Hiyah  and thanks,

Daddy,

Glad you like it, you were in the back of my mind as I wrote this. COOL IT BABY!

Hi KajiMa,

No problemo amigo, if you want to cover it I would be over joyed, I'd love to hear the result though. Songs are meant to be played and shared, and there's no buzz like what you get hearing someone else singing your words.

Hey Kenny,

Always great to hear from you, I thought I had posted "Princess" I shall check and if I haven't I shall rectify the situation ASAP.
"Fading Away" is an old song, at least 30 years old and it's about a young lady I knew just after I got divorced, but before I met Ann. It's funny how relationships just sort of fade out like a pop song?

Hi Ark,

Thank you for the kind words. "Princess" is a bit of a fantasy thing. I think about certain people when I write, and I know Lena is into this type of thing, and she was on my mind when I was writing. Hope she's doing OK.

Phill

hi trevor,

i took this as a coming of age story, but i can see the religious aspect of it.

nice heart-felt words, is this a big ballad? no time now to check out your web...work to do

phill

hi toney,

i appreciate your pique, and i know i am guilty of using this "catch phrase" my self quite a lot.
the reason for this is that i feel i have made a lot of friends here on chordie, and so i dont use the phrase when i dont actually feel friends with someone. i hope you understand this?

i agree with most of the others you mention, some are words that have been corrupted to make a "slang" metaphor. this usually stems from people just being too lazy to speak properly, and others then copying as if it's a new trend, which is one of my "pet hates"

so in future, i'll try and limit my expression of friendship to the bare minimum.

phill

I have found over the last few years the NHS has become a lesser reflection of what it was. Consecutive Conservative governments have tried their hardest to rid itself of this money pit, and even the Labour government has tried cutting back, preferring to spend our taxes on saving banks and funding unwinable wars.

here's an example;

you phone up your local GP surgery to ask for an appointment, they tell you that all the appointments for today have been filled, so you say OK, can I make one for tomorrow, they say phone back in the morning about 8.30....
so you phone back at 8.30, but you cant get through!!! so you keep trying. then at 9.00, you get an answer and they say....you guessed it, sorry all today's appointments have gone....

You eventually get to see your doctor, he says what's wrong, and you say nothing, I've recovered now waiting for an appointment!   You get the idea?

My wife suffered with abdominal problem's for about 6 months and lost half her body weight before the surgeons  decided that there was something wrong. They eventually removed half her bowel and a lump the size of a tennis ball. She's good now, put the weight back on and Ill be eternally grateful to the surgeon.

It's not the fault of the medical staff, as they are as good if not better than medics anywhere in the world, it's just that because it's free, people will abuse the system. People from abroad come and use the service we have paid for all our lives, for free! And yes, you can jump the queue by going private, which is what our government would like, which means you pay twice!

Phill

hi trevor,

just went to your zebox site, little disapointed this wasnt there, still gave a listen to the other tracks till the player got stuck....my luck!

very dylanesque with a touch of donovan, melodic and sensitive.very nice

phill

dont we all wish....

nice one, coulndt help noticing the epiphone guitar, lovely tone. good vid too

phill

what a sad and heart rending song. i get the feeling this has been waiting to come out for a long time. i guess now is the right time.

great song, and i cant wait to hear it, that will have to be tomorrow as i dont have time right now, it's late and the wife's got supper on the go. i'll listen first chance and comment then.

remember the good times...

ok i had a listen, i didnt expect that cajun rhythm. good song.

phill

i'm just overwhelmed with all the replies, and all positive [except for the last verse maybe? ken!] anyway,

kajima, i dont know what "vox on you" means...i played through a Vox AC30 once, what an amp!

my recording set-up for this song was; a Beyerdynamic TG-X60 mic through an Alesis Multimix 8 USB mixer into my Korg D8 digital recorder. the guitar [which i played at the same time] is a Crafter semi acoustic [left handed] with cutaway plugged in directly to the Alesis. the Alesis has a shed-full of FX's as does the Korg, but i only used reverb on this recording.

in case any one's interested, the song was conceived and written then recorded in a matter of 30 or so minutes. i'd been on chordie, and as i switched off and got up to have my tea, the thought "there's so many things i don't know" came into my head...like for instance Lincoln's wooden false teeth! the Elvis lives conspiracy, why despots and dictators want to kill and ethnically cleanse their country? and why [ken] if there is a god, why does he allow all this inhumanity to happen?

hi ctec, welcome to chordie, viva la revolution [e]

hi ark, only a hundred? i'll have to start deleting! i must be catching up to daddycool now huh?

phill