Good one Neo good to see and hear you back on chordie.
676 2021-11-22 06:00:11
Re: SUGGESTIONS: JANUARY 2019 FEATURED SONG OF THE MONTH (19 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
677 2021-11-21 06:19:32
Re: THE THREE WORD STORY (75 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
our dusty old attic
678 2021-11-21 06:18:20
Re: THE THREE WORD STORY (75 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
floated down from
679 2021-11-21 05:57:32
Re: Battle's Been Won (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thank you Phill, Mojo and Jim for your feedback. Leon was an exceptional young man. Just incase people are interested I will attach a link to a Wikipedia article on Leon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kristopher_Smith
680 2021-11-20 10:45:09
Re: THE THREE WORD STORY (75 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
on a fifty year old Jukebox
681 2021-11-20 10:06:29
Re: Battle's Been Won (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thank you Riverdales for taking the time to have a listen and your interesting comments.
682 2021-11-20 03:06:50
Topic: Battle's Been Won (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
While on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan for the NZSAS, Lance Corporal Leon Smith was killed in action on 28 September 2011. Leon was 33 years old and a son of a friend of mine. He was a very calm and brave in every facet of his life. At his funeral someone told me, in order to be able to handle the horrors of war you have to believe the battles been won before it begins. He also said most of the brave men and woman that fought in wars on all sides have tended to believe in a higher power leading them on. Anyway for years the word’s ‘Battles Been Won” have stuck in my head. About four or five years ago I wrote these lyrics thinking about Leon and threw them in the draw of my desk. About four or five months back I was cleaning out my desk and found them again so I decided to quickly record it on my cell phone. Going through my Computer files early this morning I found the phone recording and decided to put it on Soundcloud. I played the bass bits using the E and A strings on my guitar. This is how I imagine people like Leon might think about being a soldier. https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/battles-been-won
Battle's Been Won
I had a lot battles in my life.
I’ve seen my fair share of strife.
After the battle has been won.
I tell you the devil he has been done.
It takes faith.
And it takes belief to find that he doesn’t rule the world.
Don’t be deceived the battles won.
Don’t let the devil think that you’ve been done.
Oh, the battle has been won.
It has been won.
It has been won.
By the one.
By the one that I believe in.
On we go to war and they try to put us on the floor.
They try to run us all down.
The many clowns that are running around.
But the battles been won.
But the battles been won.
The battles been won.
The battles been won.
It's been done.
We don’t want the devil to overcome.
We need the higher one to help us win.
It's been done.
It's been done.
The battles been won.
The battles been won.
The battles been won.
683 2021-11-14 19:37:20
Re: Under Five Year Olds. (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
mojo01 wrote:
baby sitting my 1 year old grandson two days a week i am being reintroduced to children's programs on TV some of it is pretty good some not so much
Baby sitting over the years has introduced me to the delights of Sponge Bob Square Pants and The Muppets. The number of times I have had in the pub with friends many of them in their 60s and 70s having full on excited discussions about their favourite kid shows is good. But when the subject of these shows comes up with the under 50s it all falls flat and I get that look from them that suggests its time we locked Peatle away somewhere before he loses the plot completely.
684 2021-11-13 22:23:30
Re: Long work Week (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good one Riverdales I love it when on rare occasions my guitar turns into a musical weapon giving me a melody and an idea for a lyric. that expresses 'something deep inside of me or just something I have observed.
685 2021-11-13 22:10:28
Re: THE THREE WORD STORY (75 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Once there was a broken melody
686 2021-11-05 05:48:45
Re: Comfort (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Easybeat songwriting and Phills, vocals, guitar and bass playing were pure magic on this one.
687 2021-11-02 21:52:23
Re: am i just losing y mind (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
You do that real good Mojo.
688 2021-11-01 21:00:32
Re: BUY AN ELECTRIC GUITAR FOR BEGINNER (14 replies, posted in Electric)
I dont have a electric guitar but my acoustic has a pickup in it . Recently I had been given the temporary use of an amplifier and few other gadgets I found the sound that was created with these devices was a lot fun to dabble with. That might be an avenue worth investigating when you visit a music store.
