4,576

(5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

HI LONE,

welcome to chordie.

excellent 1st song, i like the way you've planned out your arrangement, even before putting a tune and backing to the song.

well done, looking forward to hearing the finished song

phill

4,577

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi kenny

i like soundclick just fine, it's a wee bit confusing to navigate at first till you get into it, as you can see...i'm not quite there yet.

thanks helena

nice to hear from you as arkady mentions i put down the wrong address for this song, if you'd like to hear it, the link is at the bottom

mr arkady

superman to the rescue!!! thanks for the proper address we could all have been stumbling round in the dark for all time with out your help. it's little things like that, that makes this site such a joy to be part of.

thanks again to all

phill

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default...dID=886959

this is so wierd, i can get to my site via arkady's address but not how i've written it...someone tell me where i've gone wrong... please

4,578

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks russ,

the song was written around my own happy and sometimes not-so happy childhood memories.
if any one would like to listen to this song [and a couple of others] please go to;

                        http://members.soundclick.com/phill+williams

then click the blue phill williams on the left hand side...please enjoy

phill

4,579

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This is all about my godmother aunty Dolly, and how I used to wait for her to arrive at Christmas time, she lived in High Wycomb so it was quite a drive down to South Wales. For Dolly

Blue ChristmasUndefined


[F]Little candles on the [Dm]Christmas tree


[Gm]Chocolate Santa's [C]just for me


[Am]Silver tinsel [Bb]too


And I [F]keep [Am]one [Dm]gift [Gm]for [F]youREPEAT CHORDS FOR ALL VERSES




Needles falling to the floor


Every day a little more


Christmas makes me blue


If I can't be with you




chorus




[Bb]Blue [Am]Christmas,


[Bb]Blue [F]Christmas


The [Gm]angel seems so [C]blue


For [Bb]Christ[Am]mas [Gm]with out [F]you




[Bb]Blue [Am]Santa



[Bb]Blue [F]reindeer


[Gm]Christmas makes us [F]blue


If [Bb]we [Am]can't [Gm]be with [F]you


Noses pressed up to the window pane


Wanting snow, but getting rain


Looking out for you


For Christmas will be blue




repeat chorus




Christmas log on Christmas eve


But sadness falls as you take your leave


I start to cry for you


Without you Christmas is blue


I start to cry for you


Without you Christmas is blue





4,580

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi daddy,

yep a nice cuppa and a piece of cake sounds like a nice slice of heaven to me. any chance i can come `round for a cuppa? 2 sugars and milk please

phill

4,581

(5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

nice one mate...it took me ages to work it out


phill

4,582

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi friends

thanks for the lovely comments, as ark says it's now on my web page, sorry for the voice i've been working a lot over the last few weeks and i've got very hoarse [or is that horse?] or is it a frog in my throat...so let the frog sing... the old ones are the best

phill

4,583

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

hi deadstring

i've been playing in public for 30 + years, [in pubs and clubs, i drink orange squash as i'm driving home], i never get nervous unless i'm playing with someone i'm not sure i can rely on.
as for fluffing your guitar parts we all do it, and the more you worry about it the more you'll do it.

as for playing in church; it's not that the congregation wont forgive you, it's the fact that they'll all be gossiping about you till they find someone else to gossip about...so why worry, be flavour of the month and enjoy the notoriety... 15 minutes of fame and all that! cool

phill tongue

4,584

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

hi helena

i don't have a dog, but our friend next door has, she calls him "fugly" you can work that one out for yourself i think!

phill

4,585

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

I wasn't going to put this up till I read Jeff's new song. It's about an event that happened nearly 30 years ago, which I wrote about last week!

I Tried To Run AwayUndefined


[Bb]Once i tried to [F]run away


[Gm]I felt I'd lost the [Eb]fight


[Bb]I just wanted [F]to be free


Of the [Gm]sadness in my [Eb]life






My [Ab]heart was torn, my [Eb]dreams were sad


The [F]joy had gone for [Gm]what I had


[Bb]Once I tried to [F]run away


I [Eb]failed for that I'm [Bb]glad


The [Bb]more I tried to [F]stand up straight


The [Gm]more I fell [Eb]apart


For [Bb]all I tried to [F]block things out


The [Gm]more I heard my [Eb]heart


It [Ab]missed a beat, [Eb]it hurt me bad


The [F]joy had gone for [Gm]what I had


So [Bb]once I tried to [F]run away


I [Eb]failed for that I'm [Gm]glad


chorus


[Dm]You came you [G]followed me


You [C]said that I [Am]belong



With [Dm]someone who will [G]comfort me


As [C]you have all [Am]along




[F]So I stopped and I [G]thought a while


And [Ab]slowly I [Bb]began to smile


And [C]though I tried to [G]run away


I [F]never will a[C]gain




My [Bb]heart was torn my [F]dreams were sad


The [G]joy had gone for [Am]what I had


[C]Once I tried to [G]run away, I [F]failed for that I'm [C]glad


repeat chorus




[C]Thinking back I'm [G]lucky that


I [Am]never threw [F] [away


The C]one thing that has [G]kept me here


From [Am]then until this [F]day




I [Bb]feel so warm, the [F]fear has gone


I [G]know this love goes [Am]on and on


[C]Once tried to [G]run away


But [F]who knows where I'd [C]gone?



