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I was stuck inside today- so I drudged up an old rock n roll song I tried to write a while ago - revamped it ( a lot)
This is how it came out
https://on.soundcloud.com/g6lJ2nbe2Ng3oeiaqd
This for you rock n rollers out there ! {Graham 
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Hope works for you all
Cheers
Jim
Well our 3 daughters and 8 grand kids will be moved away at the end of this month. We are happy for them all, but a bit sad.
I wrote this song reflecting our feelings.
why does it say " not secure" by the URL address now ?
Phill
It is Ai - and yes - I was pretty much walking a thin line.
It is amazing though - I have gotten responses from a whole different group of people
- by different I mean occupation. Got a few responses from truck drivers, which I never have before
Thanks for the listening.
Jim
This is a song I have been working on for a couple of years. I got the idea from a conversation between two disc jockeys on Outlaw Country Radio on Sirius XM. (as I was driving) They were laughing about the term " Mother Trucker" ! I said there's a country song title if I've ever heard one. so I wrote some notes down and it just kept changing until I liked this.
Here is the link on soundcloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/hsRxMfcE4u8ZYLNUPP
My grand niece is actually a cross country truck driver as well !
Hope you like it
Cheers,
Jm
"Oh, what did Delaware, boy? What did Delaware?"
"She wore a brand New Jersey."
"Why did California?"
"She called to say Hawaii (How are ya?)."
"What did Mississip?"
"She sipped a Minnesota (mini soda)."
"Where has Oregon?"
"If you want Alaska, I'll ask her where she's gone."
"She went to pay her Texas (taxes)."
"How did Wisconsin?"
"She stole a Nebras-ky (new brass key)."
"Too bad that Arkan-saw..."
"...and so did Tenne-see."
"It made poor Flori-die..."
"She died in Misery (Missouri).
The song is "Delaware", written by Irving Gordon and made famous by Perry Como in 1960. It became a novelty hit, reaching the Top 25 in the U.S. and even higher in the UK
Song I wrote quite a few years ago.
I re-wrote some lyrics
It's about a woman friend that everyone saw had a perfect family - but it fell apart.
It was sad. I tried to write it from her point of view.
Kind of a story related to the lore of Robert Johnson at Crossroads.
https://on.soundcloud.com/OfXJLYbapsygeK8FpM
Ok Jan - here ya go
wrote this one - may be my favorite one I've ever written - so thanks !!!!
Lyrics are in description on soundcloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/OfXJLYbapsygeK8FpM
I am going to post in Songwriting as well.
Graham
that was awesome - sounded great. I hope it made a lot of maney for the research.
Jim
For What It's Worth and Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Woody Guthrie's " I'm Shipping off to Boston" sung and made famous by the Dropkick Murphys
How about Woody Guthrie's " This Land is your land " read this article - I never knew it was a protest song !!
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/nat … r-Land.pdf
Nora Guthrie was Woody;s daughter - she said this about the song.........
Nora Guthrie responded to an inquiry, saying, “Here’s what I cherish, and what the song means
to all of us. One of the most visionary moments, when the song was genuinely, and cosmically,
‘fulfilled,’ was at President Barack Obama’s inaugural concert. America was singing at that
moment.”
That moment had embraced, she wrote:
- Pete Seeger, a blacklisted musician for 25 years, center stage, leading the country.
- Singing to the first African American elected President of the USA.
- Accompanied by Bruce Springsteen--the biggest rock star in the USA.
- Backed by an African American gospel choir of young people.
- With an Indigenous percussionist.
- With the biggest sing-along audience of millions of Americans--who ALL knew the words to
the song! What other song could have possibly fit the bill? None.
Nora added, “As I watched it, crying, I looked up and said to my dad, ‘So THIS is why you
wrote it!’ It was as if the moment was made for the song, and vice versa. I don’t know if that
kind of moment in music history will ever happen again.”
That sounds great - Phill did a great job on track - cool song !!
Way to Go Brian
Cheers, Jim
https://on.soundcloud.com/pTpSxw1vA8MPXxIsCF
A song I have been working on for a long time
Blame this one on Peatle
https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … al_sharing
What an incredible story this is.
Hope you enjoy it - THANK YOU so much Pete - you are the true Loremaster of Chordie !!
Cheers
Jim
Graham
Thanks for your kind words. I would have no clue as to how to do that
Pete
Thanks
That article by Wright was incredible - I just accidentally came across it.
