sounded great thanks for playing it     

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(5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

i paid $60 for a peavy PVI 100 a fer weeks back   at the local music store i am liking it so far     

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(3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

am  i the only one getting all the pop ups here? pdf and active account things? 

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(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

great writing waiting to hear it     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Grah1 wrote:

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

that would great   i do want hear it though lol     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

mojo01 wrote:

https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/up-untill … al_sharing

this is a song i wrote for the veterans , the motto of the volunteer group i am in for helping vets is "up till today you have made through 100% of you worst days" 

words and chords as requested
capo 2nd fret
D                                                 C                 G
a pistol and phone they both lay by the bed
A                                                     G                    D
you struggle each day which to put to your head

your dying inside from a cut that don't bleed
the people around you cant see your needs

in a world that's so dark you can't catch your breath
like to many others you just want to rest

chorus

Bm                         D
up until now you've made it through
A                                              G
everything the worlds thrown at you

now's not the time to throw it away
give me a call we will sit down and pray

your still as strong as you used to be
pick up the phone tell your troubles to me


was all red, white and blue when you raised your right hand
doing your duty in some foreign land

what they never told you was how high the cost
in the number of friends or the limb that you lost

memories you buried they creep in your brain
when the pills and the bottle stop dulling the pain

chorus

you were so young how could you have known
the nightmares and memories would follow you home

used and forgotten now you will never be whole
the things you have seen left a stain on your soul

you sit in the dark with your thoughts all alone
in one hand a pistol the other a phone

chorus

repeat first 2 lines




there was a mistake on the it  that last chord of is supposed to be a D i have change d it thanks     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Phill Williams wrote:

Wow Joe, the description you give is horrifying for someone like me who has never had to face the horrors of war. We have all seen Hollywood films that glorify killing while the killers or those left behind don't seem to have a care, it's only the heroes that are mourned. It's the kids that watch these with impunity that might be tempted to violence never imagining the nightmares that follow as you have described them " a gun in one hand and a phone in the other" scary. A fine piece of songwriting, I couldn't listen to it as SoundCloud was down.

aving never been in the military either i was going off stories i heard from the vets  and friends who have. we did have one who had attended one of our events take his own last year was the inspiration for the song. i have friend who is a bronze start purple heart told me is was a like a punch in the throat when i played it for him . so i feel like got it close .     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Grah1 wrote:

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

having never been in the military either i was going off stories i heard from the vets  and friends who have. we did have one who had attended one of our events take his own last year was the inspiration for the song. i have friend who is a bronze start purple heart told me is was a like a punch in the throat when i played it for him . so i feel like got it close .     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

words and chords as requested
capo 2nd fret
D                                                 C                 G
a pistol and phone they both lay by the bed
A                                                     G                    A
you struggle each day which to put to your head

your dying inside from a cut that don't bleed
the people around you cant see your needs

in a world that's so dark you can't catch your breath
like to many others you just want to rest

chorus

Bm                         D
up until now you've made it through
A                                              G
everything the worlds thrown at you

now's not the time to throw it away
give me a call we will sit down and pray

your still as strong as you used to be
pick up the phone tell your troubles to me


was all red, white and blue when you raised your right hand
doing your duty in some foreign land

what they never told you was how high the cost
in the number of friends or the limb that you lost

memories you buried they creep in your brain
when the pills and the bottle stop dulling the pain

chorus

you were so young how could you have known
the nightmares and memories would follow you home

used and forgotten now you will never be whole
the things you have seen left a stain on your soul

you sit in the dark with your thoughts all alone
in one hand a pistol the other a phone

chorus

repeat first 2 lines     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Grah1 wrote:

Thats  an amazing  song   please   publish  the  lyrics  and  chords  so  we  can learn it .

will try to get it done soon thanks     

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(17 replies, posted in Songwriting)

https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/up-untill … al_sharing

this is a song i wrote for the veterans , the motto of the volunteer group i am in for helping vets is "up till today you have made through 100% of you worst days" 

words and chords as requested
capo 2nd fret
D                                                 C                 G
a pistol and phone they both lay by the bed
A                                                     G                    D
you struggle each day which to put to your head

your dying inside from a cut that don't bleed
the people around you cant see your needs

in a world that's so dark you can't catch your breath
like to many others you just want to rest

chorus

Bm                         D
up until now you've made it through
A                                              G
everything the worlds thrown at you

now's not the time to throw it away
give me a call we will sit down and pray

your still as strong as you used to be
pick up the phone tell your troubles to me


was all red, white and blue when you raised your right hand
doing your duty in some foreign land

what they never told you was how high the cost
in the number of friends or the limb that you lost

memories you buried they creep in your brain
when the pills and the bottle stop dulling the pain

chorus

you were so young how could you have known
the nightmares and memories would follow you home

used and forgotten now you will never be whole
the things you have seen left a stain on your soul

you sit in the dark with your thoughts all alone
in one hand a pistol the other a phone

chorus

repeat first 2 lines

James that is the best song and performance i have heard since i joined chordie     

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(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

TIGLJK wrote:

