3,776 Reply by Phill Williams

(29 replies, posted in Songwriting)

all the above arguments are good, i agree with each as i read them. so the fact must be that the poem section has (for the most part) been mis-titled! it should read "the song without melody (yet) section" seems a bit long though?
the poem section was begun because people (like me) would write a few verses hoping to make a song, or sometimes just as a poem, hoping that someone might come along and write a beautiful melody line for it, and then maybe form a mutually benificial partnership al la elton john/bernie taupin.

all i can say is, if you post a song sans chords, expect them to be moved to poems until you have chords for it. if you'd like someone to put a melody to your work...ask, simples. when chords have been added, the poem/song will then be moved back to songwriting.

IT HATH EVER BEEN THUS. AND EVER SHALL REMAIN SO UNTIL THE STARS FALL AND THE SUNS GOLDEN LIGHT DIMINISHES INTO PARODIES OF MARAUDING ANGELS.

phill (sorry 'bout the last bit)

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3,777 Topic by Phill Williams

(20 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

did you ever say something that you've lived to regret?

eg: i'll never come here again

you wont catch me dead in fared trousers

i was thinking about john lennon the other day and how he'd feel now after his statement in
" how do you sleep?" ... a pretty face may last a year or two/ but pretty soon we'll see what you can do. how do you sleep. at nights

ps. (hint) it was about mccartney

any more out there?

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3,778 Topic by Phill Williams

(5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This may be in Daddycools teritory here, but I cant help the way my songs come out! It is an eternal triangle song, with the Jilted John spitting his dummy out of the pram and making things awkward for the other two...until it ends as a duel...pistols at dawn.

Your the Last Thing.Undefined


[G] Baby your the [D] last thing – I [Em] need tosee today.[C-D]


I've [Am] tried but it's [Em] hard to concen [D] trate.-[C]


[G] I'll call you when I've [D] done the deed.


[Em] I'll meet you where the [C] grass is [D] green.


I [Am] need to know you [Em] wont come to no [D] harm.






[C] Got my [D] hand gun. [Em] Got my [C] back to the sun.


[G] He ain’t gonna [D] bother us no [Em] more.-[C run]


[G] He thought he was a [D] Romeo, [Em] you could be his [C] Juliet.-[D]


He [Am] never thought you'd [Em] throw it back in his [D] face.-[C]


[G] He caught me in a [D] bar room brawl.


[Em] He got me fired [C] from my [D] job.


[Am] So now it's [Em] time to face him like a [D] man.


[C] Got my [D] hand gun. [Em] Got my [C] back to the sun.


[G] He ain’t gonna [D] bother us no [Em] more.-[C run]


[F] I walk down [C] Main Street, my [E] heart beats [Am] fast.



I [Dm7] see him [G7] coming `round the corner.


All the [C] people of the town move back.


[F] He looks [C] tough, yeah, [E] he swears and he [Am] cuss.


He [F] draws out his gun but his shot goes wild.


Then I [G7] pull out my gun and he falls and dies.


Oh! God.[C run]


1. (SOLO >||: G-D-Em-C/D|-Am-Em-D-C:||




[G] Baby your the [D] last thing, I'll [Em] see in this [C] life.-[D]


They've [Am] got me strung up [Em] to this tree – to [D] die.-[C]


[G] They said I drew [D] first, cos the [Em] sheriff was his [C] friend.-[D]


[Am] We'll never have that [Em] happiness in the [D] end.




[C] Got my [D] hand gun. [Em] Got my [C] back to the sun.


[G] He ain't gonna [D] bother us no [Em] more.-[C run]


[G] He ain’t gonna [D] bother us no [Em] more.-[C run]


[G] He ain’t gonna [D] bother us no [Em] more.



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3,779 Reply by Phill Williams

(11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

hi hannahbeth,

you've done the right thing by removing the hard drive as there are some very nasty people out there who might get all your personal and financial details from it! after you've taken what you want off it destroy it completely before putting it in the trash.

out here in the sticks of Wales we have a recycling plant so all the electronics, white goods etc get disposed of properly.

good luck with getting a new PC

phill

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3,780 Reply by Phill Williams

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

thanks daddy, that's what i meant to say. it looks like someones moved this already.

phill

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3,781 Reply by Phill Williams

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

hi nallekisse,

nice write my friend, but i must ask, is this a song or a poem? as there are no chords, i feel it might be a poem and should be in the poems section. but dont worry, i dare say arkady will be along shortly to move it. please dont be offended by this as that is how chordie works. once you have chords it will be moved back to songwriting.

