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2008-03-18 21:27:58

YES YOUR RIGHT ENOUGH ROGER, I MEANT I USED HER PERSONALITY, SHE WAS A VERY STRONG AND DETERMINED LADY, AND I STILL MISS HER 30 YEARS AFTER SHE PASSED ON.

I SUPPOSE YOU WON'T READ THIS UNTIL TOMORROW [WEDNESDAY] SO GIVE THE OLD GENNY A KICK AND SHAKE AN OLIVE OR TWO INTO YOUR MARTINI ... SHAKEN NOT STIRRED OF COURSE

GLAD YOU LIKED MAGGIE, DID YOU HEAR BIRDS FLY AWAY? BIT DIFFERENT EH?

REGARDS PHILL

2008-03-18 21:21:13

Birds Fly AwayUndefined

[Em] Can you simplify the [D] answer, [Bm] I'm not listening with a [C] book [G]

[Em] You my be a great [D] romancer, but you [C] dance right [G] through me with a [D] look

(REPEAT SAME CHORDS FOR ALL VERSES)

Looking out on peoples highway, see them passing in their world

Each one going where their going, their destination never known

chorus

[C] The world is [G] full of other [D] people

Am] And every[G] one has it's own [D] name

[C] And every [G] face can tell a [D] story

[Am] And every[G] one begins the [D] same

A man is sitting on a park bench, enjoying resting in the shade

Watching life go on around him, he spends his summer days this way

Mothers passing with their babies, enjoy the peace while baby sleeps

Fathers kick ball with their children, he only sees them once a week

(rep chorus)

People seem to disappear now, just the birds are left to sing

The gates are closed the park day's over, Trust the birds to fly away

A mother runs by with her baby, father takes his kids back home

Benchman's lunch is in the waste bin, and the birds just fly away

(rep chorus)

(chorus 2)

Sometimes you feel just like a stranger

And no-one wants to know your name

No one cares they just keep going

And the birds just fly away...

THERE IS A RIFF ON THIS SONG BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT ON MYSPACE. IT IS QUITE SIMPLE [IT WOULD HAVE TO BE FOR ME] Em TO D-[USE BARRE CHORDS ON 7tH FRET-A SHAPE] THEN PUT YOUR FINGER ACCROSS THE 7th FRET SMALL FINGER ON THE "D" NOTE ON "E" STRING..GOOD LUCK

2008-03-18 21:00:20

This is from a project I've set myself called "PARK" it's about the people that you might find in any park in any town any where. Not this song of course as it mentions Cardiff and St. Davids in Pembrokeshire Wales. I based Maggies personna on my grandmother, if you go to www.myspace.com/phillwilliamswelshman you'll hear the song and see her picture.
hope you like it

MAGGIE COULTERUndefined

[G] Along the [D] roads up and [Em] down the [C] land

[G] You see them [D] walking and [Em7] holding out their hands

[G] Spare a [D] thought for the [C] way they live their [C] lives

Don't let the [Am] dirt on their [G] faces cloud the [D] goodness in your [G] mind

(REPEAT SAME CHORD PATTERN FOR ALL VERSES)

VERSE 2

She gave her name as Maggie Coulter

Just 45 but she looked much older

There seemed no reason for her to tell a lie...

Sometimes the truth is stranger than suspicions in your mind

chorus

[C] God [G] bless the [D] stranger

[C] Look [G] kindly on the [D] ones who have no home

[C] Say a [G] prayer for Maggie [D] Coulter

[C] And her [G] kind who live and [D] die [G] alone

VERSE 3

In the winter of 1959

Maggie found herself walking down the line

And the wind would blow the skin right off your face...

but she had to keep going got to get out of the rain

VERSE 4

Come the summer she would sleep out in the park

Always coming in just before the dark

Hiding till the keeper made his way back home...

With a paper for a blanket and some gin to keep her warm

VERSE 5

If you asked her;" where are you going?"

