4,501 Topic by Phill Williams

(8 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This is a bit of a jokey type song I just finished writing, I actually know 2 guys in this type of abusive relationship where they get beaten up and ruled over by their girlfriends. I often see them come to work [or the pub] with cuts and bite marks...it's not just girls that get beaten up by violent partners, who tell them it's not their fault because they "love them so much" as I tell them; jealousy is not love, it's an excuse...

The Devil Came BackUndefined


[E]I woke in the morning


Pains inside my head


She'd packed up all her bags


I'm leaving you she said


With a [A]heavy heart I waved her off


I even called the cab


And [E]when at last she got inside


I started feeling glad






I [F#m]went inside


I called some friends


[A]Cleaned my party shoes


[E]Drew some money from the bank


Tonight I hit the booze






chorus




I [A]woke again next morning


A banging in my head


And [E]when I opened up the door


I've come back she said






And the [A]devil came back


The [E]devil came back



And the [A]devil came back


[B]just as things turned good for me


My [D]life was back on track


[A]Satan's standing at my door


The devil came back






So [E]when my friends came calling


She told them all to go


She didn't want me hanging `round


With people she don't know


I [A]told her she was bad to me


She promised she would change


But [E]it seems she lied again


Cos she is just the same






I [F#m]feel so low


It hurt me bad


She [A]made me bleed and then


Took [E]all my money from the bank


And then she left again






repeat chorus





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4,502 Reply by Phill Williams

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

upyerkilt, "Love Grows" is an excellent song with a strong guitar riff.  "Venus" is most likely the one in the Gillette ad?

To Ozymandias, I  Googled mine, search for No 1's on this day

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4,503 Reply by Phill Williams

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They didn't start the UK charts until 1953 ... so it was "I Believe" by Frankie Laine. in the US on my birthday which was July 30 1951, Rosemary Clooney's "Come on a ma House", can't place it, but I was a bit young then!

Phill

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4,504 Reply by Phill Williams

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hi mrjay,

1st things first...dont panic!

i played with a band some time ago and i thought we were quite good, then this friend of one of the guys came up to sing, he was a pro and really hot. i expected to fall apart but he made us all raise our game, i've never felt so good playing. so dont fret, sit back and enjoy it...whats the worst that could happen? no ones going to beat you up are they? you may never get this chance again, so enjoy it.

phill

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4,505 Reply by Phill Williams

(1 replies, posted in Poems)

wow, remind me not to step on your corns alan!

nice one full of vengeance and spite...what a way to get revenge...yeah

phill

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4,506 Reply by Phill Williams

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

hi roger, yes she was and the roses i bought her, trouble is they were tulips! i've got to start wearing my glasses

phill

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4,507 Topic by Phill Williams

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

my wife and i have been together for nearly 30 years, i write a little verse every year, this is this years... use it if you like it

I have tried a hundred different ways
To say I love you; come what may
I cannot leave you, now I know
I know for sure I could not go

And if I went, I’d soon return
For by your side; I have learnt
Is the very place where I belong
My destination is where I was from

I may have tried a hundred ways
I may have looked a foolish waste
One thing I will surely do;
Is find my way back home to you

And just in-case you missed the message

I love you....true

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4,508 Reply by Phill Williams

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my first guitar was a really crap one that broke in half after a week! then i bought another the same, i couldn't get the strings to the fretboard! then various non-descript boxes, til i became richer and got a strat [1972] and a fender f90 acoustic i still have both, a crafter cutaway semi and a cort electric for stage use, i also have a wilson bass and an unnamed 12 string...lots of noise in my house!

phill

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4,509 Reply by Phill Williams

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i have so many favourite songs many of which have been named;

imagine, woman and how do you sleep..lennon

owner of a broken heart, the ladder, anything from "house of blues CD "...yes

anything from the beatles

anything from rumours by fleetwood mac

anything by queen specially scandal and these are the days of our lives

anything by jethro tull

another brick in the wall...pink floyd

anything by russel harding

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4,510 Reply by Phill Williams