phill

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3,782 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi kenny, no hugs i'm affraid, ann's broken her collar bone in a bad place near the joint. she's in megga pain...women! lol

stay tonight must be 30 years old, i had to update it a bit.

killer heels, well... i'm not into feet myself but this one is about someone who is...no names

thanks

phill

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3,783 Reply by Phill Williams

(18 replies, posted in Electric)

have a listen to badge by cream. bass masterclass by chris squire of yes. any level 42.

a cracking bass line to play is come together from the beatles abbey road.

phill

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3,784 Reply by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Acoustic)

hi mcclatch,

when my mate and i started playing way back in the 60's, we would learn a chord and strum a rhythm and just make words up around the chord (something like hawkwind did!!!!) soon we found that our tunes needed another chord, so we just hit every chord we new until we found one that was close enough (just like hot chocolate ((the group...you sexy thing?)) soon we were doing a status quo with 3 chords. it's just progress, you will progress it's a matter of practise, dedication, being inquisitive and just trying it. keep trying.

phill

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3,785 Reply by Phill Williams

(148 replies, posted in Acoustic)

hi swansneck.
there's an easy way to play between those two chords...

think of C to A minor...use your index finger to barre the 5th frett and use your pinky to complete the chords. check out the the chord chart for the exact fingering. with a little practise you'll find it easy, i use it all the time, not just for F-Dm, but if i'm playing in the key of G i may use the C "shape" to play a D chord.

phill

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3,786 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

i just cant throw anything away. the best i can achieve is to put what i'm not using into the attic when i buy a replacement. then i keep the box in case i have to return it faulty.
i occasionally go into the attic for something then spend an hour looking at things i forgot i put up there, then bring them down again! i guess i'm useless.
things i cant throw out include; 3 keyboards, a fender strat 1972 mexican. a fender f90 acoustic same year. a cheap and nasty electric in black. a pair of mos-fet 100 watt amps mounted on a board to use as power amps for stage. i've got a beautiful peavy bandit amp which i dont use as i play my guitar through my p a . millions of fx pedals that are outdated. and billions of bits of paper with songs on. i did manage to throw out an old teac multi-track reel to reel last year and some old tapes and cassettes. there's lots of other stuff too...cd's, dvd's old programs you name it, camera's ....sorry gorra close my head's hurting....

phill

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3,787 Reply by Phill Williams

(22 replies, posted in Poems)

time indeed flies by while your having fun, welcome krapyl, and thanks for your offering. i must say it is disturbing, all the talk of death and destruction. but all works of art are meant to make the mind work, to think and to decipher. so, welcome once again and well done.

phill

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3,788 Reply by Phill Williams

(2 replies, posted in Poems)

hi tommydone,

thanks for your poem. the last line is a bit disconcerting; "..admit my crime"? there are no criminals on chordie unless your a spammer, and weve had our fair share of those lately. so welcome to poems and i look forward to seeing more of your lyrical, entertaining and discriptive poems.

phill

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3,789 Reply by Phill Williams

(148 replies, posted in Acoustic)

i only use two fingers to play "F". just play the "A" shape chord on the 8th frett, but lay the 3rd finger across the D,G AND B strings, also used for the dreaded B chord and all the others up the arm. it's simple when you've mastered it. i've been using it for over 40 years now, just avoid dubbing the bottom E (6th string).

phill

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3,790 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

my mother gave me some good advice i wish i'd listened to; she said "play the mouth organ, it's lighter"
honestly, i've always found drummers to be the laziest and most selfish members of the band. the drums are always the last to go into the van "cos theyre delicate!" so everyone helps carry them into the hall, then while the rest of you are struggling and sweating carrying the amps and pa in, he's setting up cos it "takes longer to set drums up" coblers!!!! then they get drunk play too loud and sometimes even fall asleep halfway through a song. how can anyone fall asleep while playing "summertime blues?" beats me. give me a drum box any time....lol

congrats on buying a kit though, nothing like bashing a drum to relieve your frustrations when the drummer dont turn up...i love drummers really

phill

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3,791 Reply by Phill Williams

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi jeff,

all corners covered here, leeds, gardening and an ode to lost love. a story well told. i went to leeds once too, they called time at 10.30 and you had to drink up and be out by 10.40, very rude i thought, so i never went there again.
but the most surprising part of the song was that it stopped raining long enough for you to plant seeds?

