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".
1,876 2018-05-16 05:33:07
Re: Eurovision Song Contest: thoughts about the winner and participants (4 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
1,877 2018-05-16 04:58:18
Re: Morality (Sung Or Spoken To The Doors' "Soft Parade" (9 replies, posted in Poems)
Bill that is one top piece of songwriting. Watching the resentment of one group against another in this modern day on the news and destruction of innocent peoples lifes saddens me. Power and morality don't seem to come together.
1,878 2018-05-15 07:23:38
Re: Working Man And Woman (6 replies, posted in Poems)
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.
1,879 2018-05-14 04:14:16
Re: New song idea. (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
You got a good rift going their.
1,880 2018-05-14 04:10:12
Re: Mothers Day Straight From The Heart (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Great humor EB
1,881 2018-05-14 04:07:03
Topic: Working Man And Woman (6 replies, posted in Poems)
A poem I wrote on the train in the morning in the rain. This afternoon at home I sat down and did It on my piano with my cell phone. . I have put it on soundcloud link below. If anyone with better playing and more skills than me wants to improve on it., I would be very happy for them to do that
A is the bassline with the trebble playing E G A then D G with a F sharp and G alternating through out the tune. My voice not that great as usual.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/working-man-and-woman
Working Man And Woman.
Their all leaving home trying to catch a train or bus.
It's a wet and windy day
It ill take lot more than that to stop most of us.
We got to raise our kids.
We got to pay the bills.
We got to pay for our life up up here in the hills.
Such is the lot of the working man and wife.
We spend half our life working trying to find time for the kids.
Trying to get enough money seems to take more time than it should.
We head of to the city on the bus or train no matter what the weather.
It could be rain.
It could be shining.
We could be experiencing pain.
But we keep on striving.
Such is the life of a working man and working woman trying to keep the family going.
Yeah trying to keep a family going.
Yeah trying to pay for a roof over our heads.
Yeah we need a bit more time to spend with the kids.
But we got to pay the bills and keep our self respect.
Yeah such is the life of a working man and a woman.
Yeah such is the life of a working man and a woman.
Yeah got to pay the bills some how.
1,882 2018-05-11 22:35:46
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Love that kid's playing style.
1,883 2018-05-11 22:31:31
Re: New updated recording on SC of song - Almost (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I love your guitar picking on this song. You get the song across real good. It is a real good song.
1,884 2018-05-11 22:26:24
Re: A Note To ALL My Incredibly Talented Friends (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I love that video Bill.
1,885 2018-05-11 22:22:20
Re: A Few Years Back...... (13 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Love those monks .
1,886 2018-05-11 22:13:06
Re: dreaming bout a dream (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Another excellent song. I have been retired for a while now the other week I had this vivid dream I was late for work and I woke up jumped out of bed. I was in a bit of a panic thinking I better ring and let them know I am running late. My wife woke up and said are you alright when it hit me I don't work there any more. .That little bit of a bass vocal worked brilliant in your song I love whole arrangement.
1,887 2018-05-11 22:04:13
Re: A bit of nonsense (7 replies, posted in Poems)
Phill I love it. It is witty and even though you say it is nonesense it does tell the story of a scammer. Reading the word dosh made me remember my old man as a kid saying to me
" as long as a man has enough dosh after feeding the family and paying the bills for a pigs ear (Beeer) and a dury he has done alright."
1,888 2018-05-11 21:55:41
Re: Birthday Poem (11 replies, posted in Poems)
That is a brilliant piece of poetry to a beautiful daughter on her birthday. As you say in your poem she is a pearl..
1,889 2018-05-10 07:47:21
Re: Rapid Fire (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you CG for your feedback
Bill great to have you comment and see you active here on chordie again. I am enjoying your posts on here.
Hugs to you and your beautiful Dondra.
Pete
1,890 2018-05-08 05:39:24
Re: Rapid Fire (6 replies, posted in Poems)
TF and Phill thank you for your comments and taking time to have a read of my poem.
1,891 2018-05-08 05:37:04
Re: Substantial Love for Insubstantial Things (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff great to hear you on soundcloud again. It is a good song.
1,892 2018-05-05 00:53:08
Topic: Rapid Fire (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Rapid Fire
The vexation of a fool is known at once.
When it is prudent to ignore insult
Words used in haste flowing like rapid gunfire.
Bullets flowing of the end of the tongue, boomerangs aimlessly going in circles.
A boomerang powered by an arm out of control and governed by a reaction of the knee instead of the head.
Bullets circling back full of regret to the one who fired without deep thought about a consequence caused by the lack of a pause.
Machine gun fire killing more than once the same victim.
1,893 2018-05-03 04:28:01
Re: Song Of Regret (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Nice guitar and the lyrics remind me of some of the things I have heard people say to me at the end of their lives.
1,894 2018-04-29 19:50:53
Re: Substantial Love for Insubstantial Things (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff you know how to write an excellent song. Hope we can get to hear it soon.
1,895 2018-04-29 02:24:59
Re: Long As Your Happy (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you Easybeat hopefully I have writen this in a way that people listening can understand or put something of their own experience or observation of family life into it.
1,896 2018-04-28 19:56:47
Re: Long As Your Happy (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Cheers Phill I recorded it with no microphones just on my cell phone placed next to the piano.. I would be honoured and completly thrilled if you gave it a go. Thank you for giving me a listen and feed back.
1,897 2018-04-28 11:53:59
Re: For All You Songwriters Out There. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
On that stage is musical heaven all of them fantastic musicians,
1,898 2018-04-28 11:52:00
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Nice choice there TF ,
1,899 2018-04-28 11:46:24
Topic: Long As Your Happy (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Unfortunately when I play piano or guitar it is all done by feel. I would put this in as a song if I had the know how.. I have tried to make it work as a song but my bad piano playing and singing get in the way. I put it up on soundcloud in the hope oneday someone might have a go at making it into better song.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/long-as-your-happy
Long As Your Happy
I can remember seeing the rain on the window pane
One summer many years ago.
Were waiting to go out.
You all dressed up nice in your best dress.
You couldn't wait to get out.
Next thing I noticed you had gone outside the door.
Your running in the yard completly wet.
Your best dress was a mess as youd fallen in the mud.
And your hair was a bit of a mess.
Your mother was unhappy.
Why did you let her go out.
All I could say was this.
As long as she's happy.
As long as your happy.
I couldn't care less.
I couldn't care less about that dress.
When I saw you smiling at me.
As long as your happy.
As long as your happy I couldn't care less.
I wouldn't worry if your hair was in a mess.
All I worry about is your beautiful smile.
And I wouldn't worry to much about the mess
As long as your happy.
As your happy.
As long as your happy
I don't give a damn about the mess.
1,900 2018-04-27 21:38:27
Topic: For All You Songwriters Out There. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Saturday morning just waiting for the rain to clear and my mind to clear also, so that I can figure out some better way of doing a song I have writen.
When I thought about this clip I had seen on youtube which I think is a brilliant look at songwriting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmlMWXkv1g