1,701

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

Cheers Phill I recorded it  with no microphones just on my cell phone placed next to the piano.. I would be honoured and completly thrilled  if you gave it a go. Thank you for giving me a listen and feed back.

1,702

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

On that stage is musical heaven  all of them fantastic musicians,

1,703

(1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

Nice choice there TF ,

1,704

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

Unfortunately when I play piano or guitar it is all done by feel.  I would put this in as a song if I had the know  how.. I have tried to make it work as a song but my bad piano playing    and singing get in the way. I put it up on soundcloud in the hope oneday someone might have a go at making it into better song.
                               

https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/long-as-your-happy
                             Long As Your Happy

I can remember seeing  the rain on the window pane
One summer many years ago.
Were waiting to go out.
You all dressed up nice in your best dress.
You couldn't wait to get out.
Next thing I noticed you had gone outside the door.
Your running in the yard completly wet.
Your best dress was a mess as youd fallen in the mud.
And your hair was a bit of a mess.
Your  mother was unhappy.
Why did you let her go out.
All I could say was this.
As long as she's happy.
As long as your happy.
I couldn't care less.
I couldn't care less about that dress.
When I saw you smiling at me.
As long as your happy.
As long as your happy I couldn't care  less.
I wouldn't worry if your hair was in a mess.
All I worry about is  your beautiful smile.
And I wouldn't worry to much about the mess
As long as your happy.
As your happy.
As long as your happy
I don't give a damn about the mess.

1,705

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

Saturday morning just waiting for the rain to clear and my mind  to clear also, so that I can  figure out some better way of doing a song I have writen.
When I thought about this clip I had seen on youtube which I think is a brilliant look at songwriting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmlMWXkv1g

A great  moving on song you have written with nice country chords, I look forward to hearing it.

1,707

(8 replies, posted in Poems)

I look forward to  hearing the recording.

1,708

(7 replies, posted in Poems)

Thank  you Jim  first time I have seen that one with Robert F Kennedy a powerful video. Your students have a good teacher in you. what you teach I am sure will have positive impacts on their thoughts and future life. Her is a song about the Kennedys by a local Kiwi lass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6hu6Z7Pkg

1,709

(7 replies, posted in Poems)

Does me not liking some sorts of music qualify for hate speech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqNLnEzDLA

1,710

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

I have the greatest  respect and admiration for Chris Thile as a musician but I think him  trying to host a show to the same level that Garrison Keillor has achieved would be imposible for anyone. A Prairie Home Companion was a show I loved when Garrison was doing it , once Chris took over it didn't work the same for me. I haven't seen the film  of the show but it is now on my list of films to watch eventually.

1,711

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

Topdown I loved their version of YMCA ,

1,712

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

Hi Dondra and Bill.
The gift of  love you have for each other and your faith will keep you strong. The way you care for each other is worth more than money. Bill your a lucky man  having a Billion Dollar hairstylist.keeping you looking good.
Hugs to you both
Love Pete and Maree

1,713

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

Here is a bit of fun with well known songs to brighten up a monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nEfJuR5n0

1,714

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

Beamer I like the way you can say alot in a few words excellent.

1,715

(8 replies, posted in Poems)

Beamer you words are gold.

1,716

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

Donna welcome, just by  playing a little bit each day  eventually that guitar will reward you with a tune you can enjoy.

1,717

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Tig the rewrite perfect. A cracker song which I am sure Phill will do brilliantly.

1,718

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

TIg I can' t quiet get my head around the F word for some daft reason to me it didn't seem you. This is not critisism of that but yeah its is a song I can imagine been worthy of a good cover. Your prolific gift for songwriting always amazes me.