She had to see the saint buried in the west

She had to see the cathedral at St. David's

Walking to the sunset and sleeping in the rough

rep chorus

CHORUS 2

[C] No [G] room for [D] strangers

[C] No [G] food for the [D] keepers of the road

[C] No [G] place for Maggie [D] Coulter

[C] Just the [G] things that she [D] keeps inside her [G] coat

VERSE 6

[G] She gave her [D] name as Maggie [Em] Coulter [C]

[G] She found that [D] name in some [Em] bodies library book

[G] She spent her [D] life on the [Em] road to [C] Mandalay

[Am] She died one [G] winter in a [D] box on Tiger [G] Bay

2008-03-18 20:31:20

thanks russ, russel or will,
which do you prefer?

thanks for the comments and the advice, i'll try that a little later on, at the moment i'm in the middle of putting another two songs up on chordie and my space, you might want to look out for them their called; maggie coulter and birds fly away, to be honest i dont like passing moments very much, i just wrote it one night while i was on chordie, then stuck the chords on when someone asked me to. when i listen to it i shudder, my song not yours! yours is great. got to go work to do

bye
phill

2008-03-18 19:27:10

hi helena,

i've been waiting for you to put another song up, and i have to say even without chords it's very musical. i could imagine it in my mind [which is something i can't normally do with songs written without music] as a sort of walking beat in a country style, i may be wrong, so is that what you had in mind when you wrote it?

it's quite profound though, did you mean it to be so deep?

i particularly like the line at the end of each verse" the gift to live without." i guess that covers a lot of things, and it's exceptionally well thought out and written. congratulations. maybe you'll put music to it and post it on myspace, i wait with baited breath

phill

2008-03-18 19:16:12

nice song, makes you a bit of a bad boy though, never mind.

i get probs with chord pro too, it never seems to work for me try as i might

keep it up

phill

2008-03-18 19:12:05

thanks roger, glad you liked it...i'll get right on with that recording stuff strait away...oops corrie's on see ya lata

2008-03-17 22:19:00

HI ALL.

I've finally managed to get a song on to my space. If you remember Passing Moments it's there now and I'd like to hear your comments [nice ones please I'm very delicate at the moment]

URL is; myspace.com/phillwilliamswelshman

enjoy

Phill

2008-03-17 20:16:36

this is a lovelly song, a very haunting melody line and i just love the guitar work, the chords are great, how did you come up with them? i would never have thought of basing a verse on Bm to C, great. and then the key drop to Bb on the chorus. got to say it works so well, nice recording too.

well done

phill

2008-03-17 20:01:05

hi roger

it's not a ballad, it's quite a bouncy little number, line dance even.

i must try and get on my space

hi helena

yes she was wise to get out of it, but it turned out she wasnt the purest water in the lake either. lifes like that though isnt it?

phill

2008-03-15 10:25:54

This is a true story about a chap I know, who was due to get married, a very expensive do and honey moon all booked and ready to go. So off he went to Benidorm with about a dozen or so friends. After a week they all came home, except the groom who had met some Scottish guys and decided to stay another week with them. He phoned home to say he needed some time to think.
When he did come home, his fiancee had had enough, she cancelled the wedding the honeymoon, the lot. he tried his best but she stood her ground...it was over.
He swore he'd been a good boy, but that was a lie, and one day it was revealed that he'd got a local girl pregnant as well as what he'd been up to in Benidorm...So one of my favorite lines from the song..."even though I can swear there has never been another, I can't promise that there won't be someone there"...yeh
Very C/W, in a shuffle beat, line dance?

Tell My BabyUndefined

chorus

[c] Tell my baby that I won't be home [g] tomorrow

I'll be [D] riding down the road to who knows [G] where

[C] Even though I can swear there has [G] never been [Em] another...

I can't [D] promise that there won't be someone [G] there

Well [G] I thought it could finally [C] happen

That [D] I could settle down with [G] her

Be [C] faithful and be with her for[G]ever

But [D] I see that it's never gonna [G] work

(same chords for each verse)

Well I went out on my last night of freedom

My friends all knew that I couldn't keep my word

I promised that I'd be good and faithful

And keep my-self exclusively for her

rep chorus

But everywhere I looked there were lovely girls around

They tempted me and teased me all night long

And even though I swear I never touched one

I knew I couldn't keep this up for long

rep chorus

I've got to say I've never had a conscience

I've two timed every single girl I've had..(and the married ones)

Although I've always wanted to be faithful

I've always given in and been the rat

rep chorus

(single chords...no strumming)

Tell my baby that I left here crying

And I can understand her hating me

I know that I would hurt her just by leaving

But I know I'd hurt her more eventually

rep chorus

2008-03-15 09:34:55

put your feet up?

i think you've got the sex thing a bit mixed up ...ha ha ha

joke

phill

2008-03-15 09:32:12

hi daddy

is this just a made-up song, or is there a deeper story?

i love the yodle-eh-yiii-ooh bit, can you reach those notes?...i can only do it when my voice is hoarse.

great song

phill

2008-03-15 09:23:43

she must be a special girl to have such a special song written about her.

my daughter was also very clever and full of promise when she was a child, and now she has her own and she's just as bright and clever, you can have a conversation with her at age 3...her older brother is the same [he's 5], but then all my kids [and they're kids] are brill, just like your are i guess? isnt it great to be alive?