Cheers,
Jim
I read an article by Wright Thompson featured by a ESPN story on Muhammad Ali. (the link : https://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story … ected=true )Jimmy Robinson was the first fighter Muhammad Ali fought...... Wright Thompson conducted a search to get his autograph....... leading the searcher into the lives of the homeless in Overton (near Miami) As I read it - my focus shifted (as I believe Wright's did as well) from the story of Jimmy Robinson to the lives of the people that surrounded him . It was fascinating and so sad. I took a lot of the descriptions that Wright used and turned them into this song. Gives a glimpse into some desperate lives ! Here is the link : https://on.soundcloud.com/MluOa6lVVWzxLJJtiD
Verse 1
Down in Overtown where the shadows sleep
Like broken-wing pigeons searching the ground
Worn-out people drift through the heat
For a little shade when the sun beats down
Checking every cigarette butt they find
The addicts and the sick all huddled near
For one more smoke, one more way to kill time
The world keeps moving like they ain't even here
Chorus
They're waiting on the breeze
Just waiting on the breeze
Tomorrow's just another day
Of trying not to leave
A cardboard bed, a shopping cart
A pocket full of dreams deceased
In a world where no one knows your name
seems they're just waiting, on the breeze
Verse 2
No trace of Sweet Jimmy Robinson's trail
every road followed seemed to disappear
he stood with Clay before the Ali fame
Into stories nobody cared to hear
Pool halls that once knew every name
Now boarded up like forgotten dreams
Jimmy's shadow's all that's left behind
Where the past comes apart at the seams
Chorus
They're waiting on the breeze
Just waiting on the breeze
Tomorrow's just another day
Of trying not to leave
A cardboard bed, a shopping cart
A pocket full of dreams, now deceased
In a world where no one knows your name
just broken lives, waiting on the breeze
Bridge
Some die alone with nothing in their hands
No one left to call out their name
Some simply close their eyes one day
‘cause it’s easier to die, than live with the pain
mmmmmmmmmmm…… it’s sad
The past is buried underneath the streets
even Sweet Jimmy’s gone, like he never breathed
Verse 3
A pile of trash in a darkened room
A welcome mat beside the wall
A single shoe sitting on top like a tomb
For people the world forgot to call
What was it we were searching for?
Was it just the fighter everybody knew?
Or proving that a life was really there
Before it vanished from our view?
Outro
People with stories nobody reads
Faces fading piece by piece
They're waiting on the breeze
Just waiting on the breeze
And all they really leave behind
are names carved in fading memories
mmmmmmmmmmm………
their dust gathered all through the streets
ooooooooooohhhhh…..Sweet Jimmy,
where did you disappear too ?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…….
Are you still waiting on the breeze
…………waiting on the breeze
In a world where it seems no one exists,
…………….. people are waiting on the breeze
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………….
Sweet Jimmy’s gone on the breeze
Sweet Jimmy’s gone on the breeze
I just finished writing this one this morning.
Probably describes half the single men in America
https://on.soundcloud.com/PKikryUOnngaWutyDw
Have a great week !
Cheers Jim
Joe,
your delivery of the song brings such emotion that Ai never will be able to recreate ! Well Done sir !!
Jim
Peter
once again your words are spot on.
I wish I had thought of your last line in this post..... " the world can fall down around people and start a downward spiral that some can't escape. " I would have put it in the lyrics.
If I re -do the song someday - I may add them !
Cheers
Jim
Pete - you are the sole inventer
"Symphatics" is not a standard English word.
Others that are close....................
Sympathetic — showing understanding, compassion, or support.
"She was sympathetic to his situation."
Sympathies — feelings of pity or understanding.
"You have my sympathies."
Sympathetics — a less common plural form referring to sympathetic people or things related to sympathy.
wow
pete
thanks for sharing that.it is awesome.
like to see a program like that here in US
it fits in with the last song I just posted today - pretty well
and lastly- I think you should post a top 10 list of the best Kiwi slang words and phrases - but don't match them up - see if the rest of us can do it correctly
probably be a few laughs in it
Cheers Jim
I read an article by Wright Thompson featured by a ESPN story on Muhammad Ali. (the link : www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story…on&redirected=true ) Jimmy Robinson was the first fighter Ali fought...... there was a search to get his autograph....... leading the searcher into the lives of the homeless in Overton (near Miami) As I read it - my focus shifted (as I believe Wright's did as well) from the story of Jimmy Robinson to the lives of the people that surrounded him . It was fascinating and so sad. I took some of the descriptions that Wright used and turned them into this song. I used the genre of Rap/hip hop to get the message across. It really makes you think about how fortunate we are
here is the song on soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/CURj0bG53nlrSjKZFw
Re vamped this song.......
This reminds of Peatle and many of the poems he has written on wrongs that need to be changed to make the world a better place.
Hope you like it.
https://on.soundcloud.com/8hHURdvLHjeS8rViwf
p.s. Pete - I made it Jazzy So Maree will listen to it !
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