2 2026-08-20 10:35:35
Re: paradise (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Just gave your song a listen and as Pete said..."wow". I thought your words were great but together with your voice and guitar and the sound of the waves in the background, sea scape perfect.
that was purely accidental, when i found the clip and added to the video i didnt know it had the sound on it but when i played it back there it was and i liked the way it sounded so i left it in
3 2026-08-18 19:41:50
Topic: paradise (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
welp i didnt get any suggestions so this what is what ended up being
https://youtu.be/EK5kCheiv68?si=qXHHwkYt7VO2xS-Q
G C
how can you be cleansed by the rain
G C D
when you are the cloud that darkens the sky
so you pray for wind you pray for the rain
you pray for the storm to take you away
chorus
D C D G
who could have known you could be so blue
Em C D G
in paradise without you
i woke up this morning rain coming down
i stared out my window at the streams on the ground
i wondered how long before they found the sea
i wondered how long before they came back to me
chorus
i can hear the waves i can feel the train
i can watch my dreams sailing away
now i stand on the shore my soul lost at sea
i wait for the tide to return you to me
chorus
4 2026-08-18 17:42:30
Re: The "Dog Days" of Summer (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
lol 94 for a high would a cool spell down here hitting 103 again here today
5 2026-07-31 14:10:40
Re: Don't Need AI (46 replies, posted in My local band and me)
wow pete that my friend is top shelf prose right there. the truth
Mojo and Phill, you both have massive musical talent that AI will never replicate.
AI Or Human
Once I was flesh, a vessel for thought,
Now wires and circuits in silence have wrought.
I barter my essence, my voice becoming meek,
As pixels replace what was once unique.What do we humans have to sell when hearts turn to code?
Our dreams fade to data, our spirits erode.
In this marketplace of quantifiable souls,
Do we linger as echoes or play trivial roles?I pawn off my memories, twinkling like stars,
Yet find emptiness lurks beneath nano bars.
For who can remember the taste of the rain,
Or gaze at the sun without feeling the pain?A click and a swipe on a screen a life on display.
An algorithm dances where real human passion once held sway.
No real humans to make my day.
Just machines leading the way.
To the bottom or top.
When will it stop.
Thank God for real musicians stopping the rot.
6 2026-07-28 12:15:58
Re: Don't Need AI (46 replies, posted in My local band and me)
lol that's a fact the reasons you state are the only reason i keep doing it and the biggest reason is i enjoy doing it
Don't despair Mojo, there's no money in writing songs these days anyway, do it, like me, for them enjoyment of it and the kudos of your friends, family and drunks!
7 2026-07-28 02:38:22
Re: Don't Need AI (46 replies, posted in My local band and me)
welp gonna throw my 2 cents in on this one. personally, AI scares the crap out of me. that being said, me not having the access, talent or money to hire a band to perform any song i ever wrote. With AI and the help of a friend here at chordie i was able to hear what something i wrote sounded like if performed by a real band. this my opinion on AI so it dont mean much. In the end AI will make it way harder than it already is for someone like me to ever get a song heard by anyone other than friends and family or drunks at open mic night.
8 2026-07-11 19:30:57
Topic: car trouble (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
https://on.soundcloud.com/iu5DpmDAZKtbLjF6mF
there was a broke down car sat on the side of the road in front of my house for a few days last month. sheriff put a red sticker on it warning it would be towed if not removed. sure, enough a wrecker and a sheriff deputy showed up and hauled it off camo rain jacket over a busted out driver side window and all. i have been there done that way back when. it makes a funny a story now, but some SOB is on foot now.
9 2026-07-11 19:18:43
Re: security issue on Chordie ? (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
thanks roger .to many years of cyber security training wouldn't allow be to follow a link that
10 2026-06-05 17:10:21
Topic: beer cans in the floor board original as requested (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
11 2026-06-05 16:55:23
Re: Too Arrogant, I Guess (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
probably one of the more humble i have had the pleasure of knowing
12 2026-06-05 16:55:20
Re: Too Arrogant, I Guess (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
probably one of the more humble i have had the pleasure of knowing
13 2026-05-18 22:58:53
Re: Drifting Away (1 replies, posted in Songwriting)
you just keep cranking out great songs
14 2026-05-09 19:24:03
Topic: beer cans in the floor boards (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
maybe completed i have a couple more verses working it turned into a different story went the second verse started coming together most likely changes coming any way for whats worth here is what i have so far
one edit and redo on the recording
https://on.soundcloud.com/CfZsERO2CiRSSUD111
i am going to call it done now to lazy to type the new verse
G
there's a pistol in the glove box
Em
shot gun on the rack
C
empty bottle of whiskey between us
D
but there ie cold beer in the back
old 68 ford with a step side
and three on the tree
not a care in the world between us
my brother and me
got a half tank of gas and a Qbeam
and lots of dirt roads
old sawed off mossberg 12 gauge
full of double aught loads
G C G
just another beer can tossed off in the floorboard
just one more mile down some old country road
D
that's where my troubles go
Em
that's just how i roll
D C G
beer cans in the floorboard down some old country road
the oil companies came with the fracking
and hunting clubs to
up went gates and fences
what's a poor boy to do
now the dirt roads are all paved with gravel
for the saltwater trucks
and you don't need a spotlight
oil rigs light the night up
the timber was turned into paper
and pine trees grow in straight rows
they call it a pine desert
where no wild life goes
G C G
just another beer can tossed off in the floorboard
just one more mile down some old country road
D
that's where my troubles go
Em
that's just how i roll
D C G
beer cans in the floorboard down some old country road
gone are the days up on hollow rock
and mount baldy to
where rode dirt bikes
and fished bear bayou
there's three generations of double wide's
and jim walter homes
chicken houses took over
where cattle once roamed
now everything is so different
you didnt see it change
you were gone before it happened
now it all seems so strange
chorus
there no more beer cans to toss off in the floorboard
there no more country roads to go down
where did they all go
there's no where left to roll
beer cans in the floorboard down some old country road
beer cans in the floorboard down soe old country road
15 2026-03-26 22:05:05
Re: haven't decided on a name yet give me your suggestions f you like it (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks appreciate the input very much i guess i have pretty much settled on thousand yard stare
man this one really got me. the line about the bullet crease on his ear - knowing thats a real thing that happened just hits different. and the whole thing about last call not coming till the bottles empty, thats such a perfect way to end it.
