As I grew older, I finally began to see how song connects us to place and people and things. Not only do ballads chronicle the past, but the rhythms and melodies also bind us together and link us to a strange but common history. We begin to see links in the chain. The original songlines served to guide the wanderer in the footprints of his ancestors. With a four-mile an hour walking pace and a four-beat rhythm to his song, he encountered landmarks and sacred places which kept him on the line to his destination. Our lines seem blurred today, only visible when looking back through memory. But it is the music that conjures up the vision of our pathways.