(8 replies, posted in Recording)

may i make a little suggestion?

if worst comes to worst, and the speed bump [otherwise known this side of the pond as a sleeping policeman...aren't they all?] becomes an insurmountable mountain! couldn't we just post the songs on to a "my-space" type pay to listen website? the funds could be collected into a paypal account and distributed to the various charitable causes by mutual consent.

i'm trying....so my wife says, very trying!

phill

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4,511 Reply by Phill Williams

(14 replies, posted in Poems)

my mother used to sing me songs as a rule;
"tell me a story" or "chip chip my little horse" or "horsey horsey, dont you stop" etc i sang them to my kids and now to my grand children

i probably got my love of singing and music from my mother, cant blame my dad for that as he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, i got my love of DIY from him

phill

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4,512 Topic by Phill Williams

(2 replies, posted in Poems)

The Puppy

By Phill Williams

I bought a little puppy
The neighbours have a cat
A nasty little feline
He scratched and bit and spat

He terrorised my little dog
He'd come home scratched and raw
He's been bitten on his nose and tail
Scratch marks on his paw

If critters have a mafia
This pussy was the don
He seems all nice and cuddly
Then strikes when you are gone

But puppies have this habit
They grow and find their feet
And nasty little pussy cats
Will feel their canine teeth

One day my puppy'd had enough
This cat had gone too far
He'd eaten all his puppy snacks
And messed up all his yard

The red mist had descended
He could not take much more
He picked the cat up by the scruff
And threw him out the door

His teeth were bared and snarling
His tail was standing straight
His ears were back
His growl was deep
The cat had met his fate

So now the little pussy cat
Wont come into my yard
His memory of that fate full day
On his mind indelibly marked

When he sees my little puppy
He crosses over the road
He'd rather risk the rush hour cars
Than mess with mighty Toto [the dog's name]

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4,513 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi jeff

i get a lot of inspiration from "looking back" so there's nothing wrong in that...is there?
"memories good bad and down-trodden" sums it all up i think.

another good-un my friend keep them coming

phill

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4,514 Reply by Phill Williams

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good ad for your local radio daddy, have you submitted it? you never know you might get a job as a jingle writer!

phill

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4,515 Reply by Phill Williams

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thanks to all,

my father was in the Royal Navy during the 2nd world war and fortunately [for me at least] survived!
he was on destroyers, though this song is about the supply convoys from across the pond and how they were sunk by U boats...it must have been truly nightmarish. the "row boys just row" line is how i imagine the skipper would encourage his crew to survive, think about rowing and not dwell on the storm...etc

thanks again

phill

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4,516 Reply by Phill Williams

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hi russ,
tis the way they come out my friend. this is part [hopefully the last part] of my latest work called "to avalon" which deals with wars and our service men, since arthur's time, a bit grand but there you go...

glad you liked it, i'm working on a country song at the moment before going to work for night shift, talk soon brother

phill

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4,517 Reply by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi i've already up-loaded this to my space, hope you listen and enjoy it. i've tried to keep it in a folk style. i welcome any comments

phill

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4,518 Topic by Phill Williams

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

A song of sailors getting their ship torpedoed from under them.

Row Boys Just RowUndefined


[F]See the [C]roses growing [Dm]in my [F]garden


[Bb]Catch the [C]sweet scent on the [Dm]summer breeze


[F]Lazy [C]days watching [Dm]clouds pass [F]by us


[Bb]High in the [F]sky it's a [C]perfect [F]day




[Am]Is that the sun singing


[Bb]What is that cloud bringing? SAME CHORDS FOR EACH VERSE




Hear the laughter of a hundred children


Feel their wonder as you watch them play


They never notice as the skies are darkening


Thunder rumbles and they run away




chorus




[F]Row [C]boys just [F]row-[Am]


