Thanks Jamie, for pointing out:
A song about getting old. LYRICS:
Got those pains again
Bring my medicine to me
Annalee
Headaches come on so fierce
Get me so I can’t see
Annalee
I went and got myself old
I am older than the sea
Annalee
When my time it comes
Bury me under a willow tree
Annalee
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Mary told us about:
A new song. A ballad of a rowdy man and a bad end. Another murder ballad. I wrote it tonight after fooling around on my ukulele until I came up with a riff that sounded old-timey and mournful, and then I started pasting lyrics across it. Pretty quickly, I realized it was […]
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Sam sent us a link to this:
Part of my Old Songs series, a circuslike melody from 2004 telling of little criminals. THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN in two parts. I wrote the lyrics in about 2001, when I was editing my weekly journal of bad poetry, Doggerel, and were published there. Several years later, in 2004, […]
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Carl told us about:
Part of my Old Songs series, a circuslike melody from 2004 telling of little criminals. THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN in two parts. I wrote the lyrics in about 2001, when I was editing my weekly journal of bad poetry, Doggerel, and were published there. Several years later, in 2004, I had a […]
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Sammie sent us a link to this:
I’ve decided to make lo-fi recordings of old songs I wrote in my 20s and early 30s. Many of these songs are between 15 and 20 years old and have not been preformed since they were written. The first one, “Photographing the Deceased Child,” is one of my oldest. […]
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Here’s a great post:
Sailor Martin, my pierced and tattooed ventriloquist dummy, attempts, and fails at, recording a song for children about pretty birds and fuzzy rabbits. The original recording is “When Will the Sun Shine for Me” by Kaplan’s Melodists, recorded in 1923 for Edison Diamond (51060-R). New lyrics and singing by yours truly, recorded […]
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Just came across this:
A "drifty" and atmospheric song about life and death and love, complete with harp. I bought a $1 bamboo slide whistle in Chinatown. It doesn’t work particularly well, but I found that if I played it in a hectic and random manner and then pitch-shifted it and slowed it down a […]
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Carl wrote to us about:
A song about dying My first for a challenge. I worked on it today just so I could post it before the 31st. It still needs work, but the "the kick in the pants" deadline helped me get something done. I’m not sure if its Spooky sounding but it’s about […]
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