These are amazing. I'm assuming The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is also headed this direction

our greatest living poet

the voice of a generation

I added the thomascow1 tag to the Everybody Hurts video so they'll link.
He describes himself in his own words:

Apprenticed at Harland and Wolff Belfast, as a shipwright. Sing badly, also compose, music, novels and anything that takes fancy. No good points, Also worked in the Hamburg shipyard Blohm and Voss, which built the Bismarck. [Hence writing the song] "Heil das Bismarck" worked across Europe, bar work, joinery, heavy engineering, bar entertment drinking [now alcoholic] and compulsive gambler. Keep thinking oil well will come up one day. But never does. Nowadays enjoying retirement and the experience of past youth, which hopefully is depicted in writings. Believer in no frills, clarity, sincerity & The “KISS” system, “Keep it simple stupid,” SO briefly>>, shipbuilder, freethinker, singer, shy, writer, founder of the C.O.W.movement

To learn more about Thomas McMullanCOW(Citizen Of the World), visit your local library's section on alcoholic acronym-obsessed ex-con altruists or peruse this collection of links:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/15948475351553357439

"Will the internet be alright dad?"

"Yes, son. Thomascow1 is carrying the fire."

I'm legitimately a little sad that this is gone.