4,426 Reply by Phill Williams

(14 replies, posted in Poems)

Here's a little thing I wrote in 2000, it's about my home town Llanelli, Wales, known as Sosban [saucepan] due to the saucepans on the top of the goal posts at Stradey Park rugby ground. And the reference to scarlet shirts is the colour and nick-name for the rugby team.

Sosban, Llanelli

There's a place where the rolling hills of Wales come to an end
In fields of green and golden sands
Where tin and coal and copper worked by men
Who worked until their lives did end

Where rivers run through valleys
And they find their way to the sea
where lies my home town; sacred place
Sosban, Llanelli

I look out from my window
See the Gower looking back
The estuary in between
Ebbing out and flowing back

The streets where miners trod-in coal
And sang their way to work
And tin men of a Saturday
Pulled on the scarlet shirt

There is no other place on Earth
That I would rather be
So I shall die here, rest in peace
In Sosban, Llanelli

While all along the sea-shore
Wild fowl will sing for me
Here is my home town
Sacred place
Sosban, Llanelli

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4,427 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

do you know something alan, you've got a way with words my friend.

i smiled at every verse, and thought you captured that feeling perfectly..."leave me alone, i dont need to be embarrassed with "surprise" just get me a drink and start the sing-song"...i'm with you all the way...really great one

phill

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4,428 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi kenny and daddycool, it may not sound angry, but i was when i wrote it, and once i got started it was hard to stop, which is why there are 2 versions [with different titles...?]

i got started with the factory closing which is why i gave the businessmen and bankers a bashing, and i also hate child abuse and the fact that more and more people are being made homeless so that was God's fault, as was terrorism and wars and murder...and politicians for everything. and they deserve it!

phill

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4,429 Reply by Phill Williams

(13 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks to you roger, alan and ark for replying and giving your preferences

phill

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4,430 Topic by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

For those that frequent the song writers forum, you may familiar with my song "I Wish", this is the original version [word wise] I changed the original words to make it more acceptable as a song, then I thought it might make a nice poem, so here it is less the bad words, it is a very angry poem/song. It will soon be on myspace.

I wish I was/I'm glad I'm not.       Phill Williams 5th March 2009

I wish I was a big bird, I'd spread my wings and soar
And all the smaller birds below, would fear for my claw
I'm glad I'm not a politician, putting spin on all their s***
My head stuck firmly up my a***, can't see the mess we've made

I'm glad I'm not a politician for I'd have to learn to lie
And send our son's and daughters out knowing they will die
I wish I had some power; a million dollar brain
You could call me captain parazone, I would wash their stain away

And I wish I could fly, fly, fly away

I wish I was an astronaut, flying to the moon
Never to come back home again, this earth of ours is doomed
I'm glad I'm not a banker, I couldn't look you in the eye
To take back all you've worked so hard for, and watch your children cry

And I wish I could fly, fly, fly away

I wish I was an angel, sitting on a cloud
Then all the lies our leaders say, could not affect me now
I'm glad I'm not a hostage, or a prisoner in a cell
Be tortured in a foreign land, for things I cannot tell

And I wish I could fly, fly, fly away

I wish I was a railway station, busy through the day
At night there's only homeless folk, that need a place to stay
I'm glad I'm not a business man, look at the mess they've made
Consigning millions to the scrap-heap, for the pennies that they'll save

I wish I could fly, fly, fly away

I wish I was a man of God, for then I might believe
That all the crap that's happening now would somehow set us free
I'm glad I'm not a preacher, does God hear the prayers we make?
Are wars and death and pain and lust his plan for heavens sake!

And I wish I could fly, fly, fly away

I close my eyes see children starve, in pain all their short lives
Their parents high on drugs and booze abuse them till they die
There must be something better, there must be something else
If we can't make this place a heaven; we will live here in this hell

I wish I could  fly, fly, fly away
Is money more important than a single human life?
30 years if you rob a bank, 6 months if you kill a child....

