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So very true.I love the line "Life was much simpler then." How many have sung along with the radio?
yes, the 60's and 70's were much simpler and most of the music was enjoyable and played by real musicians. singing along to a good song is one of my favorite things. thanks for the comments.
Hey Phill - I love it - I agree with Pete, has kind of a pub song feel to it. I can picture a pub sing-a-long...getting me thirsty now.
Thanks Jeff. you must have got better pubs than we have, it's all up-to-date songs sung by teenagers(?) to backing tracks so you cant tell if they're actually singing.
Your words remind me of the night I met Ann. The rest goes without saying. The saddest thing must be a break up of a relationship, in my friends and family which includes my pals on Chordie. But the greatest feeling in this world has to be life long love between two people, and once again Jim, you've captured that in your words. Keep them coming.
Thanks Peatle. Of course I blame you for all this nostalgia...lol
Peatle....who are you again? Lol
I was also born and brought upin a rural community, there were more farms than houses. Now the farms have gone, replaced by "posh" expensive houses! I moved to our local town only 3 miles away yet there's more sense of community here now than there is where I grew up, I guess that's what money does to some folk.
Where I used to work is only a half mile from here, they closed the factory and built a school on the site. You could argue that education is more important than jobs, but I think both are necessary, especially with Brexit being forced upon us by the greedy and stupid! I pick my granddaughter from school most days, she's six and because of the way things have deteriorated, it's a matter of her safety. At six, it was deemed safe for me and my friends to walk the mile or so to and from school! Until I left school at 15 I was a skinny, shorty! Now I'm somewhere around 2 metres and 107 kilos with face fuzz and glasses, not to mention (apparently) six months pregnant...mlol (more laughing out loud) . I've forgotten what the jist of my story was so I'll leave it there. It just goes to show what your astute observations make people recall. Hwyl
Yes Jeff, we've all been there. Love the flow of your words, and let us know when it's on YouTube or wherever so we can hear it.
Ah Peatle, I'd like to say that this happens so often, but it doesn't! Most of my school chums are reclining under six feet of good Welsh soil, or they've moved to pastures new. When I have met up with some of them, the conversation goes almost exactly as you've written. I met one guy in a pub back in the day we were big pals but he didn't even know who I was! Maybe some kind of brain damage caused by the punch I gave him during one our fights? I doubt that as I couldn't punch my way out of a paper bag back then...lol. no, I think he'd had some kind of stroke or worse.
As usual Mr P, you've got my brain working with your insightful, intelligent and concise view of the world.
Great little protest song, well done. Only it's a bit confusing! I get the reference to genocide and the hatered we all feel for dictatorships. What are you saying about the farmers in Africa? I know that their dictator and war chiefs are encouraging the murder and reclaiming of their tribal lands, or that's the rhetoric their given to incite violence. It's no less than we Europeans did in the last 200 years! The world is full of scheming, selfish, power hungry megalomaniacs, and the poor are being manipulated by these silent tyrants, as we are here in the UK, think about that one.
As I said, great little protest song, you sound almost like Bob Dylan only your harmonica sounds better!
Peatle you are a true poet, of that there is no doubt! You are also an artist. If I had to categorise you, you'd have to fall somewhere between Warhol and Lou Reed. Well done my friend.
You must feel guilty as hell? Yeh right. There's an American saying....never give a sucker an even break... which is true, cos if you hadn't got them someone else would have. At least with you they've gone to a good home. Great bargain hunting, well done.
as usual your thoughts are quite dark and revealing, and of course well written. i particularly like the first four lines, i don't really want to remember my break up, but that year between leaving her and meeting Ann were exhausting and i felt rubbish for using all those young (and not so young) ladies. make the most of your free time.
happy Oz day, i dare say there will be one or two amber nectars downed tonight?
I have to agree with TF, and your good self Peatle, time fly's by as you get older. The run up to Christmas seemed to take forever when I was a pre teenager. Now it seems it's October one minute and January the next.
In my mind I still feel 30, in my body my true age...68 in a few months, and they'll fly by!
So, a great poem and song, gets people thinking and remembering, always a good sign.
sounds even more poignant than the reading. your voice lends itself so well to this kind of song, almost Willy Nelson, and the guitar is just right.
i'm so jealous. and impressed
Get that amp up to 13, if it don't feed back it ain't up loud enough. Your words strike a chord with me too! Going through my first marriage break up gave me my lost week end that lasted about 9 months, no drugs just birds and booze and lots of gigs!
That's a great song Jeff. just reading through and imagining how the chords play and how the melody line sounds, it sounds nice and easy. If you've still got a few moments while the snow holds the outside world at bay, a recording would be nice?
as i read through i could imagine it as a rock song. it has very, almost Shakespearean imagery. i'd like to hear it put to music too. a great poem all the same.
i've come to realize that country rock is one of my preferred music genres. this is a brilliant example of just that. thanks for the reminder.
peatle is right it could make the opening to a book. it's a nice piece of poetry, very deep i thought, are you going to put it to music?
we have a thing called "tinsel and turkey" which is basically a couple of nights at a hotel where they pretend it's Christmas and new years eve, starting in December, so as i've do several each year i've already sung old lang syne 4 or 5 times in the last month, so i'm sick of it and all those Christmas songs. i've never sen the film you mention, so i shall look it up. happy new year to you and Dondra xxx ( the kisses for Dondra not you)
it was said some time ago that every song would have been written by the year 2000 so nothing can be completely original. there is only one key cos the other eleven are just repeats of it played up the scale (or down?) to me it's the words you write and the feel you put into a song that defines it. as i hinted, there's only 4 basic chords in any key plus their derivatives eg; 6ths, 7ths, 9ths diminished or augmented etc, majors and minors. the rest is all you...and you do it so well. happy new year to you and your family
To be honest, at the moment I'm trying not to write songs. I'm noticing that they're all beginning to sound the same! I also seem to be going round in circles with topics; love, hate, war, cruel partners etc even guitar songs. So I'm just jotting down notes that come into my head, usually on the same sheet of paper till they write themselves, of course a nice guitar lick or chord progression helps too.
Nice one Jim. Excuse my shaking hand, I'm detoxing.
Sorry Bill, all I got was the dominoes again!
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