A recording I made of this song 6 (!?!) years ago, Gypsy Fair starts with the line "Fairy floss and chocolate wheels ..". My son is doing the vocals as I'm covering off the second guitar part with a kazoo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ol3RqE0lA4

Enjoy!

Richard     

And while I'm here:

    stem
    outlet
    smoke
    plastic

Cheers

Richard     

easybeat wrote:

Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas

That doesn't look very random smile

But we'll include the word ....

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20251/20251-h/images/pic002.gif 

Cheers

Richard     

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Phill Williams wrote:

In the UK "wagon wheels" are a chocolate covered marshmallow and they're lovely.

In Australia too!! 

https://sweetsworld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/764ab34aa2a63da72363261b930d55210578981f.jpeg 

Cheers

Richard     

For this months suggestions, I'm going to stick with what I did for the last couple of months, as we seem to end up with a good degree of randomness. If anyone has any feedback, happy to discuss either here or in PM.

For Decembers suggestions you'll need to follow these steps:

    1) Got to https://randomwordgenerator.com/

    2) Generate 4 random words

    3) Put those words in our topic here!


Note you don't need to pick the four in the first generation, any four will do!!

Look forward to reading what you all RANDOMLY SUGGEST.

READY ... SET ... GO!!! 

Hi all,

We have sixteen words to choose from this month as suggested by our members!

In alphabetical order:

adorning, broken, cheap, coincidence, coup, crack, creep, crop, fairy, legend, logistic, main, mourning, mystic, property, ritual

With these words, our members can write a poem, create a song or cover somebody else's song which include any or all of those words and remember to make a suggestion for the upcoming December's FSOTM.

Go ahead and make some awesome music!! Looking forward to hearing it!

TIGLJK wrote:

This is a re-post from songwriting  - try to get a recording here sometime this week.

I qualify bc I used the word " do"   smile

I wrote this over coffee this morning.  One of my friends is having marital problems, and this just popped into words as I was having coffee.

Most likely not perfect - but here it is

Darling, I Keep Hoping That I'm Wrong By Jim Kenyon


[Am] My eyes are so tired, yet I can't sleep at night.


my [E] mind starts racing, when I [Am]turn out the light.


[Am] oh this room is so dark, but I can clearly see,



that [E] you're not coming back, to [Am] be here with me?



Adding the link to the topic that contains the Soundcloud recording of this song:

https://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=39207

Cheers

Richard

TIGLJK wrote:

This is the song I wrote for SOTM

Agree with Peatle, you've captured the mood(?) well ...

BTW: if you haven't already - pop a link on the FSOTM thread ...

Cheers

Richard

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Nice ... have you adjusted your truss rod lately? The action looks a bit high ...

https://www.artistguitars.com.au/blog/h … -truss-rod

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

On another note, I haven't entered anything yet as I am getting over a cold which has had me coughing.  So hopefully I will be over it before this month's FSOTM ends.

Hope you feel better soon!! We always take our health for granted, until it's not there ...

Thanks for listening to my song!

Cheers

Richard     

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(4 replies, posted in Poems)

That's a good one!!!

Cheers

Richard     

Here's one I did almoat 3 (!) years ago - "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division - with the line "... why is the bedroom so cold ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1eOcaMGK9U

Enjoy!

Richard     

TIGLJK wrote:

This is a re-post from songwriting  - try to get a recording here sometime this week.

I qualify bc I used the word " do"   smile

I wrote this over coffee this morning.  One of my friends is having marital problems, and this just popped into words as I was having coffee.

Most likely not perfect - but here it is

Look forward to hearing it!!

Cheers

Richard     

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(3 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Don't forget to add a link from the FSOTM page to here, or to the recording ... there's still a week to go!!

Cheers

Richard     

Grah1 wrote:

This   one  has the  word brake  in one  verse  .It  is  based  on true  events  from the  late  60s  .I  wrote  it  after  I  lost  a  friend  .Riverside  cafe   closed  around  1970 and  was  demolished  ,A modern motel now  stands  on the  site .     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_oR4YZFSM   Riverside  Cafe .
This  go's  out  to  Glen RIP .

That's a good song - I take it that it was pretty new to the band at the time, hope you get to record it. Doing dumb things when we were young ... I guess we've all been there ...

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

Good to hear the audience joining in with you in your first song Richard.  Always satisfying when the crowd does that, makes it all worthwhile.   Nice to hear your originals too.   That last song you definitely were getting into it, well done smile

Thanks for having a listen ... I'm hoping to do some longer gigs this year, but it's already October and I haven't yet ... still time, I guess smile

Cheers

Richard     

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(6 replies, posted in Poems)

Peatle Jville wrote:

Many of the new ways people use words to describe things sometimes gets me confused such as when someone says that's real sick meaning it is real good

A couple of years ago I was working at a place with a load of 20-somethings and their word was "dope". I was confused why they kept referring to drugs in the workplace until I figured out they were saying it was "good" or "well done" ...

Cheers

Richard     

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(3 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Sounds good ... I don't know how you write so many songs, whenever I get on "a roll" all my songs sound the same (and use the same words and phrasing, etc) ...

Cheers

Richard     

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(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Nice tune - I agree with what Jim said, I can imagine this being a cowboy looking after his herd in the nighttime, next to a fire...

Cheers

Richard     

Peatle Jville wrote:

Good one Richard was that the audience singing along on Light My Fire that I could hear on the video or was it an echo in the hall??? Your two originals very strong songs rhythmically and lyrically also.

Hi Peatle,

Thanks for having a listen; they were singing along (it's a pretty common practice for well known songs there!).

Cheers

Richard     

They were pretty good - was it two different gigs (I saw you had a change of clothes and the bass player lost his mic on the last video) or two different sets?

I must say I love the band name too!

Cheers

Richard     

This video is one of the gigs I did at Wanneroo Folk club, and starts with "Light my Fire" - which has the words "funeral pyre" in the second verse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1V5ZMa9CAQ

Cheers

Richard     

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I bought one of these second hand, but, whilst I liked the sound coming out initially, it really messed up my video recordings (mostly because I was adding echo to the video recording, and echo on echo doesn't work) - so I sold it about 6 months after. I still have the magnetic brace inside my main Maton.

Cheers

Richard     

Russell_Harding wrote:

Mystic
Logistic
mourning
adorning

Well done getting them all to rhyme!! smile

Cheers

Richard     

I got these four:

fairy
crack
main
property

Hmmmnm, the main fairy had a crack in her property ... smile

Cheers

Richard