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I wrote this song last year which is somewhat comedic, based on a true imaginary story of a spider jumping on me:

https://youtu.be/GOWO1_UgrJ0

I'm still missing a third verse, so suggestions are welcomed!

Cheers

Richard     

Thanks!!     

Hi Jan,

Sure, here it is https://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36356 - it also has one of the follow up songs "Suffering", which follows the same chord progression;  there were two others that followed on, but I haven't posted or recorded them.

Just on note on the chords - I use the 'at' symbol to specify where on the fretboard it is meant to be played, so the Am@5 means to play the Am chord on the 5th fret - it gives it a different dynamic to playing in the 1st position (eg x 0 3 0 1 0 in the first position as opposed to 5 7 5 5 5 5 at the 5th position), but if you're going to play it on uke, it may be a moot point.

Cheers

Richard     

Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) by Benny Hill     

This was one that I did sometime back in the 90's - a friend used to make "video productions", and every year he and his extended friend group would make one big video - on this year they did a Telethon-style appeal for Nana Mouskouri:

I had a drum machine that I operated with my foot, (probably a Boss DR-110) and the other guitarist (Michael) was just for show (and extra vocals) - he was the drummer in one of our bands. I later bought the bass players (Kevin) bass guitar and still have it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjrpg1v_D0o

Most of the other acts were miming or telling jokes, and they were all impressed by our 3 minute cover of "My Generation" by the Who - several people complimented us on the way out. I can't remember what we did with amps and stuff, but it was probably with our old configuration of a Boss BX600 mixer into a practice amp.

We also made a couple of music videos for the band, but the music was the original and we just kind of mimed and "starred" in the video - I think they were the Beatles "Back in the USSR" and "End of the line" by the Travelling Wilburies. I'd probably get pinged by YouTube for a copyright infringement if I put them up ...

Cheers

Richard     

I'm my own Granpa 

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Richard     

Had a very Jazz feel, there were some good lines in there too ...

This is my song "Happiness", which has the same word in it several times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkrH_mk1Uy0

Cheers

Richard     

Thanks - it's possible to play the F in a 'cowboy' (or girl) position, with just your first three fingers:

Makes it easier sometimes ...

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Richard     

maybe ... the music club has mostly older (than me) people, and they keep saying the same thing ....

Anyway, this famous song has "brokenhearted people" in it:

https://youtu.be/A52zhWye11I

Cheers

Richard     

Ok, I got this one I did last month at the Merriwa club. It has:

"... When older we all get our life is slowing down ..."

" ... with life rushing by ... "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDefhItPm8

Cheers

Richard

This is the "go to" for media bias (from https://www.adfontesmedia.com/):

I like that one, as it's more legible, but this is the newest version:

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Richard     

I was outraged when I read the story about the UK Postmasters, for anyone that missed it, this was the first article that came to me via Google:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

But the world is getting a smaller, tighter, more cynical place ... and particularly over the last few years - I always use Covid as a marker, but not the cause.

I think the world started going a bit crazy when the "Internet 2.0" was born, which was the time when the internet went from "informational" to "transactional" - this was a transition caused by all the businesses wanting to lower their costs (example, 10 people in call center can be replaced by two people responding to emails as they come through, during normal office hours to reduce overtime). All this was sold to regular people as "for your convenience", but it was actually just a cost saving exercise for big business. And every sector of that business was asked to "cut costs".

I see moving to a cashless society as a bad thing.

Cheers

Richard