1,719

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

There is  well-documented evidence to the use of teeth for identification began during 66 AD with Agrippina and Lollia Pauline case. Agrippina after her marriage with Claudius, emperor of Rome, Agrippina tries to secure her position. She feared about rich divorcee Lollia Paulina may still be a rival for her husband. She decided that it would be safer if Lollia Paulina was dead. She instructed her soldier to kill Lollia Paulina and further instructed to bring the head back. She was satisfied by Lollia Paulina death by the identification of dental alignments and certain distinctive characteristics. It was the first use of dental identification where there is a record.
The first forensic identification in India started in 1193 were Jai Chand, a great Indian monarchy was destroyed by Muhammad's army and Jai Chand, Raja of Kanauji was murdered and he was identified by his false teeth.
Peter Halket was killed in 1758 during French and Indian wars in a battle near Fort Duquesne. Halket son identified his father's skeleton by an artificial tooth.
At the battle for Breed's Hill in Boston, Dr. Joseph Waren was killed in the year 1776. His face was not able to identify as he suffered from a fatal head wound. A dentist, Paul Revere, identified Dr.Warren, dead body by a small denture that he had fabricated for him. The identification made by Paul Revere made it possible to burry Dr. Warren on April 8th, 1776 with a full military honour.
Breed's Hill is a glacial drumlin located in the Charlestown section of Boston, Massachusetts. It is best known as the location where in 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, most of the fighting in the Battle of Bunker Hill took place.

1,720

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

CG I guess going to dentist in George Washingtons days was a bit of a risky venture .  I have read Paul Revere best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, dabbled in dentistry. He was a Silversmith but when times were hard to help make ends meet he  took up dentistry, a skill set he was taught by a practicing surgeon who lodged at a friend's house. How much training Paul got I wonder. Imagine doing that, thinking times are tough I  will get a friend to teach me  dentistry and I will have a go at  fixing some teeth for those who can afford my services. Paul  Revere's friend and compatriot Joseph Warren was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Because soldiers killed in battle were often buried in mass graves without ceremony, Warren's grave was unmarked. On March 21, 1776, several days after the British army left Boston, Revere, Warren's brothers, and a few friends went to the battlefield and found a grave containing two bodies. After being buried for nine months, Warren's face was unrecognizable, but Revere was able to identify Warren's body because he had placed a false tooth in Warren's mouth, and recognized the wire he had used for fastening it. Warren was given a proper funeral and reburied in a marked grave

1,721

(474 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

TF that young man is magic.to watch and listen to.

1,722

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

Cheer TF first time I have seen a  Jim Unger Herman comic strip I enjoyed that it reminded me of Gary Larson The  Far Side Cartoons.

1,723

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

Hi Phill and CG I will attach a short youtube Doco on George Washington teeth.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qTWsh9OW3E

1,724

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

Hello Mojo the thing that  interests me about paying for a dentist here in New Zealand is health insurance and  dentist cover are two seperate things,  I always think of my teeth as part of my health not a seperate thing.
TIG and Phill this is what I have just found out about George Washington and his teeth after reading your comments.
George Washington (1732–1799) suffered from problems with his teeth throughout his life, and historians have tracked his experiences in great detail.  He lost his first adult tooth when he was twenty-two and had only one left by the time he became president. John Adams says he lost them because he used them to crack Brazil nuts but modern historians suggest the mercury oxide, which he was given to treat illnesses such as smallpox and malaria, probably contributed to the loss. He had several sets of false teeth made, four of them by a dentist named John Greenwood. None of the sets, contrary to popular belief, was made from wood or contained any wood. The set made when he became president was carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs. Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones he purchased from "several unnamed Negroes, presumably Mount Vernon slaves" in 1784. Washington's dental problems left him in constant pain, for which he took laudanum.

1,725

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

Cheers TIG, EB and Phill great to have your input on teeth. I would be interested to hear other peoples stories about teeth also. I was thinking about maybe putting this under poems but then thought it wasn't really a poem so I put it up as a chat.  Here is something I recently read about teeth that interested me. The Battle of Waterloo (1815) saw about 43,500 men killed, most of who were buried in mass graves. Generally young and healthy, their teeth were pulled as part of the interment process. Barrels of teeth flooded the market and were shipped all over the world. British soldiers were expected to care for their teeth because they needed to be able to bite their cartridges open; every second soldier was issued with a toothbrushed to be shared with one other.    In 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.