Take care Bill and stay well G
2 2025-12-12 22:10:02
Re: DECEMBER 2025 FSOTM – ANOTHER ROUND OF CHRISTMAS SONGS (20 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
An Alky came staggering words and chords for Jan
Am C G Am
1. An alky came staggering from an old whiskey bar ,
C G F Am
round about lunchtime his sesson did start,
Am G F Am
and over a manhole he stopped and was sick ,
C G F Am
and then he was ready for more in the next bar
Am C G Am
2. He said to the bar man just give me a pint ,
C G F - Am
of brasso and larger you know what I like ,
Am G F Am
he downed it in one and then said fill it again ,
C G F Am
and he had the face of a headcase ---- and they were afraid.
Am C G Am
3. the stranger spoke out, he said : "Do not fear!"
C G F Am
I come from a brewery a long way from here,
Am G F Am
and I bring a message for mankind to hear,
C G F …. Am
but first get me another pint of beer
Am G F Am
and he went : "Lalalalalalalalalalalallalalalalalalalalalala,
C G F Am
and every one shouted out shut yer gob
Am C G Am
4. This awful racket he just wouldnt stop ,
C G F Am
so land lord stepped in and gave him slap ,
Am G F Am
he said this is xmas so please shut your mouth
C G F Am
then with some help from the barman he threw him out
Am C G Am
5. And just before dawn, on his knees in the street
C G F Am
the alky returned and said :"good grief I'm beat .
Am G F Am
When two or three days of your time have gone by,
C G F Am
I'll sing this song again---- at least I'll try !"
Am G F Am
And he went : "Lalalallalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalal
C G F Am
and every one shouted out shut yer gob
3 2025-12-12 21:41:01
Re: DECEMBER 2025 FSOTM – ANOTHER ROUND OF CHRISTMAS SONGS (20 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jan Ive found a copy of the lyrics and chords for alky will take a while to type up but I'll do it asap
4 2025-12-11 15:21:14
Re: DECEMBER 2025 FSOTM – ANOTHER ROUND OF CHRISTMAS SONGS (20 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
sure Jan I'llhave to dig them out tomorrow
5 2025-12-07 19:04:17
Re: SUGGESTIONS FOR JANUARY 2026 - ANYTHING GOES THIS MONTH/CHALLENGE (4 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
January by Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nau-8JW1s4E
https://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www. … 37038.html
Maybe strip it back for acoustic
6 2025-12-07 18:59:36
Re: DECEMBER 2025 FSOTM – ANOTHER ROUND OF CHRISTMAS SONGS (20 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
one from a while go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_g8bpnIFU Appologies to Chris de Burgh for pinching the tune
7 2025-12-04 16:29:08
Re: The Mustang (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Nice to read your words Welcome to Chordie
8 2025-12-02 20:14:53
Re: Saltaire CND festival Grah1 both sets (4 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Got really good feed back after thanks Joe
9 2025-11-29 19:38:33
Topic: Saltaire CND festival Grah1 both sets (4 replies, posted in My local band and me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkR8EestkM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssn2ipFVvs
Both sets from my set at todays CND Festival at Saltaire Victoria Hall
each set contains a cover of a song written by a Chordie member . Joe and Brian thanks for writing these great songs they went well .
10 2025-11-29 19:27:16
Re: up until now (17 replies, posted in Songwriting)
nThis is a video of ny first set at Saltaire CND festival today Mojos song is second in the set I also covered Brians Russian soldier song in my second set which I'll post later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkR8EestkM0
11 2025-11-28 11:56:19
Re: New mic day (5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Gave it a propper test last night and it does sound bright compared to a real SM58 , its ok for a hand out mic . Ive never shared a mic with any one since I forgot to take mine to a festival and ended up with a throat infection which I think came from using the mics supplied by the sound guy.
Whe I used to run open mics I would always sanitise the mics I provided between acts .
12 2025-11-27 16:52:34
Re: New mic day (5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
A low volume test sounds a bit brighter than a real one so I suspect it wont reject feed back as good as the real one . However I also have a fake SM58 radio mic which Is pretty good . Used to use it when I ran open micnights just for introducing the act when I was at the sound desk .
13 2025-11-27 13:28:28
Topic: New mic day (5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Just recieved a Temu Sure SM 58 mic . Havent tested it yet but its obviously fake . The Wind shield has a different shape ,not perectly round and the central band is thicker , the logos are small and the carry bag is poor quality . The biggest givaway apart from the obvious price difference is the weight the Temu one weighs 100g less than a genuine one
All this aside I have had Temu replacement cartridges for Sure mics in the past which sound ok .
I'll plug it in later to test it . but I'm certain its worth the £10 paid for it .
More info later
14 2025-11-24 18:53:05
Re: pop ups (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
no they allways appear sadly
15 2025-11-22 10:43:07
Re: Nashville tuning (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Been using it as suplementary voice in open chord progressions mainly
16 2025-11-19 09:38:47
Re: up until now (17 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Next week I am playing a festival for the CND I hope it will be ok to cover this song as it says so much about the horrors of war
18 2025-11-18 13:58:08
Re: Nashville tuning (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Further to this post I've played the guitar in this tuning for a while but I found the action a little low and the strings were choking a little higher up the fret board so I replace the saddle with a slightly taller one which helped , however the string tension felt a little high and I ended up snapping the G string so I have since replaced that and tuned down a half step to Eb .I can of course play in standard E by using a capo on fret1 . Much better and jangly all the way up the neck
19 2025-11-18 07:23:18
Re: up until now (17 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Cheers I will look forward to it
20 2025-11-17 18:58:58
Topic: Nashville tuning (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Ive just set a spare acoustic up in Nashville tuning using a set of Diadario Nashville strings rather than rob a 12 string set for the E A D G octave strings from a 12 string set . It gives a very mandolin like sound , my only reservation at the moment is if I play a lead run from the hi E string 10th fret finishing on the Gstring 9th fret ( D C A G E progresion ) it sounds too sharp as it is a whole ocave up . However playing somthing like the intro to Tambourine man sounds great .
Any one else tried this ?
21 2025-11-15 18:02:30
Re: Blood, Sweat & Tears (1 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
22 2025-11-13 17:14:42
Re: November 2025 FSOTM - Random words (17 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Thanks Peatle
23 2025-11-12 21:46:26
Re: up until now (17 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thats an amazing song please publish the lyrics and chords so we can learn it .
24 2025-11-12 16:49:06
Re: Put On Your Crown (7 replies, posted in My local band and me)
You do a great job Peatl, keep em coming
25 2025-11-12 15:34:03
Re: November 2025 FSOTM - Random words (17 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
ok this is a song I was commisioned to write for the Matala festival 2013 on Crete it contains both the words Day and Today . Sadly we never got to play it live as the organisers turned the running of the featival over to a UK booking agency who completly rode roughshod over the artists booked by the previous council organisers and we endedup being cut from our prime slot on mainstage on the Saturday and only got to do our acoustic slot on the second stage on Sunday .The whole festival was ruined that year by second rate tribute acts they shipped in from the UK , One of which turned up with out instruments ,then asked if they could borrow ours as we were no longer on the main stage .Needless to say we refused as we had been booked 12 months previously .
Any way I posted the song on sound cloud but it never made it into our set and was only ever played on radio .
Hope you like it https://soundcloud.com/graham-windle/to … ever-comes