lol phill

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3,792 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi robert,

puts me in mind of raw hide, old gil favor and rowdy yates. though i thought it was the ozzies that had tucker? nice tale, i could almost taste the dust and smell the cow pats

phill

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3,793 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi jeff,

glad you like it, you must be a clever dick, cos i can never figure out peoples songs...lol

hi robert,

from the heart, this one. all true too. we met at a disco where they only played waltzes and "ling-a-long-a-max" you know? grab a granny...lol. then one night ann (the wife) came along to one of my gigs and as i was looking her in the eyes while i was singing a love song she whispered "i love you too" boy was i flying after that! 30 years and counting.

hi tony,

i made a boo boo on blue is grey! you see the riff was running around my guitar for some time, then one day i managed to write a couple of verses, did a backing track and promptly forgot about it!
then a week or two ago, i put together 3 or 4 bits i'd been working on and wrote 10%!!!! then after up-loading to my space, i came accross blue is grey and realised what i'd done. so if you thought the riff and chording were similar, you now know why

thanks to all

phill

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3,794 Topic by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This is a realy old song, written when my wife Ann and me got together 30 odd years ago. I have changed a few words and some chords, but that's it. You can listen to this and another new song or two on My-space, click on my web to your left. Comments welcome.

Why Cont You Stay Tonight?Undefined




(CHORUS)




[D] Why don’t you stay tonight? [F#m] Stay till the morning light.


I'll [G] fix you a coffee or a drink if you like.


[Gm] We can make love all through the night, oh!


[D] Why don’t you stay tonight, [Asus] why don’t you stay tonight? -[D]




[G] Do you remember that night?


We stood [Bm] talking outside the disco.


And I [Em] held you in my arms. As I [Cmj7] looked deep into your [A7] eyes.


And I [Am] said it with all I had. And I [Bm7] meant every word I [Cmj7] said....[Cm]


I love you.-[G-Am-Dsus-D]


[D] Do you remember that night? I was [Bm] singing and you were watching.


And you [Em] looked deep into my eyes. Then you [Cmj7] whispered I read your [A7] lips.


And the [Am] words burned into my mind.


And you [Bm7]meant every word that you said....[Cmj7- Cm]



I love [G] you.-[Am- Dsus-D7]


(REPEAT CHORUS).




[G] I can remember those nights. I meant [Bm] every word I was singing.


And I could [Em] see you were singing along. And I [Cmj7] knew we could never go [A7] wrong.


So I [Am] sang it with all I had. And I [Bm] meant every word that I [Cmj7] said....[Cm]


I love [G] you.-[Am- Dsus-D]




(REPEAT CHORUS). (SOLO). (CHORUS)






[D] Why dont you stay tonight? [F#m] Stay for the rest of your life.


I'll [G] make you a home and I'll make you my wife.


I'll [Gm] give you the things that will make feel right.


Oh, [D] why don’t you stay tonight? [Asus] Why don’t you stay [A] tonight?


[D] Why don’t you stay tonight? [Asus] Why don’t you stay [A] tonight?-[D]



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3,795 Reply by Phill Williams

(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Penblwydd Hapus Canada. roughly translated means; Happy Birthdday Canada, does that make all you Canadians 144 too? A lot of you dont look it though  LOL.

I f the prince and his young wife are made citizens, does that mean you keep them? PLEASE

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3,796 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi robert,

it's about an ex girlfriend, you know the type, you can trust about as far as you can throw them?

thanks for the thumbs up

hi kenny,

how you enjoying our royals out there? you can keep them if you want, (less tax for me...LOL)

hi dino,

glad you like my humble efforts. it's easy to write about what you have first hand experience of. i'm sure we have all tasted this forbidden fruit? thanks for the two thumbs

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3,797 Reply by Phill Williams

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

yep that works for me, very visual, i could picture the scene.

well done, cant wait to see more

phill

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3,798 Reply by Phill Williams

(4 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi tony,

this is great, really excellent work. must say though i loved universe! triffik

phill

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3,799 Topic by Phill Williams

(8 replies, posted in Other string instruments)

to avoid deleting all posts in a topic, i have edited several posts and replaced the post as well as the spam. the poster has also been banned.

if your sole intention for joining CHORDIE is to post spam, just remember that spammers are reported by members, then banned by the moderators.

so play nice please, no spam.

thank you

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3,800 Reply by Phill Williams

(8 replies, posted in Songwriting)

noted your comment about a love song with Leeds in it. how about something to do with gardening? e.g.

we were out in the garden, sowing some seeds.
a garden in england, a garden in leeds.

that's your starter for ten, the rest i leave to you

cracking song by the way, love a bit of blues

phill

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