phill

2008-03-14 11:02:28

hi daddy,

this made me smile and laugh and a bit sad too.

it made me remember how i met my 2nd wife, on the night i had my stitches out, i had decided [after 2 "i think i'm pregnant" scares with ladies i didnt fancy living my life with] to have the chop, we met that night and we knew immediately that this was it. a year later we got married and she said she wished we could have a baby, so i had a reversal, 2 kids later i went for a 2nd chop, we now have 8.5 grandkids, no 9 due in october, we've been married 27 years this may...and it doesnt seem a day too long.

isnt love wonderful

love the song, it's got to be good if it makes you remember things from your past, and this does it in spades[as they say]

keep it up

phill

2008-03-14 10:12:32

thanks daddy and helena, funny how you both mentioned the "i had playing again line"
it actually meant...i played the song to remind me of us being together in better times.
sometimes when i'm doing a gig, i might smell the perfume that my wife wears on an other lady, then i yearn to be with my wife even though i know i'll be seeing her in a couple of hours, but you know what i mean now hopefully?

2008-03-13 10:55:51

This is a waltz...yes a waltz!
when you write a song you dont decide which way it's going to go, it does that itself, this reminded me of those Scottish songs that have bag pipes and accordions, and looking out on a loch, any way it's all about a lost love...sad innit?

ALL `CAUSE OF YOUUndefined

IN THE [E] BACK ROOM THERE'S [A] FOOTSTEPS ON A [Dbm] PLAIN WOODEN [B] FLOOR

THEY [Dbm] ECHO IN THE [B] SILENCE AND THE [A] CREAKING OF THE [B] DOOR

AND THE [E] MUSIC THAT WAS [A] PLAYING AT THE [Dbm] MOMENT WE [B] KNEW

I HAD [E] PLAYING [A] AGAIN

TO [B] REMIND ME OF [E] YOU

WE [A] ALL LOSE OUT [E] SOMEDAY

WE [A] ALL CRY [E] SOMETIME

WE [A] ALL HAVE A [E] SADNESS

AND [F#m] THIS TIME IT'S [B] MINE

AND THE [E] MUSIC THAT WAS [A] PLAYING AT THE [Dbm] MOMENT WE [B] KNEW

I HAD [E] PLAYING [A] AGAIN

[B] ALL `CAUSE OF [E] YOU

(REP CHORD SEQUENCE FOR NEXT VERSE)

IN THE HALLWAY A MIRROR AND PICTURES OF YOU

NOW THE SUNLIGHT SHOWS COBWEBS AND DUST GATHERS TOO

AND THE MEMORY OF YOU SAYING THAT YOU'D MET SOMEONE NEW

BROUGHT THE TEARS BACK AGAIN

ALL `CAUSE OF YOU

WE ALL LOSE OUT SOMEDAY

WE ALL CRY SOMETIME

WE ALL HAVE A SADNESS

AND THIS TIME IT'S MINE

AND THE MEMORY OF YOU SAYING THAT YOU'D MET SOMEONE NEW

I REMEMBERED AGAIN

ALL `CAUSE OF YOU

WOULD YOU [A] THINK OF ME [E] SOMETIMES

AS [A] I THINK OF [E] YOU

AND I'M [A] LIVING THIS [E] WAY [B] ALL `CAUSE OF [E] YOU

AND I'M [A] LIVING THIS [E] WAY

[B] ALL `CAUSE OF [E] YOU

2008-03-12 12:37:05

got to agree with southpaw, very trippy

you sound like an adrenelin junkie, unrequited love I guess the message is, well described we've all been there at one time or another, just one question though, gription? is that an Americanism? explain please.

regards

Phill

2008-03-12 10:59:46

Why is it you always write what I'm thinking?

It is very annoying that I've been writing songs since I was about 9 years old [46 years ago!] and not one has ever done anything, I've sent them to recording companies and got a "not what's happening at the moment, keep trying" reply. after a while you just give up. Having said that, it's great to get support from like minded people like your-self and the others on this site. So lets keep plugging maybe one day....

Great words, I couldnt quite make out the tune though, that's not you that's me, I'm useless like that

keep the faith

regards
Phill

2008-03-12 10:48:46

Oh! you wicked man...what's this then a cliff hanger, I can hardly wait

It may take a while though, my hard drive is full at the moment, let you know when it's ready.

Phill

2008-03-11 11:17:35

Hi Scrimmy.

Thanks I needed a laugh before going in to work. I particularly liked the part in the middle where you stop and turn the page!!!

