WATCH: Mortdale's Jennifer Parry performs.
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00:00 (inaudible)
00:12 Good morning wherever you are around the world listening to this event.
00:17 Thank you to TAFE New South Wales and all the hard work to put this together.
00:24 My name is Jennifer Parry and I'm here to do a performance
00:29 and I hope that you will enjoy the next 20 minutes.
00:33 Music is a universal language so I hope that this will connect with all of you
00:38 wherever you are around the world.
00:43 The first song is called The Rose by Bette Midler.
00:51 (music)
00:58 Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reef.
01:14 Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
01:29 Some say love it is a hunger an endless aching need.
01:46 I say love it is a flower and you its only seed.
02:06 Its the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
02:21 Its the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
02:36 Its the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
02:52 And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
03:09 When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long.
03:25 And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong.
03:41 Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow
03:59 lies the sea that with the sun's love in spring becomes the rose.
04:21 (music)
04:33 You know love is a fantastic topic and it's so universal isn't it?
04:38 And so many people connect with it whether it be love, loss, grief,
04:44 whatever form it is with friends or family or in a partnership or relationship
04:49 or just with other people in a business sense.
04:53 So I hope this next song will also connect with you and I hope you enjoy it as it's about love.
05:05 If I should stay I would only be in your way.
05:26 So I come home but I know I'll think of you every step of the way.
05:48 And I will always love you, will always love you.
06:14 My darling you.
06:22 Bittersweet memories.
06:30 That is all I'm taking with me.
06:37 So goodbye, please don't cry.
06:44 We both know I'm not what you need.
06:52 And I will always love you, will always love you.
07:15 (music)
07:42 I hope life treats you kind.
07:49 And I hope you get what you dream of.
07:57 And I wish you joy and happiness.
08:04 But above all this I wish you love.
08:17 And I will always love you, will always love you.
08:36 I will always love you, will always love you.
08:53 I will always love you.
09:01 I will always love you.
09:17 Darling I love you.
09:22 And I will always, will always love you.
09:48 Thank you everyone.
09:49 Of course that was by Dolly Parton and then recently or later on by Whitney Houston and
09:57 it was a famous song in the movie The Bodyguard.
10:00 All about love, reflection and so on.
10:06 So for a change of pace now but another great band which is fairly close to home.
10:10 They've toured here recently in April and they're still touring actually.
10:15 And it's New Zealand and Australia.
10:20 One of the concerts I've been to after the pandemic.
10:22 It was actually the first one I think in April just before Easter.
10:27 So I hope you will enjoy Better Be Home Soon by Crowded House.
10:38 Somewhere deep inside something's got a hold on you.
10:57 And it's pushing me aside so you stretch on forever.
11:07 And I know I'm right for the first time in my life.
11:18 That's why I tell you, you better be home soon.
11:31 Like the days of lies and deceptions.
11:40 Back to nothingness like a wake in the desert.
11:49 And I know I'm right for the first time in my life.
11:59 That's why I tell you, you better be home soon.
12:12 Don't say no, don't say nothing's wrong.
12:19 When you get back home maybe I'll be gone.
12:44 Ooh.
12:53 It would cause me pain if we were to end it.
13:03 But I could start again, you can depend on it.
13:12 And I know I'm right for the first time in my life.
13:23 That's why I tell you, you better be home soon.
13:31 Oh, that's why I tell you, you better be home soon.
13:58 So thank you everyone.
14:05 It's been a wonderful time up here and a great space.
14:09 Again thank you very much to TAFE, New South Wales for all the hard work behind the scenes
14:15 and putting the Facebook up, getting the sound done and the videos on and all that horrible
14:21 background work that can be very difficult and putting it all together.
14:26 I'd like to finish with a song that I think speaks for itself and it's about caring, not
14:34 taking people for granted or anything for granted for that matter.
14:39 In these uncertain times, if you've learned anything over the last few years, it's to
14:45 cherish everyone, everything and life in general.
14:52 And then the final song is God Only Knows by the Beach Boys.
14:59 (Music)
15:06 God only knows.
15:26 I may not always love you.
15:46 But as the stars shine above you, you'll have no need to doubt it.
16:02 I'll make you so sure about it.
16:10 God only knows what I'd be without you.
16:24 If you should ever leave me, life would go on, believe me.
16:39 The world could show nothing to me.
16:46 So what good would living do me?
16:54 God only knows what I'd be without you.
17:14 (Music)
17:37 (Vocalizing)
18:00 If you should ever leave me, life would go on, believe me.
18:11 But the world could show nothing to me.
18:18 So what good would living do me?
18:29 God only knows what I'd be without you.
18:37 What I'd be without you.
18:48 God only knows what I'd be without you.
19:05 God only knows.
19:09 What I'd be without you.
19:26 So thank you everyone.
19:28 I hope you have enjoyed it.
19:30 And please take care, stay safe and well wherever you are around the world.
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