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4,431 Reply by Phill Williams

(5 replies, posted in Poems)

hi gitaardocphil,

thanks for the welcome, it came as a bit of a surprise to me, i was asked, obviously, but i was waiting for the confirmation, now i'd like to know how i do all that cool stuff...like seeing what has been taken off because it's a bit naughty...!

i shall try and think up a rhyme for you my friend
and i'll do it too...before the end
for belgium you come from, so to there i'll send
some happy pills, just for a lend

gitaardocphil you are a one
your rhymes are always full of fun
if you weighed the words, they would weigh a tonne
keep out of the rain, my friend
and in the sun

nos dda am nawr [good night for now]

phill

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4,432 Reply by Phill Williams

(8 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi alan

i havent had time to listen yet but i promise i will over the weekend

phill

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4,433 Reply by Phill Williams

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

i was a bit dubious of reading this at first, as i've drunk my fair share of salty water! urgh!

i think this qualifies as a story song, as it gives an opinion and a controversial one at that...big brother and all that. everything is censored whether they admit or deny it...and they usually deny!

power to the people, and well done jeff

phill

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4,434 Reply by Phill Williams

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi daddy,

as i read the words the first thing that came to my mind was the fart scene in blazing saddles, then when i read the comments it seems everyone else thought the same....great minds....?

cant wait to hear it, i hope it's ozone friendly

phill

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4,435 Reply by Phill Williams

(13 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi roger and kenny,

thanks for your kind comments, sorry i have not been around lately, as they're closing the factory, [cos there's no work!!!!] they are making us work 12 hour shifts, i'm cream crackered, and i've been trying to record this damn song, i've recorded and deleted it then recorded again so many times, i just thought sod it thats it...so i've put 2 versions of it on my space, one's an up tempo country style, `tuthers a moody [as you sugested rog] slow'y

i'd like comments [i know the guitars are out of tune, they need new strings...but i dont have the time] please say which you prefer...this goes for everyone

love to all and happy spring everybody

phill

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4,436 Reply by Phill Williams

(13 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi russ,

thanks for that, you put me in mind of a hilltop i'm familiar with in a place called the gower, it's a peninsular across the loughor inlet, i'm on one side the gower on the other! it's a place of natural beauty and the southern coast line is something to see on a hot sunny day in july. i remember from my childhood going over there on a sunday, and as you come over the top of the  mountain the view is breath taking, the sea a mile or so away deep azure and reflecting sun rays, tearfully beautiful...i recomend it to everyone.

thanks alan,

guy clark's song kinda reminds me of the time i thought an old umbrella would work as a parachute....no it didnt, maybe that's why i'm so thick?

hi daddy,

hope to record this tonight, i've written another verse...just when you think it's done?

thanks to all

phill

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4,437 Reply by Phill Williams

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi jeff, i've already posted mine, it's called saturday night.

phill

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4,438 Topic by Phill Williams

(13 replies, posted in Songwriting)

We all get depressed at times, this was me this week, I used to dream of being able to fly when I was young, so it's all come out in this simple song. Also when playing the Em7/9 hold down D on the B string, and G and D when you play the C chord.

I WISH .PHILL WILLIAMS


[D] I wish I was a big bird


I could [Em7/9] Spread my wings and soar


And [C] see the world from [Em7/9] up on high


Above [A] the mess below




And i wish you were a caterpillar


Eating up the leaves


Then you'd turn into a butterfly


And fly away with me


||: AND I [C] WISH I COULD [Em7/9]FLY; [G] FLY, FLY [A] AWAY neutral|


And I wish I was an astronaut


Flying to the moon


An explorer in some distant land


In a big balloon




Liness or solitude


Call it what you may


From all those people mulling `round


I need to get away



||: AND I WISH I COULD FLY; FLY, FLY AWAY neutral|


And I wish I was an angel


Sitting on a cloud


Play with my harp for you


Playing much too loud




And I wish I could be somewhere else


Anywhere would do


But i dont want lots of people there


Just me and you


||: AND I WISH I COULD FLY; FLY, FLY AWAY:||  X2




And I [D] wish I was a [D/Db] railway station


[Bm] Busy through the [Bm/A] day


At [Bm/Ab] ]night i'd be a [Bm/G] shelter for


The [Asus] homeless kids to [A] stay...




