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Hello Trevor sorry to hear about your lungs. Your doing the right thing getting that guitar I don't own one of those but have  played one and man they play  beautiful, even in my hands, With your large family it must be beautiful to have you all together making music? If you ever get the chance make some recordings. It would be nice if you feel like it to hear your playing  here on Chordie. Keep  posting on here its good to have another voice join in.

Beamer here is a poem I wrote  a while back about writing songs.
A SONG
People ask me, how do you write a song?
I don't write the song's they  write themselves.
If I try and write a song it won't work.
I can't go to a song  the song has to come to me.
Yeah you know  a song can have it's own  feet.
It doesn't need me, but I need the song.
It has to come to me.
I don't know when a song comes.
Usually it comes at inappropriate times.
When I am having a conversation.
And suddenly  this song will come to me.
And  I got  to sort of go home and write it down.
Pick up a guitar or  put it on  piano.
That's what happen's to me.
A  song will alway's come to me.
I will never go to a song.
If I try hard it won't work.
If I take it  easy and just relax.
That's when it come's out.
You got to  have  a clear head at time's to write a song.
Don't  want to over think it.
And you want to let it sort of  take it's  own course
Yes a good song has it's own  feet.
It doesn't need  you.
A song has a life of it's own.
Yeah a song is it's own beast,  it's own identity.
It has a life after your life.
If it's a good song.
Yeah  a good  song can travel further than youll  ever travel and be around lot longer than you.
Yeah a song writes'  itself.

Richard I like your version. I like the way you make guitar playing that would be difficult for most people  look so relaxed. You say your voice isn't great, but I actually I like it's laid back quality.
Jandle good to hear your voice and playing again. Easy Beat was telling me the Now Is Only Once Poem I wrote has had 4780 views.
I remember you did an amazing job of making  it into a song. I have just  listened to it again after not  hearing it for a long time  and loved your version. Attachment below for anyone who hasn't heard Jandle's  top version.
https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/now-is-only-oncemp3

Richard just listened to your vocals you have a good voice.  I liked the arrangement also with the backing vocals and nice playing.

I just listen to your track Richard. Nice guitar and the lady has a good voice. I just play piano and guitar  by feel but recently I have stoped playing due to a medical condition. My singing is Kwrap.  Blues is my comfort zone style of singing. I usually just record using a cell phone no fancy tech. I will attach a track that seems to be the one chordians have given the best feedback on    https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/phone-my-guitar

Welcome Richard to the land of Chordie. As a person who  has always been really curious about music and slightly confused by the world, I find this is an excellent place to check out and share ideas.

I tend to get creative when I am tired and bored. People also can feel creative after a few drinks. According to what  I had to study about the brain when I use to work with drug addicts and alcholics  it has alot to do with our frontal cortex. Our frontal cortex is our major dopamine hub. Our creative response at night has nothing to do with the time of day, but everything to do with our energy cycle.
You get tired at night? Your frontal lobe is missing some vital energy signals, and therefore you’re going to end up being slightly more creative than regular.
Not surprisingly: the same creative response your brain has to getting tired is the exact same as when you drink alcohol.
Alcohol inhibits the frontal cortex, almost identically to how pure exhaustion does. If you want to reproduce the effect of exhaustion on your creativity all you need to do is have a few drinks.
Not too many, of course, because the more you drink the less other critical thinking functions have to keep going. If you are a drinker the trick is to drink just the right amount of alcohol. If your a  drinker or not a drinker, keep a paper and pen handy so when your  brain is tired and exhausted, and  you come up with a great idea you can write it down. Another way is to hit record it on your cell phone and save the idea that way. Some of my  best ideas come in the shower.Research shows you’re more likely to have a creative epiphany when you’re doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering. Since these routines don’t require much thought, you flip to autopilot. This frees up your unconscious to work on something else. Your mind goes wandering, leaving your brain to quietly play a no-holds-barred game of free association.
This kind of daydreaming relaxes the prefrontal cortex—the brain’s command center for decisions, goals, and behavior. It also switches on the rest of your brain’s “default mode network” (DMN) clearing the pathways that connect different regions of your noggin. With your cortex loosened up and your DMN switched on, you can make new, creative connections that your conscious mind would have dismissed. So for me creativity comes when I am not trying to be creative. If I try to write a song or poem  it doesn't happen usually.  Good ideas hit usually at inapropriate times for me.

PhillJust read this poem for the first time and it tells it well..  A few days back  a young man told me about how his girlfriend had a previous relationship with a bloke who behind doors  was violent to her... . He showed me a private  poem about her bad time. One of the scars  she still has is not been able to share  her experience with all of the world. She had given him permision to show me the poem.. The words from that poem made me feel angry that these people are out there .  I still remember this small part of the poem talking  about  after a beating from him .
Covering his tracks.
Before resuming work as a man.
No survellance no remorse.
When I read this part of your poem below it made me  think of the words above.
Suspicions maybe; bruises she hides.
She's ashamed of the fact that her husband's a swine.
I'm good with my hands on her arms and her legs.
Her back and her ribs but never her face

Jandle your voice makes any band sound good.  I will try to get Maree to play more she thanks you for your nice comment, She has a great skill but doesn't enjoy playing.

Thank you for your feed back Phill and TF. Maree and I  have true love we disagree about many things but the main thing is we never get sick of each others company and work things out.  Our time together is never boring. . She knows all my flaws, mistakes, and weaknesses and still she loves me.after 36 years of marriage. My Nann and Grandpah were married at 17  and their love and lifetime together with respect for each other was a good example for me.

Often sold at sports events and food markets, there will be what is known as a Sausage Sizzle here in NZ. Sports clubs and charities use them to raise money. Most weekends there are are sausage sizzle fundraisers outside Supermarkets and Wharehouses . For clubs the easiest thing to do is to cook. sausages, onions,  on a barbecue. Usually for a two dollar coin you  get a sausage. You then  choose to have it on fresh white bread or brown bread   with the choice of tomato sauce or mustard.. What we call Hotdogs here is a saveloy on a stick or without  a stick  covered in batter and fried in oil.   What we call American Hotdogs is a boiled  saveloy in a  bread roll with a choice of cheese, onion with mustard or tomato sauce.
A saveloy is a type of highly seasoned sausage, with a bright red skin , normally boiled.  They are also available in fish and chips shops, fried in batter.
If a  kiwi says to you "give us a fair suck of the Sav " ( Saveloy ) it actually means they want to be given a fair go and not be left out.
We have  also in NZ Sausage Rolls. The basic composition of a sausage roll is sheets of puff pastry formed into tubes around sausage meat and glazed with egg or milk before being baked.

CG I love that song  played and sung  with depth and emotion.