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Ron Todd

                                                        Swim Like








                                                              Dolphins









                 A Magical Collaboration between



                                                Susanne Waldbrunner




                                                                                  & Ron Todd





              “Hi everyone, I am the lyri-     later and we now have a           a song about how love can
              cist/vocalist for British coun-  number of joint                   slowly die over time. I tried
              try band ‘4 Owld Codgers’        collaborations under our          to come up with a way of
              but I also collaborate with      belts.                            saying how the love used to
              other artists on certain                                           be between the two
              material. The attached song      Susanne is a wonderful            people back in the day. It
              lyrics and link to the com-      singer and talented               made me think of a memory
              pleted song was one of these     musician and we have had          from years ago when
              songs.                           success both on radio and in      holidaying abroad my wife
                                               International song contests.      and I saw a school of
              I first met Susanne              Some of our joint tracks are      dolphins swimming in the
              Waldbrunner my co-writer         now featured on Susanne’s         sea and they looked so
              on this (myself lyrics,          initial CD titled ‘Sunny and      together and like free spirits
              Susanne music.melody) back  Friends-Music Birds’ along             as they crashed through the
              in 2017 through Facebook.        with collaborations with          waves.
              I had posted a song by my        other artists Susanne has met
              band for critique on a song-     through Facebook including        This gave me the idea for
              writer site and Susanne was      the Editor and Producer of        how to express what the
              one of the people who made       this magazine Jane Shields.       people in this song’s love
              comment. I had mentioned                                           used to be like and inspired
              that I would consider            I would like to personally        the chorus.
              collaborating with other         thank Susanne for her great
              artists in the post and          work and also for becoming        The framework of the rest
              Susanne came on board.           a friend as well as a             of the lyrics came from life
                                               co-writer. We hope you like       experiences of seeing friends
              We first collaborated on         our song which is performed  go through break ups and I
              a song called ‘Endlessly’        live by Susanne. Thank you        hope I have managed to get
              which is on her YouTube site  for listening.  “Ron Todd”           across the pain of this in the
              ‘Surgent Sunny songs’ along                                        finished song.
              with many others. Two years  “Swim Like Dolphins” is





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