I still sing Obladi-Oblada in my set, [I'm a guitar/vocalist doing local pubs and clubs in UK].

The audiences still sing along and dance to it and many others, I do some just to annoy people like;
The Birdies Dance [yeh honest]
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Doo Wah Diddy
and there's more...

But I try to even up the dumb/intelligent balance by playing;
Something Inside So Strong
Drift Away
I Saw Her Standing There  ... a cracking Macca song, I'm sure you'll agree
Wonderful Tonight
etc etc

I wont even go into the lower forms of music like; rap punk or Oasis [lol]

In all honesty, modern music, maybe goes more into the less innocent themes, [not the I love you, you love me..forever and ever stuff of the 50's and 60's], it's more brutal these days, and maybe that's sad in itself, as maybe pop music is committing suicide.
Music for the masses, it may be, but styles and fashions are created and directed by the suits and  producers, whose only interest is making another million on the backs of the young and gullible.

Check out Simon Cowell; eats `em up and spits `em out. In other words, he makes and act, [usually mildly talented] makes them into household names, then before they can ask to actually have a say in their next recording he drops them for another flash in the pan!

Sorry...another sermon, I'd better log off

if your a wannabe...keep trying and ignore the above

Phill

GREAT LYRICS, haven't had a chance to play along with the chord sequence [my lady's sleeping] and very topical.

What is really annoying is that profits come before anything else with governments and industrialists. If only they would take less profits and clean up their emissions, I work in a plant that has copper dust in the air, plus gasses associated with the tinning process, add to that the mineral oils and other chemicals associated with the manufacturing process, I and my workmates breathe this in every day, but it also goes out into the atmosphere!!!
Fact; we all want to feed our families; so we need to work for big bucks, [if we're lucky] and we also want to be independent by having our own means of transport [public transport being so crap in the UK] so therefor we are not too bothered with global warming, etc. And most of us believe it wont really happen, maybe little green men will come and save us all from ourselves at the eleventh hour.
Here's a flash;  they didn't come and save us before the first and second world wars broke out! so whats the chance now?
Any way, we'll probably get wiped out by a giant asteroid like the dinosaurs before that happens, then when the ants and beetles have evolved enough, they can puzzle over what we were, and how we lasted so long.

Now I'm depressed

keep writing you were born for it

Phill

PS I'm not a greenie

my god! how did you know how i felt about my life?
it's just amazing, you've captured my feelings exactly, i've felt like this all my life but never been able to put down in words what i was feeling, so thanks for doing that for me and thanks for writing such an emotive and inspiring song...you're the man

respect

phill

thanks Daddy,
nice to hear from you again, families can be a bit like that, at our wedding reception my family were on one side of the room, and my wifes on the other... very awkward as you can imagine. never mind we survived and my mother actually came round to her in the end.

chill man Phill

Hi Old Doll,

Talking of sunshine, it's been nice here today, but a bitter cold wind..summers coming

Phill

[Would you mind very much if I call you Helena? as your handle? sounds a bit rude}

cool? chillingly cool

phill

hi daddy,

in your dinnertime? you show off

ps, does your boss know?

warm regards
phill

ah! memories of my younger days...

you know how to evoke them Daddy, I took both my grandsons to see the Thomas the Tank show in Carmarthen, a couple of years ago. they loved it (so did their grampa) this song does it for me.

keep on keeping on

Phill

I love it.

I think life is a long journey that we should keep on until we find what we are looking for, for you and for me my friend, it was finding that one special woman, and for them it was finding us, but none the less, life is not over just because we have found our soul mates, the journey is a long adventure, and as when your driving, don't go to sleep or you might leave the road. Which means; don't let the love/romance sit on the back boiler.

I usually write my love songs about my wife too, in fact she pops up in most of my songs somewhere.

keep strummin' my friend

Phill