Joe
Can you post the ;lyrics to this ?
Jim

capo 4th fret

Am                                      C
song playing on the juke box
it drifts across the room
brings back a memory
G                                          Am
the smell of your perfume

i close my eyes and i drift away
to the sound of that old tune
i could be a million miles from here
instead of this bar room
chorus
F                                      C
i had no reason for drinking
G                                     Am
when i walked through that door
but now i have your memory to drown
just like a 1000 times before

takes me back to another time
back to another place
even though it hurts inside
it puts a smile on my face

i was standing on that bridge
when you lit the fire
walked away with out a word
as the flames grew higher

chorus

once again you got a hold on me
you're playing with my mind
i got these feelings that i can't let go
how could i be so blind

i tell my self this will be the last time
the last time ill allow
your memory to drive me to drink
but then i wonder why stop now

chorrus     

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(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

just passing through i haven't been doing much musically lately. last thing i actually completed was back in February. i have a half dozen half written songs laying around, hell trying to find words for this post gives me trouble. anyway, just stopped to say hello and if you are interested i uploaded the last one i did on soundcloud.
hope everyone is well 


https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/song-play … al_sharing 

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(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

more sad news , hope Bill is doing ok

Peatle Jville wrote:

Welcome back Mojo
https://www.almonfuneralhome.com/obitua … d=33399562

     

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(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

yes it is sorry to hear of his passing


Phill Williams wrote:

Welcome back Mojo, though today is a sad day for us old timers.

     

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(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

anyone still here? i have been away for awhile . life gets in the way some times 

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(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

any signs of life?
i haven't been around much , and haven't been playing much or writing at all

easybeat wrote:

thought i would poke the chordie corpse to see if its still alive
gonna do a series to try and breathe some life into the old girl.
Kiwi Classics no. 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3C6DjkZJ4o

     

all ways liked this tune     

sorry i haven't been around much lately. any way here is one for January 

https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/coming-ba … al_sharing     

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(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

surprised myself got all 15 right     

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(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks Jim glad you enjoy it

TIGLJK wrote:

Mojo
I am back for round 2


every time I liste to this I love it more and more !
Seriously - this is a hit, man !!

Jim

     

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(1 replies, posted in Poems)

more of a short story than a poem i think

any way found this in an old file couldn't remember if i posted it before . after rereading i need to redo the song that came out of this i left out some good stuff in the song

i sat and watched the rain today, i sometimes like the rain but today it just matched my mood. no wind to move the storm just grey and blue .i cant stop the rain any more than i can stop the feelings so i sat and watched
no one would see the tear among the rain drops or the cloud over my head among the storm clouds. i fade into the storm like a ice cube melts in my drink the two become indistinguishable, how can you cleansed by the rain when you are the rain when you are the cloud that darkens the sky. i pray for wind to blow the rain to sea but there is no wind not a breath of life. the  wind would only take me away with the storm to rain on some one else so i sit and watch, just sit and watch
just wanting to flow away with the streams forming on the ground trying to find my way to the sea. but there are no answers there, only would i evaporate into the sea mist destine to form another cloud and find my may back to land and turn to rain once again, so i sit and watch
i want to write a song but there is no music in me, no energy or desire to force the music out, only the rain. still the words fall from the cloud like rain on the trees. the words flow like the stream forming in the dust. and like the rain sometimes they come in a down pour and sometimes they come in a sprinkle and sometimes not at all. so i sit and watch
i cant stop the words no more than i can stop the rain, so they stain the page like the water from the sky. the page blows away in the wind along with the clouds because the words are like me today dark and blue, one with the rain. because the words are like the rain i suppose that is why they only come when the sky is dark. they well up to form a cloud and then come pouring down. sometimes i catch the words on paper like rain in a glass but  mostly they wash away with the stream looking for the sea.so i sit and watch
and like the rain the words eventually slow to a sprinkle and stop altogether as the wind moves the cloud and they dry up and disappear when the sun finally shines through. i really need the sun today, so i sit and watch
the rain has stopped and somewhere a bird is singing again maybe now the music will return and i will pick my self up. now the rain has stopped, another flood has come and gone and i just sat and watched. 

G                           Em
a memory and a photograph
is all that i have left.
the thought of you not coming back.
C                                    D
i never would have guessed.
 
i never should have let you go.
but i opened up that door.
closed my eyes and you were gone.
this time won't be like before.

chorus
C          D                   G
i can still see you standing there
with that look in your eyes
i guess something should have told me.
it should have come as no Suprise


a memory and a photograph
is all that i have left.
an empty bed and a empty house
and a heart full of regret

now your gone and I'm all alone.
i let you slip away.
time heals every wound.
or so that's what they say.

chorus

a memory and a photograph
is all that i have left.
an empty bottle and a cigarette
and a love i won't forget.

now I'm standing here like a fool.
praying you'll come back to me.
empty promise and a broken dream
somethings wernt man to be.

chorus

a memory and a photograph
is all that i have left. 

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(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks man appreciate it
lol if luke bryan sang it  i would never hear it . i will get the words and chords posted soon

TIGLJK wrote:

Holy Cow Mojo !!!

That is an incredible song.
Get it on the radio or something - If Luke Byran wrote it and sang it it would be on the charts immediately !

The Lyrics, the melody, the performance, and your unique voice made this a pleasure to listen too.

Thanks for sharing.

Can you post the lyrics and Chords ?

Jim