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i have not had the chance to come around much lately but want to wish every one a merry Christmas and happy new year and hope every one is doing well

here is a short one I wrote the last couple of nights, not real pleased with the end of it so a few more drinks tomorrow night and it may get changed. Let me know what you think

D                            G
aint nothing but sad songs tonight
if my life i could rewrite
a few things i would change
a few things i would rearrange
A                         G
a few things i,d make right

but there aint no going back
aint no changing white to black
whats done is done  and here we are
like a door thats been left ajar
its dusty light will shine so far

another chapter i couldnt close
another life i could have chose
whats truth or lie i can not tell
some things in life we should not dwell
theres on so much water in the well

we make our choices and then move on
we will see what happens with the dawn
you only get one chance to make
you only get one road to take
dont be afraid to make lifes big mistake

https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/sad-song-tonight

https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/a-song-for-dad
I changed the chords up a little and a couple of the lines from the previous post and gave it a name. sorry about the back ground noise, recording on my lap top in my room at work. hope you like it

well it has been awhile since I posted anything this is one that has been in the works for awhile and still may make some changes but any way here is my latest attempt at song writing. this is pretty much the life story of my old man. I think one of my biggest regrets in life is that he never heard me play he passed while I was just learning guitar. wow a little over thirty years since cancer took him seems like only yesterday. any way hope you like it and maybe it brings back a memory of someone you miss.
Am             C                            G          A
C                                                   G                      Am
with a sway back horse and a mule named jack
C                                                G           Am
he headed to the gin by the rail road tracks

with a cotton bail that made his fingers bleed
it was deep east Texas 1943

the hard times were over or so they said
but they never worked the fields just to make their bread

the times were tough just like before
he joined the Texas guard and headed off to war

he was just 18 when he went over seas
to see the world and the Japanese

sent his money home to his mom and dad
paid for the land and everything they had

survived the war and went back school
learned a trade and how to use his tools

but a back woods town the times were still hard
headed to the coast to work the ship yards

had a forgiving wife three boys and two girls
smoked his camels and drank his pearl

for thirty year's he worked the ships
along the docks and in the slips

they had no OSHA or EPA
you did your job and you earned your pay

his only dream was to move back home
when the job was done and the kids were grown

you make your plans and you break your back
save your money and you build your stack

fate steps in and takes it all away
two short years from retirement day

was it ship yard fumes or two packs a day
or just to much drink its hard to say

he moved back home this much is true
I saw it myself from the front pew

for eternity now where he lays
in that deep east Texas red dirt clay