhyme. But only with the great help from Stefan Nachtsheim who helped me with the proper grammar. He is really strict, although he lookes so friendly. But I have dedicated this song to him.
And I changed a lot in the melody, so it sounds more like a waltz than the original song: https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130/that-beautiful-night?in=user-296497130/sets/birchwood-2020

The song is a bit melancholic, but waltzes mostly are. It's about an old man in a care home thinking of the good old time; the beautiful night. So, no politics, no hidden messages. Only a sensitive song that was nice to sing.

The song has tempochanges: from 105 for the verses to 145 for the chorusses. The style is Rundown. The key is G. I used a piano, two cello's, a fiddle and a nylon sologuitar and drums. In the chorusses I had to use some other instruments (two rhythm guitars, different drum) because the first ones couldn't handle the tempochange.
I faced a problem. With every tempochage I heard a click and a thick white bar appeared in the audio track. Had to remove them manually.

I hope you like it, but please be honest if you think I did something wrong.
Hans Berkhout

The lyrics:
That Beautiful Night
(c) HwBerkhout, dec. 2019

Sitting with my photo book on my lap
I felt a bit sad
Browsing through the pages full of history
I fell out of my bed

The nurse had to help me up
and handed me the book too
But something made it difficult for me
to look at the faces I once knew

I thought:
All that matters,
will fly away
Yes, all that matters,
will be gone one day

Chorus:
But still I see that night, that night
Oh, so impressed I was
By the moon and the stars
in the sky so bright

In that night we all danced
Yes, life had begun
We were young, had it all
Oh, this was fun...

And sitting in that tiny jailish room
with nothing much to hold on
I’m wond’ring why I'm still here,
while my life is already gone

Time stood still with that album on my lap
but soaked with tears then
My life gone by, nothing ahead
I tried to stand up, but fell again

I thought:
All that matters,
will fly away
Yes, all that matters,
will be gone one day

But still I feel that night, that night
Oh, so impressed I was
By the moon and the stars
in the sky so bright

Yes, it was that night, we found love
We were young,
but had all
we dreamed of...

That night, that night
Oh, so impressed I was
By the moon and the stars
in the sky so bright

Oh, it was the time
that my life did ignite
Now I'm old, but the night
still feels so light...

But one night, one night
I shall fly
To the moon and the stars
You'll see me shine in your sky

On a beautiful night...

Hans Berkhout
(Birchwood)
https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130