[Bb]Although the [C]waves break [Dm]over the bow


[F]Row [C]boys just [F]row


[Bb]The storm is breaking


[C]Your arms are aching


[Dm]Your wives are calling


[Bb]And the [F]land is [C]oh so [F]near





So big as she lays at anchor


Hardly moving on the summer swell


So small out on the ocean


And then the enemy blows her to hell




And as she dies quickly


I feel my heart sinking




repeat chorus




At last the morning and the skies are clearing


We are saved but not all survive


We say a prayer for those that never made it


And thank the lord for saving our lives




And as the sea claims them


I hear them calling out




repeat chorus twice



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4,519 Reply by Phill Williams

(11 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi kenny, very emotive mate, reminds me of my first wife, who spent all my wages and more each week before i could earn it!. my second wife ann, is so totally different now i'm almost rich in comparison!!!!

great song my friend and well constructed

talk soon

phill.

ps hows the new recorder going, anything up on my space yet?  i'll check it out after finnishing here.

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4,520 Reply by Phill Williams

(16 replies, posted in Songwriting)

well i'm shocked, songs just come out as they are, if a beat seems right i just use it!

thanks for pointing that out.

we had a heavy snow fall last night, first big one in llanelli since about 1983, i remember as thats when my daughter was born! it's thawing out now, but it will stay cold for another few days at least.

good news about the chordie CD, but i was refering to your own CD, let me know about both, you know you will have my support and any help i can offer.

stay warm

phill

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4,521 Reply by Phill Williams

(16 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks russ and thanks for explaining 6/4, cant see me trying that for a while even though "take it to the limit" is a favourite of mine.

glad your happy with your sessions, cant wait to hear the result...keep me a copy of the CD i want it!!!

it's snowing here at the moment, so what's it like with you, hope it wont affect the sessions

phill

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4,522 Reply by Phill Williams

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the monkeys were a manufactured band...so what about all the crap that now exist created more or less the same way?
here's a list of uk crap i mean bands

1 girls aloud
2. spice girls
3  those two irish bands...i can't be bothered to go on any further as they don't deserve a mention.

but, i've played in lots of bands, and apart from when your actually putting the band together with school friends or neighbours, as members leave [or get fired] you audition people you may have never met before, if that's not manufacturing a band what is?

phill's two pennorth

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4,523 Reply by Phill Williams

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it must be a nice time to be american with a new president and all. other side of the coin is the same as us this side of the pond, with all our depressions at losing our jobs and stuff.

nicely worded my friend... it would also be nice to hear it and your other stuff too.

if there's any thing i can do, just call

phill

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4,524 Reply by Phill Williams

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hi alan, this is surely heart rendering, i can't imagine anything more upsetting and soul destroying than to lose a child. i thought i would lose one of my grandson's in '07 in an accident while we were on holiday, and that really choked me up, so i guess the person who told you this story must be really gutted, give him my sympathies, and my congratulations to you for translating it so beautifully

phill

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4,525 Reply by Phill Williams

(16 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi folks, thanks for all your kind comments, i've been really bizzy of late and haven't had a chance to call in and look properly.

1. hi ken recieved you friend request and i welcome it, i'm a big fan of your work too

2. hi kenny, throw back? i just write what comes into my head dear friend and play it the way it feels...thanks to you too

3. hi lena, and marc for directing you...glad you both like it

4. hello jeff, nice to hear from you, what another throw back...now i do feel old lol

5. hi ark, my dad was in the navy as a gunner, he would never talk about it, and when i asked if he'd ever killed any one he just said "well i pointed my gun, but i can't say..." thats how the older generation is i guess.

6. hi russ, haven't heard from you for a while either, how are the sessions coming? i like that word "poignant"... tell me how does 6/4 go any way? thanks mate and thanks to you all, as a pat on the back from you guys means the world to me

phill

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