689 2021-10-31 21:14:46
Re: I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PLAY (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Welcome Cenela to chordie. I'm not really much of a guitar player but one thing that many a good guitar player has told me over the years if something is to hard to play break it down into small bits.. Practice the hand shapes to play the chords real slowly until it becomes natural. Many of my friends who are good guitarist still have to practice regularly in order to be able to play properly. I'm sure others on here will have better advice than I can give.
690 2021-10-25 20:07:58
Re: Delivery Trucks (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Excellent song Jeff your song describes the situation here in New Zealand perfectly. Here most of the things brought online are delivered by people driving Toyota vans. Also as a result of online shopping many of our well known shops are closing their local Stores.
691 2021-10-23 20:03:03
Re: No Thoughts Unkind (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff that has a nice folk style flow to it. I like the way the short lines in the song flow with a nice bounciness.
692 2021-10-21 06:08:29
Re: Time To Learn (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Cheers Phill I have enjoyed this collaboration. It would be good to get some comments on our bar room song from out there in the chordie -verse.
693 2021-10-20 02:52:45
Topic: Time To Learn (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is a song I wrote some of the lyrics for and Phill did the rest with his exceptional talent, An observation from a barman of a wild girl who is a regular patron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9k6dpGFTiQ&t=28s
694 2021-10-20 02:36:42
Topic: Place In The Pack with Phill Williams (0 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I am very honoured to have the very talented Phill Williams play arrange and do all the backing instruments on this version of my song Place In The Pack. I just did the vocal and acoustic guitar. He has taken this song to a new level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tM_16TUpDE
695 2021-10-20 01:00:23
Re: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
mojo01 wrote:
cast your net wide , probably a song it that some to
I cast my net wide.
Caught many a girl.
You got to watch it when out in a heavy swell.
A small part of the catch can be heaven the rest can be hell.
696 2021-10-20 00:51:02
Re: Going Fishing (7 replies, posted in Poems)
Good lyrics there about been stuck in a bad rut Beamer.
697 2021-10-19 21:06:43
Re: keep your motor running (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Cheers Piri I struggle to get gas in my tank to keep my old blues voice going. It nowadays takes many cups of hot lemon and honey tea passed through my throats throttle to get it to even make something near to a good sound. My health in recent years has taken its toll on my pipes. I the love the innuendo of your lyrics on "Don't Keep Your Motor Running" the old girl, she has lost her spark and yet she burns up the gas.
698 2021-10-19 06:25:28
Re: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Cheers Mojo, I tend to cast my net wide when writing which sometimes looks like I'm going of subject. I'm pleased it made some sort of sense or came together in the end.
699 2021-10-18 21:10:14
Re: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thank you Phill for your Kind words. I appreciate your feedback and the way you have mentored me in music. I will attach me having a go at my song above just recorded on my cell phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStNfq1Ea2I
700 2021-10-18 06:30:06
Topic: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is a sort of blues I'm working on. As usual I break all the lyric rules. I'm not very good with chords I was thinking of playing this with three chords. Opening lyric with a D7 and finishing lyric line with a D7. Maybe play the rest in a 4 /4 timing with a C7 and a G7.
Place In The Pack
I don’t need to be one of the sheep.
No I don’t.
I just need to be who God made me to be.
It is quiet simple I just keep things simple.
I don’t want to be any famous leader of the pack.
I’m quiet happy to be one of the cards in the stack.
My place is just as important as a Ace or king or a Queen.
I’m quiet happy to be a card in the pack.
I am happy to be just little old me.
I don’t want to be someone else’s image of me.
I don’t listen to their stupid voices trying to change me.
I’m just what you see.
Not too flash but hopefully humble as can be.
I’m a little bit rough round the edges that makes me comfortable.
I just want to be another card in the pack.
I don’t need to be the Ace or the King or the Queen.
Ill follow my dreams.
Ill keep things simple on the scene.
I don’t need to be someone else’s version of me.
Ill just stay the way I was made to be.
it is a simple fact I got with the good man above.