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“THE STORY OF THE SONG” by Des Kelly The story of the song, it is, and the story of the song, it will remain. One of the most traditional Buddhist “processions” held in “our Island Paradise” every year. I am really at a loss, as to who “wrote” the “original Sinhala version, don’t even know if it was ever recorded, so decided that “this writer” would give it a go. This said, I have the utmost respect for Prince Siddehartha Gautama (The Buddha), Here was a Man who could have lived a life of absolute luxury, yet, gave up everything, wealth, “titles”, even himself, as Jesus Christ did, in another Country, much later, to try everything that was humanely possible to do in order to make a sordid Planet Earth, a better place to live in. In so doing, the Buddha attained “Nirvana” just as Christ rose to Heaven on ...