Hi DC, my tally of written songs is 428. I think that if I had tried to post them all, the Mods would have gone crazy trying to correct my ''hiccups''. My ''cyber skills'' are sorely and very sadly close to non existent. Now if only some big record company needed some lyrics, you and I might be in business. It's good to dream I suppose. Power to your pen, and keep up the great songs that you write.

Well done DC, maybe we should form a ''300'' club. I wrote my first song in October 2008, and yesterday wrote song number 423. It is called ''Banking Morons'', written out of pure frustration at trying to get my bank to e-mail something to me. Which they still have not done. It is a song that Ozzy Osbourne would be proud to sing, it is definitely NOT a ''family song'', except for the Osbournes' that is. I was going to stop on 350, but then inspiration hit, and well, !! here we are at 423. now i'm wondering if 500 might be some type of record - let's give it a bash. Power to your pen.

bensonp, if you  enjoy ''mowing'', you are more that welcome to come over here, we are on 7 hectares. J'll supply the beer, and watch as you enjoy my kidney killing tractor, sans power steering as well. Gotta keep the weeds and grass short as this summer we've had 2 cobra snakes take up residence in our rockery. Not the safest of tenants for us or our dogs. Now that they ''live with us'' i've had to go on a major clean up, burning dead wood and sawing up all sorts of dead trees and junk. I came very close to catching one of them a while back and last Monday one of them decided to visit, thank goodness i had the sliding door closed, as
he was only a few feet away watching me read a book. He also managed to escape. Never a dull moment.

Good one Ken, many a true word spoken, or in this case, written, in jest.

Jerome, good one, thankx, I think that I will have to get SWAMBO  to read your reply.

tonyespo, be grateful for even half a compliment. I cannot sing, and SWAMBO, consistently reminds me of the fact, PLUS, she does not like my guitar playing. When i put music to my songs, she flatly refuses to sing with me, with the result that i have to sing to be able to work chords out, so ---- ''brick and a hard place''. Last Saturday we were at a braai, ''bbq, in UK or USA speak'', and i took an acoustic along and a book of my songs, on the first chord i was told again ''don't sing'', ok, so how are the people going to follow a song that they have never heard before. ''It doesn't matter, just don't sing.'' The upshot of this was that i sang at the top of my lungs, hopelessly flat and out of tune and key, and nobody cared, everyone was dancing and having a fine old time. I even had one of the kids who writes his own rap songs jamming with me, he was rapping at a million words a minute, and then SWAMBO told me that i was playing too loud, so --- sometimes you just don't win. On the upside, i once overheard her telling a friend how nice something was that she had heard me composing, using and electric and a wah wah pedal. So, - if a compliment comes your way, hug it and frame it.

Hi Kap54, absolutely brilliant, you have hit the nail on the head. There are many, many esoteric ''things'' out there that we in our closeted world have no true understanding of. Also, as you said, the song has a very ''Floydie'' feel to it. well done again.

Great stuff 'toots,  oh for a plane ticket. I'm sure that it will be a blazing success.

Mine change all the time, but these 5 are right up there;

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Senor - Bob Dylan
On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd

Frijid Pink also did a killer version of House of the Rising Sun, make that number five and a half.

Ark, absolutely superb. Seriously well done.

Dolly, as ever, excellent stuff. If you can, cast aside the negatives of your life, not always easy, I know. And remember, the sun always shines up above the rain clouds.