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Gotta say Jeff...I like it. Not your usual style, more pop than country. As I said above it tells a tale of domestic normality, and the affection you, me and most of the worlds husbands have for their womenfolk.
PS Thanks for keeping it on S.C. till I could hear it.
Most of the songs I know and play I learnt decades ago. New songs seem to go in one eye and out the other! It helps if you can make up words as your playing, I used to do that a lot back in the day! I can only remember snippets of my own songs. If I try out new song in the future I'll give Grahams idea a go and read from song sheets. Memory full?
Hey Jeff. Reading through your words describes the domestic day to day routine most of us married folk live through. I often get trouble getting Ann to sit down and chill a while. Still can't get my tablet to play it, I'll have a better chance later on my pc.
Hi Jeff. I couldn't get it to play probably something to do with my tablet, not the ones you swallow! I'll try again tomorrow so don't take it down please. I love a love song and unlike the songs from the fifties and sixties where they cut out the best bits of a song to make it under two and a half minutes so the radio DJs would play them, a song of three minutes is perfectly acceptable, in fact I aim for three minutes or more. Give the whole story.
Both photo's coming through loud and proud. I got a photo up once a few years back...I cant remember how I did it though...must be my age?
BTW Jim, nice guitar, works better with it plugged in...lol
Not a problem Jim. I get great enjoyment from doing a production on other people's work. I was sorely tempted to put bass and drums on it and probably other things too! Ann doesn't sing, won't sing on tape if you get my meaning?
I've done a few things with Peatle and Easybeat, so I do get great enjoyment from working on others projects and hope I can work with them and others in the future.
I got the impression that the boy/girl were getting back together? Even with break up songs I like a happy ending!
Hi Jim. Tonight i had time for the first time since before Christmas so I had a go at your break up song. I've taken some liberties with your words and chords. I didn't realise till I'd worked it all out that it wasn't in "D" but "G" so I've done it in the key of "D" major. You can scrap it and consign it to the bin if you want, no problem, words below, scratch recording to come.
It's The Love That You Lose.
[D] Sitting by the [Bm] campfire. My [G] guitar weeps so [D] sad.
[G] As I dream of the [D] soft look. That her [Em] eyes once [A] had.
[D] Start singing a [Bm] love poem. That [G] I once knew by [D] heart.
[Em] But the meaning has gone [G] missing. [A] Since we've been [D] apart.
[D] I recall every [Bm] memory. And [G] still call out your [D] name.
[G] You know my lonesome [D] heart. Just wont [Em] ever be the [A] same.
[D] I should give my love to [Bm] someone. Who would [G] put down some permanent [D] roots.
[Em] Someone to hold me [G] every night. And [A] kick off his wandering [D] boots.
(CHORUS)
[G] You know some day we'll get [A] together.
[G] Talk of what we used to [D] be.
[G] And how much we loved each [A] other and [Em] why I had to [G] leave.
[D] We might talk about [Bm] decisions we made.
While [G] fate was ours to [D] choose.
And the [Em] cost of chasing [G] different dreams.
Is the [A] love that we must [D] lose.
[D] It could have been so [Bm] different. But I [G] guess we'll never [D] know.
[G] And I should've know [D] better. Than to [Em] ever let you [A] go.
[D] The love we had is the [Bm] one thing. That we [G] never could [D] regret.
[Em] Heart strings and [G] feelings. They're [A] so hard to [D] forget.
(CHORUS)
Zurf, the thumb is used, by me anyway, as opposing pressure on the guitar arm when fingering. To most guitarists that would be the right hand but I play left handed so it's my right hand thumb that seems to be wider!
Pete, you certainly shot off at a tangent there brother? I've heard the guitar called an axe (UK spelling) but never a arf dozen string machine. Ann calls my collection dust collectors or skip fillers when I die, I hope to get more pleasure from my babies before that eventuality
Many thanx Let us know when it arrives and how it feels and plays?
Who thought there'd be so many inuendos in my totally innocent enquiry? As for Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto ( sometimes known as Brutus!) And not forgetting Wimpy, I can't remember what the baby was called? The cartoons from the 50s were the best. And Lord Brian...I believe it was a tin of spinach not worms, bet they taste the same anyway...lol
Hi Beamer, congratulations on you reunion, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I let the semi-bad words get through...sorry.
That's lovely Jim. Your 2nd verse, the woman part, the last two lines don't work for me, sorry, clean your boots...no! You've got the makings of a great country song with both parties regretting the split, I know you'll say find a better line, so I'll try and get back to you if I get anything.
Pedr, you've had a very eventful and adventurous life. Long may it continue.
Lord Brian. Yes I did write it late Saturday night so it probably didn't make much sense? The thumb on my right hand is about 5 mm thicker than my left. It could be due to the many times I bashed it while I was an apprentice mechanic? But I thought the constant pressure opposing chord fingering over the last 55 years might have squashed it somewhat?
Annwyl Pedr. Sorry to hear about Arthur Itis lol, hope it doesn't bother you too much? I get it in all sorts of strange places...like my eyes! Or my neck. My right hand is getting a little stiff...no snickering at the back of the classroom please! I always think warm olive oil helps.
I play left handed and I recently noticed that the thumb on my right hand is fatter than the one on my left hand maybe due to using my right thumb to oppose fingering? I would like to know if people that have been playing right handed for many years have noticed the same discrepancy?
heart warming but sad, great words Jim. many top songs have used the same chords for verse and chorus, first one comes to mind is "dream, dream, dream" by various artists including the Everley brothers and Roy Orbison. maybe the addition of a bridge?
happy new year to you all. sounds like Mojo and Grah didn't fare so well at the end of last anus horiblis as QE2 said a few years back, but glad to see Graham is fighting back with his new band...rock on Grah. i had a charity gig planned in an old folks home for new years afternoon which got cancelled as they fell under the red list, after me taking another covid test and passing!
still let us hope 2022 will see us come out of the darkness and into the light once more
blwyddyn newydd dda i chwi gud ac eich teulu (happy new year to you all and your families)
Sounds like a challenging project? But satisfying and I'm sure it will turn out perfect and sound amazing. Can't wait to see and hear your baby.
I had left home by the 70's so I had the freedom to wear my hair to my shoulders with a beard to match. I thought I looked cool! Flared trousers or jeans with a denim shirt were my uniform. In a rock band I thought I was John Lennon, dream on... I'm lucky as my flares still fit, under the belly and over my socks, and I still managed to pull the birds..yeah man!
Those four words you should never say to a woman..."your bum's too big"...hide the cutlery ! Very funny all the same
quite relaxing. I notice a lot of edits musically and photographically? I thought the wet whistle choir was going to be Mr & Mrs Whisky?
Thanks all for your kind words and encouragement.
Seasons greetings to you too. I'm hoping your troubles are over and we will hear your dulcet tones and your inspired writings once more in the new year.
Thank you and welcome to chordieville
Thanks that's very useful information. I also use Google but keep everything sperate from emails.
Thanks again
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