4,586

(11 replies, posted in Songwriting)

lovely message jeff,

all us old married men can give a nod to this as you've spoken our thoughts, our greatest treasure being our other [and better] halves. looked on your web, and a bit disappointed that you haven't put this up yet, let us know when it is there?

your friend

phill

4,587

(5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi apedoctor,

you been auditioning for x factor? this reads like a rejection on the faces of all those sad misbegotten souls who are humiliated by the judges and ultimately by themselves.

strange chord sequence, good for barre excersises but to know exactly how you meant it to sound you should put it onto your own myspace page. please do, and let us know when it's there

phill

4,588

(18 replies, posted in Songwriting)

great idea roger, wish i'd known about it...i could tell who wrote each verse and the recording with most of the contributors works well.

well done chordians

phill

4,589

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

to eveyone

i've just listened to russ's tracks, and i can highly recommend them, they are very biblical, and deal with Jesus and his disciples so if your very anti Christian listen to the songs as songs not as holy music. i'm not that religious and i enjoyed them!

go to the website not the mediafire link below...enjoy

phill

Hi Stonebridge,

I usually use my "pinky" for the high E, with my ring finger holding down the B string on the 3rd fret, especially on The Eagles "Take It Easy" sounds nice, I was shown it by a guy called John Rodge in Llanelli in 1968 who was showing me variations on certain chords, he tried to teach me to play properly but failed, I'm still crap, ask Russ Harding!

Phill tongue

4,591

(20 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi guys,

must be a hicup on my site then, it has been taking a long time to process my songs lately.

i'll have to give sound click a go ark, thanks for the suggestion

phill

4,592

(20 replies, posted in Songwriting)

apparently everything is smaller over here? roll

but good things come in small packages cool

4,593

(4 replies, posted in Songwriting)

I woke up Thursday morning and this was running round my head, so as the wife was out I wrote it down quickly and recorded it roughly, thing is after recording it I've changed some of the words!

Any way it's called Old Black Car, and it's about those annoying people who insist on parking out side your house taking up 2 spaces so you've got no room to park...it's a British thing!

BACKING VOICES SINGING.."Ooh yeh ooh, ooh yeh" after each verse

Old Black CarUndefined


There's an [Am]old black car pulling [G]up out [D]side my [Am]home


There's some[Am]one inside but I [G]don't think [D]she's [D]alone


If she [C]don't go soon I'm gonna [E]ask her where she's [Am]going




REPEAT SAME CHORDS FOR EACH VERSE




Well the paint is scratched and the tyres are flat and worn


There's rust down the side and a there's hole in the door


If she don;t go soon I'm gonna ask her where she's been




Oh! driver, driver who's that in your car?


Clean the glass and move out of my yard


If you don't go soon I'm gonna ask you who you are






Chorus




I should [C]play the [B7]man don't [Am]act like Mrs Jones



[C]Move the curtains [B7]complaining all [Am]alone


[C]Grow some [B7]balls and tell them they must [Am]go


Or [G]maybe I'll just [D]wait another [Am]hour




Well the glass rolls down and I see someone inside


I can see her face and I can see she's got no pride


If she don't go soon I'm gonna ask her for a ride




"Well farmer boy" she says and calls me on


"Today's the day that you become a man"


if she don't go soon I'm gonna tell her "yes I am"




repeat chorus




There's an old black car moving down the road


There's someone inside but I don't think she's alone


And I don't know why but I'm so glad that she's gone.



4,594

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hey amigo,

your getting to sound like a true cow puncher my friend, although you normally stay a bit further north?

have you thought about writing books? with your ideas and out put i'd give it some thought

phill

4,595

(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi ark,

i agree with weedjie, excellent title, i'm deep into space [and sci-fi] myself, in fact anything with star in the title; star trek, stargate etc

phill...live long and make music

4,596

(20 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi again

i've just looked at myspace and it appears that where you were once allowed 6 songs, you can have only 5 now, so i deleted one to get rock god up. more appologies this time to helena and the irish nation... sorry i guess it's not an irish thing after all roll

4,597

(20 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi helena,

yep your right it must be an irish thing, big_smile
conversely it can take a day to up load some songs [maybe longer in ireland?:D]  i'll check if it's there later, if not i'll upload again.

hi jeff,

nice to hear from you, how are you mate?
it's funny how just hearing someone playing a riff can get the juices flowing, i just hope russ likes what i've done to it.

felicitations russel,

as i've said to jeff above, i hope you like what i've done to your tune, i have not followed the melody line that you give on the video and i have no clue where the rock god bit came from, as i say i am just the scribe, where the words come from i can't tell

4,598

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

we've all got our own life roads, jeff, the names are different but the story's are the same

nice one

phill

4,599

(20 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Dear Russel,

how long have you known me now? and you still don't get my sense of humour.

i wrote those words for the enjoyment i get from writing and taking part, i wasn't demanding money, specially not from you as i think of you as one of my best friends, and anything i can do for you i will...just ask. eg; if you want me to write some more words for you which will be an easy one! and an honour.

Pressing on...i've now uploaded "rock god" so anyone that wants to hear a country song done rock style have a look in myspace [web site on the left]

phill

4,600

(4 replies, posted in Songwriting)

such tender words, you've hit the spot again. the best part is making up...i agree with that one whole heartedly, i love the feel of my wife's lips when we make up after an argument,not that i cause an argument just for that...i'm digging myself a hole here....


nice song, stay cool

phill