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WORDS AND MUSIC BY Phill Williams 27th February 2009

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4,439 Reply by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi ark,

thinny to thicky...you could get in trouble there!!!lol

if there's a thicky about it's me, but playing Am 6 with F# played on the thicky is a real finger twister for me any way with my fat arthritic digits...or as kap 54 says..."just another brain fart!"
don't ya just love these colonials with their mongrelization of the queen's good english?

hi helena,

my feminine side? i do wash the dishes and peg out the washing and on sundays i also hoover the house while my dear ann polishes and cleans the wooden flooring, it's a 50/50 thing at the williams's...feminine side? never......pass me my lippy

phill

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4,440 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi alan,

you are right, most of us have suffered a life threatening illness at sometime, i had something called "sarcoidosis" which at various times had been misdiagnosed as a chest infection and even TB! i had  a hooterectomy where they stuck a camera up my nose and into my lungs where they found an enlarged gland, they thought it might have been cancerous but luckily [for me] it wasnt. but in the space of one week i lost 10 kilos in weight, 22 pounds, i had no energy and i found it hard to walk, drive and most of all i didnt want to sing...i must have been ill. now i'm well again, but my wife has confessed that the whole family thought i was going to die...hard lines i'm still here!

great and thought provoking lyrics...and i can play all the chords...lol

phill

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4,441 Reply by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Hi guys,

Thanks for the comments.

Selso,  up lifting! I've never been accused of that before...I'm glad you've got back the one that you feel is the right one...that's what the song is about.

Hi Kenny, I am lucky and I'm not afraid to admit it, in fact I'm quite happy to shout about it "I'M IN LOVE WITH A WONDERFUL GAL"

Hi Ark, I don't understand all the too-doo about G diminished, I've been playing it all my playing life, and it's easier to play than Am6/f#...I know I just tried, but the f# is played on the 6th string not 1st making it easier, then surely that just makes it Aminor6? unless you also play the bass note....I guess this rambling thing does come with the onset of old age...pass my Horlicks, love

Hi Rog, I am in the process of recording it, but as I mentioned before on email I'm just snatching moments on-line this week due to work commitments, so I'll up-load ASAP.

Hi Alan, it's only a chord, one of the first I ever learned, if you can play D, then G diminished is an easy progression from there.

Hi Russ, smoothie is it? haven't heard from you for a while, we will have to get together soon for a long chat me auld mucker. Yes I am just an old romantic at heart, but this was for a friend but as usual using my own experiences to hopefully give the person hope for the future...love wise.


Thanks again for you're kind words

Phill

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4,442 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

alas no, never saw her again, any way the state I was in she was probably a Border Collie!

phill

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4,443 Topic by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This is a song of hope, even if you feel that there is no-one out there for you, and the love you had has gone out, like the proverbial candle, keep looking as the one especially for you is out there looking for you. Sorry if this looks like I'm shouting, but I wrote it in "word" first then "copy`d and pasted"

(LOOKS LIKE) WE COULD LAST FOREVER.Undefined


[C]LOVERS I'VE [Gdim]HAD AND [F]HEARTACHES [Fm]TOO


[C]LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS [G]NO-ONE FOR [C]ME


THEY'D BE [C]GOOD FOR A [Gdim]TIME


BUT [Am]SOMEWHERE DOWN THE [F]LINE


WE'D BE [Em]PARTING AND WE'D [Dm]SAY GOOD [C]BYE


BRIDGE




NOW [E]I BELIEVE THERE'S [Am]ONE FOR EACH


AND IF YOU LOOK [D7]LONG ENOUGH YOU WILL [G]SEE


THOUGH THEY'RE [C]GOOD FOR A [Gdim]TIME


SOME [F]WHERE DOWN THE [Fm]LINE


YOU'LL BE [C]PARTING AND YOU'LL [G]SAY GOODBYE-[C]


CHORUS




SO [F]KEEP LOOKING [Em]OUT SOME [Dm]DAY WITH OUT [C]DOUBT


YOU WILL [Am]MEET THE ONE THAT'S [G]RIGHT FOR [Am]YOU


LIKE [F]I DID AND I [Em]DO, [Dm]BELIEVE THAT IT'S [C]TRUE



[Am]LOOKS LIKE WE COULD [G]LAST FOR [F]EVER-[Fm]-[C]




