Undergraduate Student, Josh Toal, Writes and Performs Original Song

Undergraduate student, Josh Toal, wrote and performed a original song for Dr. High's class this past Winter term, based on his Point Saint-Charles interview. 

https://soundcloud.com/user-122763612/wants-and-needs

Wants and Needs

by Josh Toal (2018)

Eleven in our house, my mother stayed home, Dad worked at the docks
Irish Catholic, and all of the boys we learned how to box
Helped my sister with the laundry, And I got oil for the stove
Five gallon pails, dropped my quarter, when I was eight years old
Playing and I caught in flames, Hibernia, Charon, Coleraine

Under the hay in the stockyards, we snuck in after dark
Borrowed a car, left it in a bike rack in Ash Avenue Park
Hopped the train to high school, don’t need to take a bus
Later when I fought in Belfast, those kids had it in’em just like us
My four brothers, we shook hands at night, people around here were tight

Your wants may be plenty, but your needs are few
Your wants may be plenty, but your needs are few
Put on the music for me

It was Terry Fox who inspired me, in 1980, I’ve been running since then
Tell people his story, and raise money, made a lot of good friends
37 years I’ve been at it. Had to fight my own battle too.
Somewhere the hurting must stop, his words and picture tattooed
Everything that this kid did, was like someone from the Point

Your wants may be plenty, but your needs are few
Your wants may be plenty, but your needs are few
Put on the music for me
Put on the music for me.