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To: jbIII who wrote (3904)	12/23/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 32883

Investor gets laugh with 'Bre-X Blues' By BILL GRAVELAND -- Canadian Press canoe.ca (Follow link for text +picture) RED DEER, Alta. -- His wife didn't leave him and his dog ain't dead but Red Deer farmer Ross Graham had one hurtin' song in him that just had to get out. He decided to write the 'Bre-X Blues' after he and his wife Jodi, lost $2,000 in the gold scam. But unlike the thousands of investors who were caught unaware, Graham said he knew he was gambling. "I was going into that with my eyes open. I knew I could lose the money and I was prepared to do that but I just didn't want to miss out on the chance there could be gold," said Graham, 39. Graham said he wanted to write the song to poke some fun at his fellow investors who were a little too greedy and at the major players at the top in Bre-X. It goes like this: "This is a story about some gold. It's for the folks who wished they'd sold. Got caught up in all the greed, and look at the money that just got peed." Graham wrote the song in the summer of 1998 to play at a beach party and it went over so well he decided to put it out on compact disc and cassette. He claims he isn't angry about the gold scam but some of his lyrics would indicate otherwise. "Michael de Guzman he salted the core, said there was a lot more. Needed all of these riches, married four different bitches. Don't throw me out the plane, I won't do it again." Graham said he was more angry at himself than Bre-X officials. "I wrote the song for other people who lost money. I'm sure there are a lot of people a lot angrier than myself." The part-time musician put out 500 CDs and several hundred cassette tapes initially. Most of the CDs are gone and he's originally lost by investing in Bre-X. "We pretty much broken even on the whole deal. Didn't make a whole pile of money but we got our money back from what we lost investing and for the cost of recording." The biggest buyers of the latest Bre-X stock are once again former investors. Graham says the music seems to strike a chord with most of them. "There always seems to be one or two lines in the song which strikes a chord with them and pretty well everyone who listens to the song is chuckling somewhere." The length of the song -- five minutes and ten seconds -- is a bit long for commercial radio air play. But his wife Jodi says it's still popular in central Alberta. "Every time we go somewhere, big or small parties, he's always asked to perform it ... and he always does."