REPEAT SAME CHORDS FOR EACH VERSE




OH! MY POOR HEART, WAS FALLING APART


SO I KNEW I HAD TO FIND YOU SOON


WHEN YOU CAME MY WAY IT BECAME A SPECIAL DAY


AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD LAST FOREVER




REPEAT BRIDGE AND CHORUS




SO THE MESSAGE MUST BE IF YOU ARE LIKE ME


HAPPY TO BE WITH JUST ONE


THOUGH IT'S FUN FOR A TIME TO HAVE GIRLS IN A LINE


YOU'LL BE SORRY AND YOU'LL SAY GOODBYE




REPEAT BRIDGE



WORDS AND MUSIC BY Phill Williams 23rd February 2009

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4,444 Topic by Phill Williams

(1 replies, posted in Poems)

This began as a social comment dealing with the credit crunch and the fact that I like so many others will soon be out of work. Then [for some reason] it became a desire to be where the greats are, I could just imagine this line-up jamming away for eternity, can you think of anyone else that would add to this line-up?

Jamming For Eternity                 by Phill Williams

The good old days are gone
Being alive really isn't much fun
Before I used to live
Now I just survive
Now I think I'm half dead
When I was so alive
And each letter through the door
Says I owe more and more
How I lost my will to live
Cos the good old days are gone

I could deal with all the twists and bends
And all the hoops and hurdles they could send
If this tunnel had a light
Twinkle in the darkness, twinkle bright
Give me strength to fight this fight
Cos the good old days are gone

Elvis left the building
Lennon left it too
Hendrix and Janis Joplin
John Martyn and John Denver
And the Who's Kieth Moon

Heaven must be bouncing
All those rock and country stars
Jamming for eternity
Mad drums and screaming guitars

Sometime I think I'll join them
To sit and watch them play
Holly must need a roadie
John Bonham a mixer man

Freddy Murcury may need a tissue
To wipe his sweaty brow
To me this would be paradise
Oh! God, please call me now

Yes the good old days are gone my friend
But their music still lives on
Even though the greats are bothering God
It's odds on he wont send them back

They're jamming for eternity
And our good old days are gone...

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4,445 Topic by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Hi Jeff, this is my story song, it's about a bachelor party I went to back in the 70's, before I met my dearest wife. It's all about guys going out on the town, flirting and getting legless. And the boys are more important than women? I must have been young! and very simple too! It's a rock`n`roller

Saturday night.Undefined


It's [E]saturday night and you're hitting the town


The [Ab]boys are alright nothings putting you down


A [A]drink in the bar and your starting to move


Some [B7]more in the club and your hitting the groove


Chorus




[A]Satuday na na night-[E]


Saturday na na night-[A]


Saturday na na night-[B7]...oh oh, oh oh


You [E]get on the dance floor and your looking around


There's a [Ab]strawberry blonde she's filling her blouse



So you [A]ask her to dance and she starts to writhe


She [B7]just wants to smooch and the records a jive...




Repeat Chorus




Well your [E]getting the hots for this strawberry blonde


But the [Ab]guys want to move, talk about pushing on


[A]Stay with the blonde or go...what a choice


So you [B7]kiss her goodbye and your off with the boys




Repeat Chorus





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4,446 Reply by Phill Williams

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

hi buvvy,

i used to enjoy a nice-not-too-strong-coffee, but i started getting irregular heart beats and anxiety attacks, so i rarely indulge now, anyway nice change of subject...almost, maybe we can try something else next time...like orange squash or water?

phill

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4,447 Reply by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi kenny,

sorry if you think i tried to make light of things, but you know that if you need someone to talk to and i'm online...just give me a call...and the manual is just a book, look for the bits that you need to get you going and forget the rest till you need it and you are up and running...that's what i always do, then when you go through it at a later date, your more familiar with it and then it's a pleasant surprise what things you can do together...some say it's better than a woman...dont talk back anyway! roll

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4,448 Reply by Phill Williams

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

hi all and thanks

rog, it's like a thread innit? one starts and gets the rest following suit

hi badeye,  tea for two then?

hello alan, my grandmother was the same, the old kettle hanging over the fire in the old mantle, she had an electric kettle, but she kept that for boiling eggs...she's been gone 40 years now but she's still in my heart, thanks for reminding me of her

phill

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4,449 Reply by Phill Williams

(25 replies, posted in Songwriting)

i jeff,

just had a listen to "looking up" and what a very professional recording...congrats and a live band too?

well done and thanks for sharing

phill

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4,450 Reply by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Hey Kenny,

such a sad song my old mate, look forward to hearing it, when are you gonna get that new recorder working?

talk soon

Phill

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