It's spot on to the Friday nights I remember when I used to go out for a pint, now unfrotunately work has put a stop to that.

Any way great song full of truth and humour, and good singing too

regards Phill

2008-03-11 10:53:20

Hi Roger,
just listened to "I Will Walk Away" very nice, still think there's more to the song than your letting on?

Did think that it is lacking a bit of bass guitar and drums, with your permission I'd like to down load it and add them my-self to see how it sounds? Then maybe I can email it back to you [if it sounds OK] let me know what you think...

regards
Phill

PS. Hope you don't think I'm being clever or cheeky or critical, I'm just trying to help in my own way. I won't be offended if you don't want it...:rolleyes:

2008-03-10 10:45:38

Thank you Helena, always nice to hear from you, yes we are getting the same weather in Wales, where I am is not quite so bad at the moment, I got woken by a huge [no exaggeration] thunder clap earlier, frightening!

Roger, yes I agree with you. To be honest, I do record every song I write, I just still can't upload them to myspace!!!, I am on the musicians page I think as I got to upload one song, then it told me it had not got there. I can't find that page again, I'm just a dick...

I thought that chord might be some kind of G, maybe with an added 4th? On the other hand it could be a variation of E minor with an added 7th and G note on the bottom string! Any way it's all academic, we should leave the arguments for the people who care about chromatic sequences and things like that. I'm just a strummer who learned to play chords [very loudly] so that I could sing in my bedroom with out people thinking I was crazy!

Thanks again

Phill

2008-03-08 14:56:12

HI ROGER, couldnt get any sound form myspace, but the words are very bitter sounding, is there something your not telling us? it describes a relationship ending perfectly.

keep on keeping on

phill

2008-03-08 14:48:02

As usual I was messing around on the old string box, when a riff came to the old digits, then words sprang to mind, it ended up a little morose, as it deals with a castaway waiting for the angels to come and take him. As usual the words wrote themselves, all I had to do was find a title, it reminded me of the Robinson Crusoe story, even though it has nothing to do with him, or the Tom Hanks film! Hope you like it...

Robinson Crusoe Phill Willimas

When the [D] sea comes rolling ashore [*]

And the light of the day is no more [D]

And the [D] clouds that were white puffs up high [*]

Shed they're tears on the sand as they [D] cry

chorus

And the [Em] surf through the [G] shingle is [F#m] white

and the [Bm] thunder of the [Em] sea in the [A] night

[D] Horizon! see the moon cast it's light [*]

And I'm [C] waiting for the [G] angels tonight [D]

60 years- this beach has been home

Through wars and strife it's been home

Though the world of men will change

The sea and my beach will remain

rep chorus

bridge

[A] Angels I'm [Gdim] waiting for [Bm] you

Come [G] carry me [Gm] home to the [D] blue

This [A] life has [Gdim] taken it's [Bm] time

Now the [G] sea can claim one more [Gm] life...

When the sea comes rolling ashore

Take me home to the deep sea once more

Since the day I was washed up and saved

And the madness took me over I raved...

rep chorus

* THIS IS A CHORD I HAVE NO NAME FOR..NOTES ARE; [FROM THE BOTTOM] G, D, G&A OPEN, B, TOP E IS OPTIONAL

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4,826 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-18 21:27:58

Re: MAGGIE COULTER (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

4,827 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-18 21:21:13

Topic: BIRDS FLY AWAY (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Birds Fly AwayUndefined

4,828 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-18 21:00:20

Topic: MAGGIE COULTER (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

MAGGIE COULTERUndefined

4,829 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-18 20:31:20

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4,833 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-17 22:19:00

Topic: PASSING MOMENTS..ON MYSPACE (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)

4,834 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-17 20:16:36

Re: LOVERS WE WERE (17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

4,835 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-17 20:01:05

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4,836 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-15 10:25:54

Topic: TELL MY BABY (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Tell My BabyUndefined

4,837 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-15 09:34:55

Re: "our love" (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

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4,840 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-14 11:02:28

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4,841 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-14 10:12:32

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4,842 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-13 10:55:51

Topic: All Cause Of You. (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)

ALL `CAUSE OF YOUUndefined

4,843 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-12 12:37:05

Re: "Missing All the Signs" blues (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)

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4,846 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-11 11:17:35

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4,847 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-11 10:53:20

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4,848 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-10 10:45:38

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4,849 Reply by Phill Williams 2008-03-08 14:56:12

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4,850 Topic by Phill Williams 2008-03-08 14:48:02

Topic: Robinson Crusoe (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Robinson Crusoe Phill Willimas

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