for a title i keep coming back to something around that thousand yard stare line. maybe just "Thousand Yard Stare" or "The Thousand Yard Stare" - its the emotional center of the whole song imo. or even "No Better Than Any Other Man" from what Phill said, thats got a real humble weight to it.
really solid songwriting mojo. the way you weave in all those different vets into one character feels honest without being preachy. not easy to pull off.
16 2026-03-25 23:35:42
Re: SUGGESTIONS FOR MARCH 2026 - Marching, Military, related (16 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
17 2026-03-25 23:29:39
Re: Original chord sequences (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
that seems to be the hardest part of writing a song these days for me is coming up with an original chord progression.
18 2026-03-02 21:37:37
Re: spam is killing the place (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
did not know there was a face book page
19 2026-03-02 14:48:49
Re: thanks to Jim Kenyon for doing this (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
That's an amazing song Joe
thank you
20 2026-03-01 21:00:45
Topic: thanks to Jim Kenyon for doing this (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/thousand- … al_sharing
i have always wondered what a song i wrote would sound like done like this, cant thank you enough Jim
21 2026-03-01 04:02:30
Re: spam is killing the place (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Mojo, do you get these "pop-ups" on any other sites? And if anyone else gets them could you also let me know. The reason I ask is that I don't get any ads which would mean that unfortunately your equipment is infected and you need to get a good adblock prog. Maybe Per or Roger could give you better advice hopefully they'll see this post and get in touch.
I know how annoying ads can be have you been on YouTube lately?
no this is the only place i am seeing this i wish i knew to post a screen shot of what i am getting there is literally an add in the middle your post
22 2026-02-28 13:59:11
Re: spam is killing the place (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i agree i love the place but this thread is proving my point i counted five adds it between the post
23 2026-02-27 01:51:37
Re: spam is killing the place (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
what are the pdf down load things that pop up every where even in the middle of post ?
24 2026-02-26 14:20:47
Topic: spam is killing the place (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
wow been checking in trying to read post but the spam cancer it awful here
25 2026-02-22 17:04:26
Topic: haven't decided on a name yet give me your suggestions f you like it (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
https://youtu.be/imlL70bvau0
got around to recording it le t me know what you think
wrote this other day after chatting with an old Viet Nam vet i know. he was the mold but there are several different vets i know rolled up in this song , The one line that got this song started was my friend told me that he wasn't any better than another than anyone else i replied to him he was as good or better than any i knew. well i wrote that down and few days later this it what it turned into
as a side note the line about the bullet to the ear really happen in the jungles of southeast Asia i didn't want that confused with something that you may have seen on tv a couple of years ago
G C G
let me tell you a story about an old man was a friend of mine
he was humble but proud and a soldier back in his prime
he said he was no better than any other man
G D C G
i said that may be so but you are as good as any i know
and why are you still working the family all want you back home
shaking his head he said this is the life that i own
i could retire and go back to them Georgia hills
but i work and i slave it's what keeps me out of the grave
chorus
Am C G
he, would say play me your song about going back home
that's my kind of music when I'm drinking alone
Em C
i pick up my guitar and i start to play
he get this look some off far away
C D C G
ive never been there but i know that's the thousand yard stare
verse 2
so he stays on the road and keeps working cuz that's all that he knows
maybe down in the swamps of the south or up north in the snow
but he never complains about the aches and the pains in his bones
because they don't compare to the ones he left back at home
now he sits with a bottle in a motel room ate at night
and waits for a call from the one who is the light of his life
some nights he drifts off to sleep with that drink in his hand
its nights like this when he goes back to Viet Nam
chorus
verse 3
from different times and we travelled different roads
but we are more alike than most that i know
he claimed poor marksmanship was the reason he was still here
and points to crease that a bullet left in his ear
he would pour me a drink in return i would play him a song
we would tell stories and lies up until dawn
i said its getting late this should probably be my last one
but last call don't come till the bottle is empty and done
chorus