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The excellent thing Tig about your songs is they can be adapted to many differant styles of music. Anyone from James Taylor to Aretha Franklin could do your songs. You have a gift of writing good songs that I would love to have. Jim your the Bob Dylan of chordie. I am just wondering do you ever send your songs to famous artists like maybe James Taylor to see if they will have a go at them?

Phill your right the copyright owners make the big money. Back in 1963, when the Beatles released their first album, a publishing company was formed called Northern Songs. The majority owners were U.K. music publisher Dick James, the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, and Lennon/McCartney (with the other two Beatles garnering 20 percent each). When the company went public two years later, Lennon and McCartney ended up with 15 percent stakes each (with George Harrison and Ringo Starr taking away negligible shares).
Later on in 1969, Dick James sold his shares to ATV Music, giving them a majority share and ownership of the Beatles catalogue.  Years later Michael Jackson brought the Beatles catalogue.it cost him $47.5 million. If you look on line you will see that Paul McCartney is involved in some sort of legal action to get the catalogue back.To cut a long story short Paul and John lost big money through bad advice and others ended up with their publishing rights over time for those early Beatle songs.,

Love that Jazzy feel you got going there. I would love to hear a track with your guitar and Jandle singing.

Cheers Richard  Kia ora, greetings to you and all who have posted here from New Zealand known also as Aotearoa or in English  Land Of The Long Whte Cloud.
A big  thank you everyone Phill and Jim also TF  great to have your feedback on chordie..
My friend Easy Beat introduced me to chordie it has become a place I love to visit. He also introduced me to the wonderful Jandle.
Bill you and Dondra are a very  important part of this land known as Chordie a place where hands reach out to each other over land and  oceans. We of chordie at times are all rowing the same (waka) canoe with the differant paddles of music and caring for each other. As they say in Maori  He waka eke noa  (A canoe which we are all in with no exceptions)   We are all in this together in other words. Thank you for having me aboard this waka  and I appreciate the way you Bill  encourage us all  to take turns at paddling our music and knowledge around this world. I like your feedback on my lullaby.
Your friend Pete

Thank you Bill for thinking about me. I am doing good but get a bit frustrated as I no longer have the full range of movement in my arms and hands which restricts my playing nowdays. My days have been filled reading up on all the other things that interest me. During the day I do alot of walking now i have retired chatting to all types of folk on the street.  I also have a few young folk who I have been mentoring helping them to get them back on track and fill their potential  after falling of the rails a bit.   Neo, TF and EB thank you for your kind thoughts. My 97 year young mother and other family members have also been filling my time making it hard to touch base with all the people that interest me. I haven't had much in the musical and poetry side going through my head recently. The song Easybeat has mentioned Shadows On The Wall to do it properly would  need a  kids choir singing as part of the backing vocals. I have put a rough version of just me singing it and playing piano recorded on my cell phone up on soundcloud. I have also posted the lyrics on there if anyone wants to have a read. It is about a child waking up in the middle of the night and taking fright at seeing shadows cast by the full moon  on their bedroom wall.
Your friend
Pete
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/shadows-on-the-wall

Phill I think sometimes young lads do some stupid things in order to impress a girl that is not good for them. Your song tells that story and the lengths a easily led guy will go to while been used by a no good woman that he will never impress.. Great song and  music arrangement.

Thank you Bill I love  those photo's. It has  been uplifting experince to be able to share with you this special time.

Love from Pete and Maree xxx.

I am not sure the first time I heard it. But I do remember having a few beers in a bar with the sound of the radio quietly been played over the sound system. Suddenly the  volume went up and Sultans Of Swing came blasting out of the sound system. I loved it and so did the others.  The boss of the place came in at the end of it and turned down the volume. He started screaming at the bar tender, " if you do that  again your fired." Everyone in the bar starting booing the manager. The bar tender became a friend of mine after that and he also ended up going out with one of my female drinking companion for a while. His manager at the bar use to call him and I  "The Insultants Of Swing."  Years later that bartender was now a  owner of  a pub in Sydney, I went there to have beer and catch up. After a while  reminiscing about things we had in common, he put on a CD and when Sultans Of Swing came on he turned it up real loud. His patrons didn't seemed to be that impressed . He died a few years back and now whenever I hear Sultans Of Swing I always think of my first time meeting him.

Cheers Jandal I just put a little rough version up on Soundcloud which I have taken down.
Bill your spot on Kids are resilient and inventive. I have always felt greatful for ,my father's parents who I was very close to growing up as they gave me alot of love and time.Though I get on well with my mother now she is 97, growing up I wasn't that close to her as she was often more occupied with other things. My father died when I was twelve, I got on good with him and we enjoyed each other's company.  His relationship with my mother wasn't that good so she was not that happy with my closeness to him and his parents.  When I was younger I was not much of a family guy so I guess I was happy when Maree and I hooked  she didn't want kids. My two sons were lucky to have a good mother and stepfather growing up in Australia and the USA. I am just greatful that my boys never resented me for not been a big part of their growing up. Their late mother always painted me in a good way to them so that was kind of her. The poem I wrote was as a result of me observing and over hearing conversations on buses and trains while out and about. It needs more work done on it.

Your Friend

Pete

Welcome to Chordie al3c . Living down here in the bottom of the south Pacific Euro is not something I am up with. I am not sure if it is because I am a old dude or it doesn't come to this part of the planet.  But I can tell  you about my mother when I was younger she had a record by a lady called Sandie Shaw called Puppet On  A String. It was one of those annoying type of songs and if she put it on the record player I would leave the room. She would always say to me, "it won the Eurovision contest you know so it must be good". My mum is now 97 and we  were recently  reminiscing about the past. We  were talking about old songs we liked when Puppet On A String came into the conversation, she said to me "that song was stupid and sexist".  I reminded her, " you use to love that song so what has changed your opinion.over the years" ? Any way she told me "I only played it repeatedly as a way of  annoying  my boyfriend so he would go home If I had enough of him hanging around".

Cheers TF time spent  quantity and quality are not always easy for most families. Most kids have differant stages in their growing up of wanting and not wanting to be around their elders. Then also parents career pressures and the need to provide the dosh make having time for family tricky. I found with this poem  the words  need to be better so I could recite it better. I was hoping someone could suggest some good changes to it. Or maybe someone could do it like a song.